Purple Angel

Total investments

22

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.96

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMarketing AutomationEnterprise SoftwareService IndustryCRMVoIP

Summary

In 2001 was created Purple Angel, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Nepean.

Comparing to the other companies, this Purple Angel performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The fund was created by Irving Ebert.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Purple Angel, startups are often financed by Vimac Ventures, TandemLaunch, Primaxis Technology Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, Vimac Ventures, Primaxis Technology Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wesley Clover, Vimac Ventures, Primaxis Technology Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline IRYSTEC, Natural Convergence 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 Restaurants, Loyalty Programs.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
0
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.96
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Service Industry (5)
  • Analytics (4)
  • Internet (4)
  • E-Commerce (3)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (16)
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2006

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.14

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Spoonity 22 Oct 2015 E-Commerce, Analytics, Marketing Automation, Restaurants, Mobile Payments, Advertising, Loyalty Programs, NFC Seed 238K Ontario, (Old) Ottawa, Canada
The Better Software Company 14 Sep 2015 Software, Rental, Small and Medium Businesses, Service Industry, CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Seed 750K United States, New York

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