# Build Ventures

> Build Ventures is a VC fund in Halifax backing Software and SaaS. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Halifax, Canada
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Fund size: $51M
- Last fund: Aug 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9285769?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A9285769%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1440803060017%2Ctas%3ABuild%20Ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/buildventures
- Website: http://buildventures.ca

Build Ventures is a VC fund in Halifax focused on Software and SaaS. The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help.They’re based inHalifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.5M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$13M |
| Series B | $1.5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 26% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |
| Apps | 3 | 7% |
| Fitness | 3 | 7% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 38% |
| Series A | 6 | 14% |
| Series B | 4 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 24 | 57% |
| United States | 5 | 12% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Patrick Keefe | Partner & Founder | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-keefe-2320 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Musical AI | Musical AI is how musicians, songwriters, and rights holders control and monetize the use of their works by artificial intelligence models, while giving AI companies easy, legal access to high-quality music. Rights holders safely license their catalogs for training through the platform—with clear usage terms, patent-pending attribution for faircompensation, and secure infrastructure—while AI companies gain a streamlined, compliant solution for training and deploying models without legal headaches. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| 3D BioFibR | 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications. | $3M | Seed | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| PayTic | PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments. | $4M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Tenera | Tenera is a hardware, software, real-time ,senior monitoring and analytics platform for safe and healthy living.Tenera Care creates a safer environment in your care facilities by monitoring the location of your residents, staff, visitors and assets both indoors and outdoors, detects hazardous situations and minimizes incident response time. | $7.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Musical AI | Musical AI is how musicians, songwriters, and rights holders control and monetize the use of their works by artificial intelligence models, while giving AI companies easy, legal access to high-quality music. Rights holders safely license their catalogs for training through the platform—with clear usage terms, patent-pending attribution for faircompensation, and secure infrastructure—while AI companies gain a streamlined, compliant solution for training and deploying models without legal headaches. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Potential Motors | Potential Motors is using computer vision to enable vehicles to go anywhere. They have built software that works with a variety of cameras to analyze off and on-road terrain in real-time which is then used in the vehicle to change traction and suspension settings to improve performance and efficiency. They are currently working with OEMs inMotorcycles, Powersports, Defence, and Automotive to trial their technology. | $1.5M | Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| TrojAI | TrojAI provides a comprehensive AI security platform to protect AI/ML applications and infrastructure. The best-in-class platform empowers enterprises to safeguard applications from real-time threats with TrojAI's firewall. Penetration test models and remediation guidance delivered prior to deployment further mitigate risk. Built by datascientists and cybersecurity experts, TrojAI meets the needs of the largest enterprises with scalability, performance, and extensibility. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Bright Breaks | Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being. | $1.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| 3D BioFibR | 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 20, 2023 |  |
| Trophi.ai | trophi.ai is an e-sports coaching company and provides coaching regardless of their location or income, leveling the playing field. | $3.3M | Seed | May 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Build Ventures invest in?

Build Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Build Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.5M at Seed, $2.2M–$13M at Series A and $1.5M–$12M 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 Build Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Build Ventures?

Public channels for Build Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Build Ventures?

The team at Build Ventures includes Patrick Keefe (Partner & Founder). 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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