Ventures West
64
33M
40
2.13
15
0.38
23
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The main department of described VC is located in the Vancouver. The venture was found in North America in Canada.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Ventures West, startups are often financed by GrowthWorks Capital, Perseus, Oregon Life Sciences. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Business Development Bank of Canada, H.I.G. Capital, Perseus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BDC Venture Capital, GrowthWorks Capital, Perseus.
Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Ventures West performs on 6 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2007. When the investment is from Ventures West the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Pharmaceutical. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Epic Games, Celator Pharmaceuticals, QuickPlay Media.
This organization was formed by Michael J. Brown.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 64
- Lead investments
- 15
- Exits
- 23
- Rounds per year
- 2.13
- Follow on index
- 0.38
- Investments by industry
- Software (20)
- Biotechnology (20)
- Health Care (14)
- Internet (11)
- Therapeutics (10) Show 68 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (24)
- Canada (39)
- Peak activity year
- 2007
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 19
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 828M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.97
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 3.03
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiXtron Advanced Materials | 07 Nov 2007 | Energy, Industrial, Solar, Advanced Materials | Early Stage Venture | 10M | Quebec, Canada, Canada |
| Viigo | 18 Dec 2013 | Mobile, Sports, News | Early Stage Venture | 5M | Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada |
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