# Alexandre Synnett

> Alexandre Synnett is a Series D investor at La Caisse (Montréal) backing Software and SaaS. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [La Caisse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caisse-de-depot-et-placement-du-quebec)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandresynnett
- Website: https://www.cdpq.com

Alexandre Synnett is a Series D investor at La Caisse in Montréal focused on Software and SaaS. Alexandre Synnett - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer @ La Caisse

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Cloud Data Services | 2 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 2 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |
| Series H | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| R-Zero | R-Zero offers smart building technology that delivers real-time insights on optimizing indoor spaces to improve workforce productivity, predict real estate needs, and create operational efficiencies, including reducing energy costs. R-Zero’s smart building solutions include IAQ and comfort monitoring, high-efficiency HVAC filtration, spaceutilization sensors, occupancy-based building controls, and real estate performance analytics. R-Zero’s connected platform is easy-to-use, secure, and scalable, enabling owners, operators, and their tenants, to prepare their buildings for tomorrow's challenges. | $105M | Series C | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Celsius Network | Celsius is a Blockchain-based marketplace platform where membership provides access to curated financial services that are not available through traditional financial institutions. Celsius specializes in the fields of consumer lending, fintech, and financial services. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England. | $400M | Series B | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| AlayaCare | AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem.The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who havefounded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate.Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014. | $182.8M | Series D | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Druva | Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service, delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware,capacity planning, and software management.Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making. | $147M | Series H | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| IEX Group | IEX is an equity trading venue seeded by a consortium of buy-side investors, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and family offices. IEX focuses on investor protection and performance by creating a market that aims to maximize shares traded at the best available price, decrease information leakage, eliminate informational disadvantages andpersistent inefficiencies, and promote an opportunity for natural interest to interact without unnecessary intermediation. IEX is dedicated to offering fair access to a balanced marketplace, and delivering a defined and objective experience in support of just and equitable principles of trade.IEX operates a fair-access platform for any qualified broker dealer, and was built on the principle of investor protection, delivered through its proprietary anti-colocation architecture and simplified pricing and rule set. IEX was featured in the best-selling book, Flash Boys, written by Michael Lewis. |  |  | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| Onapsis | Onapsis provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for cloud and on-premise ERP and business-critical applications. Its solutions include the Onapsis Security Platform, a widely-used SAP-certified cyber-security solution in the market. Unlike generic security products, Onapsis’ context-aware solutions deliver both preventative vulnerabilityand compliance controls, as well as real-time detection and incident response capabilities to reduce risks affecting critical business processes and data. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Onapsis has offices in Heidelberg, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. | $55M | Series D | Oct 06, 2020 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arsenal Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsenal-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atreides Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atreides-management-lp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bank of Montreal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-montreal) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About La Caisse

VC Fund · Montréal, Canada

The Caisse is a global fund manager. Its clients, which it calls its depositors, are mostly Québec public and private pension funds and insurance plans. The funds entrusted to the Caisse are invested in financial markets in Québec, in Canada and around the world to generate a profit.

5 contacts available at La Caisse.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Albrecht Alvensleben | Managing Director and Head of Private Equity Europe | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albrecht-alvensleben |
| Martin Laguerre | Executive Vice-President and Head of Private Equity | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-laguerre |
| Meng Ann Lim | Managing Director & Head, Private Equity Asia Pacific | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meng-ann-lim |
| Rana Ghorayeb | Executive Vice-President and Head of Real Estate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rana-ghorayeb-a687 |
| Alexandre Synnett | Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-synnett |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexandre Synnett invest in?

Alexandre Synnett invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Financial Services startups, most often at Series D and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alexandre Synnett last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexandre Synnett closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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