Northern Arc

Total investments

57

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

3.56

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

2

Areas of investment
InternetFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinanceBankingAgTechLendingConsumer LendingAgriculture

Summary

Northern Arc appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2006. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in India. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Chennai.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Janalakshmi, Samunnati, CASHe. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Lending, Small and Medium Businesses.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Northern Arc, startups are often financed by Aspada, SAIF Partners, Elevar Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vivriti Capital, Unifi Capital, Triodos Investment Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tuscan Ventures, Shunwei Capital, Kae Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 44 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Kshama Fernandes.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
57
Lead investments
17
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.56
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (32)
  • FinTech (22)
  • Finance (11)
  • Agriculture (9)
  • Lending (8)
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Investments by region
  • India (56)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
148M
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.01
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
UpScalio 15 Mar 2022 Internet, E-Commerce Platforms Early Stage Venture 15M Haryana, Gurgaon, India
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