# Venture Grade

> Venture Grade is a VC fund in Halifax backing Insurance, Geospatial and B2B. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Halifax, Canada
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/venture-grade
- Website: https://venturegrade.ca/

Venture Grade is a revolutionary university experience in which students raise funds to invest in privately-held entrepreneurial equity.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Insurance | 2 | 50% |
| Geospatial | 2 | 50% |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Rental | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frenter | Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real timein even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health. | $1M | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Emma | Emma is a family-centric insurance platform that makes buying life insurance easy, affordable and accessible. Our solution leverages big data to underwrite our insurance products, and we've built a proprietary chat platform that allows our customers to get on-demand advice from our experts. Emma combines innovative technology and insuranceexpertise to simplify and accelerate the life insurance buying process. | $12.5K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Terris Earth Intelligence | Our cloud-based AI platform represents the new era of earth intelligence as it sources images and data from satellite, aerial, and underwater sources on-demand, and seamlessly fuses and projects 3D visualizations with AI-driven analytics to facilitate faster and more informed decision-making for any place on earth. We help clients navigatethrough uncertainty, change and crisis. | $12.5K | Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| KorrAI | Traceable AI for billion-dollar buildsOur platform, TRAIL, enables insurers, asset owners, and builders to evaluate site and construction risk in hours instead of weeks by unifying geospatial data, geotechnical reports, catastrophe model outputs, and engineering context into one traceable system.Making infrastructure and mining risk visibleearly and actionable. | $12.5K | Pre-Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LOI Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loi-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Invest Nova Scotia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-nova-scotia-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LAUNCH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Newchip Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newchip) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Seraphim Space](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seraphim-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Venture Grade invest in?

Venture Grade invests primarily in Insurance, Geospatial and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Venture Grade last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Venture Grade closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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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