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Novacap

Founders Marc Beauchamp

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$42M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 0.67
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 13
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Health Care
  • Consumer Goods
Summary

In 1981 was created Novacap, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Longueuil. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

The fund was created by Marc Beauchamp. The overall number of key employees were 13.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The average startup value when the investment from Novacap is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Novacap, startups are often financed by Goldman Sachs, Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Nutrition. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pivotal Payments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seaway Networks

Data Storage
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$8M22 Jun 2004 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Intelligent Photonics Control

$10M30 Jun 2003 Canada, Ontario, Canada

Octasic

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$11M12 Feb 2002 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Manufacturing
01 Jan 1997 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Waste Management
01 Jan 1986 Canada, Quebec, Canada

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Total investments 29
Average round size 42M
Rounds per year 0.67
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.41

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seaway Networks

Data Storage
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$8M22 Jun 2004 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Intelligent Photonics Control

$10M30 Jun 2003 Canada, Ontario, Canada

Octasic

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$11M12 Feb 2002 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Manufacturing
01 Jan 1997 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Waste Management
01 Jan 1986 Canada, Quebec, Canada
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