# TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good

> TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good is a VC fund backing Software and Agriculture. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 22%
- Fund size: $73M
- Last fund: Nov 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/telus
- Website: https://www.telus.com/en/pollinatorfund/

TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good is a VC fund in Vancouver focused on Software and Agriculture. The $100-million TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good is one of Canada’s largest corporate impact funds, powering the boldest, bravest ideas by for-profit startups that are dedicated to driving social innovation and building tech for good. In support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Fund invests in the next generation of entrepreneurs who areaddressing the biggest challenges in health, education, agriculture and the environment – connecting them with the resources and capital they need to grow and thrive.The TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good showcases TELUS’ long-standing commitment to leverage its world leading technology to create meaningful change and make the world a better place.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$3.9M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$22M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3.5M–$8.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 14% |
| Agriculture | 4 | 11% |
| Health Care | 4 | 11% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 11% |
| Environmental Engineering | 4 | 11% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 35% |
| Series A | 8 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 18 | 49% |
| United States | 11 | 30% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| South Africa | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blair Miller | Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blair-miller-4115 |
| Nabeela Merchant | Sr. Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nabeela-merchant |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Applied Carbon | Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world. | $21.5M | Series A | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| Plentify | Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 22, 2024 |  |
| Mycocycle | Mycocycle is an environmental remediation company that offers a process to decarbonize waste streams using fungi via mycoremediation. Treatment through our engineered ecosystems renders a non-toxic biomass available for use in the manufacture of new products. Our clients are waste management companies, landfill operators, material recyclingfacilities, manufacturers of petrochemical materials who want to become closed-loop in their process, and advanced materials manufacturers. | $3.9M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Waymap | Waymap provides the world’s only navigation app that guides both indoors and outdoors. Waymap is a high-technology business that was founded to address the navigation needs of visually impaired persons. Their vision is to provide an inclusive navigation app, driven by cutting-edge technology. | $8.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| Dryad Networks | Dryad Networks develops environmental monitoring solutions that focus on ultra-early wildfire detection and forest health assessment. The company provides a wireless sensor network based on LoRaWAN, supporting distributed mesh deployments for large-scale monitoring. Its products include wildfire sensors, mesh and border gateways, and a cloud-basedanalytics platform that delivers real-time alerts and actionable insights. The system tracks environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, gas levels, and tree growth, enabling forest owners and authorities to respond quickly to potential hazards. Dryad’s technology integrates with third-party sensors and applications, extending its data collection and analysis capabilities. Beyond forest management, the platform has potential applications for monitoring air, water, and agricultural ecosystems. | $6.1M | Convertible Note | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Cycle Momentum | Cycle Momentum is a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to the cleantech startups. Founded by Cycle Capital, the accelerator works with entrepreneurs that develop and commercialize clean technologies to help build globally competitive companies. Cycle Momentum offers entrepreneurs a specialized and personalized program of trainingworkshops, networking sessions, experienced mentors and gives access to the investors to some of the most promising Canadian cleantech ventures. | $22.3M | Grant | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Erthos | erthos is a producer of biodegradable packaging materials intended to replace traditional polystyrene and polypropylene inputs. | $4.8M | Series A | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| Dryad Networks | Dryad Networks develops environmental monitoring solutions that focus on ultra-early wildfire detection and forest health assessment. The company provides a wireless sensor network based on LoRaWAN, supporting distributed mesh deployments for large-scale monitoring. Its products include wildfire sensors, mesh and border gateways, and a cloud-basedanalytics platform that delivers real-time alerts and actionable insights. The system tracks environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, gas levels, and tree growth, enabling forest owners and authorities to respond quickly to potential hazards. Dryad’s technology integrates with third-party sensors and applications, extending its data collection and analysis capabilities. Beyond forest management, the platform has potential applications for monitoring air, water, and agricultural ecosystems. |  | Series A | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Mycocycle | Mycocycle is an environmental remediation company that offers a process to decarbonize waste streams using fungi via mycoremediation. Treatment through our engineered ecosystems renders a non-toxic biomass available for use in the manufacture of new products. Our clients are waste management companies, landfill operators, material recyclingfacilities, manufacturers of petrochemical materials who want to become closed-loop in their process, and advanced materials manufacturers. | $2.2M | Seed | May 09, 2023 |  |
| Flash Forest | Flash Forest is a reforestation company that uses aerial mapping software, drone technology, pneumatics, automation, ecological science and a lot of passion to reforest post-harvest and post-wildfire areas. The company reforests post-harvest and post-wildfire areas using hardware, aerial mapping software, automation, and biological seed-podtechnology, allowing businesses to offset enough carbon emissions to have a significant and measurable impact on climate change. | $8.5M | Series A | Apr 18, 2023 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good invest in?

TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good invests primarily in Software, Agriculture and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good's check size?

TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3.9M at Seed, $4.8M–$22M at Series A and $3.5M–$8.9M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good participates in.

### How do I contact TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good?

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### Who are the partners at TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good?

The team at TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good includes Blair Miller (Managing Partner) and Nabeela Merchant (Sr. Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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