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FounderFuel

Founders Alan MacIntosh Ian Jeffrey Jean-Sebastian Cournoyer John Stokes

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Total investments 109
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$461K
Portfolio companies 100
Rounds per year 7.79
Lead investments 7
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 13
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Artemis

Business Intelligence
Infrastructure
03 May 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

QuoteMachine

E-Commerce
Retail Technology
SaaS
Sales Automation
Software
$795K29 Mar 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Livescale

Cloud Infrastructure
E-Commerce
SaaS
Social Media
Video Chat
Video Streaming
$1M16 Mar 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Waverly

Content Discovery
Search Engine
Semantic Search
Social Media
$1M09 Oct 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Willful

Building Material
E-Commerce
Internet
Legal Tech
Real Estate
$636K15 Jul 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

LunchBox

Mobile Payments
Restaurants
Social
01 Jun 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Building Maintenance
Document Management
Electrical Distribution
Industrial
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$62K26 Feb 2020 Montreal, Quebec

Simplyk

Information Technology
$596K15 Dec 2019 -

PowerTree

Building Maintenance
Document Management
Electrical Distribution
Industrial
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$159K04 Jun 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Total investments 109
Average round size 461K
Rounds per year 7.79
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.38

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Artemis

Business Intelligence
Infrastructure
03 May 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

QuoteMachine

E-Commerce
Retail Technology
SaaS
Sales Automation
Software
$795K29 Mar 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Livescale

Cloud Infrastructure
E-Commerce
SaaS
Social Media
Video Chat
Video Streaming
$1M16 Mar 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Waverly

Content Discovery
Search Engine
Semantic Search
Social Media
$1M09 Oct 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Willful

Building Material
E-Commerce
Internet
Legal Tech
Real Estate
$636K15 Jul 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

LunchBox

Mobile Payments
Restaurants
Social
01 Jun 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Building Maintenance
Document Management
Electrical Distribution
Industrial
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$62K26 Feb 2020 Montreal, Quebec

Simplyk

Information Technology
$596K15 Dec 2019 -

PowerTree

Building Maintenance
Document Management
Electrical Distribution
Industrial
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$159K04 Jun 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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