# Sand Hill North

> Sand Hill North is a VC fund in Montréal backing Software and SaaS. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandhillnorth/about/
- Website: https://sandhillnorth.vc/

Sand Hill North is a VC fund in Montréal focused on Software and SaaS. Sand Hill North invests in B2B pre-seed and early seed software startups based in the US or Canada. We're a generalist B2B investor, particularly focused on AI for Robotics, EnergyTech, Space, and dev tools. We do not invest in consumer startups, or any companies that require hardware (even off the shelf).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $794k–$5.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $214k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 47% |
| SaaS | 3 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| Sales | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 73% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 9 | 60% |
| United States | 3 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Henry | Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-henry |
| Dave Brereton | President and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-brereton-3158 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Redcar | Redcar is the easiest way for B2B companies to scale their sales teams. We provide building blocks to create AI Agents tailored to each company’s unique workflows, so human sales reps can focus on closing deals. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| SimCare AI | SimCare AI is a healthcare technology firm that is using artificial intelligence to revolutionize clinical training. | $2M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| 3Laws Robotics | 3Laws Robotics provides dynamics safety guardrails for autonomous and human operated systems. | $4.1M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| Enurgen | Enurgen is a modeling software for power systems. Enurgen captures and distributes energy resources from cells to systems. Their bifacial resource from front to back is a bifacial performance model that calculates optical and electrical performance based on a physically representative array geometry. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2023 |  |
| Enurgen | Enurgen is a modeling software for power systems. Enurgen captures and distributes energy resources from cells to systems. Their bifacial resource from front to back is a bifacial performance model that calculates optical and electrical performance based on a physically representative array geometry. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2023 |  |
| Enurgen | Enurgen is a modeling software for power systems. Enurgen captures and distributes energy resources from cells to systems. Their bifacial resource from front to back is a bifacial performance model that calculates optical and electrical performance based on a physically representative array geometry. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| LeadFox | Leadfox is the unique marketing solution that includes all the pre-configured marketing strategies, the automated marketing tools and marketing expert advice to help SMBs grow. |  | Seed | Apr 25, 2022 |  |
| Trellis.org | Improve the world we live in by connecting the social sector to everyday people on a platform focused on impact. Trellis enables people to invest their money for social return in a modern, transparent and engaging way. Trellis empowers people to do good and will lead the social sector into a more sustainable and impact focused future by reframinghow our society thinks about charity, giving and measuring success. |  | Seed | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Hellohire | Hellohire helps recruiting teams and staffing agencies double recruiter productivity and make hires faster with virtual interviews. |  | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Trellis | Trellis provides PPC software for e-commerce vendors to increase their sales and growth of business with an ad optimization platform. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [2048 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2048-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avesta Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avesta-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maple Leaf Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maple-leaf-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sand Hill North invest in?

Sand Hill North invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sand Hill North's check size?

Sand Hill North typically joins rounds of $794k–$5.3M at Seed and $214k–$1M 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 Sand Hill North participates in.

### How do I contact Sand Hill North?

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### Who are the partners at Sand Hill North?

The team at Sand Hill North includes Ryan Henry (Partner) and Dave Brereton (President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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