TELUS Global Ventures
VC Fund
Vancouver, Canada
TELUS Global Ventures is a VC fund in Vancouver focused on Software and Health Care. TELUS Ventures is the strategic investment arm of TELUS Corporation and one of Canada’s most active and longest-standing corporate venture capital (CVC) funds. Since 2001, TELUS Ventures has invested in and advised more than 85 companies that address some of the biggest opportunities and challenges in digital health, IoT, AgTech, digital security and connected consumer sectors. TELUS Ventures is on a mission to seamlessly connect millions of people, companies and communities by strategically investing in the most advanced and innovative solutions that deliver value to our business and customers, fuel economic growth and deliver a positive social impact. We are stage agnostic in our approach, and write cheques anywhere from $500,000 to $15M; We focus on horizon 2 / horizon 3 investment opportunities in early stage companies that are synergistic to TELUS and allow us to expand into new markets beyond the traditional telecommunications sector. We work with best-in-class partners to source, nurture and scale innovation. Our established partner network includes leading incubator, accelerator and global co-investment partners as well as a global consortium of telecom companies with CVC arms. TELUS Ventures is actively involved in portfolio companies, working directly with management. Our team members regularly act as board members and board observers, lending leadership and experience to guide their growth and success. We provide access to TELUS’ technologies and broadband networks and opportunities to promote our portfolio companies’ solutions across our ecosystem.
- Total investments:
- 156
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
Last updated:
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Industries TELUS Global Ventures invests in
Stages TELUS Global Ventures invests in
Countries TELUS Global Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $2.4M–$20M
- Series B
- $5M–$43M
- Series C
- $6.7M–$128M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 43 (28%)
- Health Care 29 (19%)
- Information Technology 22 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 15 (10%)
- SaaS 12 (8%)
Stage
- Series C 21 (13%)
- Series A 20 (13%)
- Series B 20 (13%)
- Funding Round 18 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 17 (11%)
Country
- Canada 40 (26%)
- United States 37 (24%)
- United Kingdom 7 (4%)
- Australia 4 (3%)
- Israel 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Terry Doyle
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
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Anthony Lam
Financial Analyst II
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Financial Analyst II | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chris Robertson
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jay Crone
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Jon Wolkin
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before. | $750M / Series C / Jan 28, 2026 | ||
| Photonic develops quantum computing and networking technologies, utilizing silicon spin qubits and native telecom networking interface. Photonic is turning fault-tolerant quantum technologies into reality through its distinctive silicon spin-photon interface. This innovative technology combines the memory and computing capabilities of spins withthe connectivity of photonics, enabling the creation of one of the world's initial scalable, fault-tolerant, and networked quantum computers. | $130.8M / Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| Naluri provides behaviour science, psychology, digital health, data science, wellness, diet, exercise, fitness, digital behaviour change, multidisciplinary care, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and pain | $5M / Series B / Aug 12, 2025 | ||
| Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training to create healthier, happier, more human organizations that offer a positive, proactive solution that anyone can use to bolster their mental health | $35M / Series C / Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| Swift Navigation was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of theprice of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service. | $50M / Series E / Jul 23, 2025 | ||
| Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage | $50M / Series B / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rhino Federated Computing solves one of the biggest challenges in AI: seamlessly connecting siloed data through federated computing. The Rhino Federated Computing Platform (RhinoFCP) serves as the ‘data collaboration tech stack’, extending from providing computing resources to data preparation & discoverability, to model development &monitoring — all in a secure, privacy-preserving environment. To do this, Rhino FCP offers flexible architecture (multi-cloud and on-prem hardware), end-to-end data management workflows (multimodal data, schema definition, harmonization, and visualization), privacy enhancing technologies (e.g., differential privacy), and allows for the secure deployment of custom code & 3rd party applications via persistent data pipelines. Rhino is trusted by >60 leading organizations worldwide — including 14 of 20 of Newsweek’s ‘Best Smart Hospitals’ and top 20 global biopharma companies — and is leveraging this foundation for financial services, ecommerce, and beyond. The company is headquartered in Boston, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv. | $15M / Series A / May 22, 2025 | ||
| QuintessenceLabs has developed a suite of data security technology, products, and solutions to secure valuable digital information in-transit, at-rest or in-use. By centralizing the management and control of data-security policy and harnessing quantum science properties to strengthen data security solutions, its solutions maximize security,increase ROI from existing assets, and reduce data-security complexities.Customers include financial services companies such as Westpac Group, a leading Australian bank, Technology providers, such as NetDocuments, a cloud storage provider for the legal industry, and PKWare, federal customers such as the US State Department, and defence primes such as Boeing Corporation and Northrop Grumman. | $12.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 03, 2025 | ||
| See all 156 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does TELUS Global Ventures invest in?
TELUS Global Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 156 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does TELUS Global Ventures invest in?
TELUS Global Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$20M at Series A, $5M–$43M at Series B and $6.7M–$128M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not TELUS Global Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds TELUS Global Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at TELUS Global Ventures?
The team at TELUS Global Ventures includes Terry Doyle (Managing Partner), Anthony Lam (Financial Analyst II) and Chris Robertson (Senior Associate), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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