Cranson Capital Securities

Total investments

5

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

2

Rounds per year

0.33

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.60

Exits

1

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesSocial MediaPhotographyiOSAndroid

Summary

In 2006 was created Cranson Capital Securities, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto. The company was established in North America in Canada.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Cranson Capital Securities works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Cranson Capital Securities, startups are often financed by PowerOne Capital Markets Limited, Plaza Ventures, Pinetree Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pinetree Capital, Plaza Ventures, Extreme Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plaza Ventures, Pinetree Capital, AGF Investments.

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 fund investment industries, there are Information Services, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flixel Photos, Peeks Social. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.33
Follow on index
0.60
Investments by industry
  • Information Services (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Internet (3)
  • Photography (3)
  • Information Technology (3)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (5)
Peak activity year
2014

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Group Appearance index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Flixel Photos 05 Oct 2015 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Information Services, Photography Seed 2M Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's
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