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Arthur Ventures

Founders James Burgum

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Total investments 86
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 5.38
Lead investments 23
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 11
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Health Care
Summary

Arthur Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Minneapolis. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Arthur Ventures, startups are often financed by gener8tor, Techstars, LionBird. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hyde Park Venture Partners, e.ventures, LionBird. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by LionBird, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners.

The current fund was established by James Burgum. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 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 Avalara, Total Expert, Infusionsoft. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Cloud Computing.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Arthur Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Arthur Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zūm Rails

$8M22 Feb 2024 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Nucleus Security

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$17M12 Feb 2024 Sarasota, Florida, United States

Candor Technology

Financial Services
Software
05 Feb 2024 The Villages, Florida, United States

Payroll Integrations

Data Integration
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$20M20 Sep 2023 San Diego, California, United States

CertifID

Computer
Network Security
$20M12 Sep 2023 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

VIAS Campus Management

EdTech
Education
Enterprise Software
Software
$3M24 May 2023 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Quickpass

Computer
Cyber Security
Software
$12M24 Apr 2023 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ICwhatUC

Software
$4M23 Feb 2023 Calgary, Canada

Zartico

Document Management
Management Information Systems
Software
$20M20 Sep 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
News
Candor Secures $12.5 Million in Series A Funding Led by Arthur Ventures

– Candor announced that it has secured $12.5M in a Series A investment.
– The effort was led by Arthur Ventures, a leading early-growth capital firm focused on high-growth, capital-efficient B2B software companies.
– The investment will further enhance the company’s patent-pending Loan Engineering System™, the only machine that autonomously makes income, asset, and lending decisions that are backed by a defect policy.
– Candor’s Loan Engineering System (LES) has been turning chaos into consistency. The consistency of Candor’s LES is due to a unique innovation: Candor’s Mortgage Decision Science Technology™ which is a machine intelligence platform.

Factal, which alerts companies of breaking news events, raises $3.3M after doubling revenue in 2020

– Factal, a Seattle startup which monitors breaking news to help companies assess risks to their business, has raised $3.3m in a Series A funding round.
– The round was led by Arthur Ventures with participation from lead seed investor Seachange Fund.
– The startup was founded by key players of the former Breaking News website and app, which attracted millions of followers, but was shut down by NBC News for lack of revenue in 2016.
– Factal CEO Charlie Tillinghast previously oversaw the creation of Breaking News as an internal startup when he was president and CEO of MSNBC Interactive, the former Microsoft and NBC News joint venture.
– Fellow co-founders are Cory Bergman, Factal’s vice president of product, and Ben Tesch, vice president of technology.

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Total investments 86
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 5.38
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zūm Rails

$8M22 Feb 2024 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Nucleus Security

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$17M12 Feb 2024 Sarasota, Florida, United States

Candor Technology

Financial Services
Software
05 Feb 2024 The Villages, Florida, United States

Payroll Integrations

Data Integration
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$20M20 Sep 2023 San Diego, California, United States

CertifID

Computer
Network Security
$20M12 Sep 2023 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

VIAS Campus Management

EdTech
Education
Enterprise Software
Software
$3M24 May 2023 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Quickpass

Computer
Cyber Security
Software
$12M24 Apr 2023 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ICwhatUC

Software
$4M23 Feb 2023 Calgary, Canada

Zartico

Document Management
Management Information Systems
Software
$20M20 Sep 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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