# Michelle McBane

> Michelle McBane is a seed investor at StandUp Ventures (Toronto) backing SaaS and Health Care. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [StandUp Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/standup-ventures-i)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellemcbane/

Michelle McBane is a seed investor at StandUp Ventures in Toronto focused on SaaS and Health Care. Michelle has over 18 years of combined operational and venture capital experience. She joined VenGrowth in 2003, prior to which she was an analyst with Toronto-based Primaxis Technology Ventures, helping an investee company attract over $4 million in venture capital financing. Additionally, Michelle spent 12 years in progressively senior roles withDuPont Canada.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Health Care | 3 | 21% |
| Construction | 2 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 14% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sprout Family | Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| Glassbox | Glassbox is a SaaS financial modeling and analysis platform designed to streamline the creation and evaluation of complex M&A and financing transactions. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Indiegraf | Indiegraf provides support, assistance, and resources to independent news outlets. It offers various services to help companies or organizations start their own digital news system. Indiegraf is based in Vancouver, Canada. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Mercator AI | Our mission is to give business developers more time to do what they do best, and support them with the insights they need to have informed and productive conversations. We mine and analyze millions of construction data points across the project lifecycle so that our customers can confidently find and qualify projects and partners faster.Mercator is used by Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Manufacturing companies to inform strategic and tactical decision making.Mercator AI is a privately held company that has recently closed a pre-seed round. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| AssistIQ | AssistIQ delivers supply intelligence to health systems, reducing waste and carbon footprint without impacting patient quality with no added work. | $1.8M | Seed | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Supportbench Services Inc. | Supportbench is a customer service platform that helps companies deliver an amazing customer experience. Supportbench unlocks the potential of support teams by giving them a canvas to create and execute their vision of how best to support their customers. | $1.5M | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Mercator AI | Our mission is to give business developers more time to do what they do best, and support them with the insights they need to have informed and productive conversations. We mine and analyze millions of construction data points across the project lifecycle so that our customers can confidently find and qualify projects and partners faster.Mercator is used by Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Manufacturing companies to inform strategic and tactical decision making.Mercator AI is a privately held company that has recently closed a pre-seed round. | $798.5K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| MintList | MintList allows consumers and car dealerships to buy and sell used vehicles from one another. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| My Intelligent Machines | Montreal-based My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a leader in artificial intelligence and systems biology. MIMs provides Biopharma companies with easy-to-implement and interactive augmented intelligence systems, allowing for accurate biological simulations at early drug development stages, to assist life scientists in the development of preciselytargeted and personalized therapies. | $5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Sampler | Sampler is a provider of digital product sampling services. The company helps consumer-packaged goods brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Its turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that helps increase successful trials and in turn conversion rates. | $4M | Series B | Jul 15, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The 51 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-51-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/factory-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [N49P](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/n49p) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [StandUp Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/standup-ventures-i) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About StandUp Ventures

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in female-founded companies in the B2B software and digital health sector.The firm is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors, and other strategic mentors who willprovide high-touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from its network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs.

3 contacts available at StandUp Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michelle McBane | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelle-mcbane |
| Lance Laking | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-laking-2 |
| Lauren Epstein | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-epstein |

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## FAQ

### What does Michelle McBane invest in?

Michelle McBane invests primarily in SaaS, Health Care and Construction startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Michelle McBane last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michelle McBane closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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