# BoxOne Ventures

> BoxOne Ventures is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 67 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 67
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boxoneventures/
- Website: http://www.boxoneventures.com/

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across all markets: biotech, fintech, agtech, healthcare, data, engineering, and AI/ML. We strive to balance the best elements of patient angel capital with the value-add often found at venture funds. You will often find us as the first cheque into acompany.We invest our own capital and bring our experience as operators that have scaled many startups from founding to exit. We like partnering in the earliest days and continuing to support entrepreneurs with capital, expertise, and our network across their entire journey while making sure to never get in their way.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$9.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $274k–$2M |
| Series A | $717k–$115M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 19 | 28% |
| Health Care | 11 | 16% |
| Software | 10 | 15% |
| Medical | 8 | 12% |
| FinTech | 6 | 9% |

72 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 16% |
| Series A | 9 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |
| Angel | 1 | 1% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 25 | 37% |
| United States | 19 | 28% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Josh Felker | Founder, Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-felker |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Opalia | Opalia develops food technology focused on producing animal-free dairy using cell-based systems. It creates real milk by cultivating mammary cells in controlled bioreactors, generating proteins, fats, and sugars that match conventional dairy composition. The company provides a platform that produces complete milk rather than isolated ingredients,allowing direct use in products such as cheese, butter, and ice cream. Its offering is structured as a business-to-business model, supplying milk and dairy inputs to food manufacturers and partners for integration into existing production processes.Opalia also develops modular bioreactor systems and production methods designed to scale manufacturing of cell-based dairy. The technology is applied to support food production systems that operate without livestock while maintaining functional properties of traditional dairy. | $2.3M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Thred | Thred helps developers earn more by embedding conversational brand mentions from 200+ businesses in AI apps. | $250K | Seed | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Mycroft | Mycroft is the AI-native cybersecurity and compliance platform purpose-built for modern companies. Founded by experienced builders and security professionals with over 30 years of combined expertise, the company delivers security outcomes that go beyond checkbox compliance. The core product is Mycroft's AI Security and Compliance Officer, anautonomous AI agent designed to manage and operate your full security and IT stack – from securing your laptops to acing your next SOC 2 audit. This isn't just a tool; it's your virtual CISO, GRC expert, and IT ops team, all rolled into one. Focus on building your vision, while our AI Agent ensures your foundation is rock solid and fully compliant, 24/7. It's time to modernize your GRC and scale with confidence. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Nutrumami | Nutrumami is an innovative startup elevating plant nutrition and flavor for a more animal-free future. | $2M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Xatoms | Xatoms develops novel photocatalysts to create efficient and sustainable water treatment. It utilizes cutting-edge quantum chemistry calculations, combined with the power of artificial intelligence, to model novel photocatalyst molecules. Xatom's mission is to provide clean water to people throughout Africa and Asia. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 19, 2025 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Seqera | Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io). | $26M | Series B | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Stately Bio | Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging. | $12M | Seed | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Acorn Genetics | Acorn Genetics is building a precision genomics platform for decentralized, low-cost, & automated nanopore sequencing |  | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Dispersa | Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry. | $4.1M | Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |

10 of 67 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does BoxOne Ventures invest in?

BoxOne Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 67 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BoxOne Ventures's check size?

BoxOne Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9.5M at Seed, $274k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $717k–$115M 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 BoxOne Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact BoxOne Ventures?

Public channels for BoxOne Ventures include LinkedIn and 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 BoxOne Ventures?

The team at BoxOne Ventures includes Josh Felker (Founder, Managing 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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