Laurence Capital

Total investments

26

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

1.53

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BroadcastingSocialInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologySaaSMusicAdvertisingTravel

Summary

The company was established in North America in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Waterloo.

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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Social, SaaS. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Achievers.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Laurence Capital, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, GrandBanks Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Relay Ventures, GrandBanks Capital, Ontario Venture Capital Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Relay Ventures, GrandBanks Capital, Ontario Venture Capital Fund.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Laurence Capital performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The fund was created by Peter Schwartz. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
0
Exits
14
Rounds per year
1.53
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Music (3)
  • Social (3)
  • SaaS (3)
  • Financial Services (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
  • Canada (18)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.32
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.55

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Achievers 29 Nov 2007 Social, Software, SaaS Early Stage Venture 3M United States, California, San Francisco
Laurence Financial Services 01 Apr 2005 Financial Services, Lending Seed
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