BEST Funds
Toronto, Canada
70
1M
67
2.59
2
0.04
38
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Summary
In 1996 was created BEST Funds, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The company was established in North America in Canada.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Dejero Labs, ERMS Corporation, TeamBuy The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Software.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the BEST Funds, startups are often financed by TTV Capital, Second City Capital, RoyNat Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RoyNat Capital, Covington Capital, BDC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VenGrowth Asset Management, Newbury Ventures, BDC Venture Capital.
The current fund was established by John Richardson.
The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This BEST Funds works on 28 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 70
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 38
- Rounds per year
- 2.59
- Follow on index
- 0.04
- Investments by industry
- Software (35)
- Information Technology (16)
- Internet (7)
- Financial Services (7)
- E-Commerce (6) Show 94 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (65)
- United States (5)
- Peak activity year
- 1996
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 23
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 3M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.27
- Avg. company exit year
- 15
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.03
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zone·tv | 16 Nov 2015 | Broadcasting, Internet, Social Media, Video | Seed | 4M | Ontario, Pickering, Canada |
| GroupBy | 20 Jul 2015 | E-Commerce, Software, Big Data, Search Engine | Seed | 3M | Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada |
| Levy Electric | 20 May 2019 | Last Mile Transportation, Electric Vehicle | Seed | 150K | United States, New York, New York |
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