Total investments

153

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

133

Rounds per year

10.20

Lead investments

33

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

14

Stages of investment
GrantDebt
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturing

Summary

FedDev appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2009. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Waterloo.

The average startup value when the investment from FedDev is 1-5 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this FedDev performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the FedDev, startups are often financed by MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Velocity, Vanedge Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Golden Triangle Angel Network, Niagara Angel Network, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, BuildGroup.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hardware, Mobile. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fiix Software, AlayaCare, ExpertFile

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
153
Lead investments
33
Exits
14
Rounds per year
10.20
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (44)
  • Information Technology (29)
  • Health Care (18)
  • SaaS (17)
  • Manufacturing (16)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (143)
  • United States (7)
Peak activity year
2023

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8M
Group Appearance index
0.14
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.32

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