OMERS Ventures

Summary

In 2011 was created OMERS Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The company was established in North America in Canada.

We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the OMERS Ventures, startups are often financed by BDC Venture Capital, iNovia Capital, Real Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, CRV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, CRV.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from OMERS Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this OMERS Ventures performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Shopify, TouchBistro, wefox Group (wefox & ONE). Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Big Data, E-Commerce. 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 no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.