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Yaletown Partners

Founders Hans Knapp Steve Hnatiuk

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Total investments 90
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 54
Rounds per year 4.09
Lead investments 27
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 15
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oloid

Software
24 Oct 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Netskrt

Internet
Internet of Things
Video Streaming
$7M01 May 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

PayShepherd

Billing
Financial Services
FinTech
$5M06 Mar 2024 Calgary, Canada

Elevated Signals

Industrial Automation
$6M27 Feb 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Inverted AI

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$4M14 Dec 2023 -

InnerSpace

Big Data
Facilities Support Services
Indoor Positioning
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Mobile
Public Safety
Smart Building
Smart Cities
$7M10 Aug 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

EdgeQ

Information Technology
Internet
Software
$75M19 Apr 2023 San Jose, California, United States

ClimateAI

Enterprise Software
Environmental Engineering
$22M13 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

ZenHub

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Project Management
Software
$10M09 Mar 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Total investments 90
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 4.09
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 27
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oloid

Software
24 Oct 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Netskrt

Internet
Internet of Things
Video Streaming
$7M01 May 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

PayShepherd

Billing
Financial Services
FinTech
$5M06 Mar 2024 Calgary, Canada

Elevated Signals

Industrial Automation
$6M27 Feb 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Inverted AI

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$4M14 Dec 2023 -

InnerSpace

Big Data
Facilities Support Services
Indoor Positioning
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Mobile
Public Safety
Smart Building
Smart Cities
$7M10 Aug 2023 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

EdgeQ

Information Technology
Internet
Software
$75M19 Apr 2023 San Jose, California, United States

ClimateAI

Enterprise Software
Environmental Engineering
$22M13 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

ZenHub

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Project Management
Software
$10M09 Mar 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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