# Greenstone Venture Partners

> Greenstone Venture Partners is a VC fund in Vancouver backing Software and Internet. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2004
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.greenstonevc.com/

Greenstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage technology companies. It typically invests in communications and information technology sectors with a focus on communications infrastructure, semi-conductors, wireless, and enterprise software. It does not consider investments in natural resources,retail, real estate, biotechnology, and medical devices. Greenstone Venture Partners prefers to lead investment rounds in Canada and the Western United States and can make investments outside of this area with syndicate partners. It typically invests between Cdn $250,000 ($236,530) and Cdn $5 million ($4730592) per company. Greenstone Venture Partners began operation in 1999. It has its headquarters in Vancouver in Canada.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 20% |
| Graphic Design | 1 | 20% |
| Infrastructure | 1 | 20% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antarctica Systems | Antarctica Systems is a provider of business performance management software in North America. | $3.1M | Series C | Oct 24, 2004 |  |
| Inkra Networks | Inkra Networks develops carrier systems that deliver streamlined and enhanced services to internet data centers. Its virtual service architecture (VSA) offers network security, business continuity, and performance solutions. The company’s VSA virtualizes and integrates the functionality and management of multiple firewalls, VPNs, intrusionprevention systems, load balancers, and other security and business continuity appliances on a single system. It develops and builds data communications equipment to support IP services deployment for internet service providers. The company’s solutions are commercially deployed in service provider, enterprise, and government networks worldwide.Inkra Networks was founded in 2000 and is based in Fremont, California. | $30.1M | Series B | Aug 26, 2002 |  |
| TrueSpectra | TrueSpectra had pioneered object-oriented resolution-independent render engines and related desktop, platform, and server-based dynamic imaging solutions including Phoito>Graphics, Netgraphica, and the TrueSpectra Image Server. The TrueSpectra Image Server is able to streamline image publishing and maintenance processes.TrueSpectra’scustomers included Lowe's, Kinko's, the Ohio State University, and Macy. And it is partnered with Speedera, Macromedia, Oracle, and Blue Martini Software.TrueSpectra was founded in January 1990 by Stephen Sutherland who also spearheaded its R&D/patent portfolio. It merged with Scene7 and then the platform was acquired by Adobe to form the core foundation of its Experience Manager and other products which are a $B business today. | $6.5M |  | Jan 01, 2001 |  |
| TrueSpectra | TrueSpectra had pioneered object-oriented resolution-independent render engines and related desktop, platform, and server-based dynamic imaging solutions including Phoito>Graphics, Netgraphica, and the TrueSpectra Image Server. The TrueSpectra Image Server is able to streamline image publishing and maintenance processes.TrueSpectra’scustomers included Lowe's, Kinko's, the Ohio State University, and Macy. And it is partnered with Speedera, Macromedia, Oracle, and Blue Martini Software.TrueSpectra was founded in January 1990 by Stephen Sutherland who also spearheaded its R&D/patent portfolio. It merged with Scene7 and then the platform was acquired by Adobe to form the core foundation of its Experience Manager and other products which are a $B business today. | $21M |  | Apr 06, 2000 |  |
| AdminiQuest | AdminiQuest a Web-enabled full-service outsourcing solutions partner to the insurance industry. |  |  |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CastleHill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castlehill-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Greenstone Venture Partners invest in?

Greenstone Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Greenstone Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Greenstone Venture Partners closed in Oct 2004. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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