# Discovery Ventures

> Discovery Ventures is a VC fund in Vancouver backing Software and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/discovery-ventures-inc-
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DiscoveryDVN
- Website: http://www.discoveryventuresinc.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiscoveryVentures

Discovery Ventures is a VC fund in Vancouver focused on Software and FinTech. Mission is to explore for and develop gold, silver, and copper mineral deposits in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |
| B2B | 1 | 8% |
| Retail | 1 | 8% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| Germany | 4 | 33% |
| France | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neil Hill Morgan | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neil-hill-morgan |
| Akash Patel | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akash-patel |
| Stefan Jeschonnek | Founding Partner | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-jeschonnek |
| Walter Marting | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/walter-marting |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GOURMEY | GOURMEY is France's pioneering cultivated meat company. We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation. | $47.6M | Series A | Oct 05, 2022 |  |
| bunch | Bunch is a financial technology company that provides software and operational infrastructure for private market fund management. Its platform supports the full fund lifecycle, including investor onboarding, fund administration, accounting, compliance, reporting, and transaction management for venture capital, private equity, and other alternativeinvestment structures. The company combines proprietary software with integrated operational services to help asset managers and investors manage funds and special purpose vehicles through a centralized system. Bunch also offers tools designed to improve data management and automate workflows across fund operations and regulatory processes. The platform is used by asset managers and investors across multiple European jurisdictions to manage investment structures and administrative activities. | $7.4M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Unstoppable Finance | Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally. | $4.8M | Seed | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Knowunity | Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app. | $2.4M | Seed | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Foodcircle | Foodcircle is a digital wholesale solution that facilitates and accelerates trade between suppliers and buyers of organic foods at competitive prices. Our global network comprises certified organic partners that are committed to the highest quality standards. As a state-of-the-art digital wholesaler, Foodcircle is providing innovative value chainsolutions alongside best-in-class service to food manufacturers Europe wide. |  | Seed | Aug 12, 2020 |  |
| Valchemy | As of September 2006, Valchemy, Inc. was acquired by International Business Machines Corp. Valchemy, Inc. provides on-demand enterprise application software solutions for mergers and acquisitions. It offers an online application that enables deal participants to track and share merger and acquisition activities and documents. The company serves thesemiconductor, software, aerospace, finance, manufacturing, medical products, and consumer products industries. Valchemy, Inc. was formerly known as MAE Software, Inc. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California with additional offices in North America. | $8.5M | Series B | Mar 07, 2005 |  |
| Jaspersoft | Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for cloud, big data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise ofself-service BI at scale.Leveraging a commercial open source business model and a Community of over 250,000 registered members, Jaspersoft's open source BI software has been downloaded nearly 15 million times. Jaspersoft production deployments, in excess of 175,000, power 100,000 data-driven applications spanning 14,000 commercial customers. Jaspersoft is privately held and has locations around the world. For more information visit http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org. | $10M | Series B | Mar 03, 2003 |  |
| Jaspersoft | Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for cloud, big data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise ofself-service BI at scale.Leveraging a commercial open source business model and a Community of over 250,000 registered members, Jaspersoft's open source BI software has been downloaded nearly 15 million times. Jaspersoft production deployments, in excess of 175,000, power 100,000 data-driven applications spanning 14,000 commercial customers. Jaspersoft is privately held and has locations around the world. For more information visit http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org. | $5.3M | Series A | Aug 26, 2002 |  |
| Luna Imaging | It is Luna's belief that in the new economy, businesses are going to have to quickly learn to share information beyond their enterprise walls. This degree of openness will require secure and personalized B2B solutions that both leverage existing investments as well as evolve rapidly to meet new business requirements.Founded in 1997, Lunahas assembled an industry-leading team of executives, engineers, investors, and advisors. With this remarkable pool of talent, Luna has worked non-stop to build a high-performance, scalable and reliable B2B platform that meets the needs of business competing in the networked economy. | $18M | Series C | Apr 24, 2000 |  |
| Nishan Systems | Nishan Systems is focused on the development of switches and adapters that are based on internet protocol and gigabit ethernet. Nishan Systems was acquired by McDATA Corporation in August 2003. Nishan Systems was founded in 1998 and is based in San Jose, California. | $20M | Series B | Dec 20, 1999 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weiss-peck) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ComVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Discovery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/discovery-ventures-7af5) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morgenthaler Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgenthaler-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Discovery Ventures invest in?

Discovery Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Discovery Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Discovery Ventures?

The team at Discovery Ventures includes Neil Hill Morgan (Director), Akash Patel (President) and Stefan Jeschonnek (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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