British Columbia Discovery Fund
12
6M
11
0.60
1
0.08
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Vancouver.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MovieSet, Avigilon Corporation, Mobidia Technology. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Quantum Computing. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 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 British Columbia Discovery Fund, startups are often financed by BDC Venture Capital, Discovery Capital, Yaletown Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yaletown Partners, GrowthWorks Capital, Discovery Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yaletown Partners, Discovery Capital, CTI Life Sciences Fund.
Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Opposing the other organizations, this British Columbia Discovery Fund works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2008. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 0.60
- Follow on index
- 0.08
- Investments by industry
- Software (3)
- Information Technology (3)
- Pharmaceutical (2)
- Analytics (2)
- Manufacturing (2) Show 37 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (11)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2008
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 18
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 93M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.75
- Avg. company exit year
- 15
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.98
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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PHEMI Systems Corp. | 11 Aug 2015 | Analytics, Health Care, SaaS, Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Biopharma, Cloud Security, Bioinformatics, Privacy | Early Stage Venture | 9M | British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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