# Cogito Capital

> Cogito Capital is a VC fund in Toronto backing SaaS, Energy and CleanTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogito-capital
- Website: http://cogito.capital
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cogitocapital/

Cogito Capital is a VC fund in Toronto focused on SaaS and Energy. PE Firm (Cogito Capital) and early-stage VC Firm (Cogito Ventures) focused on enabling digital transformation within mature industries such as Real Estate, Retail and Telecommunications through AI and IoT technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $183k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Energy | 2 | 22% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 22% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 6 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Finom | Finom combines digital business account benefits with multiple services to provide financial solutions for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and freelancers. It pulls together accounting, financial management, and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one mobile-first product.Founded in 2019, Finom is headquartered in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. | $53.5M | Series B | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $25M | Series A | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Instacart | Instacart is a grocery delivery startup that delivers in as short as an hour. It focuses on delivering groceries and home essentials, Instacart already has over 500,000 items from local stores in its catalog. Customers can choose from a variety of local stores including Safeway, Whole Foods, Super Fresh, Harris Teeter, Shaw's, Mariano's,Jewel-Osco, Stanley's, and Costco. Customers can mix items from multiple stores into one order. Instacart has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and Canaan Partners besides other participants.Instacart was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco in California. | $232M | Private Equity | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Mero Technologies | Mero provides a smart route map to commercial cleaners so they can save time and money. Their flagship sensing product provides detailed analytics on consumables, traffic, and cleaner location, providing the first full facility management solution for commercial properties.Mero’s product retrofits into any building’s liquid and paper dispensers,providing granular supply data as well as measuring restroom traffic levels. The result is a powerful solution that provides insight into workforce management, supply levels and inventory re-stocking, and historical traffic patterns for optimal cleaner routing. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency | Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency is a platform that finances the stakeholders in the micro-irrigation value chain. Netafim invented and pioneered the adoption of drip irrigation systems across the world with the mission to promote a global change in the way water is used in agriculture. | $40M | Debt Financing | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| PremiseHQ SaaS Inc | Our unique value proposition is highlighted in four distinct buckets: 1) Listen - Dynamic Data ingestion of relational, Time series (IoT) or simply log based ata 2) Think - create dynamic relationship without the need for coding. 3) Act - create workflows across different data systems 4) Inform - communicate using our AI and workflow basedcommunication system - Alert, chat, dashboard, KPI etc |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| SWTCH | SWTCH provides electric vehicle charging solutions for multifamily, commercial, and workplace properties across North America. The company utilizes technology available to help building owners and operators deploy EV charging by tapping into their existing grid infrastructure. Its energy management solution, SWTCH Control, provides visibility intobuilding electrical loads and available capacity for EV charging. It also allows building owners to install and manage EV chargers with existing electrical infrastructure, future-proofing properties while avoiding costly infrastructure upgrades. | $788K | Pre-Seed | Aug 26, 2020 |  |
| ACTO | ACTO is an omnichannel education platform for life sciences companies. ACTO is an AI-powered SaaS platform built for life sciences that uses mobile experiences and agency partnerships to give learners all the tools they need in one intuitive cross-platform app, and give leaders powerful admin tools with engagement data in one command center. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 15, 2017 |  |
| FleetOps | FleetOps is a freight marketplace.It works by automating the allocation of loads to truck drivers that can deliver them. It does this by leveraging the data of telematics providers (ex. BigRoad.com) which provide thousands of data-points on vehicles, and by interacting with drivers through a mobile application which truck drivers are required touse called an ELD (read more here: http://bit.ly/2vqq4w7). This telematics data gives us information on: • Where trucks are • Where trucks are headed • What routes trucks typically use • When they’re handling a back-haul (return journey) • When trucks are idle, etc. • Driver behaviour • Available driving hours We run AI/ML algorithms against this and computationally determine which loads are most-appropriate for which drivers. When we make these determinations, we send drivers shipment opportunities | $183K | Seed | Jan 31, 2016 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Good News Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-news-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Impact Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-impact-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anzu Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anzu-partner) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Capital Cleantech Practice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cleantech-practice) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Earth Foundry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earthfoundry) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Cogito Capital invest in?

Cogito Capital invests primarily in SaaS, Energy and CleanTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Cogito Capital's check size?

Cogito Capital typically joins rounds of $183k–$2.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cogito Capital participates in.

### When did Cogito Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cogito Capital closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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