# Ian Ainsworth

> Ian Ainsworth is a Series A investor at Extreme Venture Partners backing Semiconductor. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Extreme Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/extreme-venture-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jun 2000
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-ainsworth-611a22a

Ian Ainsworth is a Series A investor at Extreme Venture Partners in Toronto focused on Semiconductor and Product Design. Ian Ainsworth - Managing Partner @ Extreme Venture Partners

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 1 | 100% |
| Product Design | 1 | 100% |
| Optical Communication | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ceyba | Ceyba has a firmly rooted corporate philosophy that guides the growth of their company - a commitment to their customers and employees and to the communities where they work. This allows us to maintain perspective, balance and their competitive edge.Ceyba was founded in May 2000 by five senior engineers and was originally named Solinet Systems.They have a complete team in place that represents a diverse cross section of talent with experience from top-notch software, hardware and optical companies. Their team has delivered numerous market-leading products for the high-speed optical Internet.With solid funding from top-tier venture capital firms, Ceyba has blossomed to more than 200 people. Led by seasoned management, their team is developing and manufacturing next-generation core optical networking systems that deliver superior reach, speed and flexibility with pure simplicity.Ceyba is based in Ottawa, Canada. | $15M | Series A | Jun 26, 2000 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Worldview Technology Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/worldview-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Extreme Venture Partners

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Extreme Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up, early and seed stage investments. It seeks to invest in technology with focus on internet, mobile application, cloud computing, and big data that include machine learning, open public databases and analytics and the "Internet-of-things" including robotics,drones, wearable tech, and connected devices. Extreme Venture Partners seeks to invest in Canada with focus on Toronto-Waterloo corridor. It invests in businesses which are pre-revenue or expanding. It seeks to make equity investment in companies between CAD.05 million ($.04 million) and CAD.1 million (.08 million). Imran Bashir, Ken Teslia, Ray Sharma, and Sunil Sharma founded Extreme Venture Partners in 2007. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada.

4 contacts available at Extreme Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ray Sharma | Founding Partner | — |
| Ian Ainsworth | Managing Partner | — |
| Imran Bashir | Managing Partner | — |
| Ken Teslia | Founding Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Ian Ainsworth invest in?

Ian Ainsworth invests primarily in Semiconductor, Product Design and Optical Communication startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Ian Ainsworth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ian Ainsworth closed in Jun 2000. Shizune tracks 1 investment in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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