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Sun Life Financial

Founders Matthew Hamilton Gault

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$33M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 0.11
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 2
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Non Profit
  • Insurance
  • B2B
  • Software
Summary

In 1865 was created Sun Life Financial, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Canada.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Insurance, Business Intelligence. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Maxwell Health, Rise People, Collective Health. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Sun Life Financial works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Sun Life Financial the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Sun Life Financial, startups are often financed by Tribeca Venture Partners, Redpoint, Rainfall Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tribeca Venture Partners, StartUp Health, Schooner Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank Investment Advisers, PSP Investments, New Enterprise Associates.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pillway (a Simpill Health Group Inc. Company)

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$7M28 Nov 2023 Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Bowtie Life Insurance Company

Insurance
$22M19 Oct 2021 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Dialogue

Health Care
Wellness
$34M29 Jul 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Rise People

B2B
Software
$11M01 Feb 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia

Bowtie Life Insurance Company

Insurance
$30M19 Dec 2018 Hong Kong

Rise People

B2B
Software
$19M15 Oct 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia

Maxwell Health

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Information Technology
Marketplace
Mobile
SaaS
$22M21 Mar 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Worknowledge

Developer Platform
Internet
$2M19 Sep 2001 New Jersey, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 33M
Rounds per year 0.11
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pillway (a Simpill Health Group Inc. Company)

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$7M28 Nov 2023 Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Bowtie Life Insurance Company

Insurance
$22M19 Oct 2021 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Dialogue

Health Care
Wellness
$34M29 Jul 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Rise People

B2B
Software
$11M01 Feb 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia

Bowtie Life Insurance Company

Insurance
$30M19 Dec 2018 Hong Kong

Rise People

B2B
Software
$19M15 Oct 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia

Maxwell Health

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Information Technology
Marketplace
Mobile
SaaS
$22M21 Mar 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Worknowledge

Developer Platform
Internet
$2M19 Sep 2001 New Jersey, United States
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