Generation Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Toronto, Canada
33
8M
16
4.12
5
0.36
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Generation Ventures, startups are often financed by Nesta Ventures, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Earlybird Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Benhamou Global Ventures, Sway Ventures, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Benhamou Global Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Sway Ventures.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Generation Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Pharmaceutical. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Light Blue Optics, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, RANK Software The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 33
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 4.12
- Follow on index
- 0.36
- Investments by industry
- Software (16)
- Enterprise Software (10)
- Big Data (8)
- Artificial Intelligence (8)
- Information Technology (8) Show 44 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (6)
- Canada (17)
- United Kingdom (5)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synapse | 27 Sep 2023 | Software, Information Technology, E-Learning, SaaS, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Training | Early Stage Venture | 4M | Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada |
| Kiite | 27 Dec 2017 | Software, Information Technology, Sales, SaaS, Marketing, Sales Automation | Seed | 3M | Ontario, Waterloo, Canada |
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