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VA Angels

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Total investments 185
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$773K
Portfolio companies 155
Rounds per year 9.74
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 15
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Biotechnology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

eThor.com

E-Commerce
Restaurants
Software
$6M01 Jun 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

PLAYR.gg

Ad Retargeting
Brand Marketing
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
eSports
Information Technology
Marketing
Software
$825K16 Dec 2018 British Columbia

Tonit

Information Technology
Mobile Apps
$127K10 Jan 2018 Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

VeloMetro Mobility

Car Sharing
CleanTech
Cycling
Electric Vehicle
Last Mile Transportation
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Public Transportation
Rental
Sharing Economy
$2M01 Jan 2018 Canada, Vancouver

Testfire Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
Meeting Software
Natural Language Processing
Software
$1M15 Nov 2017 Edmonton

Just Bio Fiber

Biotechnology
Commercial
Industrial
Manufacturing
Sustainability
$1M17 Oct 2017 Canada

WTFast

Augmented Reality
Content Delivery Network
eSports
MMO Games
Online Games
PC Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$423K18 Sep 2017 British Columbia

ProSmart Enterprises Inc.

Advertising Platforms
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Freemium
Media and Entertainment
Mobile
Payments
Social Network
Sports
01 Sep 2017 British Columbia

Callia

E-Commerce
Online Portals
Productivity Tools
$270K18 Aug 2017 Canada, Winnipeg

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Total investments 185
Average round size 773K
Rounds per year 9.74
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.08

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

eThor.com

E-Commerce
Restaurants
Software
$6M01 Jun 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

PLAYR.gg

Ad Retargeting
Brand Marketing
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
eSports
Information Technology
Marketing
Software
$825K16 Dec 2018 British Columbia

Tonit

Information Technology
Mobile Apps
$127K10 Jan 2018 Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

VeloMetro Mobility

Car Sharing
CleanTech
Cycling
Electric Vehicle
Last Mile Transportation
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Public Transportation
Rental
Sharing Economy
$2M01 Jan 2018 Canada, Vancouver

Testfire Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
Meeting Software
Natural Language Processing
Software
$1M15 Nov 2017 Edmonton

Just Bio Fiber

Biotechnology
Commercial
Industrial
Manufacturing
Sustainability
$1M17 Oct 2017 Canada

WTFast

Augmented Reality
Content Delivery Network
eSports
MMO Games
Online Games
PC Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$423K18 Sep 2017 British Columbia

ProSmart Enterprises Inc.

Advertising Platforms
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Freemium
Media and Entertainment
Mobile
Payments
Social Network
Sports
01 Sep 2017 British Columbia

Callia

E-Commerce
Online Portals
Productivity Tools
$270K18 Aug 2017 Canada, Winnipeg
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