# La Caisse

> La Caisse is a VC fund in Montréal backing Software and Energy. See 212 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 212
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 54%
- Fund size: $125M
- Last fund: Apr 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cdpq
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/lacdpq
- Website: https://www.cdpq.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lacdpq

La Caisse is a VC fund in Montréal focused on Software and Energy. The Caisse is a global fund manager. Its clients, which it calls its depositors, are mostly Québec public and private pension funds and insurance plans. The funds entrusted to the Caisse are invested in financial markets in Québec, in Canada and around the world to generate a profit.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Private Equity | $53M–$1B |
| Post-IPO Equity | $1.2M–$710M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 8% |
| Energy | 13 | 6% |
| Manufacturing | 13 | 6% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 6% |
| Mining | 10 | 5% |

181 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 45 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 32 | 15% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 19 | 9% |
| Series B | 12 | 6% |
| Debt Financing | 11 | 5% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 76 | 36% |
| United States | 31 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 4% |
| India | 6 | 3% |
| France | 6 | 3% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Albrecht Alvensleben | Managing Director and Head of Private Equity Europe | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albrecht-alvensleben |
| Martin Laguerre | Executive Vice-President and Head of Private Equity | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-laguerre |
| Meng Ann Lim | Managing Director & Head, Private Equity Asia Pacific | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meng-ann-lim |
| Rana Ghorayeb | Executive Vice-President and Head of Real Estate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rana-ghorayeb-a687 |
| Alexandre Synnett | Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-synnett |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optio Group | Optio Group creates products, services, and solutions that benefit the insurance industry. They are able to innovate across niche insurance products, underwriting services, and broking by combining smart technology and building strong partnerships with their business partners. They are forward-thinking insurance experts and investment firms. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Nesto | Nesto is a digital mortgage and home financing platform that helps individuals obtain, renew, and refinance mortgages through an online application process. The company combines mortgage comparison tools, lending services, and advisor support to help borrowers evaluate financing options, submit applications, upload documentation, and managemortgage transactions digitally. Its platform uses technology to match borrowers with suitable mortgage products while providing guidance throughout the approval and funding process. Nesto also offers educational resources covering mortgage rates, home buying, refinancing, and other financing topics, and provides mortgage technology solutions that financial institutions can use to support digital mortgage origination and servicing workflows. | $216.5M | Series E | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Nesto | Nesto is a digital mortgage and home financing platform that helps individuals obtain, renew, and refinance mortgages through an online application process. The company combines mortgage comparison tools, lending services, and advisor support to help borrowers evaluate financing options, submit applications, upload documentation, and managemortgage transactions digitally. Its platform uses technology to match borrowers with suitable mortgage products while providing guidance throughout the approval and funding process. Nesto also offers educational resources covering mortgage rates, home buying, refinancing, and other financing topics, and provides mortgage technology solutions that financial institutions can use to support digital mortgage origination and servicing workflows. |  | Secondary Market | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| ECHO Realty | ECHO Realty is a commercial real estate company that develops, acquires, owns, leases, and manages grocery-anchored retail properties and shopping centers. The company focuses on necessity-based retail real estate, working with grocery stores and complementary retail tenants to create and operate community-oriented shopping destinations. Itsservices encompass the full property lifecycle, including acquisitions, development, redevelopment, leasing, property management, construction management, and investment partnership management. The company manages a portfolio of retail properties that include grocery-anchored shopping centers, multi-tenant retail centers, mixed-use developments, convenience retail locations, and other commercial real estate assets. It evaluates and acquires both stabilized and value-add retail properties while also undertaking redevelopment projects to enhance property performance and tenant mix. |  | Private Equity | Jun 05, 2026 |  |
| Novisto | Novisto is end-to-end enterprise software for smarter corporate sustainability management, empowering companies to create value from their ESG strategy, data, and reporting. Novisto streamlines every step of the sustainability management journey while helping companies own their ESG narrative. Our purpose is to advance a more inclusive andresilient society by enabling organizations to create value through sustainability. |  | Private Equity | May 19, 2026 |  |
| BIG Fiber | BIG Fiber is a telecommunications infrastructure company that builds fiber networks for data centers and enterprises. | $250M | Debt Financing | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Stago | Stago develops and supplies diagnostic systems, reagents, and services focused on hemostasis and thrombosis testing. The company provides automated analyzers and assay kits used by clinical laboratories to assess blood coagulation, platelet function, and related disorders. Its portfolio includes instruments designed for routine and specializedtesting, along with software for data management and workflow integration.Stago also supports laboratories with quality control materials, calibration tools, and technical services that assist with system implementation and maintenance. Its solutions are applied in hospital labs, research settings, and transfusion services to aid in the detection and monitoring of bleeding and clotting conditions. |  | Private Equity | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Vertical Bridge Holdings | Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure. It specializes in co-location services and build-to-suit towers and provides the infrastructure needed to support today's increasingly wireless culture. Vertical Bridge was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. | $1.5B | Private Equity | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| ILOS Projects | ILOS Projects GmbH was founded with a focus on PV development in Europe, and both development funding and construction financing were provided by Omnes Capital. | $529.6M | Debt Financing | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Innovair Solutions | Innovair Solutions emphasizes innovation in its work and serves heating, air conditioning, ventilation, and air-quality needs across residential, commercial, and industrial markets. It also offers a broad product range, strong manufacturing capacity, and continued expansion in the United States. | $108.2M | Private Equity | Apr 08, 2026 |  |

10 of 212 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fonds de solidarité FTQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fonds-de-solidarit-ftq) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Investissement Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investissement-quebec) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
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- [Capital régional et cooperatif Desjardins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-r%C3%A9gional-et-cooperatif-desjardins) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Sidex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sidex) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does La Caisse invest in?

La Caisse invests primarily in Software, Energy and Manufacturing startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 212 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is La Caisse's check size?

La Caisse typically joins rounds of $53M–$1B at Private Equity and $1.2M–$710M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds La Caisse participates in.

### How do I contact La Caisse?

Public channels for La Caisse 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 La Caisse?

The team at La Caisse includes Albrecht Alvensleben (Managing Director and Head of Private Equity Europe), Martin Laguerre (Executive Vice-President and Head of Private Equity) and Meng Ann Lim (Managing Director & Head, Private Equity Asia Pacific), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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