# BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund

> BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund is a VC fund backing CleanTech and Chemical. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.bdc.ca/en/bdc-capital/venture-capital/funds/climate-tech-fund-ii

BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund is a VC fund focused on CleanTech and Chemical. BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund invests in Canadian climate technology firms.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund. Shizune tracks 2 team members at BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/bdc-capital-s-climate-tech-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$5.1M |
| Series A | $7M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CleanTech | 3 | 20% |
| Chemical | 2 | 13% |
| Construction | 2 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 47% |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicole Leite | Executive | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-leite-403c |
| Pascal Lanctot | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pascal-lanctot |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Future Fields | Future Fields is committed to producing sustainable components for science through insect biotechnology. Its EntoEngine™ platform is the first to harness the genetic prowess of fruit flies to produce Earth’s most environmentally and economically sustainable biomolecules. Founded in 2018, Future Fields is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada andproudly backed by marquee venture capital firms and investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. Learn more about how Future Fields is enabling great science at https://futurefields.io/. | $8M | Series A | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Freshr Technologies | Impactful Health R&D is a developer of compostable active packaging materials designed to prolong the shelf life of fresh foods, starting with fresh fish as an entry market. The company's active packaging materials are made of naturally-derived resources and helps in preserving the texture of a fish by maintaining its water content andtargeting bacteria, enabling fish processing companies to reduce wastage of fish. | $3.4M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Exterra Carbon Solutions | Exterra is a company that is creating a world-class solution for long-term CO2 storage using mineral waste. | $14.5M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Summit Nanotech | Summit Nanotech Corporation is a cleantech organization transforming how the world accesses lithium for the global energy transition. Through a patented and sustainable direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, Summit Nanotech works with mining companies and lithium asset owners in Chile and Argentina to conserve natural resources and optimizeoperations.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. | $25.5M |  | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. | $52.7M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Ayrton Energy | Ayrton Energy is to provide energy security fueled by hydrogen. It was founded in 2021. | $5.1M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| alterBiota | alterBiota is a green materials company focused on cost effective concrete decarbonization. | $4M | Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| Deep Sky | Deep Sky is a developer of a CO2 removal infrastructure designed to reduce the carbon footprint. Deep Sky provides CO2 collection and storage services powered by renewable energy at scale, allowing the compliance, voluntary, and government procurement industries to profitably charge more. | $41.8M | Series A | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Green Graphite Technologies | Green Graphite Technologies develops a cleaner process to purify graphites for electric vehicles. It commercializes the environmentally beneficial method of converting natural flake graphite into graphite suitable for lithium-ion batteries. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Carbon Upcycling | Carbon Upcycling converts industrial CO₂ emissions and byproducts into engineered low‑carbon cement materials, deploys modular capture and utilization systems at hard‑to‑decarbonize facilities, and supplies circular construction inputs that support supply chain resilience and emission reduction goals. | $26M | Series A | Jul 28, 2023 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clean Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clean-energy-ventures-cev) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Invest Nova Scotia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-nova-scotia-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amplify Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-catalyst-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Climate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ogci-climate-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Capricorn Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capricorn-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund invest in?

BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund invests primarily in CleanTech, Chemical and Construction startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 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’s Climate Tech Fund's check size?

BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.1M at Seed and $7M–$50M 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’s Climate Tech Fund participates in.

### How do I contact BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund?

Public channels for BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund?

The team at BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund includes Nicole Leite (Executive) and Pascal Lanctot (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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