Good News Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Toronto, Canada
58
1M
44
8.29
1
0.24
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Good News Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Good News Ventures, startups are often financed by MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, York Angels Investors, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Maple Leaf Angels, Jacky Chen, York Angels Investors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars, StandUp Ventures, ShipFusion.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AXIS Labs, Zoom.ai, Sampler. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Marketplace. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.
The top activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Good News Ventures performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Good News Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars.
The fund was created by Marat Mukhamedyarov, Mohan Markandaier, Mona Kung. The overall number of key employees were 3.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund raised date
- 2022-04-30
Analytics
- Total investments
- 58
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 8.29
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Software (25)
- Internet (6)
- Information Technology (6)
- Financial Services (4)
- Travel (4) Show 84 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (38)
- United States (12)
- Portugal (1)
- China (1)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 3M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.59
- Avg. company exit year
- 2
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoMaterials | 22 Aug 2022 | Marketplace, Construction, Landscaping | Seed | Quebec, Montréal, Canada | |
| Neuro | 22 Feb 2021 | Data Center | Seed | England, Bath, United Kingdom |
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