# GCI Capital

> GCI Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gcicapital/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: https://www.gci.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GCICapital/

GCI Capital is a Toronto based early stage venture capital firm. The first fund (GCI Ventures) is focusing on early stage Information, Communication, Technology (ICT) start-ups. The 2nd fund is focusing on marketplace, digital health, and B2B SaaS sectors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$3M |
| Series A | $1.7M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 5 | 36% |
| Angel | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 7 | 50% |
| United States | 5 | 36% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Yang | COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-yang-2 |
| Larry Liu | Founder | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-liu-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gali Health | At Gali Health, we are on a mission to make sure nobody ever feels isolated, lost or powerless in the face of existing or potential disease. We are working to advance consumer-powered healthcare by crowdsourcing personal health data and medically-validated insights, applying AI to process them and providing highly personalized informational supporton the medical, lifestyle and psychological aspects of living with chronic disease. Our mobile personal health assistant named Gali relies on collective intelligence to help people with chronic conditions proactively manage their health. | $3M | Seed | May 24, 2020 |  |
| Fantuan | Partnered with over 10,000 merchants while serving over 800,000 users. Fantuan is currently located in over 40 cities across the globe and is the largest Asian food delivery platform in North America | $12.1M | Series A | Mar 06, 2020 |  |
| IOT Pay | Eway Pay Technology Inc. is an official overseas partner with Tencent(wechat pay) and Alibaba(Alipay) in north America. They provide services and solutions in payment abroad for wechat pay and Alipay. When a consumer spends and amount of monty using digital payment in RMB, local business will receive the equivalent in US dollars. The wholetransaction usually completes within 1-3 business day. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 06, 2020 |  |
| C2RO | C2RO is an AI enterprise software company based in Canada and was listed as 2020's most pioneering AI video analytics solution by Corporate Vision, as well as one of the most trusted retail technology providers in the world by CIO Techie magazine. It offers privacy-aware AI video analytics for physical spaces using proprietary edge-cloud AIand computer vision technologies. C2RO's product, Perceive, is enabling data-driven decision making, optimization of operations, and transformation of physical facilities into safe, engaging, and immersive environments for visitors. The C2RO biometric-free solutions are built for scale and reuse existing surveillance cameras while being compliant with the most restrictive data privacy regulations in the world such as GDPR. | $1.7M | Series A | Jun 27, 2019 |  |
| Genecis | Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into biodegradable plastics and other high-value materials. It converts organic waste into PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoate), a biodegradable, compostable, and non-toxic polymer that can be tuned to replace a wide variety of traditional plastics. PHA can beused for single-use plastics, clothing and textiles, automotive interiors, medical tools and products, and food contact applications. | $1.7M | Seed | Jun 01, 2019 |  |
| GameClub | The home of mobile gaming’s greatest hits — all in one subscription. Available across iOS and Android. | $2.5M | Seed | May 02, 2019 |  |
| Eigen Innovations | Eigen specializes in helping manufacturers realize “Zero Defects” by giving them real-time, actionable insights to better control their processes and the quality of their outputs. Our team is made up of a mix of machine learning, mechanical and software engineers with extensive in-factory experience allowing us to help manufacturers reduce thetime to value in adopting AI-enabled solutions. | $2.3M | Series A | May 01, 2019 |  |
| Fantuan | Partnered with over 10,000 merchants while serving over 800,000 users. Fantuan is currently located in over 40 cities across the globe and is the largest Asian food delivery platform in North America | $3M | Seed | Jan 15, 2019 |  |
| Juix | Juix Inc. was founded with the mission to build an infrastructure for universal power accessibility. To establish our ecosystem, we are deploying kiosks that support a distributed network of portable charging services for all mobile devices. We at Juix believe that portable energy is a key stepping stone to the shared economy of tomorrow. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| IOT Pay | Eway Pay Technology Inc. is an official overseas partner with Tencent(wechat pay) and Alibaba(Alipay) in north America. They provide services and solutions in payment abroad for wechat pay and Alipay. When a consumer spends and amount of monty using digital payment in RMB, local business will receive the equivalent in US dollars. The wholetransaction usually completes within 1-3 business day. | $700K | Angel | Oct 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Centregold Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/centregold-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Celtic House Asia Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celtic-house-asia-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Celtic House Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celtic-house-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PinYi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pinyi-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anges Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-quebec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlueSky Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluesky-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GCI Capital invest in?

GCI Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GCI Capital's check size?

GCI Capital typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$3M at Seed and $1.7M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GCI Capital participates in.

### How do I contact GCI Capital?

Public channels for GCI Capital include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 GCI Capital?

The team at GCI Capital includes John Yang (COO) and Larry Liu (Founder). 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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