# Calian

> Calian is a VC fund in Ottawa backing Health Care and Hospital. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/calian
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CalianLtd
- Website: https://calian.com/en

Calian is a VC fund in Ottawa focused on Health Care and Hospital. Calian was founded in 1982 as an Ottawa-based consulting firm and is publically traded on the TSX. Headquartered in Ottawa, Calian employs over 2300 people with offices across Canada and projects that span domestic and international markets.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Calian. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Calian. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/calian?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Convertible Note | $293k–$293k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 60% |
| Hospital | 2 | 40% |
| SMS | 1 | 20% |
| Email | 1 | 20% |
| Wellness | 1 | 20% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non-equity Assistance | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sacha Gera | President, IT and Cyber Solutions | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sacha-gera |
| Jacqueline Gauthier | Vice President, CFO, and Corporate Secretary | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacqueline-gauthier |
| Kevin Ford | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-ford-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Virtual Hallway | Virtual Hallway provides family doctors with rapid advice. They offer medical, healthcare, referral management, and software innovation. It allows healthcare providers to obtain specialist input early or during a patient's illness, avoiding unnecessary waitlists and delays in care. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Coalese Health | Coalese Health’s software provides physicians and their patients the ability to view electronic medical records (EMR) in a comprehensive and easily-understood format, meaningful to both physicians and patients. Better understanding of health trends, combined with analytics makes the information truly actionable. This provides unique insights andleads to in-depth understanding of chronic health conditions and improved outcomes. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Cliniconex | Cliniconex believes that patient engagement is at the heart of a better healthcare system and that effective patient engagement must be personalized, autonomous, and manageable. Driven by your clinic’s preferred workflow, our light touch, automated communication, and reporting software not only streamlines pre and post-visit outreach but alsooffers an extremely customizable platform for preventive patient care and individualized patient health education. | $293K | Convertible Note | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| Cliniconex | Cliniconex believes that patient engagement is at the heart of a better healthcare system and that effective patient engagement must be personalized, autonomous, and manageable. Driven by your clinic’s preferred workflow, our light touch, automated communication, and reporting software not only streamlines pre and post-visit outreach but alsooffers an extremely customizable platform for preventive patient care and individualized patient health education. | $293K | Convertible Note | Aug 28, 2017 |  |
| Cliniconex | Cliniconex believes that patient engagement is at the heart of a better healthcare system and that effective patient engagement must be personalized, autonomous, and manageable. Driven by your clinic’s preferred workflow, our light touch, automated communication, and reporting software not only streamlines pre and post-visit outreach but alsooffers an extremely customizable platform for preventive patient care and individualized patient health education. | $439K | Seed | Oct 12, 2016 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capital Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-angel-network) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wesley Clover](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wesley-clover) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [L-SPARK](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/l-spark) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Calian invest in?

Calian invests primarily in Health Care, Hospital and SMS startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Calian's check size?

Calian typically joins rounds of $293k–$293k at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Calian participates in.

### How do I contact Calian?

Public channels for Calian 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 Calian?

The team at Calian includes Sacha Gera (President, IT and Cyber Solutions), Jacqueline Gauthier (Vice President, CFO, and Corporate Secretary) and Kevin Ford (Chief Executive Officer). 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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