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Los Angeles, California, USA
Portfolio
2 totalRecent Investment Activity
1Track record: led 1 and participated in 0 of 1 tracked venture round · 1 in the last 12 months · led 1 Series E
| Date | Company | Event | Role | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | Premier Lacrosse League | Series E | Led | $100M | — | Ares ManagementLeadunverifiedJoe Tsai | Shore Fire Media (PLL release) |
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Latest Pulse
- Sep 10, 2026VC Firms Are Buying Sports Teams And CardsThrive Capital, Collaborative Fund and a Griffin Gaming managing director are all redirecting venture money and personal capital into sports franchises and trading cards as a hedge against startup-market froth.→
- Jul 2, 2026Crunchbase: The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds, Led by Joulent's $1.75B Energy RaiseCrunchbase News' roundup of the week's 10 biggest funding rounds (June 27-July 2) was led by Houston-based energy infrastructure provider Joulent's $1.75 billion raise from National Grid Ventures, aimed squarely at AI and compute-intensive industries' power needs. Together AI's $800M Series C and Venice AI's $65M unicorn round both placed inside the top 10, alongside biotech, legal-tech, sports and video-AI rounds spanning a genuinely broad set of categories beyond pure frontier-model AI.→
Ares Management FAQ
What companies has Ares Management invested in?
Ares Management's portfolio includes SB Energy, Premier Lacrosse League.
Who does Ares Management co-invest with most?
In the rounds Value Add tracks, Ares Management most often invests alongside Nvidia (1 shared deal), OpenAI (1 shared deal), SoftBank Group (1 shared deal).
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Where these figures come from
- Shore Fire Media (PLL release)Value Add VC data1 fact
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