FounderFuel

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Montreal, Canada

Total investments

109

Average round size

461K

Portfolio companies

100

Rounds per year

7.79

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

13

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSAppsBig Data

Summary

FounderFuel is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The main department of described VC is located in the Montru00e9al. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

This organization was formed by Alan MacIntosh, Ian Jeffrey, Jean-Sebastian Cournoyer, John Stokes. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from FounderFuel is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. This FounderFuel works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Apps. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Crew, Ready Education, XpertSea. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less 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 standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the FounderFuel, startups are often financed by VA Angels, iNovia Capital, Real Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Real Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, iNovia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Harrison Metal, BDC Venture Capital, ff Venture Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 7 more
Geo focus
Canada
Check size
88K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
109
Lead investments
7
Exits
13
Rounds per year
7.79
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (19)
  • Software (19)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Mobile (13)
  • Internet (13)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (91)
  • United States (15)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
23M
Group Appearance index
0.38
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mosaic Manufacturing 28 Sep 2016 Manufacturing, Product Design, Industrial, 3D Printing Seed 1M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
Opencare 29 Aug 2013 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Dental Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco

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