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Northwater Capital

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 0.94
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 8
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Renewable Energy
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

REDWAVE ENERGY

Energy
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
Solar
$5M21 Jul 2016 Illinois, United States

Arctic Sand Technologies

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$19M25 Feb 2016 Massachusetts, United States

Legend3D

Advertising
Digital Entertainment
Virtual Reality
$10M02 Sep 2014 San Diego, California, United States

MTPV

Energy
Innovation Management
Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$11M15 Jul 2014 Austin, Texas, United States

VanDyne SuperTurbo

Automotive
Manufacturing
Search Engine
$15M14 Apr 2014 Loveland, Colorado, United States

LiquidPiston

Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$6M22 Jul 2013 Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States

Ioxus

Electronics
Energy
Industrial
Manufacturing
$15M18 Jul 2013 City of Oneonta, New York, United States

Skyonic

Clean Energy
Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$39M25 Jun 2013 Austin, Texas, United States

Temporal Power

Electronics
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
$10M20 Feb 2013 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 32
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.94
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

REDWAVE ENERGY

Energy
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
Solar
$5M21 Jul 2016 Illinois, United States

Arctic Sand Technologies

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$19M25 Feb 2016 Massachusetts, United States

Legend3D

Advertising
Digital Entertainment
Virtual Reality
$10M02 Sep 2014 San Diego, California, United States

MTPV

Energy
Innovation Management
Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$11M15 Jul 2014 Austin, Texas, United States

VanDyne SuperTurbo

Automotive
Manufacturing
Search Engine
$15M14 Apr 2014 Loveland, Colorado, United States

LiquidPiston

Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$6M22 Jul 2013 Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States

Ioxus

Electronics
Energy
Industrial
Manufacturing
$15M18 Jul 2013 City of Oneonta, New York, United States

Skyonic

Clean Energy
Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$39M25 Jun 2013 Austin, Texas, United States

Temporal Power

Electronics
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
$10M20 Feb 2013 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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