MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
229
1M
194
14.31
17
0.15
51
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Artificial Intelligence. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Top Hat, Fiix Software, Dejero Labs. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.
The top activity for fund was in 2015. This MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund is 5-10 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The overall number of key employees were 7.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, startups are often financed by Creative Destruction Lab, Golden Ventures, BDC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, Ontario Centres of Excellence, Extreme Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BDC Venture Capital, Ontario Centres of Excellence, iGan Partners.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 229
- Lead investments
- 17
- Exits
- 51
- Rounds per year
- 14.31
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Software (90)
- Enterprise Software (32)
- Health Care (28)
- Artificial Intelligence (28)
- Information Technology (27) Show 231 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (215)
- United States (8)
- China (1)
- Turkey (2)
- Netherlands (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 3M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.66
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.32
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinchy | 27 Oct 2022 | Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Data Integration | Early Stage Venture | 14M | Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada |
| Nfinite Nanotech | 14 May 2024 | Nanotechnology | Seed | 7M | Ontario, Waterloo, Canada |
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