Chrysalix Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Vancouver, Canada

Total investments

97

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

4.22

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.59

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
ManufacturingMarketingCleanTechElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergySolarClean EnergyMining TechnologyMining

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EnergyManufacturingClimate techAnalyticsAI/Big Data Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedPre-SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 39 more
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
97
Lead investments
17
Exits
12
Rounds per year
4.22
Follow on index
0.59
Investments by industry
  • Energy (36)
  • Manufacturing (26)
  • Renewable Energy (25)
  • CleanTech (17)
  • Electronics (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (52)
  • Canada (37)
  • Norway (2)
  • Iceland (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2008

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
100K
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
0.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Maintenel Automation 06 Feb 2015 Predictive Analytics, Fleet Management, Industrial Automation Seed 177K Vidzeme, Riga, Latvia
Novamera 28 Apr 2020 Mining Technology, Mining Seed Ontario, Mississauga, Canada
Q5D Technology Limited 02 Feb 2022 Manufacturing Seed 2M England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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