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BC Advantage Funds

Founders Jim Heppell

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 10
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Wireless
  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • iOS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Microvisk Technologies

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$3M09 Sep 2010 St Asaph, United Kingdom

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$25M17 Jun 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zeugma Systems

Internet
Telecommunications
Web Hosting
$8M17 Mar 2009 Canada, Ontario

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$22M02 Jun 2008 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Zeugma Systems

Internet
Telecommunications
Web Hosting
$20M01 Dec 2007 Canada, Ontario

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$14M12 Jun 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

Contigo Systems

Fleet Management
Location Based Services
Software
Wireless
$3M07 Jun 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

Mobidia Technology

Advertising
Analytics
Android
App Discovery
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$3M22 Jan 2007 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

GaleForce Solutions

CRM
Finance
$2M25 Apr 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia

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Total investments 16
Average round size 8M
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Microvisk Technologies

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$3M09 Sep 2010 St Asaph, United Kingdom

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$25M17 Jun 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zeugma Systems

Internet
Telecommunications
Web Hosting
$8M17 Mar 2009 Canada, Ontario

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$22M02 Jun 2008 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Zeugma Systems

Internet
Telecommunications
Web Hosting
$20M01 Dec 2007 Canada, Ontario

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$14M12 Jun 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

Contigo Systems

Fleet Management
Location Based Services
Software
Wireless
$3M07 Jun 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia

Mobidia Technology

Advertising
Analytics
Android
App Discovery
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$3M22 Jan 2007 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

GaleForce Solutions

CRM
Finance
$2M25 Apr 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia
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