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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 2
Exits 9
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Financial Services
Summary

In 1994 was created ARM, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Lagos. The company was established in Africa in Nigeria.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Content, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ambow Education, Centrillion Technologies, Picsel Technologies.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the ARM, startups are often financed by SAIC Venture Capital, JAFCO Asia, Cordova Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Dublin Business Innovation Centre, Deutsche Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mayfield Fund, Deutsche Bank, Capital-E.

The important activity for fund was in 2005. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This ARM works on 27 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from ARM is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trove

Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
04 Jan 2020 Lagos

Advertising
$11K20 Jul 2010 Osaka Prefecture

Hardware
Software
$453K12 Jul 2010 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Cubic Global Tracking Solutions Inc.

Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
$10M03 Nov 2008 Mountain View, California, United States

Movidius

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Mobile
Product Design
Semiconductor
Software
$14M17 Oct 2008 California, United States

Embedded Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
iOS
Software
$46M12 Feb 2007 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ambow Education

Career Planning
Customer Service
EdTech
Education
$10M01 Apr 2006 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Security
$177K14 Dec 2005 England

Sensory Networks

Content
Network Security
Software
$10M10 Oct 2005 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 18
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 2
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trove

Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
04 Jan 2020 Lagos

Advertising
$11K20 Jul 2010 Osaka Prefecture

Hardware
Software
$453K12 Jul 2010 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Cubic Global Tracking Solutions Inc.

Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
$10M03 Nov 2008 Mountain View, California, United States

Movidius

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Mobile
Product Design
Semiconductor
Software
$14M17 Oct 2008 California, United States

Embedded Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
iOS
Software
$46M12 Feb 2007 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ambow Education

Career Planning
Customer Service
EdTech
Education
$10M01 Apr 2006 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Security
$177K14 Dec 2005 England

Sensory Networks

Content
Network Security
Software
$10M10 Oct 2005 Mountain View, California, United States
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