Velocity

Summary

In 2008 was created Velocity, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Waterloo. The company was established in North America in Canada.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Velocity, startups are often financed by University of Waterloo, Creative Destruction Lab, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University of Waterloo, Ontario Centres of Excellence, NEXT Canada. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Creative Destruction Lab, HAX, SV Angel.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of less than 50 thousands dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Velocity works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Manufacturing. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fuzzbuzz, Couple, mappedin.