# Sustainable Development Technology Canada

> Sustainable Development Technology Canada is a VC fund backing Manufacturing. See 200 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Total investments: 200
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 77%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainable-development-technology-canada
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sdtc_tddc
- Website: https://www.sdtc.ca
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SustainableDevelopmentTechnologyCanada

Sustainable Development Technology Canada is a VC fund in Ottawa focused on Manufacturing and Energy. At Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), they fund Canadian cleantech projects and coach the companies that lead them as they move their ground-breaking technologies to market.SDTC’s support of cleantech translates into jobs, growth, and export opportunities for Canadian companies, as well as economic, environmental and healthbenefits for all Canadians. They are independent but don’t work alone. A big part of their role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad. They operate at arm’s length and receive funding from the Government of Canada.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $70k–$2.9M |
| Grant | $600k–$6.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $475k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 30 | 15% |
| Energy | 29 | 14% |
| Software | 24 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 11% |
| Renewable Energy | 20 | 10% |

149 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 134 | 67% |
| Seed | 37 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 2% |
| Series A | 2 | 1% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 168 | 84% |
| United States | 5 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leah Lawrence | President & CEO | 60 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leah-lawrence |
| George Angus | SVP & COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-angus |
| Jim Balsillie | Chair | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-balsillie |
| Maria J. Aubrey | SVP, Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-j-aubrey |
| Terence Bowles | Member of Audit Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/terence-bowles |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Progressive Planet Solutions | Progressive Planet Solutions Inc is a metal/mineral based company that deals with the exploration & development of zeolite minerals. | $1.1M | Grant | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Solaires Entreprises Inc | Solaires Entreprises Inc is a Canadian cleantech company located in Victoria, BC, that consists of a team of 23 scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Solaires is focused on developing the next generation of solar cells by replacing silicon with perovskite through an innovative and sustainable manufacturing process resulting inaffordable solar photovoltaics with higher energy conversion efficiency. | $1.6M | Debt Financing | Feb 14, 2025 |  |
| Niricson | Niricson develops an AI-based predictive analytics SaaS platform for infrastructure asset management. Its AUTOSPEX platform and DRONIC provide asset managers and civil engineers critical insights and multi-defect layer visualization for the current condition of their assets. | $7.5M | Series A | Aug 02, 2023 |  |
| ZeroIN | ZeroIN is a food-tech company developing breakthrough sugar reduction technologies. Sweet Fiber is the most scalable and cost-efficient, sugar substitute consumers want. |  | Grant | May 07, 2023 |  |
| Marine Thinking | Marine Thinking is focused on redefining the marine industry through artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies. It gathers data from marine environments and fish farms using remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs and analyze it using artificial intelligence. | $100K | Grant | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $4.9M | Grant | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| VueReal | VueReal is engineering the next electronic systems by mass integration of high-efficiency nano/micro-devices into large-area substrates (e.g., displays, sensors, system on panel, and more). They have started by making the true-life experience of micro-LED displays affordable for all applications (TV, laptop, smartphone,virtual/augmented reality, etc.). VueReal technology platform is based on the interplay of cutting-edge micro/nano-device processing, sophisticated integration technologies and advanced system design (hardware and software). VueReal technologies can enhance the experience of existing electronic systems and enable new applications by integrating millions of highly efficient micro-devices (micro-LED) into system substrate. As our Solid Printing (TM) technology works across all substrate sizes, it can develop displays ranging from super high ppi (>4000 ppi) to very large. | $10.5M | Grant | Mar 27, 2023 |  |
| SolarSteam Inc. | SolarSteam is a hardtech startup developing novel renewable concentrated solar technology that addresses the problem of rising costs and high emissions of heat generation. In the last 18 months, we have attracted over 600k in non-dilutive funding, grew the team to 7 FT employees and we are currently in the construct phase for a field pilot (TRL7)with an industry partner. We are seeking 250k in pre-seed investment to leverage an additional 250k in non-dilutive funding through IRAP, AI and SDTC to support pilot commissioning, capacity testing and commercial deployment efforts with various beachhead adopters. | $600K | Seed | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. | $3.6M | Grant | Feb 17, 2023 |  |
| Carbonova | Carbonova turns CO₂ and methane into carbon nanofibers—advanced materials that improve the properties of plastics, batteries, and construction material with significantly lower cost and net-zero emissions. | $2M | Grant | Feb 17, 2023 |  |

10 of 200 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emissions-reduction-alberta-era) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Alberta Innovates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberta-innovates-e699) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Sustainable Development Technology Canada invest in?

Sustainable Development Technology Canada invests primarily in Manufacturing, Energy and Software startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 200 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sustainable Development Technology Canada's check size?

Sustainable Development Technology Canada typically joins rounds of $70k–$2.9M at Seed, $600k–$6.2M at Grant and $475k–$1.6M 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 Sustainable Development Technology Canada participates in.

### How do I contact Sustainable Development Technology Canada?

Public channels for Sustainable Development Technology Canada 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 Sustainable Development Technology Canada?

The team at Sustainable Development Technology Canada includes Leah Lawrence (President & CEO), George Angus (SVP & COO) and Jim Balsillie (Chair), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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