Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund
Ottawa, Canada
Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Mistral Venture Partners invests in
Stages Mistral Venture Partners invests in
Countries Mistral Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $739k–$5.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $534k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $3.9M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (24%)
- SaaS 12 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (14%)
- Financial Services 11 (13%)
- Information Technology 10 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (50%)
- Series A 12 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (10%)
- Series B 8 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (3%)
Country
- Canada 40 (47%)
- United States 14 (16%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Bernie Zeisig
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brian O’Higgins
Executive Fellow
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Executive Fellow | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Pablo Srugo
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Aaron Newman
Executive Fellow
|
Executive Fellow | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bernie Zeisig
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents to coordinate operational actions. | $5.4M / Seed / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Ultimarii is an AI based technology company that accelerates and streamline complex and large project across various industries. | $9.4M / Series A / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Backboard.io provides developers a single stateful interface to more than 400 LLMs and SLMs for app development. | Pre-Seed / Jan 07, 2026 | ||
| Partage Club is an online app that offers sharing economy to eliminate environmental waste and social isolation by supporting easy access. | $1.5M / Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Frugal is a cloud cost optimization solution that focuses on optimizing application code and managed service usage rather than just tuning infrastructure. It uses AI to automatically detect inefficiencies in code and cloud service consumption and writes fixes to reduce waste.It supports all coding languages across major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP,Azure) and integrates with various services such as storage, logs and metrics, AI services, messaging, serverless functions, and databases. Frugal applies cost-saving techniques like rebalancing API vs. | $5M / Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Chatforce is an AI video game creation platform where you build and monetize viral video games for the internet. It features a team of AI agents (designer, engineer, artists) that work together to create that game idea you always had, but never had the time nor skills to build. Chatforce makes it possible for you to turn your imagination intoplayable experiences on the internet.Users get full creative control over what your game feels and looks like. They describe your game with text, sketch what you want it to look like, and annotate directly on draft versions of your games. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Ready Plan Go (RPG) is a fintech automating personal tax preparation for accounting firms. We acquire or white-label existing tax client books (T1/1040 returns) and power them through our AI-driven back-office platform, automating document collection, OCR data extraction, and workflow management.By turning low-margin, labor-intensive taxprep into a scalable digital operation, we boost firm profitability from ~15 % to ~85 %, eliminate staffing bottlenecks, and free accountants to focus on higher-value advisory work.We’ve raised $750 K CAD in pre-seed funding (backed by the ex-CFO of Amazon Japan, the ex-President of General Dynamics, and a Mistral VC scout) and won two Startupfest 2025 prizes totaling $175 K. With pilot acquisitions underway and support from multiple innovation funds, RPG is building the infrastructure to replace — not augment — manual tax preparation across North America. | $534.4K / Pre-Seed / Oct 20, 2025 | ||
| Trusty assists estate professionals, wealth advisors, and families in confidently preparing for the future. The modern approach to safeguarding and transmitting what is most important is trust. | $729K / Pre-Seed / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
PayTic
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PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments. | $4M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | |
| runQL is a smart query tool designed to assist data professionals in writing queries quickly. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| See all 86 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mistral Venture Partners invest in?
Mistral Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Mistral Venture Partners's check size?
Mistral Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $739k–$5.5M at Seed, $534k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $3.9M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mistral Venture Partners participates in.
How do I contact Mistral Venture Partners?
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Who are the partners at Mistral Venture Partners?
The team at Mistral Venture Partners includes Bernie Zeisig (Managing Partner), Brian O’Higgins (Executive Fellow) and Pablo Srugo (Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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