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Rhino Ventures (Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund)

Founders Dan Eisenhardt Fraser Hall

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 3.78
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 5
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Education
  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ontopical

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
GovTech
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$2M14 Sep 2023 Calgary, Canada

Super Advisor

Finance
Financial Services
$2M19 Oct 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies

Animation
Art
Artificial Intelligence
Film
Film Production
Machine Learning
Media and Entertainment
TV Production
$5M02 Dec 2021 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Klue

B2B
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Sales
Software
$62M01 Dec 2021 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Side Door

$2M05 Jul 2021 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Showbie

Education
Mobile Devices
$5M04 Feb 2021 Edmonton, Canada

Wizebank

FinTech
Internet
Software
01 Dec 2020 Vancouver, Canada

Klue

B2B
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Sales
Software
$15M09 Sep 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia

Showbie

Education
Mobile Devices
$3M20 Aug 2020 Edmonton, Canada

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Total investments 34
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 3.78
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.59

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ontopical

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
GovTech
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$2M14 Sep 2023 Calgary, Canada

Super Advisor

Finance
Financial Services
$2M19 Oct 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies

Animation
Art
Artificial Intelligence
Film
Film Production
Machine Learning
Media and Entertainment
TV Production
$5M02 Dec 2021 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Klue

B2B
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Sales
Software
$62M01 Dec 2021 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Side Door

$2M05 Jul 2021 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Showbie

Education
Mobile Devices
$5M04 Feb 2021 Edmonton, Canada

Wizebank

FinTech
Internet
Software
01 Dec 2020 Vancouver, Canada

Klue

B2B
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Sales
Software
$15M09 Sep 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia

Showbie

Education
Mobile Devices
$3M20 Aug 2020 Edmonton, Canada
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