# Blackberry

> Blackberry is a VC fund in Waterloo backing Software and Automotive. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waterloo, Canada
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/blackberry
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BlackBerry
- Website: https://www.blackberry.com/en
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BlackBerry

Blackberry is a VC fund in Waterloo focused on Software and Automotive. BlackBerry provides wireless devices and solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. It is widely known for the development of the Blackberry smartphone.It offers the BlackBerry wireless communications platform solution, which includes the commpression and security infrastructure services enabling BlackBerry hand-held wirelessdevices to send and receive wireless messages and data. It is engaged in the sale of BlackBerry hand-held devices and the provision of data communication.Its portfolio of products and solutions includes the BlackBerry wireless solution, the BlackBerry Wireless Hand-held product line, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, software development tools, and other software and hardware. It also provides QNX software for embedded systems market and BBM, which is known as an instant mobile to mobile private messaging service. BlackBerry also carries expertise in allowing third party commercial and enterprise software developers to build and deploy custom applications to run on BlackBerry smartphones. In addition, it provides its users with the BlackBerry Messenger Social Apps Platform, push, payments, advertising, location, maps, analytics, and Scoreloop services as well as repair and maintenance services.BlackBerry is engaged in the sales of its solutions through wireless communication carriers and third party distribution channels.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.7M–$21M |
| Series B | $10M–$320M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 41% |
| Automotive | 11 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 22% |
| Health Care | 7 | 17% |

75 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 18 | 44% |
| Series A | 7 | 17% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 6 | 15% |
| Series B | 4 | 10% |
| Seed | 2 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 23 | 56% |
| United States | 9 | 22% |
| Israel | 2 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anooj Shah | Senior Director of Investments & Strategy | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anooj-shah |
| Barbara Stymiest | Chairman of the Board | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barbara-stymiest |
| Charles Eagan | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-eagan |
| Mike Daniels | Board of Directors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-daniels |
| Peter Virk | Vice President | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-virk |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CorrActions | CorrActions is a software-based platform that's used in a product with human-machine interaction. | $7.3M | Series A | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| CEREBRUMX | CerebrumX (www.cerebrumx.ai), headquartered in Princeton, NJ, USA, and with offices across NA, EMEA and APAC, provides a ubiquitous ecosystem to our partners (OEMs, Media, Insurers, Lifestyle concierge Services, Fleet Companies, Smart Cities/Municipalities, etc.) by virtue of its Data Management Platform to enable the monetization of connectedcar data that is, as yet, un-utilized to any significant level due to the absence of the right automotive ecosystem. |  |  | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| CEREBRUMX | CerebrumX (www.cerebrumx.ai), headquartered in Princeton, NJ, USA, and with offices across NA, EMEA and APAC, provides a ubiquitous ecosystem to our partners (OEMs, Media, Insurers, Lifestyle concierge Services, Fleet Companies, Smart Cities/Municipalities, etc.) by virtue of its Data Management Platform to enable the monetization of connectedcar data that is, as yet, un-utilized to any significant level due to the absence of the right automotive ecosystem. |  | Corporate Round | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| ELECTRA AI | Electra Vehicles, Inc. produces AI-based software solutions to the electric vehicle, electric fleet, and battery-electric industries to improve battery pack range, lifetime, and charging performance. The company’s flagship product, EVE-Ai™ 360 Adaptive Controls are embedded onboard electric vehicles and connected to the Cloud to adaptively managebattery pack control strategies with machine learning predictive algorithms. For electric fleets utilizing Cloud connectivity, EVE-Ai™ Analytics provides a web app platform for fleet managers to improve battery performance in real time. Electra’s EnPower™ Design Suite platform supplies battery engineers a database of over 300 cells to choose from for early stage cell selection and rapid simulation that exports directly to popular modeling softwares. Altogether, Electra’s products fill the design and performance gaps that hold the electric vehicle industry back in order to accelerate worldwide electrification. | $21M | Series A | Feb 22, 2023 |  |
| Deeplite | Deeplite creates intelligent optimization software for deep learning deployed on cloud servers and edge devices. Deeplite provides a platform that uses AI to automatically make other AI models smaller, faster, and more energy efficient creating compact, high-performance deep neural networks that can run at the “edge” in vehicles, cameras, sensors,phones; devices you use every day. A significant challenge with deep learning models is that they are too large to deploy on small hardware, too slow to process mission critical applications or compromise battery life. Deeplite solves this problem by using a fully automated, proprietary and patented AI engine to optimize DNN models so that they can be deployed to any hardware platform on any device. .Our technology leverages years of research and new developments in tinyML to produce fast, efficient and scalable deep learning solutions for challenging real-world environments. At Deeplite, we enable AI for everyday life. |  | Grant | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Wedge Networks Inc. | Wedge Networks is a cyber security software vendor specializing in Real-time Threat Prevention. With numerous patents, industry awards, including a Gartner Cool Vendor designation, and twice bestowed with Build-In-Canada Innovation awards, its products are distributed through MSSP, OEM, VAR and SI partners to end customers worldwide. Wedge isheadquartered in Calgary, Canada with international teams in the North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa regions.Real-time Threat Prevention is one of the most critical cyber defense requirements for the digital economy with enterprise security capacity being over-run by rapidly expanding security workloads as organizations shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other cloud native applications. With the cloud connected world seeing billions of new connected endpoint devices added, especially in areas such as smart cities, smart manufacturing, and other smart infrastructure, the network perimeter has now been extended to encompass anywhere these devices are located; further widening the security gap. The ability for the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to rapidly roll out real-time threat prevention services, and to adapt and deliver end-to-end protection as and when needed, is a key challenge in this cloud connected world, especially for MSPs, MDRs and other service providers. Wedge’s leadership in this area allows us to form important and strategic partnerships with players who are movers and shakers in this digital transformation and enables increased growth for these partners. Today, Wedge’s products prevent advanced security threats for tens of millions of endpoints spanning more than 22 countries.Our technology platform, WedgeARP™, has the deepest visibility of network data in the industry, possessing an unmatched ability to defend against malicious attacks that are undetectable with shallow inspection techniques. It delivers the highest real-time performance of orchestrated security services through a software implementation that is portable to all x86 servers. Trained with nearly 1 billion threat samples, its automated and continually-learning embedded artificial neural network can detect never-before-seen malware in milliseconds. WedgeARP™ represents the present and future of how much-needed security services can be delivered, from the cloud core to the ever-expanding network edge, to help reduce the security gap. Supported by a world class software product team in Canada, it allows enterprises, governments, telecommunications providers and critical infrastructure operators to achieve real-time prevention of advanced threats; and enables Wedge’s distribution partners to increase their Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) and reduce customer CHURN. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Raven Connected | Raven Connected offers vehicle tracking and driver monitoring system services, enhancing safety and efficiency in transportation operations. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| COMPREDICT | COMPREDICT‘s virtual sensors and health & usage monitoring provide unique insights of vehicle usage and behavior without additional hardware for all sectors of mobility. Our solution is currently used in applications with 2 up to 18 wheel vehicles – and even trains. The virtual sensors measure the real dynamic behavior of components likesteering, brakes, powertrain and battery, regardless of whether the vehicle is a prototype or a series product, for a single vehicle or an entire fleet. We close the feedback loop between product development, in-use behavior or fleet management and service operations. With COMPREDICT, optimized component design and maintenance allow our customers to reduce weight, CO2 emissions and environmental impact over the whole product lifecycle. | $5.7M | Series A | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Car IQ | Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $15M | Series B | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| SAM Seamless Network | SAM protects the connected home by securing threats right at the source. With a software-only solution, SAM uses the network gateway to protect all connected devices in the home. Securing communication between smart devices and the network, means ISPs can ensure their customers are using their connected home in the safest way. | $20M | Series B | May 27, 2021 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [L-SPARK](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/l-spark) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Solace Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solace-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [TELUS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/telus) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Canadian Internet Registration Authority](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canadian-internet-registration-authority) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-research-council-of-canada-industrial-research-assistance-program) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [212 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/212-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Blackberry invest in?

Blackberry invests primarily in Software, Automotive and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Blackberry's check size?

Blackberry typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$21M at Series A and $10M–$320M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Blackberry participates in.

### How do I contact Blackberry?

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### Who are the partners at Blackberry?

The team at Blackberry includes Anooj Shah (Senior Director of Investments & Strategy), Barbara Stymiest (Chairman of the Board) and Charles Eagan (Chief Technology Officer), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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