Canso Investment Counsel

Total investments

3

Average round size

65M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.12

Exits

1

Areas of investment
Media and Information Services (B2B)Database SoftwarePublishingE-CommerceSoftwareRetailB2BSaaSProduct ManagementBrand Marketing

Summary

In 1997 was created Canso Investment Counsel, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Richmond Hill.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Canso Investment Counsel, startups are often financed by Village Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures, Brightspark Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Real Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners Limited, Hedgewood. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, Plaza Ventures, Kensington Capital Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Retail, B2B. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. 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 Purch, Hubba.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.12
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • B2B (2)
  • Publishing (2)
  • Retail (1)
  • Database Software (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (1)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
200M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
5.09
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Purch 02 Jun 2015 Publishing, E-Commerce, B2B, Mobile, Marketplace, Advertising, Digital Media, Lead Generation Late Stage Venture 135M United States, New York, New York
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