# Pelorus Venture Capital

> Pelorus Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Analytics. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. John's, Canada
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last fund: Jan 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pelorus-venture-capital-ltd
- Website: http://www.pelorusventure.com

Pelorus Venture Capital is a VC fund in St. John's focused on Software and Analytics. Pelorus Venture Capital focuses on investment for seed and early stage companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $439k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 21% |
| Analytics | 3 | 10% |
| Health Care | 3 | 10% |
| Computer | 2 | 7% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 7% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 14 | 48% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Moyer | President | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-moyer-5c78 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CoLab Software | CoLab is a Design Engagement System that helps engineering teams make better technical decisions, faster. By combining AI-powered design checks with real-time collaboration, CoLab turns every review into structured, searchable knowledge database. Over time, that knowledge becomes fuel for AI agents that prevent repeat mistakes and surface lessonslearned when they matter most. It’s how engineering teams scale good decisions across people, programs, and time. | $17.2M | Secondary Market | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| CoLab Software | CoLab is a Design Engagement System that helps engineering teams make better technical decisions, faster. By combining AI-powered design checks with real-time collaboration, CoLab turns every review into structured, searchable knowledge database. Over time, that knowledge becomes fuel for AI agents that prevent repeat mistakes and surface lessonslearned when they matter most. It’s how engineering teams scale good decisions across people, programs, and time. | $72M | Series C | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Sparrow BioAcoustics | Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data. | $10M | Seed | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Retellio | Retellio was created for leaders that are obsessed with their customers. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Sparrow BioAcoustics | Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data. | $13M | Seed | Sep 20, 2024 |  |
| CoLab Software | CoLab is a Design Engagement System that helps engineering teams make better technical decisions, faster. By combining AI-powered design checks with real-time collaboration, CoLab turns every review into structured, searchable knowledge database. Over time, that knowledge becomes fuel for AI agents that prevent repeat mistakes and surface lessonslearned when they matter most. It’s how engineering teams scale good decisions across people, programs, and time. | $21M | Series B | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Spellbook | Spellbook offers a suite of AI-powered legal tools that assist commercial lawyers with drafting, reviewing, and analyzing contracts. It integrates directly into Microsoft Word to surface redlines, clause suggestions, and comparative benchmarks without leaving the document. The platform includes an AI agent called “Associate” that can orchestrateworkflows across multiple documents, such as generating disclosure schedules or coordinating revisions. Spellbook supports the creation of custom review rules via playbooks, and maintains strict data privacy through zero-data retention policies. It is used by law firms and in-house legal teams in many countries. | $10.9M | Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Swiftsure Innovations | Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company. | $1.7M | Seed | May 18, 2023 |  |
| SiftMed | SiftMed AI platform is the most efficient way to review and analyse unstructured medical data.By improving accessibility to critical information, SiftMed helps reduce costs driven by time and access complexities. | $2M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Cyno | Cyno is an employee mind and body platform that enables your employees to define their own path to wellbeing while providing direct access to health specialists. Cyno is a platform that provides solutions for all aspects of employee well-being that are not covered by traditional corporate perks. | $2.3M | Seed | Apr 28, 2022 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Killick Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/killick-capital) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [Sandpiper Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandpiper-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Concrete Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concrete-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Good News Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-news-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Klister Credit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klister-credit) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Pelorus Venture Capital invest in?

Pelorus Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Pelorus Venture Capital's check size?

Pelorus Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $550k–$11M at Seed and $439k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pelorus Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Pelorus Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Pelorus Venture Capital?

The team at Pelorus Venture Capital includes Chris Moyer (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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