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Golden Ventures

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Total investments 157
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 95
Rounds per year 12.08
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 12
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mobile
  • Machine Learning
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Terminal

Developer APIs
Fleet Management
Insurance
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$2M13 Dec 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ideogram

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Internet
$17M22 Aug 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shakudo

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$7M05 Jul 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Powered by People

Consumer Goods
$8M10 Mar 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Barley

SaaS
Software
$4M08 Mar 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Notch

Apps
Food Delivery
Restaurants
Software
$10M19 Jan 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Boostsecurity.io

Cyber Security
Security
Software
$9M16 Nov 2022 Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Avidbots

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Hardware
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$70M27 Sep 2022 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Properly

Internet
Marketplace
Real Estate
$28M08 Aug 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
News
Workflow automation startup Daylight lands $12.3M

– Toronto, Canada-based Daylight, formerly FormHero, announced it has raised $12.3 million in a series A round led by RTP Global, Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Golden Ventures.
– The company says the funds, which bring its total raised to $14.56 million, will be used to support go-to-market activities and expand the capabilities of its automation platform.
– A growing number of businesses are investing in tech-powered solutions to minimize repetitive office processes. In a 2020 McKinsey survey, 66% of enterprises said they were piloting platforms to automate at least one business process. And in a survey conducted by ServiceNow, 86% of respondents said that by 2020 their organizations would require intelligent automation to keep up with business requirements.

CruxOCM Raises $9M Total in Venture Financing; Latest Led by Bullpen Capital

– CruxOCM is the pioneer of robotic industrial process automation (RIPA™) for control room operations.
– The company has raised $6M in venture financing to fuel growth.
– The recent round was led by Bullpen Capital, with participation from Angular Ventures, Root Ventures, Golden Ventures, Cendana Capital and Industry Ventures.
– The capital will be used to grow the company’s product lines, increase the efficiency of its installation process, and continue expanding its team across North America.

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Total investments 157
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 12.08
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Terminal

Developer APIs
Fleet Management
Insurance
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$2M13 Dec 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ideogram

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Internet
$17M22 Aug 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shakudo

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$7M05 Jul 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Powered by People

Consumer Goods
$8M10 Mar 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Barley

SaaS
Software
$4M08 Mar 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Notch

Apps
Food Delivery
Restaurants
Software
$10M19 Jan 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Boostsecurity.io

Cyber Security
Security
Software
$9M16 Nov 2022 Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Avidbots

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Hardware
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$70M27 Sep 2022 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Properly

Internet
Marketplace
Real Estate
$28M08 Aug 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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