Frontrow

Venture Capital
63investments
2exits
15open roles in its portfolio
50+people

Overview

Front Row Ventures is a Canadian student-run venture capital fund investing in startups founded by students and recent graduates. It writes pre-seed and seed cheques into university-born companies across Canada, while training student investors through its campus-based teams. The fund was launched in 2016, is based in Montreal, Quebec, and describes itself as the first student-run venture capital fund in Canada.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
63
31 of them startups
Hiring now
5
15 open roles
Exits
2
Focusshare of its companies
Health Care 28%Artificial Intelligence 25%Software 13%Biotechnology 9%Education 9%Consumer Electronics 3%Science & Engineering 3%Transportation & Logistics 3%
Where its companies are
Canada 35%
Stage of its companies
Pre-seed & seed 57%Series A 29%Series B 14%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 63 investments
AsephaSeed $4M · 15 mo ago · 1 role RetinaLogikVenture round $1.1M · 19 mo ago NomicSeries B $42M · 2 yr ago · 6 roles SibliVenture round $4.5M · 2 yr ago Simmunome Inc.Venture round $2M · 3 yr ago Puzzle MedicalSeries A $34M · 3 yr ago EmergConnectVenture round $350k · 5 yr ago Pelcro5 roles Civalgo1 role Aurorasre Vega BioImaging UVX Inc.
15 open roles at 5 of its companies
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Techstars 5 shared Anges Québec 5 shared Real Ventures 4 shared Plug and Play 4 shared Panache Ventures 3 shared FounderFuel 3 shared Y Combinator 2 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Real Ventures Genesis Centre Panache Ventures Golden Ventures FounderFuel Tiap New Brunswick Innovation Foundation Foresight

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Montreal Canada
HQ
50-200 est. staff