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BCE Capital

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.50
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 10
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
  • VoIP
  • Mobile
Summary

BCE Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1987. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Waltham.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, VoIP. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ellacoya Networks, Vantrix, Simpler Networks. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the BCE Capital, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flagship Pioneering, Bessemer Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, Summerhill Venture Partners, Safeguard Scientifics. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Summerhill Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Lothian Partners.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2008. Comparing to the other companies, this BCE Capital performs on 35 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The average startup value when the investment from BCE Capital is 50-100 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$9M19 Jul 2007 Quebec

Radian6

Advertising
CRM
Information Technology
Location Based Services
Messaging
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
Software
Video
$4M29 May 2007 Canada, British Columbia, Canada

Jumptap

Ad Network
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Mobile
$22M04 Oct 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Tello

Telecommunications
$10M25 Jul 2006 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Third Brigade

Enterprise Software
Network Security
Security
Software
$10M14 Dec 2005 Ontario

Trust Digital

Government
Mobile
Security
Software
$9M04 Nov 2005 Virginia, United States

Intellon Corporation

Manufacturing
Power Grid
Semiconductor
$24M26 Aug 2005 Orlando, Florida, United States

Third Brigade

Enterprise Software
Network Security
Security
Software
$5M07 Apr 2005 Canada, Ontario, Canada

Vantrix

Internet
Mobile
Wireless
$10M13 Jan 2005 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Total investments 17
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.50
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Manufacturing
Software
Telecommunications
$9M19 Jul 2007 Quebec

Radian6

Advertising
CRM
Information Technology
Location Based Services
Messaging
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
Software
Video
$4M29 May 2007 Canada, British Columbia, Canada

Jumptap

Ad Network
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Mobile
$22M04 Oct 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Tello

Telecommunications
$10M25 Jul 2006 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Third Brigade

Enterprise Software
Network Security
Security
Software
$10M14 Dec 2005 Ontario

Trust Digital

Government
Mobile
Security
Software
$9M04 Nov 2005 Virginia, United States

Intellon Corporation

Manufacturing
Power Grid
Semiconductor
$24M26 Aug 2005 Orlando, Florida, United States

Third Brigade

Enterprise Software
Network Security
Security
Software
$5M07 Apr 2005 Canada, Ontario, Canada

Vantrix

Internet
Mobile
Wireless
$10M13 Jan 2005 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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