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National Research Council Canada

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Total investments 58
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$293K
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 0.54
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
Summary

National Research Council Canada is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1916. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Ottawa.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. When the investment is from National Research Council Canada the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this National Research Council Canada performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight QRA Corp, Lysac Technologies. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the National Research Council Canada, startups are often financed by VA Angels, Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Societe Generale, Fonds de solidaritu00e9 FTQ, Desjardins Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners, Real Ventures, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ekona Power

Renewable Energy
09 Nov 2021 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dear Life

Consumer Software
$87K15 Jul 2021 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

OraQ AI

Artificial Intelligence
Dental
Health Care
Machine Learning
Software
$795K01 Jul 2021 Calgary, Canada

BAIOTEQ

Health Care
12 May 2021 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

HYKE UP

Analytics
Customer Service
Information Technology
Software
$102K29 Dec 2020 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

SolarSteam Inc.

Renewable Energy
$556K01 Jun 2020 Calgary, Canada

TAKU Retail

Computer
E-Commerce
Point of Sale
Retail Technology
Software
$51K15 Mar 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hikai

01 Jan 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Testfire Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
Meeting Software
Natural Language Processing
Software
08 May 2018 Edmonton

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Total investments 58
Average round size 293K
Rounds per year 0.54
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.31

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ekona Power

Renewable Energy
09 Nov 2021 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dear Life

Consumer Software
$87K15 Jul 2021 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

OraQ AI

Artificial Intelligence
Dental
Health Care
Machine Learning
Software
$795K01 Jul 2021 Calgary, Canada

BAIOTEQ

Health Care
12 May 2021 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

HYKE UP

Analytics
Customer Service
Information Technology
Software
$102K29 Dec 2020 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

SolarSteam Inc.

Renewable Energy
$556K01 Jun 2020 Calgary, Canada

TAKU Retail

Computer
E-Commerce
Point of Sale
Retail Technology
Software
$51K15 Mar 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hikai

01 Jan 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Testfire Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
Meeting Software
Natural Language Processing
Software
08 May 2018 Edmonton
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