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BCF Ventures

Founders Anne-Marie Boucher Sergio A. Escobar

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 3.75
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Legal
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Marketplace
Summary

BCF Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2018. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Montru00e9al. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. BCF Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

This organization was formed by Sergio A. Escobar. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, Health Care. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MedStack, Alpin.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this BCF Ventures performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the BCF Ventures, startups are often financed by Creative Destruction Lab, Y Combinator, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Panache Ventures, Right Side Capital Management, iGan Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Geekdom Fund, Techstars Austin Accelerator, Techstars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$33M30 Mar 2022 Calgary, Canada

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$5M04 Mar 2021 Calgary, Canada

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$6M08 Sep 2020 Calgary, Canada

FleetOps

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Marketplace
Transportation
$6M05 Aug 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FightCamp

Content
Fitness
Hardware
Subscription Service
$8M31 Jul 2020 Costa Mesa, California, United States

Adracare

Health Care
Software
29 Nov 2019 Ontario

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$1M01 Oct 2019 Calgary, Canada

MedStack

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Health Care
mHealth
Network Security
Security
$2M26 Feb 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Careteam Technologies

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Wellness
01 Dec 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Total investments 15
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 3.75
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$33M30 Mar 2022 Calgary, Canada

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$5M04 Mar 2021 Calgary, Canada

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$6M08 Sep 2020 Calgary, Canada

FleetOps

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Marketplace
Transportation
$6M05 Aug 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FightCamp

Content
Fitness
Hardware
Subscription Service
$8M31 Jul 2020 Costa Mesa, California, United States

Adracare

Health Care
Software
29 Nov 2019 Ontario

Athennian

Information Technology
Legal
Software
$1M01 Oct 2019 Calgary, Canada

MedStack

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Health Care
mHealth
Network Security
Security
$2M26 Feb 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Careteam Technologies

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Wellness
01 Dec 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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