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Grand Challenges Canada

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 1
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Medical Device
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Grand Challenges Canada appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the Grand Challenges Canada, startups are often financed by Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF), Creative Destruction Lab, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Khosla Ventures, Data Collective DCVC.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Atomwise, Atomo Diagnostics. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise, Manufacturing. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Australia. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arbutus Medical

Hardware
Health Care
Medical Device
$795K09 Nov 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

LegWorks

Insurance
Medical Device
04 Sep 2015 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Software
08 Sep 2014 Canada, Ontario

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Total investments 14
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arbutus Medical

Hardware
Health Care
Medical Device
$795K09 Nov 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

LegWorks

Insurance
Medical Device
04 Sep 2015 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Software
08 Sep 2014 Canada, Ontario
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