In 1987 was created Ontario Centres of Excellence, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.
The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2020. This Ontario Centres of Excellence works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
The overall number of key employees were 6.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ontario Centres of Excellence, startups are often financed by MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Velocity, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), BDC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), BDC Venture Capital, SOSV.
The fund has exact preference in some 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline MedStack, gShift, Distil Interactive Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Big Data, Software.
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Notable deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Novel Biotechnology | $2M | 27 Sep 2023 | - | ||
Uride | 04 Jul 2023 | Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | |||
SoulRooms | $1M | 25 Feb 2021 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
Hopeful Inc. | $198K | 10 Oct 2020 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
SWTCH | $874K | 26 Aug 2020 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
Coldblock | $1M | 12 May 2020 | Kentucky, United States | ||
Mavennet | 01 Jan 2020 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||
Cheelcare | $492K | 15 Dec 2019 | Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada | ||
NURO CORP. | $99K | 06 Nov 2019 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Novel Biotechnology | $2M | 27 Sep 2023 | - | ||
Uride | 04 Jul 2023 | Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | |||
SoulRooms | $1M | 25 Feb 2021 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
Hopeful Inc. | $198K | 10 Oct 2020 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
SWTCH | $874K | 26 Aug 2020 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
Coldblock | $1M | 12 May 2020 | Kentucky, United States | ||
Mavennet | 01 Jan 2020 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||
Cheelcare | $492K | 15 Dec 2019 | Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada | ||
NURO CORP. | $99K | 06 Nov 2019 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |