Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF)
27
29M
23
3.86
13
0.15
6
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2017 was created Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Canada. The venture was found in North America in United States.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Canadian Food Innovators Network (CFIN), BlackBerry QNX, Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN). Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, Wearables. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Real Ventures, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are PeakSpan Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel, Fidelity, Amazon.
Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 27
- Lead investments
- 13
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 3.86
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Energy (7)
- Renewable Energy (7)
- Environmental Engineering (4)
- Manufacturing (4)
- Biotechnology (4) Show 45 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (23)
- United Kingdom (2)
- United States (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2023
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 19
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 68M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.19
- Avg. company exit year
- 29
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.21
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MindBridge AI | 12 Jun 2019 | FinTech, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence | Early Stage Venture | 29M | Ontario, (Old) Ottawa, Canada |
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