Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Total investments

47

Average round size

528K

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

1.02

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

6

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyBeautyInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareEducationLifestyleProduct DesignLanguage LearningNanotechnology

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
47
Lead investments
3
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.02
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Lifestyle (13)
  • Health Care (12)
  • Nanotechnology (10)
  • Beauty (9)
  • Product Design (9)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (47)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.34
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SinoVeda Canada 01 Oct 2021 Biotechnology, Life Science, Pharmaceutical Seed 160K Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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