# Bernard Lupien

> Bernard Lupien is a seed investor at Rhapsody Venture Partners backing Wireless and Biotechnology. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rhapsody Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rhapsody-venture-partners-llc)
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blupien/

Bernard Lupien is a seed investor at Rhapsody Venture Partners in Cambridge focused on Wireless and Biotechnology. Bernard Lupien

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wireless | 1 | 25% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 25% |
| Infrastructure | 1 | 25% |
| Nanotechnology | 1 | 25% |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | 25% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Polaris Electro-Optics | Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation. | $3M | Seed | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Tendo Technologies | Tendo is an industrial technology company that uses novel elastic filament velocimetry technology. Their miniature sensor can detect low flow rates with precision and measure temperature, all at a price point. Tendo aims to leverage advancements and expertise in high-fidelity flow measurements to dramatically improve flow sensing fidelity at asignificantly lower cost. |  | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Latys | Latys is a proprietary technology that built using metasurfaces that allows to build ultra-compact wireless relays that are dynamically reconfigurable and are inherently immune to interference, multi-path fading, and noise. The company uses antennas to enable full-duplex communications that are protocol and modulation-agnostic. Latys was foundedon 2020 at Montreal, Quebec. | $3M | Seed | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Chinova Bioworks | Chinova Bioworks uses a natural and effective antimicrobial chitosan polymer with broad spectrum protection. | $6M | Series A | Jun 22, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Buff Gold Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buff-gold-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DSM Venturing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsm-venturing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [M Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merckventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rich Products Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rich-products-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TandemLaunch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tandemlaunch-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tyche](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tyche) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rhapsody Venture Partners

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Rhapsody Venture Partners specializes in bringing to market breakthrough science innovation in industrial sciences (non-life science). The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

4 contacts available at Rhapsody Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carsten Boers | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carsten-boers |
| Jason Whaley | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-whaley |
| Bernard Lupien | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernard-lupien |
| Jessica Freyer | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-freyer-33a9 |

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## FAQ

### What does Bernard Lupien invest in?

Bernard Lupien invests primarily in Wireless, Biotechnology and Infrastructure startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bernard Lupien last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bernard Lupien closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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