New Brunswick Innovation Foundation

Type

Non-Profit

Status

Active

Location

Fredericton, Canada

Total investments

123

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

87

Rounds per year

5.86

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareHardwareInternet of ThingsRenewable Energy

Summary

New Brunswick Innovation Foundation appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2003. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Fredericton.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Virtual Expert Clinics, RtTech Software, AnyWare Group. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet of Things, SaaS. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, startups are often financed by Rho Canada Ventures, Build Ventures, McRock Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, East Valley Ventures, Build Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BDC Venture Capital, GrowthWorks Capital, East Valley Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. Opposing the other organizations, this New Brunswick Innovation Foundation works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Geo focus
Canada, New Brunswick
Check size
200K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
123
Lead investments
18
Exits
6
Rounds per year
5.86
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (49)
  • Information Technology (32)
  • Analytics (15)
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
  • Information Services (10)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (113)
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
169K
Group Appearance index
0.66
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.13

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Potential Motors 11 Feb 2022 Automotive, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Electric Vehicle Seed 3M New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
Solyntek 17 Apr 2024 Seed 39K Quebec, Montréal, Canada

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