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Slaight Communications

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Shopping
  • Marketplace
  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Big Data
Summary

In 1971 was created Slaight Communications, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Slaight Communications is 50-100 millions dollars. This Slaight Communications works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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 LANDR, SHOP.CA. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media, SaaS.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Slaight Communications, startups are often financed by YUL Ventures, Real Ventures, Warner Music Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Torstar Corporation, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, YUL Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Torstar Corporation, Shaw Ventures, Pyramis Global Advisors.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LANDR

Big Data
Machine Learning
Music
Software Engineering
$15M16 Jul 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Influicity

Celebrity
Enterprise Software
Social Media
02 Mar 2015 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

StackAdapt

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
$900K25 Sep 2014 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SHOP.CA

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$31M01 May 2014 Canada, Ontario

SHOP.CA

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$16M15 Jun 2012 Canada, Ontario

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Total investments 5
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LANDR

Big Data
Machine Learning
Music
Software Engineering
$15M16 Jul 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Influicity

Celebrity
Enterprise Software
Social Media
02 Mar 2015 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

StackAdapt

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
$900K25 Sep 2014 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SHOP.CA

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$31M01 May 2014 Canada, Ontario

SHOP.CA

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$16M15 Jun 2012 Canada, Ontario
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