# FirePower Capital

> FirePower Capital is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and Health Care. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firepower-capital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FirePowerCap
- Website: http://www.firepowercapital.com/

FirePower Capital is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Health Care. FirePower Capital is Canada’s entrepreneurial investment bank advising entrepreneurs on their capital financing and M&A transactions.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for FirePower Capital. Shizune tracks 8 team members at FirePower Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/firepower-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 26% |
| Health Care | 5 | 16% |
| Wellness | 4 | 13% |
| Analytics | 3 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 10% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 18 | 58% |
| Private Equity | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |
| Seed | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 25 | 81% |
| Estonia | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brendan Cunneen | Head of Credit | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-cunneen |
| Ilan Jacobson | President and CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilan-jacobson |
| Jared Kalish | Partner, Private Capital | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-kalish |
| Sebastien Douville | Partner & COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastien-douville |
| Trevor Simpson | Associate Partner, Private Debt | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trevor-simpson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smile Digital Health | Smile CDR specializes in delivering fast, secure, compliant data infrastructures to enable for data intensive sectors such as healthcare. | $15M | Debt Financing | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Memory & Company | Memory & Company provides VIP treatment for people living with memory loss and provides a guilt-free option for their Care Partners. Memory & Company specializes in helping you through the entire memory loss journey. |  | Debt Financing | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Shiny Health & Wellness | Shiny Health & Wellness helps people never settle, and live fully by being a trusted source for health and wellness solutions and services. | $3M | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| CheckSammy | CheckSammy is a waste removal company that provides same-day bulk waste removal and sustainability services. It serves as a single point of contact for customers seeking comprehensive niche waste and recycling management services and helps clients track waste data on each job. It also operates a two-sided marketplace, connecting independent wastehaulers and service providers with enterprise customers. The marketplace model allows national contracting and service coverage across North America, at a competitive price point, delivering meaningful value to end customers. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Spearhead Corporate Development | The luxury of choice in M&A: human-led, AI-powered sourcing and qualifying of proprietary M&A deals on the buy-side, at scaleSpearhead enables active large strategic acquirers and PE firms to see more opportunities and close more off-market deals with more certainty, worldwide. Located in Toronto, Cape Town and Bengaluru, our team of 30+seasoned dealmakers and researchers, expertly curate, connect with, and advance deal opportunities for our clients in the Americas, MENA, and APAC. | $3.2M | Private Equity | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Spearhead Corporate Development | The luxury of choice in M&A: human-led, AI-powered sourcing and qualifying of proprietary M&A deals on the buy-side, at scaleSpearhead enables active large strategic acquirers and PE firms to see more opportunities and close more off-market deals with more certainty, worldwide. Located in Toronto, Cape Town and Bengaluru, our team of 30+seasoned dealmakers and researchers, expertly curate, connect with, and advance deal opportunities for our clients in the Americas, MENA, and APAC. | $3.2M | Corporate Round | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| CleanDesign Income | CleanDesign Power Systems created a hybrid energy management system to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions caused by drilling operations. They are equipped with technology that controls generator operation, optimizing rig capabilities. CleanDesign achieves ESG objectives while lowering costs. Savings grow as diesel costs climb. | $7.9M | Debt Financing | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| GrowthGenius | GrowthGenius helps sales teams at B2B tech companies consistently fill their pipeline.We use machine learning to track 70+ buy signals, discover ideal customer profile insights, craft custom and deeply personalized email sequences, and reach out and follow-up at the perfect time, providing results 3x - 10x better than your industry average.Your pipeline is automatically filled with ready-to-buy customers. All your sales team has to do is what they do best: close the deal. | $1.8M | Series A | Aug 23, 2021 |  |
| CPS Capital | CPS Capital invests in and works with high-quality small and medium sized businesses. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Wesbell Group of Companies | Wesbell Group of Companies is a telecommunications hardware company located in Mississauga. |  | Private Equity | Jun 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FirePower Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firepower-capital-bf78) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does FirePower Capital invest in?

FirePower Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Wellness startups, most often at Debt Financing and Private Equity stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact FirePower Capital?

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### Who are the partners at FirePower Capital?

The team at FirePower Capital includes Brendan Cunneen (Head of Credit), Ilan Jacobson (President and CEO) and Jared Kalish (Partner, Private Capital), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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