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Rogers Communications

Founders Ted Rogers

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$720M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.22
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 8
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Media and Entertainment
Summary

Rogers Communications appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1921. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

This organization was formed by Ted Rogers. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Computer, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Equator Technologies, Inc., ScribbleLive, MetaTV The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Rogers Communications, startups are often financed by Vulcan Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sand Hill Capital, Equant, Crosspoint Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Summerhill Venture Partners, Rogers Venture Partners, Georgian Partners.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this Rogers Communications works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Five Stars

Financial Services
Loyalty Programs
Marketing
Mobile Apps
Payments
Point of Sale
$26M25 Sep 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

ScribbleLive

Computer
Content Discovery
Content Marketing
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
01 Jan 2010 Ontario

Thoora

Content
Crowdsourcing
Enterprise Software
$3M03 Mar 2008 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MetaTV

Digital Entertainment
Software
Telecommunications
TV Production
$2M24 Jul 2001 California, United States

DotComix

Animation
Content
Graphic Design
$8M13 Jul 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 720M
Rounds per year 0.22
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Five Stars

Financial Services
Loyalty Programs
Marketing
Mobile Apps
Payments
Point of Sale
$26M25 Sep 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

ScribbleLive

Computer
Content Discovery
Content Marketing
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
01 Jan 2010 Ontario

Thoora

Content
Crowdsourcing
Enterprise Software
$3M03 Mar 2008 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MetaTV

Digital Entertainment
Software
Telecommunications
TV Production
$2M24 Jul 2001 California, United States

DotComix

Animation
Content
Graphic Design
$8M13 Jul 2000 San Francisco, California, United States
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