Golden Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Toronto, Canada

Total investments

159

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

97

Rounds per year

12.23

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSApps

Summary

In 2011 was created Golden Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The company was established in North America in Canada.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Golden Ventures, startups are often financed by Foundry Group, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Battery Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Eniac Ventures, Version One Ventures, Real Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Battery Ventures, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Real Ventures.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Analytics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Top Hat, Yesware, Yesware.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Golden Ventures performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Golden Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseBiotech/Life SciencesConsumer/RetailHealthcare Show 9 more
Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
500K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 100000000
Fund raised date
2024-02-22

Analytics

Total investments
159
Lead investments
12
Exits
12
Rounds per year
12.23
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (63)
  • Artificial Intelligence (28)
  • Mobile (21)
  • Machine Learning (17)
  • Internet (17)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (101)
  • United States (53)
  • Kenya (2)
  • Japan (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
220M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
4.02
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Notch 19 Jan 2023 Software, Apps, Restaurants, Food Delivery Early Stage Venture 10M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
Sherpa 30 Apr 2021 Software, Mobile Apps, Travel, Tourism, Air Transportation Early Stage Venture 8M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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