500 Startups Canada

Total investments

40

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

5.00

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningMessagingBig DataMusic

Summary

500 Startups Canada appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The company was established in North America in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the 500 Startups Canada, startups are often financed by Real Ventures, Creative Destruction Lab, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Real Ventures, iNovia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, Incite Ventures, Gradient Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Motorleaf, InnerSpace, Fluent.ai. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Hardware. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
1
Exits
7
Rounds per year
5.00
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • Artificial Intelligence (10)
  • Machine Learning (10)
  • Big Data (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (33)
  • Uganda (1)
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2017

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
172K
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Humi HR 21 Mar 2017 Software, Human Resources, Small and Medium Businesses, Cloud Management Seed Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
Local Logic 24 May 2016 Real Estate, Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data, Real Estate Investment, Commercial Real Estate, Predictive Analytics Seed 79K Quebec, Montreal, Canada

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