VenGrowth Asset Management

Total investments

77

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

45

Rounds per year

1.83

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

26

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileManufacturingNetwork SecuritySemiconductorConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsTelecommunicationsWireless

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
15
Exits
26
Rounds per year
1.83
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Software (29)
  • Wireless (20)
  • Manufacturing (17)
  • Mobile (16)
  • Semiconductor (13)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (62)
  • United States (10)
  • Japan (2)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Ireland (1)
Peak activity year
2003

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
1.46
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Nakina Systems 19 Apr 2005 Cyber Security, Network Security, Telecommunications, Web Hosting Early Stage Venture 10M Ontario, (Old) Ottawa, Canada
Zelos Therapeutics 01 Jan 2003 Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 11M United States, Pennsylvania, Conshohocken

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