Natural Products Canada
VC Fund
Charlottetown, Canada
Natural Products Canada is a VC fund in Charlottetown focused on Biotechnology and Manufacturing. Natural Products Canada provides insight, introduction, and investment to help entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors leverage the growing demand for naturally-derived products. It connects industry, investors, researchers, and others to help innovative natural products reach their full potential in the market. The company works with smallcompanies, large and multinational corporations, research institutions, investors, innovation and economic development agencies, and business, and commercialization experts such as IP, marketing, and regulatory consultants. Collaborating with these many stakeholders, the company evaluates products and technologies, helps companies overcome commercialization hurdles, and invest in the opportunities that show the most promise.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries Natural Products Canada invests in
Stages Natural Products Canada invests in
Countries Natural Products Canada invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$3.3M
- Grant
- $70k–$256k
- Series A
- $911k–$4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 7 (35%)
- Manufacturing 4 (20%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (15%)
- Dental 2 (10%)
- Chemical 2 (10%)
Stage
- Grant 9 (45%)
- Seed 7 (35%)
- Series A 2 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shelley King
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
BioNorth Solutions
|
BioNorth Solutions produces some of the most aggressive, consistent and effective microbes available in the hydrocarbon remediation. | $75.3K / Grant / Jul 17, 2025 | |
Dispersa
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Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry. | $70.3K / Grant / Jul 17, 2025 | |
Scotiaderm
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Scotiaderm is a company that manufactures a natural skin barrier formulation that protects against skin damage caused by exposure to urine, feces, sweat, and chaffing. | $101.1K / Grant / Jul 17, 2025 | |
Ostia Sciences Inc
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Ostia Sciences, is a premier microbiome solutions company that specializes in discovering novel bacterial metabolites with antibacterial, antibiofilm, and immunomodulation activities. Our goal is to isolate beneficial microbes from the human oral microbiome, human breast milk, and fermented food, which are known to be rich sources of ribosomallysynthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and natural products with a range of biological activities. | $255.5K / Grant / Jun 18, 2025 | |
FREDsense
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FREDsense manufactures portable testing kits to detect water-borne chemicals and contaminants such as arsenic, iron, manganese, acidity. It monitors water quality through its product called FRED. FRED Sense also builds a custom, field-based solution for the parameters that its clients are interested in monitoring. David Lloyd, Emily Hicks, IainGeorge, Lisa Oberding, and Robert Mayall founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Waterloo in Canada. | $255.5K / Grant / Jun 18, 2025 | |
Tersa Earth
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With a global push to deliver minerals more responsibly and in greater volume than ever before, technologies like Tersa Earth’s provide critical solutions to realizing enhanced mineral recovery and improved water quality outcomes. Tersa Earth possesses a unique process to deliver essential metals, water and minerals needed for electrification andsociety’s transition to net-zero. The process also has enormous carbon abatement potential and addresses water security for critical infrastructure such as mines.Tersa Earth is currently in a raise to support growth through its seed to late growth stage transition. | $243.1K / Grant / Mar 04, 2025 | |
Infusd Nutrition
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Infusd Nutrition produces water-soluble nutrients, vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as Omega-3 fatty acids. | $241.5K / Grant / Dec 12, 2023 | |
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Dispersa
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Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry. | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 20, 2023 | |
CrushDynamics
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Canadian startup that upcycles food waste into healthy food ingredients. | $250K / Grant / Feb 16, 2023 | |
Freshr Technologies
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Impactful Health R&D is a developer of compostable active packaging materials designed to prolong the shelf life of fresh foods, starting with fresh fish as an entry market. The company's active packaging materials are made of naturally-derived resources and helps in preserving the texture of a fish by maintaining its water content andtargeting bacteria, enabling fish processing companies to reduce wastage of fish. | $250K / Grant / Jan 01, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Natural Products Canada invest in?
Natural Products Canada invests primarily in Biotechnology, Manufacturing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 20 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 Products Canada's check size?
Natural Products Canada typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.3M at Seed, $70k–$256k at Grant and $911k–$4M 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 Natural Products Canada participates in.
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Who are the partners at Natural Products Canada?
The team at Natural Products Canada includes Shelley King (Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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