Skypoint Capital

Summary

Skypoint Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Nepean.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Skypoint Capital, startups are often financed by VenGrowth Asset Management, Desjardins Venture Capital, Silverton Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VenGrowth Asset Management, Desjardins Venture Capital, RBC Capital Markets. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goldman Sachs, TELUS Ventures, RBC Capital Markets.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Semiconductor, Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline GridPoint, Teradici, Meriton Networks Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Andrew Katz, Leo Lax. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2006. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. This Skypoint Capital works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.