Accelerator Centre

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Waterloo, Canada

Total investments

228

Average round size

52K

Portfolio companies

159

Rounds per year

12.67

Lead investments

48

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Supply Chain ManagementSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareEducationMedical

Summary

Accelerator Centre appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2006. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Waterloo.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Suncayr.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Accelerator Centre, startups are often financed by Velocity, HAX, University of Waterloo. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University of Waterloo, Velocity, SOSV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Ontario Centres of Excellence, Y Combinator.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of less than 50 thousands dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Accelerator Centre performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Analytics

Total investments
228
Lead investments
48
Exits
6
Rounds per year
12.67
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (47)
  • Health Care (31)
  • Information Technology (25)
  • Artificial Intelligence (18)
  • Medical (16)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (184)
  • United States (12)
  • Estonia (1)
  • Australia (2)
  • China (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
18M
Group Appearance index
0.11
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adaptis Technologies 27 Sep 2022 Seed 10K
Scribenote 27 Sep 2022 Software Seed 10K

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