VA Angels

Total investments

185

Average round size

773K

Portfolio companies

155

Rounds per year

9.74

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalSocial Media

Summary

VA Angels appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Calgary. 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 1-2 partakers. Despite the VA Angels, startups are often financed by Valar Ventures, Terra Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Valar Ventures, Tom O'Connell. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BDC Venture Capital, Accelerate Fund, Creative Destruction Lab.

The average startup value when the investment from VA Angels is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This VA Angels works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2012. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kineticor, ZoomSystems, Monteris Medical. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Information Technology.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
185
Lead investments
3
Exits
15
Rounds per year
9.74
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (34)
  • Health Care (28)
  • Information Technology (25)
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Biotechnology (13)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (151)
  • United States (24)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Australia (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.08
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.05
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
01 Jan 2016 Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Oil and Gas, Nanotechnology Seed 318K Canada, Calgary
Leankor 01 Jan 2014 Software, Mobile, SaaS, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Project Management, CRM Seed Alberta, Calgary, Canada
Sequent Software 01 Feb 2018 Software, Information Technology, Service Industry Late Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Jose

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