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Desmarais Group

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 2
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.71
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • PaaS
  • Internet
  • SaaS
  • Cloud Data Services
  • Enterprise Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Consumer
Personal Health
Women's
$3M31 Jul 2018 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$35M10 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$9M10 Sep 2013 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$8M18 Jul 2012 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$3M28 Apr 2011 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 35M
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.71
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Consumer
Personal Health
Women's
$3M31 Jul 2018 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$35M10 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$9M10 Sep 2013 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$8M18 Jul 2012 New York, New York, United States

AppDirect

Apps
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$3M28 Apr 2011 New York, New York, United States
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