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Ryerson Futures

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$791K
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 3.10
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Insurance
  • Information Technology
Summary

Ryerson Futures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Ryerson Futures is 5-10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Ryerson Futures works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sensibill, Borrowell, Veerum. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Banking.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Ryerson Futures, startups are often financed by Impression Ventures, Boomtown Accelerators. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Vodafone Ventures, Version One Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Information Venture Partners, Version One Ventures, Portag3 Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Clik.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
$2M28 May 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

VEERUM

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Project Management
SaaS
Software
$3M11 Apr 2018 Calgary, Canada

Flipd

Education
Mobile Apps
Wellness
20 Sep 2017 Canada, Ontario

Zensurance

Insurance
$1M29 Nov 2016 Canada, Ontario

Litmus Automation

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Oil and Gas
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
$1M01 Nov 2016 San Jose, California, United States

Optimity

Information Technology
Insurance
IT Infrastructure
Life Insurance
Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
Wellness
$320K08 Mar 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ClientDesk

Insurance
Mobile Apps
Online Portals
01 Mar 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Domio

Audio
Hospitality
Hotel
Product Design
Property Management
Real Estate
Sharing Economy
Sports
Travel
$400K22 Feb 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Alumni
Communities
Education
Fleet Management
Social Media
Software
Transportation
01 Jan 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 31
Average round size 791K
Rounds per year 3.10
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Clik.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
$2M28 May 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

VEERUM

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Project Management
SaaS
Software
$3M11 Apr 2018 Calgary, Canada

Flipd

Education
Mobile Apps
Wellness
20 Sep 2017 Canada, Ontario

Zensurance

Insurance
$1M29 Nov 2016 Canada, Ontario

Litmus Automation

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Oil and Gas
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
$1M01 Nov 2016 San Jose, California, United States

Optimity

Information Technology
Insurance
IT Infrastructure
Life Insurance
Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
Wellness
$320K08 Mar 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ClientDesk

Insurance
Mobile Apps
Online Portals
01 Mar 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Domio

Audio
Hospitality
Hotel
Product Design
Property Management
Real Estate
Sharing Economy
Sports
Travel
$400K22 Feb 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Switchboard

Alumni
Communities
Education
Fleet Management
Social Media
Software
Transportation
01 Jan 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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