L-SPARK

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Ottawa, Canada

Total investments

152

Average round size

37K

Portfolio companies

103

Rounds per year

15.20

Lead investments

82

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareComputer

Summary

In 2014 was created L-SPARK, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main department of described VC is located in the Ottawa.

Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Georgian Angel Network, Capital Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Mistral Venture Partners, Nouville Holdings.

The fund was created by Leo Lax.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline The Better Software Company Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Computer.

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Analytics

Total investments
152
Lead investments
82
Exits
4
Rounds per year
15.20
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (61)
  • Information Technology (23)
  • Artificial Intelligence (19)
  • Health Care (18)
  • Enterprise Software (14)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (146)
  • United States (4)
  • Spain (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
457K
Group Appearance index
0.33
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.26

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ActivKare 01 Jan 2020 Seed Ontario, Cornwall, Canada
Aidexpress 01 Jan 2018 Health Care, Home Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care Seed Quebec, Gatineau, Canada
GoOV 22 Jun 2015 Travel Seed 35K Utrecht, Netherlands

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