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British Columbia Discovery Fund

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.60
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 6
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Analytics
  • Manufacturing
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Security
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Privacy
SaaS
$9M11 Aug 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mapping Services
$1M16 Dec 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia

MovieSet

Film
Video
Web Browsers
$5M24 Jul 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

MovieSet

Film
Video
Web Browsers
$5M10 Jun 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mobidia Technology

Advertising
Analytics
Android
App Discovery
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$3M22 Jan 2007 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$1M08 Dec 2004 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Total investments 12
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.60
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Security
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Privacy
SaaS
$9M11 Aug 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mapping Services
$1M16 Dec 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia

MovieSet

Film
Video
Web Browsers
$5M24 Jul 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

MovieSet

Film
Video
Web Browsers
$5M10 Jun 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mobidia Technology

Advertising
Analytics
Android
App Discovery
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$3M22 Jan 2007 Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$1M08 Dec 2004 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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