Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group )
VC Fund
Calgary, Canada
Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) is a VC fund in Calgary focused on Agriculture and AgTech. AVAC Ltd is an investment company with over 24 years of experience in financing early-stage innovative business opportunities and providing both capital and other value-added services to grow commercial business successes. AVAC invests in promising ventures in value-added agri-business, information and communications technologies, life sciences,and other industrial technology sectors. AVAC also manages an active early-stage venture capital fund-of-funds investment pool and the Accelerate Fund, an angel co-investment fund. Since inception, AVAC has been a direct investor in over 115 businesses, and as an indirect investor in four national venture capital funds. The company has invested over $118 million with present and past portfolio companies, reporting in excess of $1 billion in sales.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
- Fund size:
- $150M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) invests in
Stages Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) invests in
Countries Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$3.7M
- Series A
- $3.8M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 2 (29%)
- AgTech 1 (14%)
- Farming 1 (14%)
- FinTech 1 (14%)
- Fitness 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Series A 3 (43%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (14%)
Country
- Canada 4 (57%)
- United States 2 (29%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mark Carlson
Managing Partner, Verdex Capital
|
Managing Partner, Verdex Capital | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Martin Vetter
Senior Investment Manager
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Senior Investment Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Warren Bergen
President
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President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jim Hardin
Senior Investment Manager
|
Senior Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| A farm in your pocket. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
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Ichor Microbial Solutions
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Ichor Microbial Solutions is a company that offers agricultural services. | $3.7M / Seed / Jul 17, 2026 | |
| ns/tx industries is a food manufacturing and technology company that processes and sells fish and meat products. | $10.5M / Series A / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Enthrill is B2B platform for publishers built around a digital rights management (DRM) software which provides device agnostic, direct delivery of ebooks to consumers. From publisher through to consumer, our complete end-to-end platform provides publishers and authors powerful choices to run more effective sales and promotion strategies to increasevisibility, grow readership and expand sales.Enthrill successfully launched the Walmart Ebook Store, the Mayo Clinic Ebook Store and licensed its software to multiple organizations. Enthrill's intellectual property was acquired by Firebrand Technologies in 2017. | $1.3M / Seed / Aug 08, 2014 | ||
| Afinity Life Sciences Inc. is a company based in Edmonton, Alberta that researches, develops and brings to market natural-based therapeutics that help support your healthy and active lifestyle.Afinity is not just in the business of manufacturing products but pioneering science that brings evidence-based natural health products to the forefrontunder the Afinity brand. The company’s unique approach is to use proprietary science to create a premium-quality line of natural health products that consumers can trust. The Afinity product line is tailored to meet the unique health needs of different consumers in the areas of cardiovascular health, cognitive health, rheumatoid arthritis and general health. The Afinity brand has a pipeline of products that promises a growing range of innovative products in a number of other key health areas to meet the needs of active aging consumers. | $1.5M / Seed / Sep 10, 2013 | ||
| CoolIT Systems designs and manufactures liquid cooling technologies for data centers, high-performance computing environments, and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company develops direct liquid cooling systems that remove heat from processors and computing components by circulating coolant directly across chips, enabling higher computedensity and improved energy efficiency. Its product portfolio includes cold plates for CPUs and GPUs, coolant distribution units, rack manifolds, and integrated cooling loops that support servers and large-scale computing clusters. The company also provides end-to-end capabilities such as design engineering, testing, validation, manufacturing, and deployment of cooling systems tailored to customer requirements. | $3.8M / Series A / Oct 16, 2009 | ||
| Tynt enables premium publishers and content creators to capitalize on the most common sharing method on the web: copy & paste.Tynt inserts a page URL when copied content is pasted into emails and social sites, allowing more than 600,000 publishers to improve SEO, site traffic, content insights, and brand attribution. Tynt hasrevolutionized user engagement measurement, helping web publishers boost site value for users and advertisers alike.Tynt is a 33Across company. | $3.9M / Series A / Mar 02, 2009 |
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FAQ
What does Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) invest in?
Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) invest in?
Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3.7M at Seed and $3.8M–$11M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group )'s own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) took part in.
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Who are the partners at Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group )?
The team at Verdex Capital (Formerly the AVAC Group ) includes Mark Carlson (Managing Partner, Verdex Capital), Martin Vetter (Senior Investment Manager) and Warren Bergen (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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