Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Total investments

222

Average round size

273M

Portfolio companies

187

Rounds per year

8.22

Lead investments

27

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

91

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1997. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Canada Pension Plan Investment Board works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is more than 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Communications Infrastructure. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Meituan-Dianping, Veeam Software, BGL Group The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, startups are often financed by Riverwood Capital, Tencent Holdings, Temasek Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tencent Holdings, Baillie Gifford, Trustbridge Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Wendi Murdoch, Trustbridge Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
222
Lead investments
27
Exits
91
Rounds per year
8.22
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (38)
  • Information Technology (26)
  • Health Care (21)
  • Manufacturing (20)
  • Biotechnology (18)
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Investments by region
  • United States (107)
  • China (23)
  • United Kingdom (18)
  • India (20)
  • Sweden (5)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
47
Number of Decacorns
58
Number of Minotaurs
34

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4B
Group Appearance index
0.52
Avg. company exit year
30
Avg. multiplicator
2.40
Strategy success index
1.00

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