OMERS Ventures

OMERS Ventures

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Investment Firm

Overview

OMERS Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, Palo Alto and New York. Typically, we invest in Series A-C companies with a first cheque size between $5-25M. We focus primarily on four categories: horizontal SaaS, vertical SaaS, fintech and AI enablement.

Highlights

Founded

2011

Industry

Venture Capital

Employees

11-50

Investment

148

Lead Investment

76

Exits

19

Stages

Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture

Investor Type

Venture Capital

Location

North America

Contact Information

Social

Profile Resume

OMERS Ventures, established in 2011 and headquartered in North America., specializes in Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture investments across Cloud Computing, Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Apps, Human Resources, Accounting, Payments, Small and Medium Businesses, Bookkeeping and Payroll. The organization boasts a portfolio of 146 investments, with an average round size of $42.1M and 19 successful exits. Their recent investments include Wave, GreenSky Ventures, Hopper, Atlas Venture, CRV. The highest investment round they participated in was $734.3B. Among their most notable exits are Wave and GreenSky Ventures. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Laura Lenz

Partner

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Michael Yang

Senior Managing Partner

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Brian Kobus

Managing Partner, Fund Operations

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Christina Farr

Principal Investor, Health-Tech Lead

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Shawn Chance

Partner

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Eugene Lee

Partner

Investment portfolio

OMERS Ventures has made 148 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jul 29, 2024, when Altana AI raised $200.0M.

OMERS Ventures has made 10 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Jan 12, 2023, when Joyn Insurance raised $17.7M.

investments

148

Diversity investments

10

Lead investments

76

Number of exits

19

Investments

148

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Nov 16, 2023
Deep Sky Deep Sky
Renewable Energy41.8M
Jun 24, 2024--21.4M
Jul 11, 2024--13.0M
Jul 29, 2024
Altana AI Altana AI
Software200.0M

Exits

19

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

148

Investors

0

Funds

5

Funding Rounds

148

OMERS Ventures has raised 148 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 29, 2024 from a Series C - Altana round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Nov 16, 2023
Series A - Deep Sky Series A - Deep Sky
-41.8M-
Jun 24, 2024
Series C - Firstvet Series C - Firstvet
-21.4M-
Jul 11, 2024
Venture Round - Medal Venture Round - Medal
-13.0M-
Jul 29, 2024
Series C - Altana Series C - Altana
-200.0M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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