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VenGrowth Asset Management

Founders David Ferguson Mike Cohen

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Total investments 77
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 45
Rounds per year 1.83
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 26
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Wireless
  • Manufacturing
  • Mobile
  • Semiconductor
Summary

VenGrowth Asset Management is the famous VC, which was founded in 1982. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Toronto.

This organization was formed by David Ferguson, Mike Cohen. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2003. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This VenGrowth Asset Management works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wysdom, Neterion, Cytochroma. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Telecommunications, Internet. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the VenGrowth Asset Management, startups are often financed by Prism Venture Management, Newbury Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Newbury Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, GrowthWorks Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prism Venture Management, Newbury Ventures, Desjardins Venture Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical
$35M30 Jul 2008 Ontario

Kleer

Hardware
Software
Wireless
$28M02 Apr 2008 Cupertino, California, United States

NewStep Networks

Enterprise
Mobile
Software
$9M29 Jan 2008 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trigence

Consumer Electronics
Software
Virtualization
$8M06 Feb 2007 Chiyoda

Cytochroma

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical
$16M18 Jan 2007 Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$1M18 Dec 2006 Canada, Ontario

Aegera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$11M20 Nov 2006 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Liquid Computing

Data Center
Enterprise Software
IT Infrastructure
$27M15 Nov 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

NewStep Networks

Enterprise
Mobile
Software
$7M23 Oct 2006 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 77
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 1.83
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 26
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical
$35M30 Jul 2008 Ontario

Kleer

Hardware
Software
Wireless
$28M02 Apr 2008 Cupertino, California, United States

NewStep Networks

Enterprise
Mobile
Software
$9M29 Jan 2008 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trigence

Consumer Electronics
Software
Virtualization
$8M06 Feb 2007 Chiyoda

Cytochroma

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical
$16M18 Jan 2007 Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Software
$1M18 Dec 2006 Canada, Ontario

Aegera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$11M20 Nov 2006 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Liquid Computing

Data Center
Enterprise Software
IT Infrastructure
$27M15 Nov 2006 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

NewStep Networks

Enterprise
Mobile
Software
$7M23 Oct 2006 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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