Difference Capital
23
13M
20
2.56
8
0.13
9
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2012 was created Difference Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Finance. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TouchBistro, QuickPlay Media, Cardiac Dimensions. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The overall number of key employees were 8.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Difference Capital, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Torstar Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lumira Ventures, Torstar Corporation, Relay Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BDC Venture Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Lumira Ventures.
This Difference Capital works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The average startup value when the investment from Difference Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 23
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 9
- Rounds per year
- 2.56
- Follow on index
- 0.13
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (6)
- Biotechnology (6)
- Software (5)
- SaaS (4)
- Medical Device (4) Show 52 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (18)
- United States (5)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 17
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 44M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.48
- Avg. company exit year
- 13
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.04
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mogo | 31 Dec 2014 | Internet, Financial Services, Finance | Late Stage Venture | British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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