Discovery Capital
VC Fund
Vancouver, Canada
Discovery Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early and growth stage investments. It seeks to invest in information technology with a focus on hardware and software companies, communications sector that includes mobile technology that includes wireless and networking solutions, new media, health and life sciences focused onbiotechnology, environmental and energy technology, water purification, electric power by wind energy and solar energy, and other advanced technologies focused on hardware and software, industrial, alternative energy, energy-saving technology solutions, and clean technology solutions investments. Discovery Capital seeks to invest in companies based in British Columbia. It also provides capital for follow-on investments. It will invest in eligible small businesses that qualify under the Small Business Venture Capital Act. Discover Capital invests in those firm in which their business, together with affiliates, must have less than 100 employees at the time of their initial investment. It may make additional investments if the employment level grows beyond 100. Also, their business must pay at least 75% of its wages and salaries to B.C. employees. This may be reduced to 50% if their business is engaged in the export of goods or services outside B. C. It prefers to have successful exits by way of initial public offerings and sales of portfolio companies. John McEwen and Harry Jaako founded Discovery Capital in 1986. It has its headquarters in British Columbia in Canada.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Discovery Capital invests in
Stages Discovery Capital invests in
Countries Discovery Capital invests in
Contacts
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Charles Cook
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John McEwen
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Judy Tucker
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Riddhesh Gandhi
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Finance 3 (33%)
- Financial Services 3 (33%)
- FinTech 2 (22%)
- Internet 2 (22%)
- Advertising 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Series G 2 (22%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
Country
- Canada 4 (44%)
- United States 4 (44%)
- India 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Charles Cook
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Harry Jaako
President
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President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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John McEwen
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Judy Tucker
Manager, Accounting
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Manager, Accounting | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Riddhesh Gandhi
Investment Professional
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Investment Professional | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Q-rounds
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One97 Communications
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One97 delivers mobile content and commerce services to millions of mobile consumers through India’s most widely deployed telecom applications cloud platform. It has more than 4,500 employees with its headquarters in New Delhi and regional offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata with global presence in Africa, Europe, Middle East,and Southeast Asia. Marquee investors like Alibaba Group, Ant Financial (AliPay), SAIF Partners, Mediatek, Sapphire Venture, and Silicon Valley Bank back it. | $1B / Series G / Nov 25, 2019 | |
Cardlytics
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Cardlytics uses purchase-based intelligence to make marketing more relevant and measurable. They partner with more than 1,500 financial institutions – including Bank of America and PNC – to run their banking rewards programs that promote customer loyalty and deepen banking relationships. In turn, they have a secure view into where and whenconsumers are spending their money. They use these insights to help marketers identify, reach and influence likely buyers at scale, as well as measure the true sales impact of marketing campaigns. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cardlytics has offices in London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. | $11.9M / Series G / May 18, 2017 | |
SoFi
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SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, andprotect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $80M / Series C / Apr 03, 2014 | |
Lat49
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Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps. By leveraging how visitors use maps online, lat49 serves geographically targeted display ads that are complimentary to current advertising models and change dynamically depending on where the user positions the map. Thispatent-pending technology addresses the large demand from web publishers for an ad serving technology that will provide an effective revenue strategy for their map-centric properties, as well as the demand from local and brand advertisers to effectively reach the huge number of people who use online maps to plan, explore and discover.With lat49, advertisers buy entire sections of the map at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of their advertising campaigns. They can build regional branding campaigns by owning the map's most zoomed out views, or they can finely tune their message to target the local, street, neighborhood, or urban level audiences. | $1.3M / Series A / Jul 17, 2009 | |
Inimex Pharmaceuticals
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Inimex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage company focused on the development and commercialization of Innate Defense Regulators (IDRs), novel first in class drugs that selectively trigger the body's innate defenses without causing inflammation. | $22M / Series B / Jun 02, 2008 | |
Rx Networks
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Rx Networks is an assisted GPS technology and global services company.Their GPStream framework of assisted GPS solutions, from advanced assistance data streaming services to an integrated suite of mobile software components, is designed to help mobile operators, device manufacturers and GPS chipset vendors deliver a "Click’n Go"user experience for any GPS device, anytime and anywhere.The company was incorporated as Williwaw Networks, Inc. in 2002 and later changed its name to Rx Networks, Inc. in 2005. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $2.4M / Series A / May 03, 2007 | |
GaleForce Solutions
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GaleForce Solutions Inc. designs and delivers customer relations management (CRM) solutions for the financial services industry in Canada and internationally. Its solutions include GaleForce CRM for Financial Services, an enterprise module to the daily workflow of client-facing personnel; GaleForce CRM for Banking, a CRM solution for theclient-facing staff of commercial banks, retail banks, and credit unions; GaleForce CRM for Wealth Management, a CRM solution to financial advisors, and account and portfolio managers; and GaleForce CRM for Investment Banking, a CRM solution to investment bankers and support staff. The company's solutions also include GaleForce CRM for Capital Markets, a CRM solution to securities broker dealers, bond and mutual fund brokers and dealers, and research and investment professionals in the capital markets; GaleForce Solutions Data Importer, an user interface that allows users to import data; and GaleForce Online CRM, an online hosted CRM solution for financial services. In addition, it offers maintenance, support, and consultation services; and training courses. The company serves wealth management and multi-family office, retail, commercial and investment banking, and capital markets firms. It provides its solutions through a network of system integration and reseller partners. GaleForce Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $2.1M / Series B / Apr 25, 2006 | |
Edgar Online
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EDGAR Online, Inc. creates and distributes financial data and public filings for equities, mutual funds, and other publicly traded assets primarily in the United States. The company offers data that assists in the analysis of the financial, business, and ownership conditions of a company or investment vehicle. The company was formerly known asCybernet Data Systems, Inc. and changed its name to EDGAR Online, Inc. in January 1999. EDGAR Online was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Maryland, USA. | $5M / Post-IPO Equity / Jan 09, 2002 |
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2 deals together
Aimia
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Ant Group
1 deal together
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1 deal together
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1 deal together
Baseline Ventures
1 deal together
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What does Discovery Capital invest in?
Discovery Capital invests primarily in Finance, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Discovery Capital includes Charles Cook (Partner), Harry Jaako (President) and John McEwen (Chief Executive Officer), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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