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What does BDC Capital invest in?
BDC Capital invests most often at Venture and Seed (53% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Business-to-business, B2b2c and Enterprise.
BDC Capital highlights
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67 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Seed: 53% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 97 rounds, median $1.7M
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40 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We are BDC, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the financial institution devoted to Canadian entrepreneurs.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $7.5M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Business-to-businessB2b2cEnterprise
- Based in
- Montreal, Canada
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first685 appearances
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57 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 78 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Funds they back
9 fund commitments on record
- Managers
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Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
- Diagram Diagram Climate Tech Fund
- Information Venture Partners Fund II
- Inovia Capital Fund VI
- Inovia Capital Inovia Capital Fund VI
- Intrepid Growth Partners inaugural fund
- TandemLaunch TandemLaunch Ventures II
- Teralys Capital Teralys Capital Innovation Fund
- Vancouver Founder Fund Vancouver Founders Fund
- Vertu Capital Vertu Partners Fund I
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed40 in all
TeradiciBought by HpUndisclosedOct 2021
WanteringBought by CliqueUndisclosedNov 2015
GridPointBought by Twenty First Century UtilitiesUndisclosedNov 2015
Triacta Power TechnologiesBought by EnerCare$7.5MJun 2015
Bluestreak TechnologyBought by Espial GroupUndisclosedJun 2015
Mobidia TechnologyBought by App AnnieUndisclosedMay 2015
LearndotBought by ServiceRocketUndisclosedJan 2015
RetslyBought by ZillowUndisclosedJul 2014
SeaWell NetworksBought by Arris GroupUndisclosedApr 2014
ListnBought by SFX EntertainmentUndisclosedJan 2014
iWeb TechnologiesBought by Internap$145MOct 2013
OpeneraBought by LiveQoSUndisclosedOct 2013
Layer 7 TechnologiesBought by CA Technologies$155MMay 2013
Neuralitic SystemsBought by GuavusUndisclosedJan 2013
CytochromaBought by OPKO HealthUndisclosedJan 2013
CovarityBought by Constellation SoftwareUndisclosedApr 2012
BelAir NetworksBought by EricssonUndisclosedApr 2012
Q1 LabsBought by IBM (International Business Machines)UndisclosedOct 2011
SiGe SemiconductorBought by Skyworks Solutions$275MMay 2011
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.