# David Dufresne

> David Dufresne is a seed investor at AQC Capital backing Software and Information Technology. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AQC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-qu%C3%A9bec-capital)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davduf
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/DavidDufresne
- Website: https://x.com/DavidDufresne

David Dufresne is a seed investor at AQC Capital in Montréal focused on Software and Information Technology. David Dufresne is the Investment Partner of AQC Capital. He attended Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$1.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $717k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Security | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Livescale | Livescale is a Live Shopping solution that empowers brands to create awareness, engagement and sales through a fully-customized and brand-owned experience. Founded by Virgile Ollivier in Montreal, Canada, Livescale is changing the way brands build community through its unique Live Shopping technology, allowing for immersive, engaging and seamlessshopping experiences to occur in-house for brands across industry. Unique in the global market for its integrated checkout, immersive client resources and outstanding customer service. | $717K | Pre-Seed | Jun 17, 2019 |  |
| CYBERNETIQ | You can’t fight what you can’t see. That’s the guiding philosophy behind CLAW by CybernetIQ – an attack surface analysis platform created specifically to visualize the entire network battlefield and create actionable outcomes for the warfighter. Built by security operators, for security operators, CLAW combines the full stack of cybersecurityapplications, agents and appliances that make up each deployment to build, defend and maintain a robust security posture. | $250K | Seed | Jun 13, 2019 |  |
| Harbr | Every external contractor brings their own software and process. Let Harbr reconcile your entire portfolio's data in one central place to bring analytics and insights like never before. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 14, 2018 |  |
| Harbr | Every external contractor brings their own software and process. Let Harbr reconcile your entire portfolio's data in one central place to bring analytics and insights like never before. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Mar 14, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [InnoStart Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innostart-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovacorp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovacorp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About AQC Capital

VC Fund · Montréal, Canada

AQC Capital is an investment fund created to provide financial support to Anges Québec members. The fund is mainly sponsored by Investissement Québec to support angel investors who invest in innovative seed or start-up companies in Quebec. This joint effort by the angels and Investissement Québec has made more than $30 million available toentrepreneurs, allowing them to benefit from more substantial financial leverage in order to considerably increase the development of their business.

4 contacts available at AQC Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kalthoum Bouacida | Vice President Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalthoum-bouacida |
| Louis Saint-Jacques | Partner/Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-saint-jacques |
| David Dufresne | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-dufresne |
| Serge Beauchemin | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serge-beauchemin |

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## FAQ

### What does David Dufresne invest in?

David Dufresne invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Dufresne's check size?

David Dufresne typically joins rounds of $250k–$1.8M at Seed and $717k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Dufresne participates in.

### When did David Dufresne last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Dufresne closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 4 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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