University of Waterloo
17
680K
9
0.25
2
0.47
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
University of Waterloo appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1957. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Waterloo. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the University of Waterloo, startups are often financed by Ontario Centres of Excellence, Velocity, Ryerson University. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Velocity, Laurier Start-up Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Velocity, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Accelerator Centre.
The current fund was established by Howard Armitage.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2018.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nicoya Lifesciences, Suncayr For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Nanotechnology, Sensor.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 17
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.25
- Follow on index
- 0.47
- Investments by industry
- Nanotechnology (8)
- Beauty (6)
- Lifestyle (6)
- Product Design (6)
- Developer Platform (2) Show 20 more
- Investments by region
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- Canada (16)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.53
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IntelliCulture Inc. | 01 Sep 2018 | Agriculture | Seed | 38K | Ontario, Kitchener, Canada |
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