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BMO Capital Markets

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Total investments 60
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$181M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 25
Key employees 9

Areas of investment

  • Mining
  • Precious Metals
  • Natural Resources
  • Mineral
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M14 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Nesto

Financial Services
FinTech
Real Estate
$80M13 Dec 2022 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Second Closet

Commercial
Customer Service
Transportation
Warehousing
$59M07 Dec 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Avidbots

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Hardware
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$70M27 Sep 2022 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Certn

Big Data
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$51M10 May 2022 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

OTTO Motors

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$29M01 Jun 2020 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

FlexPay

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Transaction Processing
$6M11 Dec 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

TAKU Retail

Computer
E-Commerce
Point of Sale
Retail Technology
Software
$11K14 Oct 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zensurance

Insurance
$25K20 Oct 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 60
Average round size 181M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 25
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M14 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Nesto

Financial Services
FinTech
Real Estate
$80M13 Dec 2022 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Second Closet

Commercial
Customer Service
Transportation
Warehousing
$59M07 Dec 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Avidbots

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Hardware
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$70M27 Sep 2022 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Certn

Big Data
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$51M10 May 2022 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

OTTO Motors

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$29M01 Jun 2020 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

FlexPay

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Transaction Processing
$6M11 Dec 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

TAKU Retail

Computer
E-Commerce
Point of Sale
Retail Technology
Software
$11K14 Oct 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zensurance

Insurance
$25K20 Oct 2016 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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