Plaza Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Toronto, Canada
38
13M
28
2.38
1
0.26
7
- Areas of investment
Summary
Plaza Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.
The overall number of key employees were 5.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Social Media. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Dejero Labs, Q4, Hubba The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Plaza Ventures, startups are often financed by iNovia Capital, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, White Star Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, Structure Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BDC Venture Capital, iNovia Capital, Pinetree Capital.
The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Plaza Ventures works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
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- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 38
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 2.38
- Follow on index
- 0.26
- Investments by industry
- Software (16)
- E-Commerce (8)
- SaaS (8)
- Internet (8)
- Mobile (6) Show 68 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (35)
- United States (2)
- Israel (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 75M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.79
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.89
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Agensys | 11 Oct 1999 | Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical | Early Stage Venture | 11M | United States, California, Santa Monica |
Drop Technologies | 31 Jan 2018 | Retail, Mobile Apps, Business Intelligence, Digital Marketing, Market Research, Social Media Marketing, Loyalty Programs, Consumer Research | Early Stage Venture | 16M | Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada |
Sophonix | 23 Jun 2020 | Biotechnology | Early Stage Venture | 15M | Beijing, Dongcheng District, China |
Super.com | 24 Apr 2023 | E-Commerce, FinTech, Mobile, Travel, Price Comparison | Late Stage Venture | 60M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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