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Purple Angel

Founders Irving Ebert

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 0.96
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 10
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Service Industry
  • Analytics
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IRYSTEC

Consumer Electronics
Consumer Goods
Enterprise Software
$5M06 Jun 2018 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Spoonity

Advertising
Analytics
E-Commerce
Loyalty Programs
Marketing Automation
Mobile Payments
NFC
Restaurants
$238K22 Oct 2015 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Better Software Company

CRM
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Rental
Service Industry
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$750K14 Sep 2015 New York, United States

Rarelogic

Analytics
Big Data
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Marketing Automation
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
$350K01 Jan 2014 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Legitmix

Marketplace
Music
$2M01 Jan 2011 New York, United States

iWatchLife

Software
01 Jun 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

DragonRAD

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
03 Nov 2009 Ontario

Natural Convergence

Internet
Service Industry
Software
VoIP
$10M21 Nov 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Energate

Energy
Hardware
Software
01 Jan 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 22
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.96
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IRYSTEC

Consumer Electronics
Consumer Goods
Enterprise Software
$5M06 Jun 2018 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Spoonity

Advertising
Analytics
E-Commerce
Loyalty Programs
Marketing Automation
Mobile Payments
NFC
Restaurants
$238K22 Oct 2015 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Better Software Company

CRM
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Rental
Service Industry
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$750K14 Sep 2015 New York, United States

Rarelogic

Analytics
Big Data
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Marketing Automation
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
$350K01 Jan 2014 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Legitmix

Marketplace
Music
$2M01 Jan 2011 New York, United States

iWatchLife

Software
01 Jun 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

DragonRAD

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
03 Nov 2009 Ontario

Natural Convergence

Internet
Service Industry
Software
VoIP
$10M21 Nov 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Energate

Energy
Hardware
Software
01 Jan 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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