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Canso Investment Counsel

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$50M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.15
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • B2B
  • Publishing
  • Retail
  • Database Software
Summary

In 1997 was created Canso Investment Counsel, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Richmond Hill.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Canso Investment Counsel, startups are often financed by Village Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures, Brightspark Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Real Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners Limited, Hedgewood. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, Plaza Ventures, Kensington Capital Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Retail, B2B. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. 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 Purch, Hubba.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hubba

B2B
Brand Marketing
Business/Productivity Software
Database Software
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Product Management
Retail
SaaS
Software
$11M08 Oct 2015 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Purch

Advertising
B2B
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Lead Generation
Marketplace
Mobile
Publishing
$135M02 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 4
Average round size 50M
Rounds per year 0.15
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hubba

B2B
Brand Marketing
Business/Productivity Software
Database Software
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Product Management
Retail
SaaS
Software
$11M08 Oct 2015 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Purch

Advertising
B2B
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Lead Generation
Marketplace
Mobile
Publishing
$135M02 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States
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