Yaletown Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Vancouver, Canada

Total investments

89

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

4.05

Lead investments

26

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

15

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCommunitiesBig DataData Integration

Summary

Yaletown Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Vancouver. The company was established in North America in Canada.

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 successful fund investment fields, there are Communities, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Elastic Path Software, Indicee, ePACT Network. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Yaletown Partners works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Yaletown Partners, startups are often financed by GrowthWorks Capital, OVP Venture Partners, HIGHLINEvc. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OVP Venture Partners, Ventures West, Paladin Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OVP Venture Partners, CTI Life Sciences Fund, BDC Healthcare Venture.

The fund was created by Hans Knapp, Steve Hnatiuk. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAI/Big DataIoTCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Series CSeries DSeries FSeries E
Geo focus
Canada

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 200000000
Fund raised date
2023-03-09

Analytics

Total investments
89
Lead investments
26
Exits
15
Rounds per year
4.05
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (45)
  • SaaS (22)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Enterprise Software (14)
  • Internet (11)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (65)
  • United States (20)
  • Belgium (3)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
56M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.44

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Netskrt 01 May 2024 Internet, Internet of Things, Video Streaming Early Stage Venture 7M British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Second Closet 07 Dec 2022 Commercial, Transportation, Customer Service, Warehousing Late Stage Venture 59M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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