National Bank of Canada

Total investments

77

Average round size

78M

Portfolio companies

69

Rounds per year

0.47

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

28

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSManufacturingEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

National Bank of Canada appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1859. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Calgary.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from National Bank of Canada is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this National Bank of Canada works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Financial Services, FinTech. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Enerkem, MX Technologies, Sensibill.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the National Bank of Canada, startups are often financed by Ferst Capital Partners - FCP, Mistral Venture Partners, Desjardins Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Desjardins Venture Capital, White Star Capital, Toronto Dominion Bank Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, White Star Capital, Walter Capital Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
21
Exits
28
Rounds per year
0.47
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (14)
  • FinTech (13)
  • Software (12)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Renewable Energy (7)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (68)
  • United States (5)
  • Spain (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Cu00f4te d'Ivoire (1)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
35M
Group Appearance index
0.68
Avg. company exit year
19
Avg. multiplicator
0.15
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
e2ip technologies 26 Apr 2023 Manufacturing, Electronics Early Stage Venture 120M Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Optosecurity 29 Jan 2007 Transportation, Information Technology, Security Early Stage Venture 15M Quebec, Quebec City, Canada

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