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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$528K
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.02
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 6
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Lifestyle
  • Health Care
  • Nanotechnology
  • Beauty
  • Product Design
Summary

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1978.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), startups are often financed by Ontario Centres of Excellence, University of Waterloo, National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ontario Centres of Excellence, University of Toronto Mississauga, Queensland University of Technology. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ontario Centres of Excellence, National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program, IBM.

Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Education. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Suncayr

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SinoVeda Canada

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$160K01 Oct 2021 Edmonton, Canada

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Total investments 47
Average round size 528K
Rounds per year 1.02
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.34

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SinoVeda Canada

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$160K01 Oct 2021 Edmonton, Canada
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