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East Valley Ventures

Founders Gerry Pond Robert Justason Robert Neal

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 4.09
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 9
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Advertising
  • Information Services
Summary

East Valley Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Saint John's.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Swept, Resson Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, Robotics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the East Valley Ventures, startups are often financed by New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Rho Canada Ventures, Build Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Innovacorp, Rho Canada Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, iNovia Capital, Tom Williams.

The current fund was established by Gerry Pond, Robert Justason, Robert Neal. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this East Valley Ventures performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from East Valley Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Passiv

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Personal Finance
Software
Wealth Management
$2M17 Oct 2022 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Picketa Systems

AgTech
CleanTech
Embedded Systems
Farming
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$238K03 May 2022 -

CIRCLES

Education
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$1M15 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States

MESH/diversity

Software
$750K27 Oct 2020 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jaza

Emerging Markets
Energy
Solar
$1M09 Mar 2020 Halifax, Nova Scotia

MESH/diversity

Software
$755K30 Sep 2019 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

eChart Healthcare

Health Care
Information Technology
$800K17 Jun 2019 Fredericton, New Brunswick

Cirrus9

Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Telecommunications
09 Jan 2019 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Beauceron Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
$1M24 Oct 2018 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
News
Smart Skin Technologies Raises $10.7M in Funding

– Smart Skin Technologies Inc. from Fredericton, NB develops IIoT productivity solutions.
– The company raised $10.7m in funding led by BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund with participation from Schott AG, Mariner’s East Valley Ventures and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations, hiring up to 50 new employees in the next year, and its business reach.

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Total investments 45
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 4.09
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Passiv

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Personal Finance
Software
Wealth Management
$2M17 Oct 2022 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Picketa Systems

AgTech
CleanTech
Embedded Systems
Farming
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$238K03 May 2022 -

CIRCLES

Education
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$1M15 Apr 2022 New York, New York, United States

MESH/diversity

Software
$750K27 Oct 2020 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jaza

Emerging Markets
Energy
Solar
$1M09 Mar 2020 Halifax, Nova Scotia

MESH/diversity

Software
$755K30 Sep 2019 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

eChart Healthcare

Health Care
Information Technology
$800K17 Jun 2019 Fredericton, New Brunswick

Cirrus9

Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Telecommunications
09 Jan 2019 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Beauceron Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
$1M24 Oct 2018 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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