Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
Calgary, Canada
Accelerate Fund is a VC fund in Calgary focused on Software and Health Care. Accelerate Fund represents a partnership of organizations brought together to share their collective expertise and capital to help Alberta technology entrepreneurs increase their investment dollars, and ultimately their companies to new heights. Launched with a $10 million investment from Alberta Enterprise, the Accelerate Fund provides additional financing options to early stage technology companies. The fund is managed by AVAC Ltd. which will review applications; perform due diligence; rule on investment decisions; and provide ongoing support to portfolio companies. An extensive advisory network called the Accelerate Fund Industry Committee has been designed to serve as a “hands-on” resource to the fund and its portfolio companies. Accelerate Fund was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Total investments:
- 62
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Fund size:
- $15M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Accelerate Fund invests in
Stages Accelerate Fund invests in
Countries Accelerate Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$7.1M
- Series A
- $961k–$13M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $360k–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (26%)
- Health Care 11 (18%)
- Information Technology 7 (11%)
- Medical 6 (10%)
- Machine Learning 5 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (26%)
- Series A 9 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (13%)
- Angel 7 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (10%)
Country
- Canada 39 (63%)
- United States 5 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arden Tse
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Mark Carlson
VP, Investments
|
VP, Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Warren Bergen
VP, Corporate Development
|
VP, Corporate Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid. | $38.5M / Series C / Aug 21, 2026 | ||
| On demand shift filling platform for dental offices and dental professionals. | Seed / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Cellar Insights provides potato growers with a simple way to remotely monitor and act on storage conditions. | Seed / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| Northernmost is a company that develops machines that protect and transport donated kidneys for transplantation. | $1.9M / Seed / Apr 03, 2025 | ||
| Wyvern is a space company located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada delivering Earth Observation imagery from satellite platforms. | $6M / Oct 17, 2024 | ||
| PulseMedica, an Edmonton-based medical device startup, is developing an ophthalmic medical device platform for non-invasive, automated image-guided laser treatment enabled by 3D computer vision, real-time tracking, and femtosecond laser technology. PulseMedica is laser-focused on improving the quality of life for millions of people by buildingrevolutionary technology to image and treat vitreoretinal disease. PulseMedica’s short-term vision is to become the global expert in non-invasive, safe, effective screening and treatment of eye floaters, with the ultimate vision of becoming the global standard for screening and treating vitreoretinal disease. | $8.7M / Seed / May 29, 2024 | ||
| Care Group is revolutionizing mental health with advanced AI and disruptive technologies, empowering individuals and communities by introducing scalable, user-friendly solutions that respect all users. | $1.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 15, 2024 | ||
| Zamplo is a digital health platform designed to enhance real-world evidence-based research and empower individuals to take control of their own health care. Our platform ensures that all personal data remains with the patient for life, allowing individuals to leverage their health information to advocate more effectively for themselves. Withinformed consent, the Zamplo App can also be used to collect and share data on patient-reported outcomes and data from wearables between participants and researchers through integration with our electronic data capture platform, Zamplo Research. This integration provides a scalable solution for longitudinal data collection for any medical condition or therapy and built-in participant compliance monitoring to improve adherence. | $1.1M / Seed / Jan 16, 2024 | ||
| Ambyint delivers an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven automation and analytics solution for artificial lift optimization that builds on traditional physics-based techniques. Built on 10+ years of domain expertise, Ambyint automates diagnosis, automatically adjusts operating parameters, and predicts failures, resulting in improved production andreduced LOE. Customers deploy the Ambyint Production Optimization Platform either with existing customer SCADA systems or with Ambyint’s High Resolution Adaptive Controllers, which enable higher resolution data acquisition and automated control for artificial lift systems. | Nov 14, 2023 | ||
| Every year, 95,000 local governments in North America issue 1.7 million RFPs worth $750B in contract value. The companies who rely on this work spend $56B USD yearly on sales and marketing to access it. Ontopical is the leading marketing intelligence platform they use to gain an advantage. Our software scrapes and analyzes thousands of municipalmeeting agendas, minutes, and videos every week, enabling clients to build crucial relationships long before proposals are broadly solicited. CEO Derrick Koenig grew his previous company to $5M revenue and a profitable exit. In three months. We already monitor >15,000 municipalities, and in 2022 our next-generation machine learning technology will automagically predict early signals of upcoming business opportunities for your business, letting you get in front of RFPs. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| See all 62 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Accelerate Fund invest in?
Accelerate Fund invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Accelerate Fund invest in?
Accelerate Fund typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.1M at Seed, $961k–$13M at Series A and $360k–$1.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Accelerate Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Accelerate Fund took part in.
How do I contact Accelerate Fund?
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Who are the partners at Accelerate Fund?
The team at Accelerate Fund includes Arden Tse (Investment Manager), Mark Carlson (VP, Investments) and Warren Bergen (VP, Corporate Development). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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