Garage Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Waterloo, Canada

Total investments

88

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

64

Rounds per year

8.00

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

1

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BHealth CareAppsTelecommunicationsSensor

Summary

The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Waterloo.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Garage Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Velocity, Pioneer Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Wei Guo, UpHonest Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, FedDev, BDC Capital.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Careerlist, Nicoya Lifesciences, Fellow.app. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Email, Sensor.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
88
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
8.00
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (41)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Internet (9)
  • Apps (8)
  • FinTech (7)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (62)
  • United States (23)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
89M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.40

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