# BDC Capital Cleantech Practice

> BDC Capital Cleantech Practice is a VC fund backing Renewable Energy. See 69 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Total investments: 69
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bdc
- Website: https://www.bdc.ca/en/about/what-we-do/cleantech-practice/pages/default.aspx

BDC Capital Cleantech Practice is a VC fund in Calgary focused on Renewable Energy and Manufacturing. BDC Capital Cleantech Practice helps clients meet the often capital-intensive needs of scaling and accelerating growth. It offers equity and flexible financing to cleantech firms with a commercially validated IP-protected technology demonstrating a positive environmental impact. Also, it provides market traction with significant potential forrevenue growth and commercial contracts and the ambition to scale beyond $100 million in annual revenue.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $7.9M–$31M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3.6M–$151M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 16 | 23% |
| Manufacturing | 13 | 19% |
| Energy | 12 | 17% |
| CleanTech | 10 | 14% |
| Oil and Gas | 6 | 9% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 12 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 11 | 16% |
| Series A | 9 | 13% |
| Series C | 7 | 10% |
| Seed | 5 | 7% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 50 | 72% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Isabelle Hudon | President and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isabelle-hudon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VueReal | VueReal is engineering the next electronic systems by mass integration of high-efficiency nano/micro-devices into large-area substrates (e.g., displays, sensors, system on panel, and more). They have started by making the true-life experience of micro-LED displays affordable for all applications (TV, laptop, smartphone,virtual/augmented reality, etc.). VueReal technology platform is based on the interplay of cutting-edge micro/nano-device processing, sophisticated integration technologies and advanced system design (hardware and software). VueReal technologies can enhance the experience of existing electronic systems and enable new applications by integrating millions of highly efficient micro-devices (micro-LED) into system substrate. As our Solid Printing (TM) technology works across all substrate sizes, it can develop displays ranging from super high ppi (>4000 ppi) to very large. | $40.3M | Series C | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| e-Zinc | Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future. | $31M | Series A | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Silfab Solar | Silfab Solar is the North American leader in the design, development, and manufacture of ultra-high-efficiency, premium quality PV modules. Silfab leverages 40 years of solar experience and best-in-class technologies to produce the highest-rated solar modules from facilities in the state of Washington and Toronto, Canada. Each facility featuresmultiple automated ISO 9001-2015 quality certified production lines utilizing just-in-time manufacturing to deliver Buy American approved PV modules specifically designed for and dedicated to the North American market. | $125M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Andion Global | Andion Global is a technology provider that offers a fully integrated, comprehensive solution for Wastewater Treatment (“WWT”) and Waste to Energy (“WTE”) plants through Engineering, Procurement and Construction (“EPC”) and Operation and Maintenance (“OM”) contracts combined with efficiency guarantees. The technology is valuable to WWT and WTEdevelopers that want to improve the water cycle of industrial processes and treat, for example, municipal, slaughterhouse and organic waste while producing energy, pellets, fertilizer and protein (under development) out of the feedstock. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Giatec Scientific | Giatec's vision is to revolutionize the concrete industry by implementing smart technologies that monitor concrete properties and analyze data during design, production, delivery, placement, and service.Combining wireless concrete sensors and mobile apps, Giatec has developed smart IoT-based technologies[https://www.giatecscientific.com/product/] for real-time monitoring of concrete properties. This provides critical information to contractors so they can make efficient and informed decisions on the jobsite, ultimately saving time and money. Ready-mix producers also leverage the Smart Concrete™ cloud that gives them access to concrete performance data to optimize their mix designs.Giatec has also developed advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) technologies for the durability-based performance analysis of concrete materials and the accurate condition assessment of infrastructure. These products help engineers manage civil infrastructure by allowing them to schedule maintenance, rehabilitation and replacement operations more efficiently. | $3.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Flyscan | Flyscan develops automated, airborne, leak and threat detection services for oil and gas pipeline operators. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| Vive Crop Protection | Vive Crop Protection makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company creates new ways to use proven crop protection products using their targeted Allosperse Delivery System, which improves the targeting and performance of pesticide active ingredients. This helps farmers do more with less, all whileincreasing crop quality and yields.Vive Crop Protection was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. | $16.1M | Series C | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Vive Crop Protection | Vive Crop Protection makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company creates new ways to use proven crop protection products using their targeted Allosperse Delivery System, which improves the targeting and performance of pesticide active ingredients. This helps farmers do more with less, all whileincreasing crop quality and yields.Vive Crop Protection was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. | $16.1M | Series C | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Genecis | Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into biodegradable plastics and other high-value materials. It converts organic waste into PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoate), a biodegradable, compostable, and non-toxic polymer that can be tuned to replace a wide variety of traditional plastics. PHA can beused for single-use plastics, clothing and textiles, automotive interiors, medical tools and products, and food contact applications. | $7M | Series A | Aug 04, 2022 |  |
| Intelligent City | Intelligent City has developed a fully integrated, technology-enabled building system designed to deliver premium quality multi-family housing specifically created to address the key issues facing cities globally: affordability, sustainability and the wants and needs of people living in urban environments.The system consists of a single platformthat combines the design, architecture, engineering and fabrication stages of construction, utilizing the principles of “mass customization” – an approach to manufacturing that combines flexibility and personalization of custom-made products with the low unit costs associated with mass production. | $17.1M | Series A | Jul 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 69 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Climate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ogci-climate-investments) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does BDC Capital Cleantech Practice invest in?

BDC Capital Cleantech Practice invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Manufacturing and Energy startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 69 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BDC Capital Cleantech Practice's check size?

BDC Capital Cleantech Practice typically joins rounds of $7.9M–$31M at Series A and $3.6M–$151M 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 BDC Capital Cleantech Practice participates in.

### How do I contact BDC Capital Cleantech Practice?

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### Who are the partners at BDC Capital Cleantech Practice?

The team at BDC Capital Cleantech Practice includes Isabelle Hudon (President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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