Torstar Corporation

Summary

Torstar Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1994. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Torstar Corporation is 50-100 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Torstar Corporation works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2005.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Blue Ant Media, LiveDeal, CanadaStays.com. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Travel, Digital Media. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Torstar Corporation, startups are often financed by eonCapital, Relay Ventures, Mosaic Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Relay Ventures, GMP Securities, Slaight Communications. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Foundry Group, Relay Ventures, GMP Securities.