# Natacor Inc.

> Natacor Inc. is a VC fund in Ottawa backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadipietro
- Website: http://natacor.com

Natacor Inc. is a firm that provides financial and business advising as well as capital investments.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Angel | $677k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 40% |
| Health Care | 3 | 30% |
| Medical | 2 | 20% |
| Big Data | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 8 | 80% |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 9 | 90% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nick DiPietro | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-dipietro |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicoya Lifesciences | Nicoya is a provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. |  | Angel | Sep 18, 2015 |  |
| Vida Fresh Air | Vita Fresh Air Corp has developed and is set to commercialize a new catalytic converter technology, the Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC), which aims to lower emissions, lower fuel consumption, and lower equipment costs. Vida’s mission is to develop automotive products that genuinely improve engine performance and emission control in anethical, economical and sustainable manner. |  | Angel | Sep 01, 2012 |  |
| Viafoura | Viafoura partners with over 600 media brands to engage, convert and monetize their digital audiences. With best-in-class engagement and content moderation solutions — including real-time conversations, live blogs, community chat, personalization tools and AI-powered moderation — Viafoura helps companies create active, civil and loyal onlinecommunities. Advanced data analytics also offer customers access to unique and valuable insights into their audience's behaviors and preferences. As a result, the Viafoura solution drives higher registrations and subscriptions as well as better-targeted content and advertising. |  | Angel | Jun 01, 2012 |  |
| Rna Diagnostics | Rna Diagnostics is a Canadian company with a patented platform technology providing real-time cancer therapy guidance. | $677K | Angel | Mar 27, 2012 |  |
| Console Connect | Console is an enterprise software and interconnection solution provider with more than 170 PoPs globally, enabling its customers to bypass the public internet and directly connect with business-critical SaaS applications, cloud providers and other enterprises with just the click of a button. The Console platform provides a secure and reliable datatransit paths, absent of the problems associated with the public internet. | $2.1M | Angel | Mar 01, 2012 |  |
| Intellijoint Surgical | Intellijoint Surgical is a Canadian medical device company committed to assisting orthopedic surgeons to meet their surgical objectives. Focused first on hip surgery, Intellijoint Surgical’s affordable Smart Tools enhance surgeon accuracy, improve patient outcomes, and increase hospital economic efficiencies.Intellijoint HIP is a low cost, easyto use Smart Tool that assists surgeons with the accurate selection, positioning, and alignment of implants during hip replacement surgery. The device uses a combination of hardware and software and integrates miniature optical sensors and microelectronics.Without altering surgical techniques or workflow, intelligent HIP provides surgeons with quantitative intra-operative data regarding changes in cup position, leg length, and offset while adding approximately 3-5 minutes to surgery. This data expedites decision-making and improves accuracy in achieving pre-operative planned targets, ultimately improving patient outcomes and reducing outliers.In 2016, The company has received the North American Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology Leadership Award. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2012 |  |
| Semios | Semios specializes in providing crop management solutions for the agricultural industry. It offers a proprietary system of in-crop wireless networks coupled with remote sensors, pest monitoring, and variable rate biological pest control. This information is provided to the grower in an interface that allows the grower to reduce agricultural inputsand increase the quality of the crop produced.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2011 |  |
| Fiix Software | Fiix was started in Toronto by a few ‘fiixers’ that wanted to bring simplicity to the unnecessarily complicated world of maintenance management software. And they wanted to do it with a product that was easy to use and affordable for everyone. Today they’ve grown, but they never forget that they were once the little guys and stay true to theirfounders’ vision of providing easy-to-use, affordable maintenance management software to the world. They’re the long awaited market disrupters, the true cloud provider, the lightning in a bottle. |  | Seed | Feb 25, 2011 |  |
| PlantForm | PlantForm Corporation is a privately-held Canadian biopharmaceutical company focused on the rapid development and production of specialty antibody and protein drugs using our proprietary vivoXPRESS® manufacturing platform. The plant-based vivoXPRESS® system makes it easier, faster and less expensive to produce approved biologic drugs for novelindications and new markets. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2010 |  |
| Exact Imaging | Exact Imaging is the developer of the ExactVu™ system, the first micro-ultrasound operating at 29 MHz that provides unmatched resolution. The system enables visualization and targeting of suspicious regions, in addition to performing systematic TRUS biopsies for prostate cancer imaging. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2009 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Golden Triangle Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-triangle-angel-network) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Angel One Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-one-network) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Niagara Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niagara-angel-network) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [York Angels Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/york-angels-investors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Forum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-forum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anges Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-quebec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Natacor Inc. invest in?

Natacor Inc. invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Angel and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Natacor Inc.'s check size?

Natacor Inc. typically joins rounds of $677k–$2.1M at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Natacor Inc. participates in.

### How do I contact Natacor Inc.?

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### Who are the partners at Natacor Inc.?

The team at Natacor Inc. includes Nick DiPietro (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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