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Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec

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Total investments 218
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$223M
Portfolio companies 165
Rounds per year 3.69
Lead investments 46
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 58
Key employees 16
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Energy
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

R-Zero

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

Silk

Cloud Infrastructure
Database
Enterprise Software
$56M25 Jan 2023 Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Unito

Computer
Internet
Productivity Tools
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
Travel Accommodations
$20M26 Oct 2022 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M26 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Talent.com

$120M16 Mar 2022 -

BTR Energy

Agriculture
Energy
Transportation
$45M13 Dec 2021 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Sama

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$70M04 Nov 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Celsius Network

Blockchain
Consumer Lending
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$400M12 Oct 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Sentera

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$25M09 Jun 2021 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 218
Average round size 223M
Rounds per year 3.69
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 46
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 58
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

R-Zero

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

Silk

Cloud Infrastructure
Database
Enterprise Software
$56M25 Jan 2023 Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Unito

Computer
Internet
Productivity Tools
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
Travel Accommodations
$20M26 Oct 2022 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M26 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Talent.com

$120M16 Mar 2022 -

BTR Energy

Agriculture
Energy
Transportation
$45M13 Dec 2021 Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Sama

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$70M04 Nov 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Celsius Network

Blockchain
Consumer Lending
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$400M12 Oct 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Sentera

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$25M09 Jun 2021 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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