BCE Capital
VC Fund
Waltham, United States
BCE Capital is a Canadian venture capital firm. Founded in 1987 with offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Boston, the firm has built a track record of investing in and developing emerging growth communications and information technology companies in North America. BCE Capital has backed over 40 management teams, and has seen several of them through IPOsand acquisitions. Currently, the firm is investing in Fund IV, a US$200 million fund focusing on early-stage communications and IT companies.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries BCE Capital invests in
SoftwareTelecommunicationsVoIPSecurityCRM
Stages BCE Capital invests in
Series ASeries BSeries DSeries C
Countries BCE Capital invests in
United StatesCanada
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (75%)
- Telecommunications 3 (38%)
- VoIP 2 (25%)
- Security 2 (25%)
- CRM 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Series D 2 (25%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 4 (50%)
- Canada 3 (38%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Radian6
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Radian6 helps companies listen to what people are saying about them online and engage in those conversations across the social web. From blogs and comments to multimedia, boards, forums and communities like Twitter, Radian6 gathers the discussions happening online and gives businesses the ability to analyze, manage, track, and report on theirsocial media monitoring and engagement efforts.Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals. The company's flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with results appearing in real-time, as discovered.Analysis widgets, streamlined reporting, integrated workflow capabilities and our Insights platform give users the ability to uncover influencers, track and measure engagement and determine which conversations are having an impact online. Integrated social media, CRM, and web analytics also help companies define their social media ROI.Product Attributes: * Data is captured in real-time as discovered and delivered to dashboard analysis widgets. * The UI is easy to use with text, pictures and video inside the dashboard. * The solution covers all forms of social media including blogs, top video and image sharing sites, forums, opinion sites, mainstream online media and emerging media like Twitter. * Automated sentiment analysis * Radian6 has now extended its platform to equip team members with deep social media listening and measurement capabilities within the tools they already use. With features developed on their platform API and Social Metrics Framework for integrating third-party data, Radian6 now supports the integration of social customer relationship management (CRM), web analytics, and other enterprise systems. * Conversational dynamics are constantly tallied to track the viral nature of each post. This allows for easy sorting by publish date, comment count, unique commenters and calculated engagement. * There is no limit to keywords when setting up topic profiles. Billing is tied to results, not the parameters used. * Multiple languages are supported including; English, French, Italian, German, Simple Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. * Results can be filtered by country, by source and by media type. * Numerous analysis widgets can be set up to analyze within a date range or for pre-set days. * The most influential sites for a topic profile can be calculated based on user-weighted scoring. * Configurable email and instant messenger alerts for staying top of things while away from your desk * Design your own daily email reports including posts, graphs and charts * Team work flow abilities for tagging, classification and assignment of posts to team members including recording of internal notes, engagement responses and ticket status for on-demand reporting and graphs.The Radian6 Insights platform: * Radian6 Insights combines the coverage and depth of Radian6 with additional content from third party insights partners to offer a deeper understanding of who is participating and where conversations are being held. * Use Radian6 Insights to gain a deeper understanding of both what is being said on the social web as well as who is saying it. * Quickly gain access to valuable meaning behind your social traffic, such as demographics, influence, location information, sentiment, topic categorization, and more. * Use capabilities from different Insights partners together for unparalleled deep-dive analysis. * Moving beyond keyword based analysis, Insights help deliver key information that you may not be aware of. * Receive real time, ongoing social intelligence surrounding your brand, your industry or any area of interest.The Engagement Console: * Is a complete real-time social web client. * Helps you coordinate team social media engagement across the enterprise. * Shows Radian6 topic profiles right alongside your personal or corporate Twitter, Facebook and Chatter streams. * Lets you set one-click workflow for frequently used post routing, assignment, and classification. * Feeds data to your Radian6 dashboard for reporting and analysis.The Summary Dashboard: * Monitor the health of your brand on the social web in one convenient application with the Radian6 Summary Dashboard. * Understand your social conversation without the time or resources required for a full-time analyst, with real time, high-level summaries of your brand on the social web. * These summaries are available in real time, automatically update and can be easily accessed and shared. * At a glance, monitor volume, sentiment, demographics, influencers and more.Radian6 Mobile: * Since the social web doesn't stop when you're away from your desk, stay plugged into your brand on the go with Radian6 Mobile. * Focus the entire social web into one mobile application. * Interact with your community or route posts to the right people with workflow functions all while away from your desk. * Quickly monitor overall volume, sentiment and more with the Summary feature. * Coming soon to the iTunes store and the Apple iPhone. Additional mobile devices to follow.Coverage includes: * over 150M blogs * over 420 video and image sharing sites such as We are the only provider who has invested significantly in a proprietary social media crawler that goes far beyond simple RSS feed tracking allowing for the broadest and fastest coverage of the social web in the market. | $4M / Series A / May 29, 2007 | |
Tello
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Tello is a flexible telecom provider operating on the U.S. market. We offer a clean, upfront service with no fees whatsoever. Our monthly plans are customizable, as our customers can choose their preferred amount of minutes and data, and all include unlimited text. What’s more, our plans can be upgraded, downgraded, or renewed at any time, for nocharge at all.Some perks of the service include free tethering: Tello customers can share data free of charge with other devices, and unlimited throttled data once the 4G data allotment is used up. But where we really stand out is our Customer Support: when our customers need help, they reach a real human being 100% of the time, no waiting on the line or speaking to robots.Tello.com is a brand of KeepCalling, a global telecommunications company registered in 2002 in USA. Presently, KeepCalling provides its services to hundreds of thousands of consumers and businesses, with a focus on customer satisfaction. KeepCalling has been listed by Inc 5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in the USA for 5 consecutive years. In 2015 the company registered a revenue increase of over 200% from 2011 to 2014. | $10M / Series B / Jul 25, 2006 | |
NexTone Communications
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NexTone Communications, headquartered in Rockville, Md., is focused on delivering Internet-based solutions for voice and data convergence to service providers. NexTone is in touch with the needs of the communications industry and is building products and solutions that facilitate the delivery of next generation applications. NexToneCommunication's solutions represent what's next in convergence. | $35M / Series D / Nov 07, 2005 | |
Trust Digital
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Trust Digital LLC provides enterprise smartphone security and management software for government organizations and various companies. It offers solutions to secure, deploy, and manage smartphones for information technology organizations. The company offers EMM Console, a browser-based solution to centrally manage the different smartphones used bymobile workers, as well as to provide policy management tools, reporting capabilities, and compliance enforcement facilities to secure smartphones and ruggedized devices. It serves financial services, government, healthcare, and education industries. | $9M / Series B / Nov 04, 2005 | |
Third Brigade
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Third Brigade is a privately-held security and compliance software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Trend Micro bought the business to accelerate its dynamic datacenter security strategy, and to provide customers with access to critical security and compliance software and vulnerability response services. These all contribute to protectingphysical, virtual and cloud servers, and corporate endpoints, from sophisticated malware and malicious activity. | $5M / Series A / Apr 07, 2005 | |
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NexTone Communications
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NexTone Communications, headquartered in Rockville, Md., is focused on delivering Internet-based solutions for voice and data convergence to service providers. NexTone is in touch with the needs of the communications industry and is building products and solutions that facilitate the delivery of next generation applications. NexToneCommunication's solutions represent what's next in convergence. | $10M / Series C / Jul 13, 2004 | |
Simpler Networks
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Simpler Networks Inc. operates as a telecommunications equipment and software manufacturer in Canada. The company specializes in automated distribution frames enabling copper loop management and also offers EZ-MDF, an automated main distribution frame hardware and software, which automates the labor-intensive process of manipulating central officeand street cabinet distribution frames. The company sells technology, products, and solutions directly to local service providers and through partners in North America and Europe. Simpler Networks Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Dorval, Canada. | $15.5M / Series A / May 13, 2004 | |
Sylantro
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Sylantro Systems is a provider of software used by service providers to deliver hosted VoIP applications and services for business, consumer, and wireless customers. Synergy, Sylantro's carrier-grade software platform, enables service providers to rapidly deliver differentiated, high value, high margin telephony services, ranging from IPTrunking to hosted PBX services and hosted consumer applications. | $15M / Series D / Oct 13, 2003 |
Co-Investors
BDC Venture Capital
2 deals together
Core Capital Partners
2 deals together
Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds
2 deals together
Safeguard Scientifics
2 deals together
Argo Global Capital
1 deal together
Avansis Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does BCE Capital invest in?
BCE Capital invests primarily in Software, Telecommunications and VoIP startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 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 BCE Capital last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for BCE Capital closed in May 2007. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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