# Bioindustrial Innovation Canada

> Bioindustrial Innovation Canada is a VC fund backing Recycling. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sarnia, Canada
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://bicsarnia.ca/

Bioindustrial Innovation Canada is a Canadian research network aims to position the Sarnia-Lambton region as a world-scale hybrid chemistry cluster. It is helping Ontario and Canada become professionals in taking sustainable feedstock, such as agricultural and forestry by-products and wastes, and turning these renewable resources into energy andvalue-added chemicals for use in applications ranging from construction to automotive parts.Bioindustrial Innovation Canada was set up with 15 million U.S. dollars in seed funding from the Centers of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program in 2008, with renovations for the accelerator, Bowman Centre, partly funded by Ontario’s Ministry of Innovation and Research through a 10 million U.S. dollars grant. It is headquartered in Sarnia, O.N.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recycling | 3 | 27% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 27% |
| Chemical | 2 | 18% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 55% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 7 | 64% |
| France | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meaghan Seagrave | Executive | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meaghan-seagrave |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evercloak | Evercloak is a manufacturer of ultra-thin graphene and other 2-d nanomaterial films designed for cleantech applications. The company's platform uses a low-cost advanced manufacturing platform which builds ultra-thin nanomaterial membranes, enabling disruptive clean technologies to reduce cost, energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissionsthroughout the oil and gas, nuclear, energy, mining and agri-food sectors. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Evercloak | Evercloak is a manufacturer of ultra-thin graphene and other 2-d nanomaterial films designed for cleantech applications. The company's platform uses a low-cost advanced manufacturing platform which builds ultra-thin nanomaterial membranes, enabling disruptive clean technologies to reduce cost, energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissionsthroughout the oil and gas, nuclear, energy, mining and agri-food sectors. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $27M | Series A | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| GreenMantra Technologies | and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings,plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries. | $798.6K | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| Forward Water Technologies | Forward Water Technologies is revolutionizing the remediation of wastewater by breaking the water-energy paradigm and recover water that is permanently lost today.It commercializing a greener and more efficient way to purify and desalinate water, using a proprietary forward osmosis process. |  |  | May 29, 2018 |  |
| GreenMantra Technologies | and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings,plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries. |  |  | Apr 24, 2018 |  |
| GreenMantra Technologies | and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings,plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries. |  |  | Apr 06, 2018 |  |
| FireRein | FireRein creates and manufactures the eco friendly products for the firefighting community. |  |  | Dec 06, 2017 |  |
| Comet Biorefining | Comet Biorefining is a leading provider of sustainable high-quality cost-competitive cellulosic glucose technology for applications in renewable biofuels and biochemicals. The company’s proprietary technology allows for the conversion of wood, wheat straw, bagasse, corn stover and other agricultural waste materials into high purity cellulosicglucose syrup. These non-food sources offer lower cost and price stability when compared to food sugar sources such as corn or sugar cane. Demonstrated at 5 dry tons per day scale, Comet is focusing on commercial scale up and development of commercial partnerships with applications in renewables industries. |  |  | Mar 02, 2017 |  |
| Zyl | Zyl is social mobile app that finds in your camera roll your best memories of your past and that everyday makes you re-experience one of them and let you share it with your friends to interact with them.5 years ago, everybody was sharing lots of photos on social medias. Today, we only share the top 1% of our memories. Why? The fear of judgement,the race to get more likes / views / comments, the fear of a privacy breach...And what do we do with the remaining 99% of our photos? Nothing!And yet, nowadays, we struggle to keep in touch with our loved ones. What if we could use the emotional power of our memories as daily icebreakers?Zyl leverages the intrinsic social graph of your photo library. Zyl is a place where all the memories of you and your friends are, automatically curated and sublimated. |  |  | Feb 28, 2017 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cycle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cycle-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GreenSoil Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greensoil) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GroundBreak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/groundbreak-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ontario Centre of Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oci-e51e) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PM Equity Partner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pm-equitypartner) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sofinnova Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sofinnova-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bioindustrial Innovation Canada invest in?

Bioindustrial Innovation Canada invests primarily in Recycling, Manufacturing and Chemical startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Bioindustrial Innovation Canada?

The team at Bioindustrial Innovation Canada includes Meaghan Seagrave (Executive). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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