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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund

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Total investments 226
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 191
Rounds per year 14.12
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 51
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Responsibli

Software
$4M13 Feb 2024 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Tali AI

Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Assistant
VoIP
08 Nov 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

InnerSpace

Big Data
Facilities Support Services
Indoor Positioning
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Mobile
Public Safety
Smart Building
Smart Cities
$7M10 Aug 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ODAIA

Software
$25M01 May 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vivid Machines

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$3M20 Apr 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

KeyOps

$4M13 Dec 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cinchy

Collaboration
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
$14M27 Oct 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

GrowerIQ

Cannabis
Compliance
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Software
Supply Chain Management
$2M13 Sep 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ACTO

Business Intelligence
Education
Health Care
Life Science
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$18M07 Jul 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
News
AmacaThera Announces Close of Oversubscribed Series A Financing to Advance a Novel Post-Operative, Nonopioid Pain Therapy in Clinical Trials

– AmacaThera announced the close of an oversubscribed $10.3m Series A financing to support development of AMT-143, the company’s lead clinical asset, and pipeline expansion.
– The Series A round was led by Lumira Ventures and includes a global investor syndicate of existing investors, Viva BioInnovator and Sprout BioVentures, as well as new investors, BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Venture Fund, Inveready, MBX Capital, CR Capital Management, StandUp Ventures, and MaRS IAF.

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Total investments 226
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 14.12
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 51
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Responsibli

Software
$4M13 Feb 2024 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Tali AI

Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Assistant
VoIP
08 Nov 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

InnerSpace

Big Data
Facilities Support Services
Indoor Positioning
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Mobile
Public Safety
Smart Building
Smart Cities
$7M10 Aug 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ODAIA

Software
$25M01 May 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vivid Machines

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$3M20 Apr 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

KeyOps

$4M13 Dec 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cinchy

Collaboration
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
$14M27 Oct 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

GrowerIQ

Cannabis
Compliance
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Software
Supply Chain Management
$2M13 Sep 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ACTO

Business Intelligence
Education
Health Care
Life Science
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$18M07 Jul 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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