Assisting High-Growth Early Stage Ventures

Lemonade Ventures is a strategic advisory and early stage capital firm assisting high-growth early stage start-ups commercialize or expand. As part of its mission to help promising start-ups bridge the capital divide, Lemonade Ventures provides strategic direction in crafting funding strategy, deal matching, deal structuring and finding early stage capital.

Second only to the clean tech sector, information technology is proving itself to be a booming sector in Canada. In line with this, our focus is on working with start-ups developing solutions in software, enterprise, SaaS, cloud and mobile. Technology that can be integrated onto multiple platforms and on a global scale gets us excited.

Working with High-Growth Early-Stage Start-Ups

Lemonade Ventures provides first and second stage venture capital to Canadian start-ups based in North America.

Alongside raising capital, we also leverage our operational expertise to help accelerate value creation within the start-ups we work with. We identify critical success factors for start-ups, and then leverage our sector-focused networks and partners’ networks for both business development and partnership/acquisition opportunities. We provide the following services to prepare companies for sustained growth and success:

• Management consulting and advisory

• Technical advisory including trending, road-mapping and R&D

• Operational and sales advisory

• Marketing, branding & business development consulting

• Financial advisory relating to valuation, financial planning, forecasting, cash-flow planning and analysis and budgeting

• Connecting you with our global network of investors

Raising Foreign Capital

Given the ongoing year-over-year decline in investable venture capital dollars in Canada, it has become pertinent for start-ups to look outside of Canada to raise capital. The venture capital industry in emerging markets thriving and firms based in those robust markets are vigorously in search of global deals to put funds to work.

We tap into a variety of funding sources including high net-worth/accredited investors, angel groups, and early stage VC firms globally.

Our focus is on working with investors from Asia (particularly China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India) who are interested in Canadian innovation. These investors are often Canadian or American expats and/or investors who are familiar with the local business environment. These foreign investors are able to offer their North American portfolio companies with an array of resources beyond pure capital including direct access to a global market through their networks.

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