Database Coverage
CPE Analytics tracks all private and public financings since 2016. We track and provide comprehensive and accurate and unbiased analysis and coverage on investment activities (where the money went to), and we are Canada’s only data provider that can provide the fundamentally important intelligence on the funding source (where the money came from) and type of the funding source (by which type of investors).
Our analysis is a must for any evidenced-based policymaking and analysis.
We are Canada’s only data provider that tracks all financings, equity and debt, including the following:
- Angel Financing
- Venture Capital Financing
- Private Equity Financing
- Private Financing – Exempt and Non-exempt
- Public Offering/Financing – Debt and Equity, Exempt and Non-Exempt
- Private Fundraising – Private Issuers (MICs. REITs, …)
- Private Fundraising – Institutional VC, PE, Infra, and Real Estate Funds, …
- Private Fundraising – Investment Issuers
- Foreign Firm Offering – Private and Public Foreign Firms – debt and equity offerings, IPOs
- Foreign Fundraising – Foreign VC, PE, Real Estate, Credit, Hedge Fund, …
- Initial Public Offering (IPO) – Canadian and foreign companies listed on Canadian exchanges and Canadian companies listed on foreign exchanges …
Data Sources
Our data is thoroughly compiled and cross-checked, either directly from Angel, VC, PE investors, law firms, and investment bankers, or indirectly and verified from news releases, public filings, and numerous public sources.
Deal Funding Source by Jurisdictions
We are the only provider specifically tracking deal funding source breakdowns by provinces, states, and countries. We track and allocate sources specifically and accurately in a dedicated allocation database table.
Deal Funding Source by Investor Type
We are the only provider accurate tracking deal funding source breakdowns by investor type with a dedicated allocation database table.
Deal Funding Source by Exempt Type
We are the only provider accurate tracking deal funding source breakdowns by exempt type with a dedicated allocation database table.
Investment Dealers, EMDs, Law Firms
We are Canada’s only data provider that actively tracks investment dealers/bankers, EMDS, finders, and law firms that credited with each deal they assist. In addition, we are the only data provider that provider leader boards on the dealers, EMDs and law firms on deals and commission earned.
Methodology
Angel Investments
Angel Deals include equity or quasi-equity investments by a small number of private individual credited investors.
Private Investments
Private Investment Deals include 1) private placements, equity or quasi-equity, by a large number of private individual credited investors; 2) private subordinate debt financing, 3) private senior debt financing; and 4) PE-Backed senior debt offering.
Venture Capital
Venture Capital (VC) Deals include equity and quasi-equity investments led by professionally managed funds, family offices, private investment firms, corporate strategic investment units, and mutual or hedge fund mangers. Excluded are 1) angel deals or angel deals in between venture rounds; 2) subordinate debt investments by federal/provincial governments or retail funds as ways of business or economic support with no equity components; 3) grants by federal/provincial economic development agencies and quasi-government agencies such as Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC); 4) pure pharmaceutical development deals; 5) growth equity (significant minority equity transactions); 6) so called acquisition for expansion deals.
Private Equity
Private Equity Deals include control, add-on acquisition, significant minority growth equity, and private equity debt deals. Excluded are subordinate debt investments, pure commercial debt, property acquisitions, and so called acquisition for expansion deals by venture-backed companies.
Public Financing
Public financing includes equity private placement or public offering, flow-through offering, rights offering, preferred share offering, public debt offering, public convertible debt offering, public REIT offering, public REIT debt offering.
IPO
IPO includes all four Canadian exchanges, The CSE, TSX, TSX Venture and NEO, and Canadian domiciled issuers on foreign exchanges, such as NASDAQ, NYSE, etc.
