Jefferson Partners

Total investments

15

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.41

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareSaaSCareer PlanningMarketingAdvertisingService IndustryCustomer ServiceVoIPCasual Games

Summary

Jefferson Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1984. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Jefferson Partners, startups are often financed by Vimac Ventures, Skypoint Capital, Venture Coaches. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vimac Ventures, Skypoint Capital, The Entrepreneurs' Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vimac Ventures, Wesley Clover, Vanedge Capital.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Consumer. 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Attensity, firstSTREET for Boomers & Beyond, WebHancer Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

Opposing the other organizations, this Jefferson Partners works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2006.

This organization was formed by David Folk, Jack Kiervin.

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Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
2
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.41
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Internet (4)
  • Service Industry (4)
  • Career Planning (3)
  • SaaS (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
  • Canada (8)
  • Turkey (1)
Peak activity year
2009

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
9

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Natural Convergence 06 Aug 2004 Internet, Software, Service Industry, VoIP Early Stage Venture 9M Ontario, (Old) Ottawa, Canada

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