Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Financial Services. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests and administers the pensions of active and retired teachers. It invests the pension fund's assets and administers the pensions of 284,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario. A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan's members include 173,000 teachers inelementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 111,000 pensioners, and 72,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada's largest payrolls with $4.2 billion in benefits paid to plan members and $2.3 billion received in total contributions from teachers and the provincial government in 2008.
- Total investments:
- 133
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
Last updated:
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Industries Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests in
Stages Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests in
Countries Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Anita Yuen
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (12%)
- Financial Services 11 (8%)
- Information Technology 11 (8%)
- E-Commerce 10 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (8%)
Stage
- Private Equity 22 (17%)
- Series C 16 (12%)
- Series D 13 (10%)
- Funding Round 12 (9%)
- Secondary Market 9 (7%)
Country
- United States 45 (34%)
- Canada 14 (11%)
- United Kingdom 10 (8%)
- India 7 (5%)
- China 4 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Avid Larizadeh
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Kieran Mahanty
Director
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Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Robert Hargadon
Senior Manager, Financial Reporting and Internal Control
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Senior Manager, Financial Reporting and Internal Control | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ziad Hindo
Senior Vice-President & Chief Investment Officer
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Senior Vice-President & Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Anita Yuen
Program Manager, Innovation & Emerging Technology
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Program Manager, Innovation & Emerging Technology | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| EliseAI provides artificial intelligence–powered automation and conversational services designed for housing and healthcare organizations. It offers a unified platform that manages communications across text, email, chat, and voice, handling tasks such as leasing inquiries, tenant maintenance requests, scheduling, renewals, and patientappointments. The system centralizes operations into modules like CRM, leasing, maintenance, delinquency handling, and healthcare-specific workflows, adapting to specialties such as women’s health, dermatology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It automates routine interactions, status updates, and follow-ups in multiple languages, aiming to reduce manual burden and streamline operational workflows. | $350M / Series F / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | $300M / Secondary Market / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. | $5B / Private Equity / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B / Series D / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $750M / Series F / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| Allworth Financial is an investment advisory firm that provides financial and retirement planning education. | Secondary Market / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Wayve develops autonomous driving technology using end-to-end deep learning models that enable vehicles to navigate complex urban environments. The company builds AI software that learns directly from data collected through cameras and sensors, reducing reliance on high-definition maps and rule-based systems. Its approach focuses on embodiedintelligence, where the system improves driving performance through large-scale real-world training and simulation. Wayve partners with automotive manufacturers and fleet operators to integrate its driving software into production vehicles. The platform is designed to adapt to different geographies and driving conditions through continuous learning and model refinement. | $1.3B / Series D / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| FYLD is the category defining frontline intelligence platform for the infrastructure sector. It enables its customers to drive highly efficient and sustainable operations, in safety-focused environments. The FYLD platform enables its customers to have full visibility into what’s happening across their daily operations in real-time, anticipate howthe day may unfold, and lead by data intervention to drive those operations safely to completion every day.With FYLD's algorithms having visited over 1.5m industrial worksites, FYLD customers deploy data-led process redesign, dynamic scheduling, and break down operational silos, achieving even higher ROI. FYLD strips away the need for time-consuming and burdensome administration while equipping field workers and team leaders with the insights they need to make better, data-driven decisions. | $43.6M / Series B / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Kraken is a global customer and culture platform for energy, water, and broadband.Krake tech provides innovative Entech to accelerate and reduce the cost of the global switch to green energy. | $1B / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 29, 2025 | ||
| Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. | $5B / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
| See all 133 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invest in?
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Private Equity and Series C stage. Most of the 133 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan?
The team at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan includes Avid Larizadeh (Managing Director), Kieran Mahanty (Director) and Robert Hargadon (Senior Manager, Financial Reporting and Internal Control), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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