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Chrysalix Venture Capital

Founders Dr. Wal Van Lierop

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Total investments 98
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 4.26
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.59
Exits 12
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Renewable Energy
  • CleanTech
  • Electronics
Summary

In 2001 was created Chrysalix Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Vancouver.

The current fund was established by Dr. Wal Van Lierop, Michael J. Brown. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline HydroPoint Data Systems, Purfresh, MineSense Technologies Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, CleanTech. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Chrysalix Venture Capital, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Export Development Canada, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VantagePoint Capital Partners, RockPort Capital, Export Development Canada. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, General Motors Ventures, Cycle Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Chrysalix Venture Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rithmik Solutions

Artificial Intelligence
Mining
$1M21 Mar 2024 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sortera Alloys

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$44M30 Aug 2023 Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

DT Equipment

Analytics
Industrial Automation
Sensor
$18M19 Jun 2023 Iceland, Iceland

C2CA technology

Building Material
CleanTech
Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Recycling
Sustainability
Waste Management
01 Mar 2023 Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Feasible

Information Technology
$17M06 Feb 2023 California, United States

VerAI Discoveries

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Clean Energy
Information Technology
Mineral
Mining Technology
Precious Metals
$12M01 Nov 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Luffy AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
Robotics
18 Jul 2022 -

Q5D Technology Limited

Manufacturing
$2M02 Feb 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Novamera

Mining
Mining Technology
$5M27 Jul 2021 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
News
Novamera Closes $5 Million Series A Financing to Advance Its Precision Mining Solution – Sustainable Mining by Drilling

– Novamera closed its $5m Series A financing round.
– BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund was the lead investor and Chrysalix Venture Capital also participated with a follow-on investment.
– The financing will primarily fund Novamera’s full field trial of the Sustainable Mining by Drilling (“SMD”) solution.
– The field trial, which is taking place at Anaconda Mining’s project site in Newfoundland, has commenced and will be ongoing until the end of November.
– The Company is carrying out a proof of concept, testing the entire SMD system and process.

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Total investments 98
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 4.26
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.59
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rithmik Solutions

Artificial Intelligence
Mining
$1M21 Mar 2024 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sortera Alloys

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$44M30 Aug 2023 Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

DT Equipment

Analytics
Industrial Automation
Sensor
$18M19 Jun 2023 Iceland, Iceland

C2CA technology

Building Material
CleanTech
Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Recycling
Sustainability
Waste Management
01 Mar 2023 Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Feasible

Information Technology
$17M06 Feb 2023 California, United States

VerAI Discoveries

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Clean Energy
Information Technology
Mineral
Mining Technology
Precious Metals
$12M01 Nov 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Luffy AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
Robotics
18 Jul 2022 -

Q5D Technology Limited

Manufacturing
$2M02 Feb 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Novamera

Mining
Mining Technology
$5M27 Jul 2021 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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