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StandUp Ventures

Founders Michelle McBane

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 5.57
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
Summary

StandUp Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the StandUp Ventures, startups are often financed by MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, RBC Generator Fund, Kirsten Torokvei. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, ScaleUP Ventures, Information Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CIBC Innovation Banking, Business Development Bank of Canada, Vanedge Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coconut Software, Sampler, Bridgit. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Software.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cognito Health

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$1M06 Mar 2024 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Metafold 3D

$1M18 Jul 2023 -

ODAIA

Software
$25M01 May 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vivid Machines

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$3M20 Apr 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mercator AI

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Construction
Lead Generation
Market Research
SaaS
$3M21 Mar 2023 -

AssistIQ

Health Care
Medical
Real Time
$1M28 Feb 2023 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Acerta Analytics

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Software
$8M22 Nov 2022 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Fictionary

Software
Video Editing
$1M01 Sep 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jombone

Employment
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$2M26 Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
News
Arteria AI Raises $11M in Series A Funding

– Arteria AI is a global leader in enterprise digital contracting.
– The company raised $11m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Information Venture Partners and Illuminate Financial Management with participation from Golden Ventures and StandUp Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale its technology.

AmacaThera Announces Close of Oversubscribed Series A Financing to Advance a Novel Post-Operative, Nonopioid Pain Therapy in Clinical Trials

– AmacaThera announced the close of an oversubscribed $10.3m Series A financing to support development of AMT-143, the company’s lead clinical asset, and pipeline expansion.
– The Series A round was led by Lumira Ventures and includes a global investor syndicate of existing investors, Viva BioInnovator and Sprout BioVentures, as well as new investors, BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Venture Fund, Inveready, MBX Capital, CR Capital Management, StandUp Ventures, and MaRS IAF.

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Total investments 39
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 5.57
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.44
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cognito Health

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$1M06 Mar 2024 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Metafold 3D

$1M18 Jul 2023 -

ODAIA

Software
$25M01 May 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vivid Machines

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$3M20 Apr 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mercator AI

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Construction
Lead Generation
Market Research
SaaS
$3M21 Mar 2023 -

AssistIQ

Health Care
Medical
Real Time
$1M28 Feb 2023 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Acerta Analytics

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Software
$8M22 Nov 2022 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Fictionary

Software
Video Editing
$1M01 Sep 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jombone

Employment
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$2M26 Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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