Ripple VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Toronto, Canada

Total investments

40

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

5.71

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig Data

Summary

Ripple Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Marketing, Health Care. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cybeats Technologies, Voiceflow, Synapse

The current fund was established by Matt Cohen. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Ripple Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Ripple Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, FundersClub, iNovia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Maple Leaf Angels, True Ventures, Real Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Weekend Fund, Techstars Chicago (Formerly Excelerate Labs).

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseDeveloper ToolsBlockchain/Crypto/Web3Manufacturing Show 9 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
25K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
12
Exits
1
Rounds per year
5.71
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • SaaS (10)
  • Health Care (9)
  • Analytics (8)
  • Internet (7)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (24)
  • United States (13)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.43

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Artemis 22 May 2024 Infrastructure, Business Intelligence Seed 1M British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Synapse 10 Apr 2019 Software, Information Technology, E-Learning, SaaS, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Training Seed 2M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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