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BlackBerry Partners Fund

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 10
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Mobile Devices
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Data Center
Summary

In 2008 was created BlackBerry Partners Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. This BlackBerry Partners Fund works on 51 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2010.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the BlackBerry Partners Fund, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Relay Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Relay Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Viewdle, Knowre, Transpera. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Content, Real Time. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Catalog Spree

E-Commerce
Mobile
Retail
$6M17 Nov 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

Catalog Spree

E-Commerce
Mobile
Retail
$1M05 Mar 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

Neuralitic Systems

Analytics
Data Center
Mobile
Mobile Devices
$8M31 Jan 2011 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Viewdle

Analytics
Augmented Reality
Computer Vision
Mobile
$10M05 Oct 2010 Palo Alto, California, United States

Aepona

Business/Productivity Software
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Other Information Technology
Social/Platform Software
Web Hosting
$10M30 Jun 2010 Northern Ireland

Transpera

Advertising Platforms
Content
Mobile
Video
$9M02 Jun 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Xobni

Apps
Mobile Devices
Software
$16M15 Apr 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Neuralitic Systems

Analytics
Data Center
Mobile
Mobile Devices
$10M31 Oct 2009 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

SocialDeck

iOS
Mobile
Social Media
$397K20 Aug 2009 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 14
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Catalog Spree

E-Commerce
Mobile
Retail
$6M17 Nov 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

Catalog Spree

E-Commerce
Mobile
Retail
$1M05 Mar 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

Neuralitic Systems

Analytics
Data Center
Mobile
Mobile Devices
$8M31 Jan 2011 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Viewdle

Analytics
Augmented Reality
Computer Vision
Mobile
$10M05 Oct 2010 Palo Alto, California, United States

Aepona

Business/Productivity Software
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Other Information Technology
Social/Platform Software
Web Hosting
$10M30 Jun 2010 Northern Ireland

Transpera

Advertising Platforms
Content
Mobile
Video
$9M02 Jun 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Xobni

Apps
Mobile Devices
Software
$16M15 Apr 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Neuralitic Systems

Analytics
Data Center
Mobile
Mobile Devices
$10M31 Oct 2009 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

SocialDeck

iOS
Mobile
Social Media
$397K20 Aug 2009 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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