BC Advantage Funds

Total investments

16

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

10

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyMobileHealth CareMobile AppsManufacturingAdvertisingWirelessiOSMobile DevicesApp Discovery

Summary

The company was established in North America in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the North Vancouver.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this BC Advantage Funds works on 17 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2007.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the BC Advantage Funds, startups are often financed by BDC Venture Capital, GrowthWorks Capital, Yaletown Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GrowthWorks Capital, Discovery Capital, BDC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Porton Group, Pangaea Ventures, Oxford Technology Management.

The fund was created by Jim Heppell.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wireless, Chemical Engineering. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NPS, Mobidia Technology, Microvisk Technologies. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
4
Exits
6
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Wireless (5)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Health Care (4)
  • Biotechnology (3)
  • iOS (3)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (13)
  • United Kingdom (3)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
500K
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.07

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Inimex Pharmaceuticals 02 Jun 2008 Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 22M British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada
Microvisk Technologies 09 Sep 2010 Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device Early Stage Venture 3M Wales, St Asaph, United Kingdom

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