# Paradigm Capital

> Paradigm Capital is a VC fund in Toronto backing Mining and Precious Metals. See 122 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 122
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paradigm-capital/
- Website: https://www.paradigmcap.com/

Paradigm Capital is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Mining and Precious Metals. Paradigm is a research-driven investment dealer. Their sales and trading desk focuses on companies they cover. Their investment banking team provides innovative and attentive service. They believe that teamwork and long-term relationships are the key to exceptional success and growth.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Debt | $17M–$110M |
| Post-IPO Equity | $5M–$126M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining | 28 | 23% |
| Precious Metals | 23 | 19% |
| Mineral | 18 | 15% |
| Oil and Gas | 13 | 11% |
| Energy | 12 | 10% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Equity | 70 | 57% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 6 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 4% |
| Private Equity | 3 | 2% |
| Seed | 2 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 73 | 60% |
| United States | 9 | 7% |
| Australia | 3 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Roland | Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-roland |
| Michael Ward | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-ward-5191 |
| Peter Dey | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-dey |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Newcore Gold | Pinecrest Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and junior mine development company focused on creating value through the acquisition and development of quality precious metal projects. Pinecrest Resources completed a transaction to acquire a 100% interest in the Enchi Gold Project from Edgewater Exploration and Red Back Mining, a subsidiary ofKinross Gold Corp. Pinecrest sees a tremendous opportunity in exploration and development stage gold projects in West Africa. | $10.5M | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Arizona Sonoran Copper Company | Arizona Sonoran Copper Company primarily operates as a copper developer and producer. | $18.5M | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| New Found Gold Corp. | New Found Gold Corp. is actively exploring district size gold exploration projects in Newfoundland and Ontario. | $50M | Post-IPO Equity | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Praxis | Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $15M | Series A | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Good Natured Products | good natured is producing and distributing one of North America’s widest assortments of better everyday products made with the highest possible percentage of renewable, plant-based materials and no BPAs, phthalates or other chemicals of concern potentially harmful to human health and the environment.With a growing assortment of over 385 productsand services, good natured creates eco-friendly home and business products, food packaging, restaurant/take-out containers, medical and industrial supplies designed to do good for the planet, good for human health and good for business by driving incremental sales, minimizing waste and reducing environmental impact, all bundled up in a fresh and approachable brand. | $17.3M | Post-IPO Debt | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Tantalus Systems | Tantalus provides Smart Grid communications solutions for Advanced Metering, Demand Response & Distribution Automation. TUNet® – the Tantalus Utility Network – is a rapid & reliable two-way network that enables electric, water & gas distributors to automate processes, improve business operations and deliver top-tier customerservice. TUNet is deployed at utilities determined to manage resources intelligently and meet ambitious conservation goals. | $10.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| STLLR Gold | Moneta holds a 100% interest in 5 core gold projects strategically located along the highly prospective Destor Porcupine Fault Zone. | $15.2M | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 04, 2021 |  |
| Fronsac Real Estate Investment Trust | Fronsac Real Estate Investment Trust (the Trust) is a Canada-based open-ended real estate investment trust. The Trust owns and rents commercial real estate properties. The Trust's segments include Major canadian oil and gas company, International fast-food company, International convenience store company, and Others. The Trust operates in thecommercial real estate market. The Trust holds approximately 20 investment properties, which are located in the province of Quebec and the province of Ontario. The Trust's properties are occupied by tenants, including fast food chains, oil/gas companies, and convenience store chains. The Trust's properties include Les Coteaux, Rivieres-du-Loup, Saint-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu, Trois-Rivieres, Val-David, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Louiseville, Levis, Cornwall, 1901 Raymond Blais, 2000 Leonard de Vinci, 2050 Leonard de Vinci, 2051 Nobel and 4200 Bernard-Pilon. | $12.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 13, 2020 |  |
| Talon Metals Corp | Talon Metals is a base metals company in a joint venture with Rio Tinto on the high-grade Tamarack Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project. The company focused on expanding its current high-grade nickel mineralization resource prepared in accordance with NI 43-101, identifying additional high-grade nickel mineralization, and developing a process topotentially produce nickel sulphates responsibly for batteries for the electric vehicles industry. | $8.1M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 30, 2020 |  |
| Erdene | Erdene is a resource company specializing in precious and base metal exploration. | $20M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 23, 2020 |  |

10 of 122 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Canaccord Genuity Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaccord-genuity-corp) — VC Fund, 45 deals together
- [National Bank Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-bank-financial) — VC Fund, 35 deals together
- [Raymond James](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raymond-james) — VC Fund, 31 deals together
- [TD Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/td-securities) — VC Fund, 31 deals together
- [Cormark Securities Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cormark) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [GMP Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gmp-securities) — VC Fund, 22 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Paradigm Capital invest in?

Paradigm Capital invests primarily in Mining, Precious Metals and Mineral startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 122 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Paradigm Capital's check size?

Paradigm Capital typically joins rounds of $17M–$110M at Post-IPO Debt and $5M–$126M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paradigm Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Paradigm Capital?

Public channels for Paradigm Capital include LinkedIn 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 Paradigm Capital?

The team at Paradigm Capital includes David Roland (Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer), Michael Ward (Chief Financial Officer) and Peter Dey (Chairman). 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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