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Espresso Capital

Founders Chris Welsh Garron Helman Gary Yurkovich Gregory Smith

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Total investments 99
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 80
Rounds per year 6.60
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 21
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Big Data
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thentia

Robotics
Software
$38M25 Jan 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kythera

Analytics
Big Data
Data Visualization
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
Hospital
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Software
28 Mar 2022 Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Headout

Marketplace
Mobile
Travel
$12M08 Sep 2021 New York, New York, United States

Thoughtexchange

Communities
Crowdsourcing
Q&A
Software
$20M05 Dec 2019 British Columbia

Sourced Group

Consulting
Information Technology
Security
Telecommunications
$15M10 Sep 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fullscript

E-Commerce
Health Care
Internet
Medical
Personal Health
SaaS
Wellness
$25M21 May 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Blueshift

Artificial Intelligence
Digital Marketing
Marketing Automation
SaaS
$20M23 Apr 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Daisy Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$5M25 Sep 2018 Ontario

Q4

Business Intelligence
CRM
SaaS
Stock Exchanges
$38M12 Sep 2018 Ontario
News
Headout raises $12M, plans to hire 150+ people as domestic travel rebounds

– Travel startup Headout raised $12m in funding.
– The round was led by Glade Brook Capital and included participation from returning investors Version One Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, FJ Labs, 500 Startups, Haystack and Ludlow Ventures, and new investors Espresso Capital and Practical VC.
– The company plans to expand into 300 cities, product development and its product, business, marketing and operations teams.
– It plans to hire more than 150 employees around the world and is also looking for opportunities to acqui-hire travel and entertainment startups.

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Total investments 99
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 6.60
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 0.20

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thentia

Robotics
Software
$38M25 Jan 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kythera

Analytics
Big Data
Data Visualization
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
Hospital
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Software
28 Mar 2022 Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Headout

Marketplace
Mobile
Travel
$12M08 Sep 2021 New York, New York, United States

Thoughtexchange

Communities
Crowdsourcing
Q&A
Software
$20M05 Dec 2019 British Columbia

Sourced Group

Consulting
Information Technology
Security
Telecommunications
$15M10 Sep 2019 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fullscript

E-Commerce
Health Care
Internet
Medical
Personal Health
SaaS
Wellness
$25M21 May 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Blueshift

Artificial Intelligence
Digital Marketing
Marketing Automation
SaaS
$20M23 Apr 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Daisy Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$5M25 Sep 2018 Ontario

Q4

Business Intelligence
CRM
SaaS
Stock Exchanges
$38M12 Sep 2018 Ontario
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