Natural Gas Innovation Fund
VC Fund
Ottawa, Canada
Natural Gas Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Ottawa focused on Oil and Gas and Renewable Energy. Natural Gas Innovation Fund supports the funding of clean-tech innovation in the natural gas value chain. Created by the Canadian Gas Association, NGIF seeks to fill a technology development gap in the sector and invest in innovation enabling natural gas solutions for current and emerging challenges facing Canada’s energy system.NGIF was foundedin 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Natural Gas Innovation Fund invests in
Stages Natural Gas Innovation Fund invests in
Countries Natural Gas Innovation Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Grant
- $91k–$2.8M
- Series A
- $10M–$62M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $100k–$4.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Oil and Gas 4 (22%)
- Renewable Energy 4 (22%)
- Energy 3 (17%)
- Chemical 3 (17%)
- Software 2 (11%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (28%)
- Grant 3 (17%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Seed 2 (11%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- Canada 13 (72%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Akhil Abat
Lead – Cleantech Evaluation and Investment Priorities
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Lead – Cleantech Evaluation and Investment Priorities | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ashutosh Pohary
Lead – Contracting and Cleantech Project Management
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Lead – Contracting and Cleantech Project Management | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Adams
President and CEO
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President and CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Adams
President and CEO
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President and CEO | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Maxine Bretzlaff
Executive Assistant and Coordinator, Investment Process
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Executive Assistant and Coordinator, Investment Process | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Hydron Energy
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Hydron Energy is a cleaner fuel company helping hard-to-decarbonize sectors of transportation and industry. | $245.4K / Grant / Nov 27, 2025 | |
Galatea Technologies
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Galatea Technologies creates a sophisticated platform to aggregate, analyze, and optimize a multitude of constantly changing logistics-focused, capacity-centric decision-making processes in a world full of use cases. Its first application, Waste Coordinator, is a SaaS product tailored to the oilfield waste vertical. Its automation technologyoptimizes oilfield transportation workflows digitally, allowing users to easily maximize operational, financial, and environmental performance. | $2M / Seed / Apr 30, 2024 | |
Carbonova
|
Carbonova turns CO₂ and methane into carbon nanofibers—advanced materials that improve the properties of plastics, batteries, and construction material with significantly lower cost and net-zero emissions. | $4.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 13, 2024 | |
Ionomr
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Ionomr is pioneering and commercializing the world's most advanced ion-exchange materials. These provide an enabling platform for clean tech solutions after more than five decades of stagnation in available materials. Using our deep knowledge of scalable electrochemical systems, we enable more efficient systems that will lead to thedecarbonization of the planet for future generations. To date, electrochemical applications in the clean tech realm use materials that contain toxic fluorinated chemicals (PFCs). PFCs leach into water sources and bioaccumulate for hundreds of years, having a dire impact on human health and the entire ecosystem. We are driven to replace these materials with our environmentally friendly hydrocarbon alternatives that reduce pollution at the source, and are proven to be more durable and efficient than incumbent materials. Ionomr's membranes and polymers are highly processable, which allow for simple integration into electrochemical systems. We enable optimal performance in applications for chemical & water remediation, energy storage and hydrogen. We are passionate about empowering the development of resilient and sustainable systems that will underlie the future of the renewable energy and circular chemical economies. | $20M / Series A / Dec 05, 2023 | |
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Hydron Energy
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Hydron Energy is a cleaner fuel company helping hard-to-decarbonize sectors of transportation and industry. | Grant / Nov 16, 2023 | |
Anodyne Chemistries
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Anodyne's mission is to create critical chemicals sustainably. Anodyne's approach takes advantage of nature's factories, enzymes, and renewable electricity to produce carbon negative chemicals.Our breakthrough technology eliminates emissions by transforming CO2 into strategic chemicals, materials and fuels that today are madefrom fossil fuels. Carbon utilization fundamentally changes how we recycle emissions into products so that we can address climate change and reverse the carbon imbalance. Reimagining how we turn emissions into valuable products, we’re on a mission to create a climate positive world through the power of biochemistry and renewable energy.The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. | $91.2K / Grant / Jun 07, 2023 | |
ARIX Technologies
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ARIX Technologies is a robotics and data analytics start-up that manufactures pipe-crawling robots for oil and gas pipe inspection. The company's technology integrates robots with advanced data analytics to reinvent the way corrosion is detected and analyzed in manufacturing plants and provide improvements in safety and sustainability,enabling manufacturing companies to save billions of dollars in the cost of manufacturing.It was founded in 2017 and is based in Jackson, Louisiana, USA. | $10.3M / Series A / Feb 07, 2023 | |
Validere
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Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts. | $43.1M / Series B / Mar 15, 2022 | |
Ekona Power
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Ekona is using methane from feedstock to produce clean hydrogen and electrical power. | $62.3M / Series A / Feb 01, 2022 | |
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Ionomr
|
Ionomr is pioneering and commercializing the world's most advanced ion-exchange materials. These provide an enabling platform for clean tech solutions after more than five decades of stagnation in available materials. Using our deep knowledge of scalable electrochemical systems, we enable more efficient systems that will lead to thedecarbonization of the planet for future generations. To date, electrochemical applications in the clean tech realm use materials that contain toxic fluorinated chemicals (PFCs). PFCs leach into water sources and bioaccumulate for hundreds of years, having a dire impact on human health and the entire ecosystem. We are driven to replace these materials with our environmentally friendly hydrocarbon alternatives that reduce pollution at the source, and are proven to be more durable and efficient than incumbent materials. Ionomr's membranes and polymers are highly processable, which allow for simple integration into electrochemical systems. We enable optimal performance in applications for chemical & water remediation, energy storage and hydrogen. We are passionate about empowering the development of resilient and sustainable systems that will underlie the future of the renewable energy and circular chemical economies. | $14.9M / Series A / Jan 19, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Natural Gas Innovation Fund invest in?
Natural Gas Innovation Fund invests primarily in Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy and Energy startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Grant stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Natural Gas Innovation Fund's check size?
Natural Gas Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $91k–$2.8M at Grant, $10M–$62M at Series A and $100k–$4.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Natural Gas Innovation Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at Natural Gas Innovation Fund?
The team at Natural Gas Innovation Fund includes Akhil Abat (Lead – Cleantech Evaluation and Investment Priorities), Ashutosh Pohary (Lead – Contracting and Cleantech Project Management) and John Adams (President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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