BMO Capital Markets

Total investments

63

Average round size

225M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

1.75

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

26

Areas of investment
Real EstateVenture CapitalSoftwareFinancial ServicesEnergyNatural ResourcesOil and GasMiningPrecious MetalsMineral

Summary

In 1988 was created BMO Capital Markets, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BMO Capital Markets, startups are often financed by BDC Venture Capital, TELUS Ventures, Relay Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TD Securities, CIBC World Markets, RBC Capital Markets. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pelecanus Investments, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Lyra Growth Partners.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Blockchain, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline TouchBistro, SecureKey Technologies, BuildDirect

When the investment is from BMO Capital Markets the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this BMO Capital Markets performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
63
Lead investments
10
Exits
26
Rounds per year
1.75
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Precious Metals (10)
  • Mining (9)
  • Energy (7)
  • Software (7)
  • Mineral (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Canada (46)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
28
Avg. valuation at time of investment
129M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
32
Avg. multiplicator
0.58
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bright Power 27 Jul 2021 Energy, Solar, Energy Management Early Stage Venture 24M United States, New York, New York
Competera 10 Nov 2017 E-Commerce, Software, Retail, Information Technology, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics Seed 1M England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Spiffy 14 Oct 2019 Restaurants, Hotel Seed 10K Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
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