Panache Ventures
VC Fund
Montréal, Canada
Panache Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage startup investments. It seeks to invest in sectors that play to Canada’s strengths: artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, digital health, enterprise software, and blockchain.
- Total investments:
- 161
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Panache Ventures invests in
Stages Panache Ventures invests in
Countries Panache Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $912k–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $713k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $6.3M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 40 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 28 (17%)
- Information Technology 21 (13%)
- SaaS 15 (9%)
- Financial Services 13 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 79 (49%)
- Pre-Seed 37 (23%)
- Series A 18 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (2%)
- Series B 2 (1%)
Country
- Canada 89 (55%)
- United States 18 (11%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mike Cegelski
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Patrick Lor
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Chris Neumann
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Francois Arbour
LP / Venture Partner
|
LP / Venture Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Geneviève Tanguay
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design. | $4M / Seed / Sep 28, 2026 | ||
| Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients. | $153M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 28, 2026 | ||
| Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Ranger AI helps manufacturers decrease response time to win new business, increase bid throughput. | $8.4M / Seed / May 14, 2026 | ||
| InstaSwitch is account activation infrastructure for business banking. | $4.7M / Seed / May 05, 2026 | ||
| Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system. | $20M / Series A / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients. | $70M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Soma Energy helps data centers run more effectively and generators trade more intelligently by optimizing the production, storage, and consumption of electricity. | Pre-Seed / Apr 02, 2026 | ||
| Canada Rocket Company is an aerospace company engaged in the development of defence and space infrastructure that enables sovereign launch capabilities. | $4.5M / Seed / Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| Cybrid uses APIs that enable banks, and financial institutions to seamlessly launch a cryptocurrency and De-fi products. | $10M / Series A / Oct 22, 2025 | ||
| See all 161 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Panache Ventures invest in?
Panache Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 161 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Panache Ventures invest in?
Panache Ventures typically joins rounds of $912k–$6M at Seed, $713k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $6.3M–$20M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Panache Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Panache Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Panache Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Panache Ventures?
The team at Panache Ventures includes Mike Cegelski (Founder & Managing Partner), Patrick Lor (Managing Partner) and Chris Neumann (Partner), among 9 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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