Desjardins Venture Capital

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Lévis, Canada

Total investments

246

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

207

Rounds per year

1.98

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

22

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyWholesaleInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageHealth CareManufacturingMedical

Summary

Desjardins Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1900. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Lu00e9vis. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Desjardins Venture Capital works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Service Industry, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Enobia Pharma, Cellfish, YottaYotta. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Desjardins Venture Capital, startups are often financed by BDC Venture Capital, Ferst Capital Partners - FCP, VenGrowth Asset Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, VenGrowth Asset Management, T2C2 Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VenGrowth Asset Management, Skypoint Capital, Fonds de solidaritu00e9 FTQ.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
GeneralistSeed
Geo focus
Canada, Quebec
Check size
100K — 80M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
246
Lead investments
9
Exits
22
Rounds per year
1.98
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (50)
  • Information Technology (47)
  • Manufacturing (38)
  • Health Care (33)
  • Wholesale (25)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (232)
  • United States (11)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
628K
Group Appearance index
0.53
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.25

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Local Logic 09 Nov 2020 Real Estate, Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data, Real Estate Investment, Commercial Real Estate, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 6M Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Local Logic 02 Aug 2023 Real Estate, Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data, Real Estate Investment, Commercial Real Estate, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 13M Quebec, Montreal, Canada

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