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National Bank of Canada

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Total investments 72
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$73M
Portfolio companies 61
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 23
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Renewable Energy
Summary

National Bank of Canada appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1859. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Calgary.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from National Bank of Canada is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this National Bank of Canada works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Financial Services, FinTech. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Enerkem, MX Technologies, Sensibill.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the National Bank of Canada, startups are often financed by Ferst Capital Partners - FCP, Mistral Venture Partners, Desjardins Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Desjardins Venture Capital, White Star Capital, Toronto Dominion Bank Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, White Star Capital, Walter Capital Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

e2ip technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
$120M26 Apr 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Bioeureka

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Hospital
Medical
Medical Device
Software
$7K04 Jan 2023 -

ShopperPlus

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Retail
$15M02 Sep 2021 Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada

Flinks

Big Data
Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
$79M26 Aug 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WeCook - Repas WeCook

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$7M26 Jan 2021 Canada, Quebec, Canada

MX Technologies

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$100M25 Jun 2019 Lehi, Utah, United States

Dialogue

Health Care
Wellness
$40M17 Jun 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MindBridge AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
FinTech
Machine Learning
$29M12 Jun 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flinks

Big Data
Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
$1M04 Jul 2018 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
News
ShopperPlus Raises CAD $20M in Series A Funding

– ShopperPlus is a Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada-based e-commerce platform.
– Company raised CAD $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Celtic House Asia Partners with participation from Canada Business Growth Fund, Celtic House Venture Partners and the National Bank of Canada, as well as individual investors e-commerce shopping app Wish co-founder Danny Zhang and Sequoia China managing director Kevin Pan.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand the platform to include more vertical product offerings as well as to broaden its in-house fulfillment centres’ coverage.

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Total investments 72
Average round size 73M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

e2ip technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
$120M26 Apr 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Bioeureka

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Hospital
Medical
Medical Device
Software
$7K04 Jan 2023 -

ShopperPlus

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Retail
$15M02 Sep 2021 Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada

Flinks

Big Data
Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
$79M26 Aug 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WeCook - Repas WeCook

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$7M26 Jan 2021 Canada, Quebec, Canada

MX Technologies

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$100M25 Jun 2019 Lehi, Utah, United States

Dialogue

Health Care
Wellness
$40M17 Jun 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MindBridge AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
FinTech
Machine Learning
$29M12 Jun 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flinks

Big Data
Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
$1M04 Jul 2018 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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