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Skypoint Capital

Founders Andrew Katz Leo Lax

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 17
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Wireless
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Accedian

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Telecommunications
$19M04 Aug 2010 Quebec

Teradici

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$17M07 Apr 2009 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Accedian

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Telecommunications
$7M14 Feb 2008 Montreal, Quebec

Mobivox

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
$11M01 Oct 2007 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gridpoint Systems

Software
$8M26 Jul 2007 Michigan, United States

Trellia Networks

Enterprise Software
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$3M13 Jun 2007 Quebec

Teradici

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$18M14 Feb 2007 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

FirstHand Technologies

Enterprise Software
Internet
Messaging
Software
VoIP
$7M24 May 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Galazar

Electronics
Internet
Wireless
$6M27 Mar 2006 Canada, Ontario

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Total investments 40
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Accedian

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Telecommunications
$19M04 Aug 2010 Quebec

Teradici

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$17M07 Apr 2009 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Accedian

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Telecommunications
$7M14 Feb 2008 Montreal, Quebec

Mobivox

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
$11M01 Oct 2007 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gridpoint Systems

Software
$8M26 Jul 2007 Michigan, United States

Trellia Networks

Enterprise Software
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$3M13 Jun 2007 Quebec

Teradici

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$18M14 Feb 2007 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

FirstHand Technologies

Enterprise Software
Internet
Messaging
Software
VoIP
$7M24 May 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Galazar

Electronics
Internet
Wireless
$6M27 Mar 2006 Canada, Ontario
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