# OMERS Ventures

> OMERS Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and SaaS. See 171 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 171
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Fund size: $750M
- Last fund: Apr 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/omers-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/omersventures
- Website: http://www.omersventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OMERSVentures

OMERS Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on Series A-C funding rounds. The firm supports founders with ambitious visions by providing initial investments ranging from $5 million to $25 million.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$11M |
| Series A | $6M–$29M |
| Series B | $12M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 43 | 25% |
| SaaS | 23 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | 8% |
| FinTech | 13 | 8% |
| Financial Services | 11 | 6% |

181 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 43 | 25% |
| Series B | 31 | 18% |
| Seed | 25 | 15% |
| Series C | 24 | 14% |
| Series D | 12 | 7% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 43 | 25% |
| United States | 38 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 6% |
| Germany | 6 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eugene Lee | Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-lee-01bf |
| Julianna Vitolo | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julianna-vitolo-4e29 |
| Laura Lenz | Managing Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-lenz |
| Saar Pikar | Managing Director - Head of Ventures & Growth | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saar-pikar |
| Ben Fu | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-fu-5618 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dominion Dynamics | Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $97.6M | Series A | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Fonoa | Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $110M | Series C | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Turnstile | Turnstile is an all-in-one revenue automation platform that streamlines quoting, subscription management, billing and revenue recognition. | $29M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Gia | Gia is an AI-powered growth platform designed especially for owners of agencies and consulting firms in professional services. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Group14 Technologies | Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer thecost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future. | $463M | Series D | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Octaura | Octaura is an electronic trading solution created by the industry – for the industry. Backed by eight major US financial institutions, Octaura has reimagined the way the syndicated loan and the CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. | $46.5M |  | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Crux | Crux is a fintech company. They provide a capital markets platform for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact and manage transferable tax credits, aiming to make sustainable finance more efficient and interconnected. They help developers and manufacturers raise capital at all stages of project development andoperation. | $50M | Series B | Apr 16, 2025 |  |
| Arize AI | Arize is a leading AI and agent engineering platform that helps teams design, evaluate, and operate production-grade AI systems with reliability and speed. Built to be independent and interoperable across models, frameworks, and clouds — with open-standard instrumentation at its core — Arize unifies development and production workflows in Arize AX(with Alyx for copilot-powered analysis) and complements them with the open-source Phoenix and OpenInference projects. Arize is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. | $70M | Series C | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| OneVest | OneVest is a financial technology business that creates investment opportunities. The company provides a comprehensive all-in-one wealth management platform that allows organizations to expand product capabilities, improve distribution, and streamline front, middle, and back office operations. | $20M | Series B | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| Float Financial | Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently. | $48.7M | Series B | Jan 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 171 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does OMERS Ventures invest in?

OMERS Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 171 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is OMERS Ventures's check size?

OMERS Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$11M at Seed, $6M–$29M at Series A and $12M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds OMERS Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact OMERS Ventures?

Public channels for OMERS Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at OMERS Ventures?

The team at OMERS Ventures includes Eugene Lee (Director), Julianna Vitolo (Investor) and Laura Lenz (Managing Partner), among 10 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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