Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

Yaletown Partners

Founders Hans Knapp Steve Hnatiuk

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 88
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 4.00
Lead investments 25
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
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
  • Health Care
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.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of Yaletown Partners:
Typical Co-investors
Yaletown Partners is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after Yaletown Partners:

Funds with similar focus

Funds from Canada
Funds with similar focus located in Canada:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
Ad Astra Ventures California, Solana Beach, United States
ARTIS Labs California, San Francisco, United States
Belrose Care India, Kolkata, West Bengal
Dough Chicago, Illinois, United States
Fisk Ventures New York, New York, United States
Garage Technology Ventures Canada Canada, Montréal, Quebec
Gold & Appel Limited -
Haili Fangzhou Fund China, Qingdao, Shandong
HM Treasury England, London, United Kingdom
m8 Capital England, London, United Kingdom
Musashi Seimitsu Industry Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Toyohashi
New Age Ventures New York, New York, United States
One Creation Switzerland, Vaud, Vevey
PrairieGold Venture Partners Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Shanghui Duomeiti -
Wise England, London, United Kingdom

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

Second Closet

Commercial
Customer Service
Transportation
Warehousing
$59M07 Dec 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Userful

Business/Productivity Software
Collaboration
Communication Software
Content Delivery Network
Digital Signage
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Video
Virtualization
$7M25 Apr 2022 California, United States

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent Yaletown Partners?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 88
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 4.00
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 25
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

Second Closet

Commercial
Customer Service
Transportation
Warehousing
$59M07 Dec 2022 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Userful

Business/Productivity Software
Collaboration
Communication Software
Content Delivery Network
Digital Signage
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Video
Virtualization
$7M25 Apr 2022 California, United States
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: