Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec

Montréal, Canada
Corporate investor
Active
Total investments

213

Average round size

224M

Portfolio companies

162

Rounds per year

3.61

Lead investments

46

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

56

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSManufacturingPharmaceuticalEnergyRenewable EnergyMining

Summary

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec is the famous VC, which was founded in 1965. The main department of described VC is located in the Montru00e9al. The company was established in North America in Canada.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AvidXchange, Mofang Gongyu, Cornice. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Retail.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, startups are often financed by iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Investissement Quebec, Fonds de solidaritu00e9 FTQ, iNovia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pitango Venture Capital, MedImmune Ventures, Investissement Quebec.

We also calculated 16 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBahrainBelgiumBosnia and Herzegovina Show 59 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
213
Lead investments
46
Exits
56
Rounds per year
3.61
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (27)
  • Manufacturing (22)
  • Health Care (20)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Energy (19)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (3)
  • United States (37)
  • Canada (132)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • India (12)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
16
Number of Decacorns
17
Number of Minotaurs
20

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
500M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
25
Avg. multiplicator
0.52
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Adarza BioSystems17 Apr 2013Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Clinical TrialsSeed0United States, Missouri, City of Saint Louis
Cornice14 Dec 2005Consumer, Mobile, Video, ElectronicsLate Stage Venture97MUnited States, Colorado
Silk25 Jan 2023Enterprise Software, Cloud Infrastructure, DatabaseEarly Stage Venture56MUnited States, Massachusetts, Needham

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