Espresso Capital

Type

Venture Debt

Status

Active

Location

Toronto, Canada

Total investments

99

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

80

Rounds per year

6.60

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

21

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataBusiness IntelligenceAdvertisingCRM

Summary

Espresso Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Q4, Leadspace, Pressly. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.

The current fund was established by Gary Yurkovich. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 74 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2016. This Espresso Capital works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Espresso Capital, startups are often financed by Real Ventures, Vertex Ventures, VentureLink LP. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accomplice, Trellis Capital, Silicon Valley Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, Primera Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 7 more
Geo focus
CanadaUnited KingdomUnited States
Check size
5M — 25M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
99
Lead investments
9
Exits
21
Rounds per year
6.60
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Software (48)
  • SaaS (26)
  • Enterprise Software (19)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Big Data (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (44)
  • Canada (50)
  • United Kingdom (4)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.20
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.54

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Crowdcast 19 Jan 2016 Software, Information Technology, E-Learning, Messaging, Big Data, Video, Internet of Things, Video Streaming Seed United States, California, San Francisco
Placements.io 02 Feb 2018 SaaS, Enterprise Software, Advertising, Digital Media, CRM, Advertising Platforms Seed 3M United States, Washington, Seattle
Thentia 25 Jan 2024 Software, Robotics Early Stage Venture 38M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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