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Diagram Ventures

Founders Francois Lafortune

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 3.50
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 2
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Internet
Summary

In 2016 was created Diagram Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Montru00e9al.

The fund was created by Francois Lafortune.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Financial Services. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Breathe Life, dfuse, Collage HR.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are White Star Capital, Richard Reiner, Real Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by White Star Capital, Portag3 Ventures, National Bank of Canada.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Diagram Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Synctera

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$18M04 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Helika

Analytics
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$8M15 Feb 2024 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trice

Developer APIs
Financial Services
Payments
Real Time
Software
09 Jan 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Novisto

Enterprise Software
Management Information Systems
SaaS
Software
Sustainability
$21M24 May 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Obeo Biogas

Energy
Renewable Energy
Waste Management
$2M09 May 2023 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Helika

Analytics
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$4M01 Mar 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nesto

Financial Services
FinTech
Real Estate
$80M13 Dec 2022 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Retirable

Financial Services
Retirement
$6M01 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Revit

E-Commerce
Mobile Apps
Sales
$11M13 Sep 2022 -
News
ClearEstate Raises C$2.5M in Seed Extension

– ClearEstate from Montreal is a digital-first estate settlement platform for North American executors.
– The company raised $2.5m in seed extension funding.
– Investors included Anthem Partners, Torstar Corporation, Triangle Capital Corporation, NAventures and Diagram Ventures.
– The new funding will be used to launch the platform and expand its business reach across the United States and Canada.

Synctera Raises $33M in Series A Funding

– Synctera, a San Francisco, CA-based solution for partnership banking at scale, raised $33M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Fin VC with participation from Mastercard and Gaingels, and follow-on investments from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Diagram Ventures, SciFi Ventures and Scribble Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand operations hiring for roles across engineering, product and sales, accelerate the development of its product roadmap, and prepare for a future international expansion.

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Total investments 28
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 3.50
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Synctera

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$18M04 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Helika

Analytics
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$8M15 Feb 2024 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trice

Developer APIs
Financial Services
Payments
Real Time
Software
09 Jan 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Novisto

Enterprise Software
Management Information Systems
SaaS
Software
Sustainability
$21M24 May 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Obeo Biogas

Energy
Renewable Energy
Waste Management
$2M09 May 2023 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Helika

Analytics
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$4M01 Mar 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nesto

Financial Services
FinTech
Real Estate
$80M13 Dec 2022 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Retirable

Financial Services
Retirement
$6M01 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Revit

E-Commerce
Mobile Apps
Sales
$11M13 Sep 2022 -
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