Great West Lifeco

Total investments

4

Average round size

282M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.03

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

2

Areas of investment
Venture CapitalImpact InvestingE-CommerceFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinanceMobile PaymentsAngel InvestmentPoint of Sale

Summary

In 1891 was created Great West Lifeco, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Winnipeg. The company was established in North America in Canada.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Great West Lifeco, startups are often financed by Napier Park Global Capital, F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Salesforce Ventures, Portag3 Ventures, IGM Financial. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, Portag3 Ventures, IGM Financial.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Quovo, Quovo, Payfirma The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Transaction Processing. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. When the investment is from Great West Lifeco the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Analytics

Total investments
4
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.03
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Finance (3)
  • Financial Services (3)
  • FinTech (2)
  • Angel Investment (2)
  • Venture Capital (2)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (3)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Quovo 03 May 2018 Financial Services, FinTech, Analytics, Banking, Wealth Management, Developer APIs Early Stage Venture 4M United States, New York, New York
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