# Sherbrooke Innopole

> Sherbrooke Innopole is a VC fund in Sherbrooke backing Manufacturing and Health Care. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sherbrooke, Canada
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sherbrooke-innopole/?originalSubdomain=fr
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SherbInnopole
- Website: https://sherbrooke-innopole.com/en/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sherbrookeinnopole/

Sherbrooke Innopole is a VC fund in Sherbrooke focused on Manufacturing and Health Care. Sherbrooke Innopole is the economic development organization of the City of Sherbrooke which serves the industrial and tertiary-engine sectors. We provide free support to entrepreneurs in the industrial and technological sectors in Sherbrooke towards success.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $850k–$2.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 38% |
| Health Care | 3 | 23% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 23% |
| Hardware | 2 | 15% |
| Therapeutics | 2 | 15% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 23% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EncephalX | EncephalX is a Canadian based start-up working on the development, the certification, and the commercialization of surgical devices. Precisely, our team aim to improve the treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries by introducing our new dynamic cranial implant to clinicians. | $1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Immugenia | Immugenia is an early-stage immuno-oncology company developing a novel approach to CAR therapy by engineering hematopoietic stem cells to treat cancer and prevent relapses. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Calogy Solutions | Calogy Solution is a developer of thermal management technologies designed to assist in electric transportation applications. The company's technologies include thermal and CFD calculations for electronics thermal management, custom-designed compact liquid cooling, heat pipes, and vapor chambers and a wide range of thermal characterization,testing and validation services by exposing microelectronic components to various temperature conditions, enabling clients to identify and thereafter rectify the thermal challenges in their products. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2020 |  |
| TATUM bioscience | TATUM bioscience is a synthetic biology startup developing synthetic advanced biologics capable of multi-tasking therapeutic activities, packing all the advantages of combination therapy in a single agent to provide safer and more efficient treatments. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Oneka Technologies | Traditional desalination is an expensive, unsustainable, inefficient, and polluting $20bn/yr market. It is essentially a process to transform fossil fuels into potable water. Our company harnesses wave power to produce fresh water with zero GHG, zero land, responsible brine using modular units for water-scarce regions in the world whilereducing their water costs by up to 75% in identified markets. Oneka has already demonstrated its technology in the ocean.The mission of Oneka is to make the oceans the most sustainable and affordable source of drinking water. | $2M | Seed | Dec 17, 2018 |  |
| Alice POS | Alice POS is a new-generation cloud based point-of-sale software package that launches merchants into the modern high-tech era. Developer of a point of sale software intended to modernize the retail trade. The company's software offers a smart cross-selling tool that effectively guides employees so that no sale slips between their fingers,enabling merchants to have access at all times and from everywhere, to their point-of-sale and all their management tools. | $915K |  | Jul 10, 2018 |  |
| Energie Solutions Air | Énergie Solutions Air (ESA) provides heat exchangers and energy efficiency for hog and fowl farming buildings. | $1M | Seed | Jan 15, 2018 |  |
| Longpré BP | Les Entreprises Longpré manufactures and sells precast concrete toppings on wooden structures for the housing and multi-unit condo construction industry. Longpré BP was founded in Sherbrooke in 2017. | $500K |  | Dec 11, 2017 |  |
| Longpré BP | Les Entreprises Longpré manufactures and sells precast concrete toppings on wooden structures for the housing and multi-unit condo construction industry. Longpré BP was founded in Sherbrooke in 2017. | $500K |  | Dec 11, 2017 |  |
| Imeka | Provider of brain imaging platform created to help researchers get the most out of their medical images. The company's platform offers MRI high standing structure and deep learning algorithms, enabling pharmaceutical companies to quantity and understand brain connectivity and white matter. | $850K | Seed | Dec 10, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anges Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-quebec) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Desjardins Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desjardins-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ACET Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acet-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AQC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-qu%C3%A9bec-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Desjardins-Innovatech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desjardins-innovatech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sherbrooke Innopole invest in?

Sherbrooke Innopole invests primarily in Manufacturing, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sherbrooke Innopole's check size?

Sherbrooke Innopole typically joins rounds of $850k–$2.4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sherbrooke Innopole participates in.

### When did Sherbrooke Innopole last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sherbrooke Innopole closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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