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Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF)

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 3.86
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 6
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Biotechnology
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MindBridge AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
FinTech
Machine Learning
$29M12 Jun 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 27
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 3.86
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.19

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MindBridge AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
FinTech
Machine Learning
$29M12 Jun 2019 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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