Espresso Capital
Venture Debt
Active
Toronto, Canada
99
6M
80
6.60
9
0.18
21
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 134 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (44)
- Canada (50)
- United Kingdom (4)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- 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
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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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