Funding Deals for the Month of January 2017 (Vues: 2765)
During the month of January, 18 funding deals took place. Some of the most notable transactions involved Highland Therapeutics who raised $263M from Morgan Stanley. As well as new VC firm, Diagram, who closed a $25M fund led by Portag3 and over 50 different angel investors.
Below is the list of all the tech funding deals for the month of January 2017:
|
Company
|
Sector
|
Prov.
|
Transaction
|
Amount
|
Investors/Acquirers
|
|
Biotech |
ON |
Fund Raise |
$21.5M |
Lumira Capital, Vesalius Biocapital, PMV, iGan Partners and Rowanwood Ventures. |
|
|
|
Tech |
NB |
Fund Raise |
$4.5M |
IBM |
|
HealthTech |
ON |
Fund Raise |
$263M |
Morgan Stanley |
|
|
FinTech |
QC |
Investment |
$25M |
Portag3 and over 50 different angel investors |
|
|
Tech |
BC |
Fund Raise |
$650,000 |
Equity crowdfunding platform (200 investors) |
|
|
Tech |
QC |
Sold |
N/A |
Microsoft |
|
|
|
EdTech |
QC |
Fund Raise |
$5.3M |
University Ventures, Y Combinator, GoAhead Ventures, Real Ventures and prominent angels |
|
Tech |
CAD |
Investment |
$1M |
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) |
|
|
Tech |
QC |
Fund Raise |
$6M |
Microsoft |
|
|
Tech |
QC |
Fund Raise |
$1M |
Microsoft |
|
|
Tech |
AB |
Sold |
N/A |
Pason |
|
|
Inbound Retargeting Technologies
|
Tech |
BC |
Fund Raise |
$400,000 |
500 Startups, Tony Hsieh’s Vegas Techfund, Seraph Group, Lance Tracey, Jim Fletcher, James Topham, Joan Plensa, Hein Brand and engageQ |
|
Tech |
ON |
Fund Raise |
$500,000 |
Bloomberg Philanthropies |
|
|
Tech |
ON |
Investment |
N/A |
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) |
|
|
|
Tech |
ON |
Fund Raise |
$12M |
OMERS Ventures, BDC Capital, Mistral Venture Partners, Fundfire, BOLDstart Ventures, Acadia Woods, and CommonAngels. |
|
Tech |
ON |
Sold |
N/A |
Mark Zucerkberg and Priscilla Chan’s philanthropy organization |
|
|
|
Tech |
ON |
Investment |
$15.6M |
Canada’s federal government and Ontario’s provincial government |
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