# BDC Capital Corporation

> BDC Capital Corporation is a VC fund backing Software and E-Commerce. See 66 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wakefield, United States
- Total investments: 66
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/bdc-capital
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/bdccapital
- Website: http://bdcnewengland.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bdccapital

BDC Capital Corporation is a VC fund in Wakefield focused on Software and E-Commerce. BDC Capital has been recognized locally and nationally as a leader and innovator in business lending and capital investment. Many of New England’s leading financial institutions invest in BDC to help promising companies expand. Over 60 years, we have invested more than $1 billion in thousands of companies in New England.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $2M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 30% |
| E-Commerce | 8 | 12% |
| Internet | 7 | 11% |
| SaaS | 6 | 9% |
| FinTech | 6 | 9% |

124 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 14 | 21% |
| Series A | 12 | 18% |
| Seed | 11 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 8 | 12% |
| Series C | 6 | 9% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 54 | 82% |
| United States | 6 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carol Cedrone Brennan | Director of Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carol-cedrone-brennan |
| Dave Harrington | Director of Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-harrington |
| Joe O’Garro | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-o%E2%80%99garro |
| John L Hackett | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-l-hackett |
| Joseph G Herzog | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-g-herzog |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ShopVision Technologies | ShopVision Built specifically for brands and retailers, the platform integrates the most comprehensive competitive market dataset in digital commerce with a company's own first-party data to provide real-time insights and AI-powered workflows. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Awake Chocolate | Awake Chocolate is a food company that offers chocolates. They sell energy drinks. They also offer delivery services. | $5.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Puzzle Medical Devices | Puzzle Medical is developing the ModulHeart, a modular percutaneous heart pump designed to reduce cardiac afterload and improve renal perfusion in patients with advanced heart failure who are not candidates for heart transplant or surgical mechanical circulatory support. The device’s modular design allows for hemodynamic support through multiplepumps anchored in parallel in the descending aorta. The design is expected to increase accessibility by enabling safe percutaneous implantation to support both renal and cardiac function, with low risk of bleeding, stroke, and pump thrombosis, while providing sustained symptom relief, reduced re-hospitalizations and improved overall quality of life. To date, Puzzle Medical has successfully:○ completed its first-in-human study with all patients experiencing improvements in cardiac and kidney function (2022); ○ completed a Seed financing round (2021); ○ built a strong Key Opinion Leaders committee (2021); ○ received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Device Designation (2021). | $30.2M | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Apera AI | Apera AI builds a Robot Vision Intelligence Software for manufacturing when speed and precision matters. |  | Series A | Mar 29, 2025 |  |
| Mangrove Lithium | Mangrove Lithium, a Vancouver-based company, has developed a breakthrough platform for the most cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and carbonate from diverse input streams and assets. Mangrove’s modular solution can be scaled to any capacity and co-located with upstream lithium producers or cathode and cell manufacturers.The platform technology is also being commercialized for the conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water. | $35M |  | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Precision AI | Precision.ai is at the forefront of the fully autonomous farming revolution. We provide fully autonomous spraying and crop protection solutions for small to large farms and farm machinery manufacturers. Our patented artificial intelligence powers the farming machines of the future. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Brickeye | AOMS Technologies provides integrated Industrial IoT platforms for generating actionable insights from assets and processes to enhance efficiency and productivity, reduce operation costs, increase safety, and improve environmental sustainability. AOMS IoT platforms are integrated sensors and analytics tools developed for harsh environments andheavy industrial applications where conventional technologies fail, lose performance, or cannot be deployed efficiently. | $3.6M | Debt Financing | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| General Fusion | General Fusion pursues a commercially oriented path toward fusion energy by developing a magnetized target fusion (MTF) technology. The company applies advances in plasma physics, modern electronics, materials, and compression mechanisms to generate fusion-relevant conditions. It operates a demonstration system, Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), thatinjects magnetized plasma into a liquid metal liner and compresses it using coordinated mechanical pistons to reach high temperatures and pressures. The technology serves as a practical stepping stone toward building a fusion demonstration facility and ultimately delivering fusion-derived electricity to the grid. The approach focuses on closing the gap between demonstration milestones and a deployable power-plant system. | $24.5M | Series F | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Avidbots Corp. | Avidbots vision is to bring robots to everyday life to expand human potential. Avidbots first product is NEO - the world's smartest autonomous scrubbing robot. NEO is trusted by some of the best managed airports, retail malls, hospitals, colleges, industrial sites, museums, warehouses, etc in 7 countries and counting. | $70M | Series C | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| MolecuLight | Moleculight is developing a non-invasive optical technology that acquires images in a manner similar to standard point-and-shoot digital cameras.The device provides real-time bacteriological information which is otherwise unobtainable using industry standard wound assessment techniques, including conventional white light visualization.Thefirst application of this technology will be in the global wound care market where there is an urgent medical need and where MolecuLight can significantly improve outcomes by providing rapid and accurate diagnosis. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 66 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Cycle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cycle-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kensington Capital Partners Limited](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kensington-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BDC IT Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-it-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does BDC Capital Corporation invest in?

BDC Capital Corporation invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 66 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BDC Capital Corporation's check size?

BDC Capital Corporation typically joins rounds of $650k–$2.3M at Seed and $2M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BDC Capital Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact BDC Capital Corporation?

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### Who are the partners at BDC Capital Corporation?

The team at BDC Capital Corporation includes Carol Cedrone Brennan (Director of Business Development), Dave Harrington (Director of Business Development) and Joe O’Garro (Vice President), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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