# The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund

> The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.opportunitycalgaryinvestmentfund.com/

The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund is a VC fund in Calgary focused on Software and Enterprise Software. In response to the current economic environment the City of Calgary established the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund as a tool to attract and support transformative investments in the city. The $100-million fund offers opportunities for private sector companies, non-profits and public institutions making transformative investments in Calgarythat will be catalysts for economic growth, diversification, increased employment, and expansion of the property tax assessment base.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 25% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Medical | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 5 | 63% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mount Royal University | Mount Royal University offers a high-quality teaching, personalized undergraduate educational experience for our students. | $3M | Grant | Mar 20, 2026 |  |
| AgSphere | AgSphere is a new arena for generating ideas, fostering relationships, and influencing the direction of Canadian agribusiness-food innovation. | $2M | Grant | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Platform Calgary | Platform Calgary focuses on supporting Calgary's innovation-driven companies by providing access to space, programming, and advocacy, while also championing the vision for the new Platform Innovation Centre's design, activity, and culture. The firm is formerly known as Calgary Technologies Inc. and rebranded as Platform Calgary in 2019. | $850K | Grant | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Avatar Innovations | Avatar Innovations is a corporate venture studio. They build an energy future through leadership, entrepreneurship, collaboration, and capital for decarbonization. It fills a critical gap in the energy innovation ecosystem by working with oil and gas firms to champion solutions from within by engaging their staff. | $500K | Grant | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| Syantra | Syantra is a precision biotechnology company that transforms cancer detection and treatment. The company is initially targeting breast cancer detection and treatment, highlighting its commitment to combatting this prevalent disease. Syantra''s flagship product, Syantra DX™ Breast Cancer, is a blood test designed for early breast cancerscreening. This test measures a panel of gene expression biomarkers from whole blood and utilizes machine learning algorithms to interpret the data, providing a positive or negative result. Clinical studies have demonstrated high inferred accuracy for women under 50 and overall. Syantra's Onco-ID™ platform aims to expand early cancer detection capabilities across multiple cancer types. | $6.8M | Series A | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| AltaML | AltaML helps business leaders understand how artificial intelligence can redefine competitive advantage and develops powerful software applications that create efficiencies, mitigate risk and drive revenue. AltaML has offices in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto, Canada. | $3.3M | Grant | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| Lodgelink | LodgeLink is a Calgary-based company that leverages technology to deliver efficiency and cost control for complex workforce travel. We offer an-end-to-end crew travel management solution, from accommodation to transportation. LodgeLink has over 200,000 rooms and more than 2,000 hotel and lodge properties listed on our platform, and access toessentially all properties throughout Canada and the United States. | $3M |  |  |  |
| Energy Transition Centre foundation | The ETC Foundation is a vibrant center that brings together players from academia, industry, government, and the larger innovation ecosystem to create vital answers to climate concerns and spur innovation. | $10M |  |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alberta Innovates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberta-innovates-e699) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prairies Economic Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prairies-economic-development-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accelerate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerate-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avatar Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avatar-innovations) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CIBC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canadian-imperial-bank-of-commerce) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovate Edmonton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovate-edmonton) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund invest in?

The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Energy startups, most often at Grant and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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