Invest Ottawa
VC Fund
Ottawa, Canada
Invest Ottawa is a VC fund in Ottawa focused on Software and Information Technology. Invest Ottawa delivers economic development programs and initiatives that increase entrepreneurial momentum, wealth and jobs in the city of Ottawa. In addition to small business training and foreign business and investment attraction, Invest Ottawa’s Venture Path portfolio includes several programs that support tech entrepreneurs from ideation toscale. The IO Accelerator is designed for growth-stage startups. Once a firm has early market traction, the Accelerator provides support on finding product-market fit, securing funding, advice on building out major business disciplines, and access to specialized peer groups and timely market intelligence.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Invest Ottawa invests in
Stages Invest Ottawa invests in
Countries Invest Ottawa invests in
Contacts
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Carolina Lopez
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Holly Todd
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (42%)
- Information Technology 8 (21%)
- Health Care 7 (18%)
- SaaS 6 (16%)
- E-Commerce 4 (11%)
Stage
- Funding Round 30 (79%)
- Non-equity Assistance 6 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Team
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Brock Murray
Business Specialist - Digital Marketing/SEO
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Business Specialist - Digital Marketing/SEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Carolina Lopez
Investment Analyst
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Investment Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Guido Giordano
Director - Venture Programs
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Director - Venture Programs | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Holly Todd
Client Experience Coordinator
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Client Experience Coordinator | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kara Eusebio
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
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Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
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water treatment, organic pollutant elimination, microplastics removal, electrochemistry, water reclamation, and grey water treatment | $100K / Pre-Seed / Nov 03, 2022 | |
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Oomple is a marketplace empowering the next generation of on-demand professionals by connecting them directly to companies looking for an agile workforce. They provide solutions and bridge the gap between companies and freelance professionals. | Non-equity Assistance / Sep 29, 2021 | |
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FundMore is an automated solution machine learning to streamline the funding process for loans. Our platform lets lenders leverage customizable automation, enhance the borrower experience through analytics, reduce risk using AI.FundMore automates the loan origination process for mortgage lenders. From our inception we have been focused onproviding a simpler mortgage experience for Canadians by being the leader in mortgage process automation. We began our journey by providing brokers and lenders access to the most advanced and secure document management platform in Canada, completely automating the process in a mobile, web and app environment. We augmented our core offerings in 2020 by launching the FundMore AI, a complete underwriting system and we will shortly be launching FundMore IQ.Our mission is to provide a completely underwritten mortgage decision in minutes. We are working toward making this a reality by aggregating data from our third-party partners and using FundMore’s AI document reader to quickly analyze physical documents and subsequently digitize, recognize, extract, sort and validate the data to confirm the mortgage conditions. | Non-equity Assistance / Aug 05, 2021 | |
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Trellis provides PPC software for e-commerce vendors to increase their sales and growth of business with an ad optimization platform. | Non-equity Assistance / Feb 01, 2021 | |
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Dunia Payment is an application that renders financial transaction services that include crypto transactions, top-ups and online payments. | $125K / Non-equity Assistance / Feb 01, 2021 | |
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Growcer is a manufacturer of modular hydroponic farms that provide a simple solution to locally grow and sell fresh profitable crops year-round, regardless of the climate. | $150K / Oct 28, 2020 | |
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Zerotek
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Zerotek is a multitenant, pay-as-you-go platform to empower MSPs to deploy and manage modern identity management. | Non-equity Assistance / Sep 30, 2020 | |
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Click Armor is a cybersecurity awareness training company located in Ottawa. | Sep 30, 2020 | |
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Agile is a science & engineering firm providing the latest DMD controllers, structured light projectors, smart cameras & 3D imaging systems. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 30, 2020 | |
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Neurovine’s first offering provides a platform solution that delivers affordable, personalized therapeutic support to concussion patients and data driven insights to clinicians. EEG, heart rate variability and movement data are collected by the Neurovine headband, sent to the cloud based analytic platform and returned to the patient’s mobile devicethrough gamified, personalized therapies. Data trends are shared with clinicians through a cloud-based web portal. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 01, 2020 | |
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FAQ
What does Invest Ottawa invest in?
Invest Ottawa invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Funding Round and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 38 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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Who are the partners at Invest Ottawa?
The team at Invest Ottawa includes Brock Murray (Business Specialist - Digital Marketing/SEO), Carolina Lopez (Investment Analyst) and Guido Giordano (Director - Venture Programs), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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