# Real Ventures

> Real Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 221 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 221
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Fund size: $132M
- Last fund: Nov 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/real-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/realventures
- Website: http://realventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realventuresvc/

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Real Ventures. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Real Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/real-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$5M |
| Series A | $3.1M–$20M |
| Series B | $7M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 35 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 31 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 20 | 9% |
| SaaS | 17 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 17 | 8% |

207 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 87 | 39% |
| Series A | 50 | 23% |
| Series B | 21 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 109 | 49% |
| United States | 22 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Stokes | Managing Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-stokes-2 |
| Sam Haffar | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ousama-haffar |
| Alan MacIntosh | Partner and Co-Founder | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-macintosh |
| Craig Follett | Limited Partner (Investor) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-follett |
| Hamzah Nassif | Executive | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hamzah-nassif |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DropGenie | DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Nord Quantique | Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2026 |  |
| SPARK Microsystems | SPARK Microsystems is a fabless semiconductor company that is leading the way towards ultra-low power wireless communications for the Internet of Things revolution. With its patented technologies, SPARK Microsystems will bring to market a high performance wireless transceiver that allows for orders of magnitude improved power consumption andlatency while providing higher data rates than competing technologies. For more information, please visit www.sparkmicro.com. | $12.4M | Series B | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Tilt | Agora Intelligence (makers of Tilt) have combined institutional-grade investment tools with modern AI technologies and distribution through publishers, to enable anyone to build an index in minutes. With $280bn in thematic AUM looking to increase or reduce their exposure to themes, and ETFs requiring $50m in AUM to stay afloat, the opportunity fora long-tail index construction approach that moves 100x faster at 1/10th the cost, will fill an important gap in capital markets for investors that need to position themselves as quickly as the world changes. | $7.1M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Eli | Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions. | $12M | Series A | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Blumind | Blumind provides analog machine learning inferencing engines for edge smart sensors and smart devices. | $14M | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Nomic | Nomic is a bioengineering company working to make the human proteome as broadly and easily accessible as the human genome. They are building the nELISA, a next-generation protein profiling platform for measuring proteins at scale and at high throughput. They offer scientists protein profiling solutions and empower them to decide the scope and scaleof their experiments. | $42M | Series B | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| BioIntelligence Technologies | BioIntelligence Technology develops intelligent monitoring instruments to accelerate bioprocess development for biotechnology industries. They provide solutions for microorganisms or cells to biosynthesize a molecule or a group of molecules. | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| dcbel | dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors. | $50M | Series B | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| HumanFirst | HumanFirst provides core infrastructure to transform voice and text data into custom and accurate natural language understanding (NLU) datasets, at scale. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |

10 of 221 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Real Ventures invest in?

Real Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 221 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Real Ventures's check size?

Real Ventures typically joins rounds of $650k–$5M at Seed, $3.1M–$20M at Series A and $7M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Real Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Real Ventures?

Public channels for Real Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Real Ventures?

The team at Real Ventures includes John Stokes (Managing Partner), Sam Haffar (Partner) and Alan MacIntosh (Partner and Co-Founder), among 10 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 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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