Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
Lévis, Canada
Desjardins Venture Capital is a VC fund in Lévis focused on Software and Manufacturing. [Desjardins Venture Capital](http://www.dcrdesjardins.com/En/index.asp) is the venture capital fund management arm of the Mouvement des caisses Desjardins. It manages the assets of Desjardins Venture Capital, a limited partnership, six Desjardins investment regional funds, as well as Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins, a public fund whose assets under management are projected to reach $1.425-billion over the next 10 years. Desjardins Venture Capital makes its network and expertise available to businesses.
- Total investments:
- 166
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
- Fund size:
- $120M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Desjardins Venture Capital invests in
Stages Desjardins Venture Capital invests in
Countries Desjardins Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$5.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $600k–$228M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 30 (18%)
- Manufacturing 26 (16%)
- Information Technology 26 (16%)
- Health Care 16 (10%)
- Wholesale 15 (9%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 66 (40%)
- Seed 32 (19%)
- Funding Round 16 (10%)
- Series A 13 (8%)
- Series B 10 (6%)
Country
- Canada 135 (81%)
- United States 5 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nicolas Gravel
Vice President, Venture Capital
|
Vice President, Venture Capital | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Alphonse Desjardins
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
André Dessureault
Vice-President Specialized Services - Investments
|
Vice-President Specialized Services - Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Boris Collignon
VP Strategy, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships
|
VP Strategy, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Caroline Poissant
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vention provides the world's only AI-powered full-stack automation platform, unifying hardware, software, motion control, cloud connectivity, and Physical AI. The platform enables manufacturers to design, simulate, order, deploy, and operate automation systems through a seamless digital experience. With more than 28,000 machines deployedworldwide, Vention serves manufacturers ranging from small and midsize businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises across the automotive, consumer goods, aerospace & defense, food & beverage, and electronics industries. Customers include OpenAI, L'Oréal, Denali, Pratt & Whitney, Hershey, Boeing, Amazon, and Collins Aerospace. | $90M / Series D / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further | $125.1M / Debt Financing / Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| Local Logic is a location intelligence platform that digitizes the built world to make it universally understandable and actionable for consumers, investors, developers, and governments with the ambition of helping build cities that are more sustainable and equitable for the people that live in them. To achieve that dream, we’ve built proprietaryinsights on over 75Bn data points, that quantify the built world using data and AI. Our insights are used across the real estate vertical to inform decisions that impact the $217T real estate market throughout the US and Canada.The platform partners with commercial real estate, travel, and media companies, helping to guide individual projects and overall strategy for major developers and investors such as Ivanhoe Cambridge, Sonder, SmartCentres, and others. Local Logic is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. | $13.1M / Series B / Aug 02, 2023 | ||
| Picketa Systems Precision develops a leaf-evaluated-nutrient system for real-time plant tissue analysis. Its platform removes any turnaround time in the process of analyzing plant samples, allowing growers to make data-oriented decisions on time without obstructing their workflow. It tracks the performance of fields and helps measure the impact ofdifferent varieties, fertilizer products, and techniques, season after season. | $1.1M / Seed / May 26, 2023 | ||
| Tailored to empower Reality Capture technologies, PreVu3D® simple and intuitive software provide users with the ability to create, edit and share interactive 3D model based of real-life environment. | $10M / Series A / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 11, 2023 | ||
| Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee companyserves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 01, 2022 | ||
| Voilà! Technologies is a workforce optimization software startup. | $10M / Series A / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| HALEO’s mission is to improve human health and performance by increasing access to high quality care for poor sleep. Our specialty clinic is accessible through our mobile app, providing professional and digital SaaS solutions that are clinically proven to improve sleep and mood. Our services help organizations reduce costs related to productivitylosses, accidents, burnout and disability by helping their employees sleep better. | $4M / Seed / Jul 05, 2022 | ||
| See all 166 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Desjardins Venture Capital invest in?
Desjardins Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Information Technology startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 166 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Desjardins Venture Capital invest in?
Desjardins Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.2M at Seed and $600k–$228M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Desjardins Venture Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Desjardins Venture Capital took part in.
How do I contact Desjardins Venture Capital?
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Who are the partners at Desjardins Venture Capital?
The team at Desjardins Venture Capital includes Nicolas Gravel (Vice President, Venture Capital), Alphonse Desjardins (Founder) and André Dessureault (Vice-President Specialized Services - Investments), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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