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Beacon Securities

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Total investments 66
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 46
Rounds per year 1.83
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 44
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Oil and Gas
  • Health Care
  • Industrial
  • Software
  • Mining
Summary

In 1988 was created Beacon Securities, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in Canada. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight theScore, Espial Group, Slyce. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Beacon Securities, startups are often financed by Salman Partners, Greylock Partners, Cormark Securities Inc.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Salman Partners, Canaccord Genuity Group, GMP Securities. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salman Partners, Relay Ventures, PI Financial.

This Beacon Securities works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Luckbox

Communities
Gaming
Internet
Sports
$3M11 Jun 2020 NA - Isle of Man, Middle, Isle of Man

Slyce

Image Recognition
SaaS
Visual Search
$12M23 Jun 2014 United States, Philadelphia

Slyce

Image Recognition
SaaS
Visual Search
$10M04 Mar 2014 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 66
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 1.83
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 44
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Luckbox

Communities
Gaming
Internet
Sports
$3M11 Jun 2020 NA - Isle of Man, Middle, Isle of Man

Slyce

Image Recognition
SaaS
Visual Search
$12M23 Jun 2014 United States, Philadelphia

Slyce

Image Recognition
SaaS
Visual Search
$10M04 Mar 2014 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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