McLean Watson Venture Capital

Total investments

24

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.83

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

8

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareSocial NetworkManufacturingSecurityService IndustryApplication Performance Management

Summary

McLean Watson Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1992. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto.

The current fund was established by John Eckert, Loudon Owen. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This McLean Watson Venture Capital works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BelAir Networks, SiberCore Technologies, WebHancer. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are App Marketing, Management Information Systems.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the McLean Watson Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Celtic House Venture Partners, Tera Capital Corporation, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Celtic House Venture Partners, Ventures West, VenGrowth Asset Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Celtic House Venture Partners, VenGrowth Asset Management, GrowthWorks Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
3
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.83
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Internet (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Application Performance Management (4)
  • Security (3)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (15)
  • United States (5)
  • Singapore (2)
  • Belgium (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
26
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
272.11
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SiberCore Technologies 11 Apr 2000 Internet, Information Technology, Application Performance Management Early Stage Venture 9M Ontario, Canada, Canada
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