Avrio Capital
VC Fund
Calgary, Canada
Avrio Capital is a venture capital and private equity investment firm specializing in commercialization to growth-stage companies with a focus on later-stage, early stage, mid venture, middle market, and emerging growth businesses. It also provides mezzanine financing. Avrio Capital prefers to invest in food technology, advanced agriculture,industrial bioproducts, and nutraceutical ingredients and innovative companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability. It invests in companies based in Canada and North America. Avrio Capital seeks to invest between CAD $1 million $0.77 million to CAD $10 million $7.70 million, with significant capital reserved for subsequent financing rounds over the life of the portfolio company. It seeks to invest in companies with sales value between CAD $1 million $0.77 million and CAD $20 million $15.40 million. Avrio Capital prefers to take an active role in each investment it makes. It began operation in 2006, with its headquarters in Alberta in Canada and additional offices in Ontario and Quebec therein.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
- Fund size:
- $110M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Avrio Capital invests in
Stages Avrio Capital invests in
Countries Avrio Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2.3M–$6.5M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 5 (31%)
- Food and Beverage 5 (31%)
- Organic Food 3 (19%)
- Biotechnology 3 (19%)
- AgTech 2 (13%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (31%)
- Funding Round 4 (25%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
Country
- Canada 9 (56%)
- United States 4 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Kaneb
Managing Director & Founder
|
Managing Director & Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel McCrimmon
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Denis Boyer
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Randi Lethebe
Office Administrator
|
Office Administrator | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hortau specializes in wireless and web-based irrigation management. Hortau integrates proprietary soil sensing innovations with the latest information technologies to deliver the most advanced irrigation management solutions on the market. Hortau was founded in 2002, by Dr. Jean Caron, Agronomist, Ph.D in Soil Physics and Jocelyn Boudreau,agricultural engineer, M.Sc. in Soil Physics. Their expertise is in Agronomy, Soil Physics and Agricultural Engineering. Improving crop production is their focus. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 28, 2019 | ||
| Enterra is a Vancouver-based company commercializing a natural system that uses a common beneficial insect to rapidly recover nutrients from recycled food waste; sourced from grocery stores, markets, food distributors and food processors, to up-cycle the nutrients into sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture, animal feed and pet food, as wellas a concentrated natural fertilizer product for use in agriculture. | Series B / Sep 05, 2018 | ||
| To make delicious and high-quality foods that are vegan, gluten-free and healthy, using local, environmentally sound ingredients. Taste and see! | $13M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 03, 2018 | ||
| Hortau specializes in wireless and web-based irrigation management. Hortau integrates proprietary soil sensing innovations with the latest information technologies to deliver the most advanced irrigation management solutions on the market. Hortau was founded in 2002, by Dr. Jean Caron, Agronomist, Ph.D in Soil Physics and Jocelyn Boudreau,agricultural engineer, M.Sc. in Soil Physics. Their expertise is in Agronomy, Soil Physics and Agricultural Engineering. Improving crop production is their focus. | $5.9M / Series D / Jan 22, 2018 | ||
| Fody Food creates a delicious, gut-friendly, low FODMAP foods. They believe that nothing should hinder freedom – especially not food. Through their delicious low FODMAP foods and recipes, they provide people much-needed relief from their IBS symptoms. Fody Food was in 2016 and is based in Montreal, Quebec. | $2.3M / Series A / Dec 14, 2017 | ||
| Phytelligence is a product-focused technology company that develops and provides smart plants and solutions to growers, nurseries, and horticultural experts. It provides custom genetic analysis services that assess the similarity or dissimilarity of closely related samples.The company provides plants free of diseases, viruses, and pests. Itsportfolio includes the Geneva series, Gisela series, and Krymsk series of rootstocks.Phytelligence was founded in 2012 by Amit Dhingra, and it is based in Pullman, Washington. | $12M / Series B / Sep 01, 2017 | ||
| Built by farmers for farmers, FarmLead is reinventing how grain is marketed and sold through the world’s fastest growing grain marketplace. Available online and as a mobile app, FarmLead also provides farmers access to exclusive market research, grain testing, price visibility and reduced brokerage fees and risks. The FarmLead Marketplacefacilitates greater equality, efficiency and transparency for the grain industry. Farmers find more verified buyers and identify the best possible deal, while grain buyers easily access and identify the grain for sale in their desired location. | $6.5M / Series A / Mar 20, 2017 | ||
| The Alasko global supply network reaches over 60 agri-food producers, in 20 countries. All facilities are federally inspected and satisfy all of the H.A.C.C.P. program requirements. We import, prepare and distribute over 80 million pounds of frozen foods.Our distribution network currently utilizes 7 warehouses across North America and offersoptimal efficiency and control of the cold chain: frozen food requires constant follow-up. Our internal quality assurance program provides for constant monitoring of all products to ensure the highest safety and quality standards are respected throughout the cold chain. Our Montreal facility is certified by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (C.F.I.A) and has recently received a GFTC gold rating. We also have received organic certification by Ecocert Canada. | $11.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 20, 2016 | ||
| Intelia’s mission is to provide digital solutions that connect livestock value chain players and empowers them with real-time, actionable insight that fosters sustainable production. Intelia leverages the latest digital technologies and advanced analytics to interconnect farms to the rest of the livestock production chain, closing the informationloop in real-time to support better decision making. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 20, 2016 | ||
| Friends don't let friends eat greasy potato chips. CheeCha Puffs are minimal calorie, maximum flavour snacks that Canada has fallen in love with! | Private Equity / May 19, 2016 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Avrio Capital invest in?
Avrio Capital invests primarily in Agriculture, Food and Beverage and Organic Food startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Funding Round stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Avrio Capital's check size?
Avrio Capital typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$6.5M at Series A and $5M–$20M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Avrio Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Avrio Capital?
The team at Avrio Capital includes Thomas Kaneb (Managing Director & Founder), Daniel McCrimmon (Investment Director) and Denis Boyer (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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