Arete Ventures
VC Fund
Mumbai, India
Arete Ventures is a boutique investment & strategy consulting firm serving institutional investors based in silicon valley & wall street for more than 20 years. We regularly advise decision makers, GPs & LPs in enhancing Enterprise Values, IRR or TVPI of their investments. Renewable Energy, Climate Tech, Nanotechnology, FinTech,Blockchain, Quantum Computing, Supercomputing, AI/ML & Life Sciences are some of the frontier sectors we are experienced in with an active focus.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Arete Ventures invests in
Stages Arete Ventures invests in
Countries Arete Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Gaurav Shah
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Big Data 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- Machine Learning 1 (50%)
- Business Intelligence 1 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series B 1 (50%)
- Series C 1 (50%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Gaurav Shah
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Peak
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Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services. The company helps commercial decision-making for the companies with its AI software. Peak’s pioneering Decision Intelligence software embeds AI across sales, marketing, planning, and supply chains to accelerate revenues and profits. Headquartered inManchester (UK), Peak’s customer base includes PrettyLittleThing, AO, KFC, PepsiCo, Marshalls, and Speedy Hire.Peak’s customers have seen transformational results, including a 5% increase in total company revenues, a doubling of return on advertising spend, a 12% reduction in inventory holdings, and a 5% reduction in supply chain costs.Peak has been named a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ for AI in retail and was also named in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2020 with the Best Companies 3-star accreditation, which recognizes extraordinary levels of employee engagement. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner and is ISO 27001 accredited. | $75M / Series C / Aug 31, 2021 | |
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Peak
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Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services. The company helps commercial decision-making for the companies with its AI software. Peak’s pioneering Decision Intelligence software embeds AI across sales, marketing, planning, and supply chains to accelerate revenues and profits. Headquartered inManchester (UK), Peak’s customer base includes PrettyLittleThing, AO, KFC, PepsiCo, Marshalls, and Speedy Hire.Peak’s customers have seen transformational results, including a 5% increase in total company revenues, a doubling of return on advertising spend, a 12% reduction in inventory holdings, and a 5% reduction in supply chain costs.Peak has been named a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ for AI in retail and was also named in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2020 with the Best Companies 3-star accreditation, which recognizes extraordinary levels of employee engagement. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner and is ISO 27001 accredited. | $21M / Series B / Feb 17, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Arete Ventures invest in?
Arete Ventures invests primarily in Big Data, Analytics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Arete Ventures includes Gaurav Shah (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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