iNovia, a Montréal, Canada-based venture capital firm, closed its third fund at $175M.
iNovia Fund 2015 is the largest fund of iNovia. The prior two vehicles, raised in 2007 and 2011, were each around $110M.
Limited partners include fifteen founders and entrepreneurs who were previously backed by iNovia. They have been joined by over a dozen other entrepreneurs from around the world, ten family offices and nine North American institutional investors.
Led by managing partner Chris Arsenault, the firm will continue to focus on 25-30 early stage startups across North America that have the capacity to emerge as category-defining digital platforms and services in such markets as Industry SaaS, Future of Work, and Software Differentiated Hardware.
iNovia has a multi-stage funding model with the ability to invest from $500k to $15M across multiple stages and to make follow on investments on outperforming companies.
The firm also leverages a network built across 65+ portfolio company CEOs, 250+ co-investors, and 2,500+ employees as well as a distributed team in such dynamic startup markets as Montreal, Toronto-Waterloo, Western Canada, the Bay Area, and NYC) to identify and support portfolio companies.
The investment team also include Shawn Abbott, Geoff Judge, Francois Gauvin and Karamdeep Nijjar.
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21/01/2016
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— iNovia Team (@inovia) January 21, 2016