# Manulife Capital

> Manulife Capital is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and Health Care. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.manulifecapital.com/

Manulife Capital is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Health Care. Manulife Capital provides minority equity and subordinated debt capital to mid-market companies and real estate opportunities. With over 100 direct investments to date, Manulife Capital has developed expertise across industry sectors and business cycles.Manulife Capital invests in businesses that are growing and have a sustainable competitiveadvantage, providing flexible, long-term capital in support of management teams and private equity sponsors. They also make capital commitments to global private equity funds with a proven track record of success and sustainable investment strategies.Manulife Capital is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Health Care | 2 | 40% |
| Fitness | 1 | 20% |
| Wellness | 1 | 20% |
| Collaboration | 1 | 20% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Van | Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Rajiv Bakshi | Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Vipon Ghai | Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Private Equity and Private Credit | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prezent AI | Prezent is an enterprise business storytelling platform for business communication, empowering busy professionals with an AI-driven platform to effortlessly create compelling presentations and narratives. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises, Prezent combines cutting-edge technology with human-centered design withindustry-specific AI models to revolutionize storytelling in the workplace. |  |  | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Prezent AI | Prezent is an enterprise business storytelling platform for business communication, empowering busy professionals with an AI-driven platform to effortlessly create compelling presentations and narratives. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises, Prezent combines cutting-edge technology with human-centered design withindustry-specific AI models to revolutionize storytelling in the workplace. | $20M | Series A | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| League | Founded in 2014, League is a technology-focused health company powering the digital transformation of healthcare. Employers, payers, pharmacy retailers and healthcare providers use our award-winning platform to deliver integrated and personalized health experiences that drive consumer engagement. Millions of people across the world use digitalhealth platforms powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care. | $95M | Series C | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| Cinchy | Cinchy is the world's leading Enterprise Data Collaboration platform. Using data mesh principles, Cinchy liberates data from application silos and transforms it into a network of federated data products. Cinchy makes it simple and secure for teams, systems, and AI to “co-produce” data in real time.Cinchy eradicates the time-consuming anderror-prone processes associated with coordinating and merging changes across multiple teams and systems, steadily increasing efficiencies and 50%+ time and cost savings compared to traditional approaches, including APIs, ETLs, and spreadsheets.Our customers include tier-1 global banks, credit unions, community banks, asset managers, major retailers, higher education, manufacturing, commercial real estate, and more. They use Cinchy to accelerate their critical transformational projects, including:- Co-production of data between systems - Federated data governance & mastering - AI/ML/LLM operationalization (intelligent apps) - Extending data products/mesh beyond analytics - Elimination of spreadsheets from business-critical processes - Legacy system modernization / SaaS augmentation - Compliance and attestation lineage and workflows - 360 “everything” (digital twin’ for customer, employee, etc.) - SaaS license reductionRequest a demo with one of our data collaboration experts to explore how Cinchy can help your organization eliminate copy-based data integration, establish meaningful data governance, and initiate a cycle of simplification, collaboration, and ever-increasing efficiency. | $7.3M | Series A | May 26, 2020 |  |
| GoodLife Fitness | The largest fitness company in Canada and the fourth largest in the world with 1,000,000 members, over 330 clubs across Canada, and over 13,000 associates.Caring is at the heart of the GoodLife culture. It sets us apart as both a fitness centre and as an organization to grow with. Associates are encouraged to care for themselves throughpersonal fitness and peak attitude. Staff are encouraged to care for each other as GoodLife team members and to motivate each other to do their best for members. And, most importantly, they care about our members, and truly want to look after their needs and interests as if their own. It’s all about caring – for you and your life. | $125M | Debt Financing | Apr 07, 2011 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Emergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Global Ventures (TGV)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WestWave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westwave-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Manulife Capital invest in?

Manulife Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Fitness startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Manulife Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Manulife Capital?

The team at Manulife Capital includes David Van (Managing Director), Rajiv Bakshi (Managing Director) and Vipon Ghai (Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Private Equity and Private Credit). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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