# Framework Venture Partners

> Framework Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Fund size: $500k
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/frameworkventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/frameworkvc
- Website: https://www.framework.vc/

Framework Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that helps founding teams and CEOs build world-class companies. It combines a unique data-driven investment decision process with a high-touch collaborative engagement model designed to help world-class entrepreneurs and CEOs in high-growth global market segments scale.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$8M |
| Series A | $5M–$20M |
| Series B | $3.7M–$220M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 29% |
| SaaS | 8 | 19% |
| FinTech | 6 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |

82 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 20 | 48% |
| Series B | 7 | 17% |
| Seed | 4 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 23 | 55% |
| United States | 6 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 7% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jake Berec | Junior Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-berec |
| Ajay Gopal | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-gopal-2 |
| Andrew Lugsdin | Founding Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lugsdin |
| Peter Misek | Founding Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-misek |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airspeed | Airspeed is building powerful, intuitive products that help elite revenue teams sell more effectively | $20M | Series A | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Quandri | Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies. | $8.8M | Series A | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Castellum.AI | Our mission is to make preventing financial crime easy and effective.Risk data like sanctions, politically exposed persons and export controls are publicly available, but not in one place, language and data architecture. Clients are tired of cobbling together multiple vendors to get one source of truth. To solve this problem, Castellum.AI builtthe world’s most accurate, reliable and fastest compliance solution. Don't take our word for it, try our platform for free at www.castellum.ai. | $8.5M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Botpress | Botpress offers a conversational AI Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables companies to build, deploy, and monitor solutions powered by large language models. The platform supports a wide range of industries, use cases, and business processes, with an emphasis on scalability, security, and brand consistency.Used by over 500,000 users withmillions of bots deployed globally, Botpress is adopted by both companies and developers. Its security features and dedicated support services are designed to help organizations implement and manage enterprise-grade AI chatbot solutions. | $25M | Series B | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Styx Intelligence | Styx Intelligence is an AI platform that provides visibility and supports remediation against threats targeting digital assets and helps to manage risk associated with digital transformations across areas including cyber, privacy, regulatory compliance, third party, and brand. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Vasco | Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies. | $8M | Seed | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Evidently | Evidently is a creative agency that renders content, digital campaigns, animation and brand planning services. | $15M | Series A | Dec 09, 2024 |  |
| Zaddons | ZADDONS and its product extensions were born from HRIS platform efficiency and productivity gaps identified by users. Deep within our DNA resides a desire to develop and deliver the most advanced, user-friendly scheduling solutions that enable workforce efficiency without distraction. | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Maxa AI | Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions. | $21M | Series A | May 29, 2024 |  |
| PAXAFE | PAXAFE develops an AI-enabled, device-agnostic risk-management platform. It enables intelligent, dynamic shipping and cargo insurance by providing a supply chain of custody through its IoT shipping solutions. The platform reduces product loss, improves operational efficiency, and optimizes decision-making for cold chain shippers and carriers. | $9M | Series A | May 07, 2024 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Framework Venture Partners invest in?

Framework Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Framework Venture Partners's check size?

Framework Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$8M at Seed, $5M–$20M at Series A and $3.7M–$220M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Framework Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Framework Venture Partners?

Public channels for Framework Venture Partners include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Framework Venture Partners?

The team at Framework Venture Partners includes Jake Berec (Junior Analyst), Ajay Gopal (Partner) and Andrew Lugsdin (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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