# Judy Fairburn

> Judy Fairburn is a seed investor at The 51 Ventures (Vancouver) backing Employment and Recruiting. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The 51 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-51-ventures)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/judy-fairburn-489ab530

Judy Fairburn is a seed investor at The 51 Ventures in Vancouver focused on Employment and Recruiting. Judy’s previous executive and senior leadership responsibilities include strategic planning, environment, portfolio management, corporate venture capital, refining, operations and technology development. She has extensive experience building partnerships within the industry and with other sectors.Trained as a chemical engineer and equipped withan MBA, Judy is well known for driving collaborative innovation in the Canadian petroleum industry. She was pivotal in leading the integration of environment into Cenovus’s business and in the creation of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance – an unprecedented alliance of oil sands companies collaborating on technology and innovation to improve industry environmental performance. Judy serves as the Board Chair of Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, which enables Alberta’s globally competitive and sustainable future through applied research and technology commercialization services to businesses in oil and gas, pipelines, environment, agriculture, forestry and information technology. She is also a Director for Sustainable Technology Development Canada as well as the Public Policy Forum, an organization focused on tackling Canada’s most complex challenges through constructive dialogue across all sectors.Judy has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and was also a recipient of Canada’s 2013 Clean16 award for leadership in advancing sustainable development in Canada.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Employment | 1 | 33% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 33% |
| Staffing Agency | 1 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coral | Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause, menopause and beyond. | $2.9M | Seed | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Kibbi: Job Search | Mobile App | $676.8K | Pre-Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Jombone | Jombone provides staffing, job recruitment, human resources, temporary, contingent and on-demand employment in the industrial sector. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 26, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Brightspark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brightspark-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Diagram Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diagram-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [N49P](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/n49p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [StandUp Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/standup-ventures-i) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Viewpoint Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viewpoint-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The 51 Ventures

VC Fund · Calgary, Canada

The51 is a Financial Feminist platform that aims to build mutual wealth and social/environmental impact. By uniting Canada’s untapped female wealth, The51 is creating a new critical mass of female investors, making Canada the center for female-powered capital. With 30% of Alberta’s tech start-ups founded or co-founded by women, The51’s homeprovince is well on its way to achieving this goal; however, with female-founded startups only receiving 3% of venture capital available worldwide, The51’s vision spans globally.

3 contacts available at The 51 Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alice Reimer | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alice-reimer |
| Judy Fairburn | Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Fund Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judy-fairburn |
| Shelley Kuipers | Co-CEO and Chief Growth Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shelley-kuipers |

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## FAQ

### What does Judy Fairburn invest in?

Judy Fairburn invests primarily in Employment, Recruiting and Staffing Agency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Judy Fairburn last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Judy Fairburn closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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