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Great West Lifeco

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$282M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.03
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Angel Investment
  • Venture Capital
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Quovo

Analytics
Banking
Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Wealth Management
$4M03 May 2018 New York, New York, United States

Payfirma

E-Commerce
Finance
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Point of Sale
SaaS
Transaction Processing
$13M27 May 2015 British Columbia

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Total investments 4
Average round size 282M
Rounds per year 0.03
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Quovo

Analytics
Banking
Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Wealth Management
$4M03 May 2018 New York, New York, United States

Payfirma

E-Commerce
Finance
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Point of Sale
SaaS
Transaction Processing
$13M27 May 2015 British Columbia
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