Wesley Clover

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Ottawa, Canada

Total investments

68

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

1.79

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesSaaSBig DataCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityTelecommunications

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Ottawa. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

The fund was created by Terence Matthews. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Cyber Security, Analytics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FileFacets, ThinkRF, AirVM. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Wesley Clover works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Wesley Clover, startups are often financed by Capital Angel Network, Vimac Ventures, TRPE Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TRPE Capital, Development Bank of Wales, Capital Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Valor Equity Partners, ScaleUP Ventures, M12.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
68
Lead investments
6
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.79
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Software (28)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • SaaS (15)
  • Internet (12)
  • Cyber Security (10)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (30)
  • United States (5)
  • United Kingdom (18)
  • France (7)
  • Turkey (4)
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Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
136K
Group Appearance index
0.51
Avg. company exit year
11

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Axis 22 Mar 2022 Government, Information Technology, Information Services Seed United States, New York, New York
CulturVate Ltd 01 Jan 2018 Software, Innovation Management, Employee Benefits Seed Newport, Newport, United Kingdom
Validient 27 Feb 2024 Seed 411K

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