# CIBC Innovation Banking

> CIBC Innovation Banking is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and SaaS. See 144 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 144
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 88%
- Fund size: $1.5B
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cibc-innovation
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cibcinnovation
- Website: https://www.innovationbanking.cibc.com/en/home

CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by the strength of CIBC, Innovation Banking can provide financial capital, rich network of connections, and insightful service that give our clients an edge in the innovation economy.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $2.2M–$45M |
| Private Equity | $7.3M–$52M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $7.3M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 64 | 44% |
| SaaS | 37 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 19% |
| Health Care | 20 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 13% |

171 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 90 | 63% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 18 | 13% |
| Private Equity | 8 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 3% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 4 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 59 | 41% |
| Canada | 40 | 28% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 8% |
| Germany | 4 | 3% |
| Denmark | 3 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Schupack | Executive Director & Market Lead for Texas Region | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-schupack-8a7c |
| Vahid Gharavi | Credit Specialist and Lending Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vahid-gharavi |
| Youssef Kallel | Director - Innovation Banking | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youssef-kallel |
| Andy Schwartz | Managing Director & Market Lead - Innovation Banking | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-schwartz-b11c |
| Joshua Olawale | Director, Innovation Banking | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-olawale |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Modo Energy | Modo Energy is an energy asset analysis platform that provides users with data, research, and benchmarking tools for energy storage. It specializes in the battery energy storage market in the UK. The company's integrated suite of data-backed tools helps owners and operators of renewable energy assets, scale battery energy storage systems, withthe insights needed to navigate the dynamic landscape of the energy market. | $17.1M | Debt Financing | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| EnsoData | EnsoData is a startup that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze the human body to diagnose health conditions. EnsoData, whose software uses machine learning algorithms to help clinicians score sleep data and diagnose patients with sleep apnea and other disorders, has now realized that dream—and then some. EnsoData's autoscoringalgorithm combines AASM scoring best practices with cutting edge machine learning algorithms that learn and adapt to every single patient. |  | Debt Financing | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Vena Solutions | Vena connects people, existing systems, and data to power finance-led business planning and real-time reporting using a spreadsheet platform. Vena turns Excel into an enterprise-class business solution with a centralized database, workflow, detailed audit trail, and more. With Vena, hundreds of leading global brands now get trusted numbers andinsights – fast – without sacrificing their favorite spreadsheet software. Customers use Vena for corporate performance management (CPM) applications, including budgeting, financial close management and reporting, and automating other spreadsheet-driven processes beyond Finance. Vena is the fastest-growing cloud CPM vendor, and the only one to embrace – not replace – Excel spreadsheets. |  | Debt Financing | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| REG | REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market. It is a pioneer in delivering RegTech solutions through software as a service platform. |  | Debt Financing | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Qover | Qover is an insurtech that enables companies and insurance providers to offer seamless, tech-driven insurance experiences.Qover’s modular embedded insurance orchestration platform provides meaningful insurance experiences to millions of users across 32 European countries, and works with longstanding partners like Revolut, Mastercard, NIO, Canyonand many others. | $12M | Debt Financing | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Gradient AI | Gradient AI provides AI solutions for the insurance industry, leveraging vast industry data for accurate predictions. Their technology leverages AI to enhance underwriting, claims management, and other critical insurance processes. By utilizing advanced machine learning models, Gradient AI aims to improve accuracy, efficiency, and decision-makingwithin insurance companies, leading to better risk assessment and customer service. |  | Debt Financing | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| AlayaCare | AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem.The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who havefounded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate.Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014. | $50M | Debt Financing | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Recare | Recare rethinks discharge management. Our digital solutions optimize the clinical pathways between hospitals and care providers. The centerpiece is our cloud-based platform. It enables real-time coordination of capacities and secure, privacy-compliant communication. This leaves more time for the really important things: patient care. | $35.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Klir | Klir is the Operational Data Hub for water utilities — the connected center where sampling, monitoring, and operational workflows finally live in one place. For years, Drinking Water, Wastewater, and Pretreatment programs have been managed in fragments: spreadsheets on shared drives, LIMS exports in email chains, site details in notebooks, andcritical knowledge locked in people’s heads. That fragmentation slows decisions, introduces risk, and makes it harder for teams to stay aligned.Klir replaces that fragmented world with a single, connected operational hub. Sampling plans, lab results, fieldwork, site data, tasks, schedules, and system insights all flow through one source of truth, giving teams a clearer view of what’s happening across their system. With everything connected, utilities gain earlier visibility into changes, tighter coordination across shifts and departments, and a more dependable way to run day-to-day operations.Designed for the realities of water operations — fast-moving priorities, regulatory expectations, and aging institutional knowledge — Klir gives teams the clarity, continuity, and confidence to act sooner and with fewer gaps. Whether you’re managing sampling routes, validating results, overseeing industrial users, or coordinating work across plants, Klir brings the entire operational picture together so decisions move faster and with more certainty. | $7.5M | Debt Financing | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Science&Humans | At Science & Humans we use evidence-based practices to transform human life. We know that beautifully aging is possible. We also know that the effects of aging on the mind, body and soul can dampen the spirit, leaving you demotivated and feeling older than you are.Thanks to modern science, early detection and treatment of a hormone imbalancerestores energy levels, leaves the skin glowing, improves longevity and increases vitality in every aspect of life.S&H is a platform that works everyday to reduce the gap between Science and Humans. We transform lives through scientifically-proven products, treatments, clinical services, and devices that help manage hormone imbalances. The results are transformative, and it shows. | $2.2M | Debt Financing | Jan 15, 2026 |  |

10 of 144 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Information Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/information-venture-partners-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Investissement Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investissement-quebec) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Luge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CIBC Innovation Banking invest in?

CIBC Innovation Banking invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Debt Financing and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 144 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CIBC Innovation Banking's check size?

CIBC Innovation Banking typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$45M at Debt Financing, $7.3M–$52M at Private Equity and $7.3M–$40M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CIBC Innovation Banking participates in.

### How do I contact CIBC Innovation Banking?

Public channels for CIBC Innovation Banking 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 CIBC Innovation Banking?

The team at CIBC Innovation Banking includes Jonathan Schupack (Executive Director & Market Lead for Texas Region), Vahid Gharavi (Credit Specialist and Lending Advisor) and Youssef Kallel (Director - Innovation Banking), among 6 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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