Rhino Ventures (Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund)

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Vancouver, Canada

Total investments

34

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

3.78

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationBusiness Intelligence

Summary

Rhino Ventures (Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund) appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Vancouver.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Rhino Ventures (Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund), startups are often financed by Peterson Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Kickstart Seed Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Panache Ventures, Pallasite Ventures, FINTOP Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FINTOP Capital, Toba Capital, Peterson Ventures.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Klue, Grow, Avenue HQ. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada.

This organization was formed by Dan Eisenhardt, Fraser Hall. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 120000000
Fund raised date
2021-11-23

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
11
Exits
5
Rounds per year
3.78
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Education (7)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Financial Services (6)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (31)
  • Isle of Man (3)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
207K
Group Appearance index
0.59
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FISPAN 14 Aug 2019 Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Banking Early Stage Venture 14M British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Interactive Supercomputing 17 Jan 2006 Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Massachusetts
Investment Title 24 Feb 2018 Commercial Real Estate Seed 1M United States, New Jersey, Cedar Knolls
Side Door 05 Jul 2021 Seed 2M Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada

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