# Propulsion Ventures

> Propulsion Ventures is a VC fund in Montréal backing Software and E-Commerce. See 6 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/propulsion-ventures
- Website: http://www.propulsionventures.com

Propulsion Ventures is a Telesystem-sponsored venture capital firm that invests in early-stage software companies in Canada. It was founded in 1995 with offices in Montreal, Boston, London, and Johannesburg.The founding partners of Propulsion have grown their impressive track record in managing multiple funds into a solid reputation for providingskilled support to entrepreneurs. The Montreal-based firm is widely considered an investor of choice in the Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Quebec City markets. In 2005, Propulsion received the "Deal of the Year Award" from the Canadian Venture Capital Association.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Banking | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 3 | 50% |
| Sweden | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Bernardi | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-bernardi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Interset | Interset, now a part of Micro Focus, equips security teams with analytics to detect, investigate, and respond to threats before data is stolen. Our user and entity behavioral analytics augments existing security tools and leverages machine learning to measure the unique footprint of systems and users—distilling billions of events into a handfulof prioritized threat leads. What used to take months, now takes minutes. A member of the In-Q-Tel portfolio, Interset is trusted to protect critical data and infrastructure in the finance, high tech manufacturing, healthcare, utility, and energy industries. | $14M |  | Jan 29, 2018 | http://interset.ai |
| Interset | Interset, now a part of Micro Focus, equips security teams with analytics to detect, investigate, and respond to threats before data is stolen. Our user and entity behavioral analytics augments existing security tools and leverages machine learning to measure the unique footprint of systems and users—distilling billions of events into a handfulof prioritized threat leads. What used to take months, now takes minutes. A member of the In-Q-Tel portfolio, Interset is trusted to protect critical data and infrastructure in the finance, high tech manufacturing, healthcare, utility, and energy industries. | $10M |  | Mar 18, 2015 | http://interset.ai |
| Shopit Online Europe | Shopit Online Europe develops a shopping search engine intended to help customers find products online. It has created product taxonomy of a huge number of products categories and it develops its search technology in-house and the company can automatically crawl, categorize, and extract product properties to create the database of products,enabling customers to find and buy products as per their needs. | $27K | Seed | Oct 24, 2008 | http://www.shopit.com/ |
| DNA13 | dna13 Inc. provides on-demand software solutions for brand and reputation management. It offers dnaEnterprise, a public relations and corporate communications software suite that helps organizations to manage, monitor, and measure their brand and reputation in real-time; and dnaMonitor, a media monitoring software for real-time insight into brand,reputation, competitors, and industry issues. The company also provides consulting, training, and implementation services for its software portals. Its dnaEnterprise software consolidates media content sources, critical brand data, and stakeholder information into a brand data warehouse, as well as provides a suite of integrated applications to help organizations manage and automate the end-to-end public relations processes. The company serves corporate communications, public relations, investor relations, government relations, human resources, and legal staff in corporations. dna13 Inc. has strategic partnerships with CNW Group, PR Newswire, Bulldog Reporter, Dialog, Critical Mention Inc., Moreover Technologies, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, BurrellesLuce, Nielsen Media Research, ComScore, SRDS Media Solutions, NADbank, and BBM. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Ottawa, Canada. | $4.5M | Series A | May 08, 2007 | http://www.dna13.com |
| eBillme | eBillme™ is the most secure way to pay online and the only online payment solution that extends the convenience of online banking to the merchant’s checkout process. The service enhances security for online shoppers, and enables merchants to increase sales while reducing transaction costs. Consumers can shop online and pay for their purchasesat their bank, credit union, or bill pay portal using the security and convenience of online banking or by paying the bill at over 75,000 walk-in locations. eBillme is available at ober 800+ online retailers including Sears, Kmart, TigerDirect, ShoeBuy, and more.For more information, please visit www.eBillme.com. | $11M |  | Sep 20, 2006 | http://www.ebillme.com |
| eXludus Technologies | eXludus Technologies, Inc. develops and markets system capacity management, virtualization, and provisioning solutions for data center, cluster, and grid deployments in commercial and public sector applications. The company offers Grid Optimizer software, a BioCluster solution that is developed for the life sciences market; and RepliCator Suite fordata transfer mechanisms used to provide virtual machines. eXludus Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. | $1.5M | Angel | Jul 07, 2005 | http://www.exludus.com |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anthem Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Celtic House Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celtic-house-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brightspark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brightspark-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Propulsion Ventures invest in?

Propulsion Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Propulsion Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Propulsion Ventures?

The team at Propulsion Ventures includes David Bernardi (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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