Innovacorp
VC Fund
Halifax, Canada
Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.
- Total investments:
- 184
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Innovacorp invests in
Stages Innovacorp invests in
Countries Innovacorp invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$3.1M
- Grant
- $25k–$100k
- Pre-Seed
- $19k–$1.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 33 (18%)
- Health Care 26 (14%)
- Information Technology 25 (14%)
- Biotechnology 17 (9%)
- Medical 16 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 51 (28%)
- Grant 39 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 30 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 19 (10%)
- Funding Round 11 (6%)
Country
- Canada 133 (72%)
- United States 2 (1%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jonathan Saari
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Amanda Tarr
Manager, Programs & Acceleration
|
Manager, Programs & Acceleration | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andrew Ray
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ben McDade
Investment Associate
|
Investment Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Charles Baxter
Vice President, Investment
|
Vice President, Investment | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being. | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035. | $2.6M / Seed / Mar 17, 2022 | ||
| Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035. | $4.2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 17, 2022 | ||
| info@planetarytech.com | $4.2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 17, 2022 | ||
| Material Futures turn micro-organisms into miniature dye factories. | $40K / Grant / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| ZeroIN is a food-tech company developing breakthrough sugar reduction technologies. Sweet Fiber is the most scalable and cost-efficient, sugar substitute consumers want. | $40K / Grant / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Gaia is developing wind-driven methane-capture technology to produce rocket-grade natural gas. | $40K / Grant / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| OVERGantt incorporates tried-and-true techniques with a special Project Flow Diagram that combines the top elements of whiteboards, Gantt charts, network diagrams, and Kanban. | $40K / Grant / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
|
Axtion Independence
|
Axtion Independence is a mobility aid for fall prevention and recovery. | $40K / Grant / Mar 10, 2022 | |
| Pocket Finance is a SaaS platform that is focused on building the bridge between financial professionals (advisors and brokers) and their clients. Our platform consists of a web-based advisor portal where real-time actionable information is displayed and automated reports can be requested. For clients, we provide a mobile application which compilesall user accounts into one place, highlights fine print of products and provides insights on how to manage those products more efficiently. | $40K / Grant / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| See all 184 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar industry
Similar stage
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Innovacorp invest in?
Innovacorp invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 184 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Innovacorp invest in?
Innovacorp typically joins rounds of $50k–$3.1M at Seed, $25k–$100k at Grant and $19k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Innovacorp's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Innovacorp took part in.
How do I contact Innovacorp?
Public channels for Innovacorp 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 Innovacorp?
The team at Innovacorp includes Jonathan Saari (Investment Director), Amanda Tarr (Manager, Programs & Acceleration) and Andrew Ray (Managing Director), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
