Northleaf Capital Partners

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Toronto, Canada

Total investments

40

Average round size

150M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

2.67

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsTherapeuticsData CenterVideoData StorageVirtual Desktop

Summary

In 2009 was created Northleaf Capital Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Northleaf Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Silver Creek Ventures, Mesirow Financial, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Georgian Partners, Focus Ventures, Silver Creek Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mesirow Financial, InterWest Partners, S3 Ventures.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Business Intelligence. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Verafin, Pivot3, PPRO Group.

We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.

This Northleaf Capital Partners works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
11
Exits
12
Rounds per year
2.67
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • FinTech (4)
  • Data Center (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • Canada (19)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • Norway (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
205M
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
4.54
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bright Peak Therapeutics 11 Jun 2024 Biotechnology, Therapeutics Late Stage Venture 90M Switzerland, Basel-City, Basel

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