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University of Waterloo

Founders Howard Armitage

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.26
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Nanotechnology
  • Beauty
  • Lifestyle
  • Product Design
  • Developer Platform
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nicoya Lifesciences

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Nanotechnology
Sensor
$7M14 Jan 2020 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

IntelliCulture Inc.

Agriculture
$38K01 Sep 2018 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Nicoya Lifesciences

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Nanotechnology
Sensor
$2M29 Jan 2018 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 17
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.26
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.53

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nicoya Lifesciences

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Nanotechnology
Sensor
$7M14 Jan 2020 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

IntelliCulture Inc.

Agriculture
$38K01 Sep 2018 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Nicoya Lifesciences

Biotechnology
Developer Platform
Nanotechnology
Sensor
$2M29 Jan 2018 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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