# Maria Pacella, CFA

> Maria Pacella, CFA is a seed investor at Pender Ventures (Vancouver) backing Software and B2B. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pender Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pender-ventures)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-pacella
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mpacella
- Website: https://www.penderfund.com/our-team/maria-pacella/

Maria Pacella, CFA is a Managing Partner, Pender Ventures at Pender Ventures. He attended Education CFA Institute.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| CRM | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Sales | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 17% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Catio | Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution. | $3M | Seed | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Catio | Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Traction Complete | Traction Complete develops software that enhances the native functionality of Salesforce, with a complete suite of solutions for effortless account hierarchies and seamless lead management. | $5M | Series A | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| DistillerSR | Evidence Partners provides software development and consulting services to education, medical, and other industries. | $15.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| DistillerSR | Evidence Partners provides software development and consulting services to education, medical, and other industries. |  | Secondary Market | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Clarius Mobile Health | Clarius Mobile Health is focused on the development of a wireless mobile ultrasound ecosystem that enables its users to obtain ultrasound images on their mobile phones.Clarius Mobile Health offers C3 multi-purpose ultrasound scanner operates as both a convex array and virtual phased array probe that enable imaging of abdomens, hearts, and lungs.It organizes events that enable attendees to find information about its products and services.Clarius Mobile Health was founded by Laurent Pelissier and Dave Willis in October 2014. It is based in Burnaby, British Columbia. | $6.3M |  | May 28, 2018 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Thomvest Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomvest-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Celero Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celero-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pender Ventures

VC Fund · Vancouver, Canada

Pender Ventures invests in data centric startups in health-tech, enterprise software, and industrial transformation.

2 contacts available at Pender Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cheri Corbett | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cheri-corbett |
| Maria Pacella, CFA | Managing Partner, Pender Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-pacella |

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## FAQ

### What does Maria Pacella, CFA invest in?

Maria Pacella, CFA invests primarily in Software, B2B and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Maria Pacella, CFA last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maria Pacella, CFA closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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