Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
Montréal, Canada
Brightspark Ventures is a VC fund in Montréal focused on Software and SaaS. Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
- Total investments:
- 78
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $54M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Brightspark Ventures invests in
Stages Brightspark Ventures invests in
Countries Brightspark Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$7M
- Series A
- $3M–$19M
- Series B
- $2.5M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (19%)
- SaaS 7 (9%)
- Machine Learning 6 (8%)
- Mobile 5 (6%)
- E-Commerce 5 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (29%)
- Seed 21 (27%)
- Series B 11 (14%)
- Funding Round 6 (8%)
- Angel 2 (3%)
Country
- Canada 42 (54%)
- United States 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Lugsdin
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Eleonore Jarry-Ferron
Venture
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Venture | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Emilie Jones
Marketing Director
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Marketing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jacques Perreault
Senior Partner
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Senior Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Mark Skapinker
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Pricepoint
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Pricepoint is an AI-powered dynamic pricing engine built and designed for independent hoteliers that automatically optimizes room prices in true real-time after every booking change. | $4.8M / Seed / Jun 04, 2026 | |
Coral
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Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause, menopause and beyond. | $2.9M / Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | |
Brickeye
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AOMS Technologies provides integrated Industrial IoT platforms for generating actionable insights from assets and processes to enhance efficiency and productivity, reduce operation costs, increase safety, and improve environmental sustainability. AOMS IoT platforms are integrated sensors and analytics tools developed for harsh environments andheavy industrial applications where conventional technologies fail, lose performance, or cannot be deployed efficiently. | $10M / Series B / Jan 20, 2026 | |
Enurgen
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Enurgen is a modeling software for power systems. Enurgen captures and distributes energy resources from cells to systems. Their bifacial resource from front to back is a bifacial performance model that calculates optical and electrical performance based on a physically representative array geometry. | $4.1M / Seed / Oct 08, 2025 | |
Mycroft
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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 | |
ShopVision Technologies
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ShopVision Built specifically for brands and retailers, the platform integrates the most comprehensive competitive market dataset in digital commerce with a company's own first-party data to provide real-time insights and AI-powered workflows. | $4.1M / Seed / Sep 18, 2025 | |
Jozu
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Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments. | $4M / Seed / May 08, 2025 | |
Brio
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Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features | $2.2M / Seed / Apr 28, 2025 | |
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Coral
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Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause, menopause and beyond. | $2.9M / Seed / Feb 11, 2025 | |
Optable
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Optable is a data collaboration and clean room solution designed for the advertising ecosystem in the age of privacy. The product was inspired by the radical transformation in how audience data is governed, connected, and activated. Optable takes an end-to-end approach to data collaboration and is integrated with ad delivery platforms for secureactivation, making it possible to deploy campaigns directly from a clean room. It is the only clean room solution that offers frictionless collaboration and interoperability enabling customers to safely and securely match audience data with any partner. | $20M / Series A / Jan 24, 2025 | |
| See all 78 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Brightspark Ventures invest in?
Brightspark Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 78 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brightspark Ventures's check size?
Brightspark Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$7M at Seed, $3M–$19M at Series A and $2.5M–$30M 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 Brightspark Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Brightspark Ventures?
The team at Brightspark Ventures includes Andrew Lugsdin (Partner), Eleonore Jarry-Ferron (Venture) and Emilie Jones (Marketing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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