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Laurence Capital

Founders Peter Schwartz

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 1.53
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 14
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Music
  • Social
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fiix Software

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
15 Dec 2011 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BigRoad Inc.

Android
Apps
Software
$596K01 Dec 2011 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

StereoLOGIC

Computer
Software
01 Jul 2010 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kognitiv

E-Commerce
Software
Tourism
Travel
01 Dec 2009 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

ParkVu

Mobile
Music
Social Media
01 Jul 2009 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Achievers

SaaS
Social
Software
$5M07 May 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Mashup Arts

Content
Gift Card
Messaging
Music
Photography
Social Media
$1M01 Aug 2008 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Achievers

SaaS
Social
Software
$3M29 Nov 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Ventus Energy Inc.

Renewable Energy
01 Dec 2005 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 26
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.53
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.32

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fiix Software

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
15 Dec 2011 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BigRoad Inc.

Android
Apps
Software
$596K01 Dec 2011 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

StereoLOGIC

Computer
Software
01 Jul 2010 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kognitiv

E-Commerce
Software
Tourism
Travel
01 Dec 2009 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

ParkVu

Mobile
Music
Social Media
01 Jul 2009 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Achievers

SaaS
Social
Software
$5M07 May 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Mashup Arts

Content
Gift Card
Messaging
Music
Photography
Social Media
$1M01 Aug 2008 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Achievers

SaaS
Social
Software
$3M29 Nov 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Ventus Energy Inc.

Renewable Energy
01 Dec 2005 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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