Grand Challenges Canada
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Grand Challenges Canada appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the Grand Challenges Canada, startups are often financed by Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF), Creative Destruction Lab, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Khosla Ventures, Data Collective DCVC.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Atomwise, Atomo Diagnostics. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise, Manufacturing. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Australia. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.00
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Medical Device (8)
- Health Care (7)
- Biotechnology (4)
- Information Technology (2)
- Manufacturing (2) Show 17 more
- Investments by region
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- Kenya (2)
- Canada (6)
- Australia (1)
- United States (3)
- India (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 289K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbutus Medical | 09 Nov 2015 | Health Care, Medical Device, Hardware | Seed | 795K | British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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