BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
Calgary, Canada
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
- Total investments:
- 442
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries BDC Venture Capital invests in
Stages BDC Venture Capital invests in
Countries BDC Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$5M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 101 (23%)
- Information Technology 44 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 28 (6%)
- Manufacturing 26 (6%)
- SaaS 25 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 84 (19%)
- Seed 78 (18%)
- Funding Round 76 (17%)
- Series B 54 (12%)
- Series C 35 (8%)
Country
- Canada 251 (57%)
- United States 23 (5%)
- Japan 1 (0%)
- Sweden 1 (0%)
- Turkey 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajay Gopal
Associate Director
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Associate Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Matt Stanley
Director, Cleantech Practice
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Director, Cleantech Practice | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Annie Marsolais
Chief Marketing Officer
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Chief Marketing Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Charles Lespérance
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Denisia Pereira
Associate Principal, Women in Tech Venture Fund
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Associate Principal, Women in Tech Venture Fund | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 28 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Picketa Systems
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Picketa Systems Precision develops a leaf-evaluated-nutrient system for real-time plant tissue analysis. Its platform removes any turnaround time in the process of analyzing plant samples, allowing growers to make data-oriented decisions on time without obstructing their workflow. It tracks the performance of fields and helps measure the impact ofdifferent varieties, fertilizer products, and techniques, season after season. | $1.5M / Jun 15, 2026 | |
KOHO Financial
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KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day to day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations, enabling users to manage theirexpenses and banking operations on the go. | $93.2M / Series E / Jun 10, 2026 | |
Nord Quantique
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Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 18, 2026 | |
Femtum
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Femtum offers mid-infrared pulsed fibre lasers, fibre amplifiers, and tunable fibre lasers for medical and industrial use. They give access to mid-infrared spectroscopy with laser systems. Their team developed know-how and patented technologies to make a difference in the laser industry. | $11.8M / Series A / Mar 12, 2026 | |
JetScale AI
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JetScale AI is a Montreal-based startup specializing in AI-driven cloud infrastructure optimization. It uses agentic AI to detect inefficiencies, provide remediation plans, and generate compliant Infrastructure-as-Code for cost savings and sustainability. | $5.4M / Seed / Feb 26, 2026 | |
ReInvestWealth
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ReInvestWealth builds AI-powered accounting software for modern entrepreneurs. Available in USA and Canada. Start with a 30-day free trial. | $350K / Seed / Feb 12, 2026 | |
Musical AI
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Musical AI is how musicians, songwriters, and rights holders control and monetize the use of their works by artificial intelligence models, while giving AI companies easy, legal access to high-quality music. Rights holders safely license their catalogs for training through the platform—with clear usage terms, patent-pending attribution for faircompensation, and secure infrastructure—while AI companies gain a streamlined, compliant solution for training and deploying models without legal headaches. | $4.5M / Seed / Jan 13, 2026 | |
Falcon
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Falcon is a design platform that offers an app to create visuals, photoshop, and edit content in real time. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | |
Cybrid
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Cybrid uses APIs that enable banks, and financial institutions to seamlessly launch a cryptocurrency and De-fi products. | $10M / Series A / Oct 22, 2025 | |
MarineLabs Data Systems Inc.
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Real-time Coastal Intelligence | $4M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | |
| See all 442 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does BDC Venture Capital invest in?
BDC Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 442 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 Venture Capital's check size?
BDC Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $600k–$5M at Seed and $3.3M–$20M 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 Venture Capital participates in.
How do I contact BDC Venture Capital?
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Who are the partners at BDC Venture Capital?
The team at BDC Venture Capital includes Ajay Gopal (Associate Director), Matt Stanley (Director, Cleantech Practice) and Annie Marsolais (Chief Marketing Officer), among 28 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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