# Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

> Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is a VC fund backing Software and E-Commerce. See 128 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 128
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ontario-teachers'-pension-plan
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/OtppInfo
- Website: http://www.otpp.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/myOTPP

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and E-Commerce. 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 10 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 8% |
| Internet | 9 | 7% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 7% |

135 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 20 | 16% |
| Private Equity | 19 | 15% |
| Series C | 15 | 12% |
| Series D | 11 | 9% |
| Series B | 7 | 5% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 31% |
| Canada | 14 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 8% |
| India | 7 | 5% |
| China | 4 | 3% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avid Larizadeh | Managing Director | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avid-larizadeh |
| Jane Rowe | Senior Vice-President, Teachers Private Capital | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jane-rowe |
| Kieran Mahanty | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kieran-mahanty |
| Robert Hargadon | Senior Manager, Financial Reporting and Internal Control | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-hargadon-2 |
| Ziad Hindo | Senior Vice-President & Chief Investment Officer | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ziad-hindo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fireworks AI | 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 | 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 | Allworth Financial is an independent investment financial advisory firm that specializes in retirement planning, investment advising, and 401(k) management with a direct approach to financial planning. Allworth delivers long- and short-term investment planning solutions and advice to help clients achieve their goals and plan strategically forretirement. |  | Secondary Market | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Wayve | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $13B | Series F | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| National Highways Infra Trust | National Highways Infra Trust (“NHIT”), a registered infrastructure investment trust under the InvIT Regulations, sponsored by NHAI (an autonomous authority of the Government of India | $242.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Moneta Health | Moneta Moneta Provides brain health digital therapy platform covered by insurance digital therapy to treat and prevent dementia. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 128 investments shown.

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- [CPP Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpp-investments) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [T. Rowe Price](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-rowe-price) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invest in?

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Private Equity stage. Most of the 128 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan?

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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), Jane Rowe (Senior Vice-President, Teachers Private Capital) and Kieran Mahanty (Director), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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