GMP Securities

Summary

In 1995 was created GMP Securities, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Digital Media, Mobile. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Knight Therapeutics, QuickPlay Media, Blue Ant Media. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the GMP Securities, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, VenGrowth Asset Management, Torstar Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Relay Ventures, Cormark Securities Inc., Torstar Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Torstar Corporation, Relay Ventures, Madison Dearborn Partners.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this GMP Securities performs on 38 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.