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Real Ventures

Founders Alan MacIntosh Jean-Sebastian Cournoyer John Stokes

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Total investments 312
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 178
Rounds per year 18.35
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 31
Key employees 12
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

Real Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Montru00e9al. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Crew, VarageSale, Hubba. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Internet.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Real Ventures, startups are often financed by Creative Destruction Lab, Version One Ventures, ScaleUP Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, FounderFuel, Anges Quebec. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ScaleUP Ventures, Y Combinator, Version One Ventures.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. This Real Ventures works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Real Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year.

This organization was formed by Alan MacIntosh, Jean-Sebastian Cournoyer, John Stokes. We also calculated 24 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

nplex biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Market Research
Nanotechnology
$42M17 Sep 2024 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

BioIntelligence Technologies

Analytics
Database
Information Technology
$3M23 Apr 2024 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

dcbel

Artificial Intelligence
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Smart Home
Solar
$50M17 Aug 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

HumanFirst

Artificial Intelligence
$3M26 Jul 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

BIOS

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Health Care
Human Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
$20M22 Jun 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Eli

Health Care
Personal Health
Women's
$3M04 Apr 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

SPARK Microsystems

CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Internet of Things
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Wireless
$27M13 Mar 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Goose Insurance Services

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$4M16 Feb 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peggy

Apps
Art
Blockchain
Consumer
Consumer Applications
FinTech
Marketplace
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$8M07 Feb 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
News
XpertSea Raises $20 Million Series B to Transform the Seafood Economy through Finance and Technology

– XpertSea, a Canadian company transforming how seafood is farmed and traded, announced it has closed a $20M USD Series B funding round.
– The round was led by QED Investors and Atlantico with Investissement Quebec joining previous investors Obvious Ventures, Aqua-Spark, Tony Fadell’s Future Shape, Real Ventures and edō Capital.
– QED partner Lauren Morton will join XpertSea’s board, resulting in both an executive team and a board where women are in the majority.
– By 2050 our planet will need 70% more food production to feed 10 billion people. Aquaculture represents one of the most efficient and sustainable ways to supply that quality protein, but technology gaps and the lack of financial services to underbanked farmers are major barriers to growth.

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Total investments 312
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 18.35
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 31
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

nplex biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Market Research
Nanotechnology
$42M17 Sep 2024 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

BioIntelligence Technologies

Analytics
Database
Information Technology
$3M23 Apr 2024 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

dcbel

Artificial Intelligence
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Smart Home
Solar
$50M17 Aug 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

HumanFirst

Artificial Intelligence
$3M26 Jul 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

BIOS

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Health Care
Human Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
$20M22 Jun 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Eli

Health Care
Personal Health
Women's
$3M04 Apr 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

SPARK Microsystems

CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Internet of Things
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Wireless
$27M13 Mar 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Goose Insurance Services

Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$4M16 Feb 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peggy

Apps
Art
Blockchain
Consumer
Consumer Applications
FinTech
Marketplace
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$8M07 Feb 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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