Bank of Montreal (BMO)

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Toronto, Canada

Total investments

76

Average round size

145M

Portfolio companies

66

Rounds per year

0.37

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

30

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareSaaSManufacturingEnergyMining

Summary

Bank of Montreal (BMO) is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1817. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Toronto. The company was established in North America in Canada.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Bank of Montreal (BMO), startups are often financed by Spark Capital, TechOperators, Scout Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Royal Bank of Canada, Business Development Bank of Canada, Wells Fargo Capital Finance. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Telecom Partners, Stolberg Equity Partners, Spire Capital.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Bank of Montreal (BMO) the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Bank of Montreal (BMO) works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CDI, CDI, Sunens. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Business Development, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
76
Lead investments
20
Exits
30
Rounds per year
0.37
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Financial Services (8)
  • FinTech (7)
  • Energy (6)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (53)
  • United States (20)
  • Cayman Islands (1)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
93M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
0.25
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Certn 20 Apr 2023 Software, Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data Early Stage Venture 30M British Columbia, Victoria, Canada

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