ScaleUP Ventures

Status

Active

Location

Toronto, Canada

Total investments

46

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

5.75

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSBig DataSecurityInternet of Things

Summary

In 2016 was created ScaleUP Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Toronto.

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 needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MedStack, Cinchy, RenoRun. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Network Security, Mobile Advertising. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the ScaleUP Ventures, startups are often financed by Real Ventures, Spark Capital, Red Sea Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Valor Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Silicon Valley Bank.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from ScaleUP Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
Canada

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 100000000

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
5
Exits
1
Rounds per year
5.75
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Security (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Canada (34)
  • South Korea (1)
  • Egypt (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
51M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Neurodigm 15 Jul 2020 Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 1M Gyeonggi-do, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Rose Rocket 13 Oct 2021 Transportation, Software, Computer Early Stage Venture 25M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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