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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

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Total investments 231
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$277M
Portfolio companies 194
Rounds per year 8.56
Lead investments 33
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 94
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

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

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mombak

Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
Forestry
$30M23 Aug 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Covariant

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$75M04 Apr 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Hexagon Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$77M13 Feb 2023 California, United States

Asimov

Biotechnology
$175M05 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Hexagon Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$77M11 Oct 2022 California, United States

tray.io

Cloud Computing
Data Integration
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
Software
$40M27 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Meati Foods

Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$150M21 Jul 2022 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Project Canary

Energy
Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
Oil and Gas
$111M24 Feb 2022 Denver, Colorado, United States

KoBold Metals

Machine Learning
Mining
Precious Metals
$192M10 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States
News
Robotics-powered ‘microfulfillment’ startup Fabric raises $200M

– Fabric, a startup developing a “microfulfillment” automation platform for retailers, announced that it raised $200m in series C funding led by Temasek with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Union Tech Ventures, Harel Insurance & Finance, Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, KSH Capital, Princeville Capital, Wharton Equity, and others.
– With a valuation of over $1bn and $336m in capital raised to date, Fabric plans to expand its headcount and build a network of microfulfillment centers across major cities in the U.S.

Laronde Raises $440M in Series B Financing

– Laronde is a Cambridge, Mass.-based company advancing Endless RNA™ (eRNA) – a novel, engineered form of RNA that can be programmed to express therapeutic proteins inside the body.
– The company raised $440m in Series B financing.
– The round was led by Flagship Pioneering, with participation from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Invus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, and Federated Hermes Kaufmann Funds, among others.
– The new investment will be used to advance the development of the company’s eRNA platform and a broad pipeline of programs across a number of therapeutic categories.

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Total investments 231
Average round size 277M
Rounds per year 8.56
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 33
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 94
Group Appearance index 0.51

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mombak

Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
Forestry
$30M23 Aug 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Covariant

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$75M04 Apr 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Hexagon Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$77M13 Feb 2023 California, United States

Asimov

Biotechnology
$175M05 Jan 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Hexagon Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$77M11 Oct 2022 California, United States

tray.io

Cloud Computing
Data Integration
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
Software
$40M27 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Meati Foods

Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$150M21 Jul 2022 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Project Canary

Energy
Environmental Consulting
Environmental Engineering
Oil and Gas
$111M24 Feb 2022 Denver, Colorado, United States

KoBold Metals

Machine Learning
Mining
Precious Metals
$192M10 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States
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