VenGrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
VenGrowth Asset Management is a private equity venture capital firm that specializes in venture capital and mezzanine investments. In venture capital, the firm primarily invests in small and medium sized business and considers investments throughout all stages of a company’s development.It is founded in 1982 and is based in Toronto, Canada withadditional offices in Montreal, Canada; Ottawa, Canada; and Toronto, Canada.The company is acquired by Covington Capital Corporation.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries VenGrowth Asset Management invests in
Stages VenGrowth Asset Management invests in
Countries VenGrowth Asset Management invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $8M–$28M
- Series C
- $1.4M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 7 (23%)
- Software 6 (19%)
- Wireless 5 (16%)
- Semiconductor 5 (16%)
- Electronics 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series C 8 (26%)
- Funding Round 7 (23%)
- Series B 5 (16%)
- Series D 4 (13%)
- Series E 1 (3%)
Country
- Canada 17 (55%)
- Japan 1 (3%)
- United States 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Chowaniec
Executive In Residence
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Executive In Residence | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Brian H. Barber
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Ferguson
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David W. Ferguson
Managing General Partner
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Managing General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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John Crow
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| BelAir Networks wireless networking equipment is deployed by the world's leading service providers including AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The company's portfolio of indoor access points and outdoor picocell base stations, control and management systems enable service providers to deploy high performance, scalable and flexiblewireless networks. BelAir Networks solutions provide a compelling return on investment enabling service providers to capitalize on the explosive growth of mobile data devices, applications and usage. Innovative cable, telecom and mobile service providers use BelAir Networks to drive revenue and improve competitiveness. Founded in 2002, BelAir Networks is a privately held company with Tier 1 carrier customers and backed by investment from Comcast Interactive Capital, T-Mobile Venture Fund and leading venture capital firms including Trilogy Equity Partners. For more information, visit www.belairnetworks.com. | $17.5M / Series E / Dec 30, 2007 | ||
| SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers;GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America. | $20M / May 30, 2007 | ||
| Trigence Corp. offers application virtualization solutions for the data centers in Canada and internationally. The company provides Trigence AE software, which encapsulates applications at a level above the operating system and creates Application Capsules, which turn applications into a discrete object to create a virtualized environment, whereapplications run protected from each other and their underlying operating system. Its products enable companies to manage various applications throughout their lifecycle from development and delivery to maintenance and modernization; consolidate physical and virtual server environments; and manage and migrate Solaris, Linux, and Windows applications in the data center. In addition, the company offers installation, configuring, updating, monitoring, and auditing solutions.Trigence Corp. is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with an additional office in New York.AppZero acquired the remaining assets of Trigence in 2009. | $8M / Series B / Feb 06, 2007 | ||
Potentia Semiconductor
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Potentia Semiconductor Corporation provides power management solutions to the flat panel display industry. Its products include PS-2402, a power control device for LCD televisions; PS-2404, a power system controller designed to control, monitor, and measure over voltage and under voltage conditions; PM-6010, which is a power control and conversionmodule for primary side, off-line power factor correction, and isolated DC-DC power conversion using LLC resonant power topologies; and PS-6110, a power converter integrated circuit for primary side and off-line power factor correction. | $1.4M / Series C / Dec 18, 2006 | |
| Aegera Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing targeted therapeutics to address major unmet medical needs. Aegera has three programs in clinical development, two for oncology and one for neuropathic pain. Aegera is also dedicated to identifying novel development candidates based upon its core technologiesand internal expertise and experience in rapidly moving lead candidates through preclinical development and into clinical trials. | $10.2M / Series C / Nov 20, 2006 | ||
| Liquid Computing Corp. develops converged communications and computing platforms. It designs and develops LiquidIQ, a computing infrastructure that offers IT infrastructure and data centers management, and software-based control of servers, as well as storage and networking resources. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Ottawa,Canada with an additional office in Stamford, Connecticut. | $27.7M / Series B / Nov 15, 2006 | ||
| BelAir Networks wireless networking equipment is deployed by the world's leading service providers including AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The company's portfolio of indoor access points and outdoor picocell base stations, control and management systems enable service providers to deploy high performance, scalable and flexiblewireless networks. BelAir Networks solutions provide a compelling return on investment enabling service providers to capitalize on the explosive growth of mobile data devices, applications and usage. Innovative cable, telecom and mobile service providers use BelAir Networks to drive revenue and improve competitiveness. Founded in 2002, BelAir Networks is a privately held company with Tier 1 carrier customers and backed by investment from Comcast Interactive Capital, T-Mobile Venture Fund and leading venture capital firms including Trilogy Equity Partners. For more information, visit www.belairnetworks.com. | $21.4M / Series D / Oct 02, 2006 | ||
| SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers;GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America. | $19.5M / Aug 08, 2006 | ||
| Galazar Networks Inc. designs, develops, and supplies system semiconductors and software solutions. It focuses on Ethernet, DS1/E1, DS3/E3, and SONET/SDH/OTN solutions for carrier grade Ethernet and multi-service line cards. | $6.6M / Series C / Mar 27, 2006 | ||
| Spotwave provides carrier-approved, indoor wireless coverage solutions; giving you reliable, "always-on" wireless coverage indoors. They offer wireless carriers and enterprise customers a simple, affordable, effective way to ensure wireless devices have great coverage indoors, where they are used the most. The benefits of Spotwave'sproducts for both their enterprise and business customers, and for carriers are clear. | $10M / Jan 17, 2006 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does VenGrowth Asset Management invest in?
VenGrowth Asset Management invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Wireless startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does VenGrowth Asset Management invest in?
VenGrowth Asset Management typically joins rounds of $8M–$28M at Series B and $1.4M–$20M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not VenGrowth Asset Management's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds VenGrowth Asset Management took part in.
How do I contact VenGrowth Asset Management?
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Who are the partners at VenGrowth Asset Management?
The team at VenGrowth Asset Management includes Adam Chowaniec (Executive In Residence), Brian H. Barber (Team Member) and David Ferguson (Founder), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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