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Discovery Capital

Founders Harry Jaako John McEwen

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$117M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.53
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 10
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Advertising
  • Mobile
  • Financial Services
  • Analytics
  • Software
Summary

Discovery Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1986. 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 Vancouver.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Discovery Capital, startups are often financed by BDC Venture Capital, Yaletown Partners, British Columbia Discovery Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BC Advantage Funds, Yaletown Partners, T. Rowe Price. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yaletown Partners, Third Point Ventures, SoftBank.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Spotify, Social Finance (SoFi), Lat49 Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Financial Services, Music Streaming. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 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 - Canada.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Discovery Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Discovery Capital performs on 8 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Security
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Privacy
SaaS
$9M11 Aug 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

SoFi

Financial Services
FinTech
Life Insurance
Wealth Management
$80M03 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Lat49

Ad Server
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Geospatial
Internet
$1M17 Jul 2009 British Columbia

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$22M02 Jun 2008 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Lat49

Ad Server
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Geospatial
Internet
$2M01 Nov 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mapping Services
$2M03 May 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

GaleForce Solutions

CRM
Finance
$2M25 Apr 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia

Advertising
Analytics
Android
App Discovery
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$6M12 Jul 2005 Canada, Ontario

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Total investments 19
Average round size 117M
Rounds per year 0.53
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Security
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Privacy
SaaS
$9M11 Aug 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

SoFi

Financial Services
FinTech
Life Insurance
Wealth Management
$80M03 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Lat49

Ad Server
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Geospatial
Internet
$1M17 Jul 2009 British Columbia

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$22M02 Jun 2008 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Lat49

Ad Server
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Geospatial
Internet
$2M01 Nov 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mapping Services
$2M03 May 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

GaleForce Solutions

CRM
Finance
$2M25 Apr 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia

Advertising
Analytics
Android
App Discovery
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$6M12 Jul 2005 Canada, Ontario
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