Desmarais Group

Total investments

7

Average round size

35M

Portfolio companies

2

Follow on index

0.71

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareSaaSAppsEnterprise SoftwareCloud Data ServicesPaaSPersonal HealthWomen'sIaaS

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Montreal. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Desmarais Group is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline AppDirect, Athena Club The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer, Personal Health.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Desmarais Group, startups are often financed by iNovia Capital, StarVest Partners, Stingray. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iNovia Capital, StarVest Partners, Stingray. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iNovia Capital, StarVest Partners, Mithril Capital Management.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
0
Follow on index
0.71
Investments by industry
  • PaaS (6)
  • Internet (6)
  • SaaS (6)
  • Cloud Data Services (6)
  • Enterprise Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
650M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AppDirect 10 Apr 2014 Internet, Software, SaaS, Apps, Enterprise Software, Cloud Data Services, PaaS, IaaS Late Stage Venture 35M United States, New York, New York
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