Northwater Capital

Total investments

32

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

0.94

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Energy StorageInternetMobileManufacturingSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsEnergyRenewable EnergyWireless

Summary

Northwater Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1989. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Energy Storage. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline General Compression, Intrinsity, Skyonic

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Northwater Capital, startups are often financed by NYSERDA, Adams Capital Management, US Renewables. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Energy Technology Ventures, Gen3 Partners, BDC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by West Capital Advisors, The Westly Group, NYSERDA.

The important activity for fund was in 2011. The typical startup value when the investment from Northwater Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Northwater Capital performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
4
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.94
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Energy (9)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Electronics (6)
  • Renewable Energy (5)
  • Internet (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Canada (6)
  • China (2)
Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
60M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
11
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Airgain 15 Jul 2005 Mobile, Telecommunications, Wireless Seed 4M United States, California, San Diego
Unique Solutions Design 27 Jul 2011 Retail, Information Technology, Fashion, Shopping Early Stage Venture 30M Nova Scotia, Dartmouth, Canada

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