# Wade Dawe

> Wade Dawe is a post-ipo equity investor at Brigus Capital backing Mining and Life Science. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Brigus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brigus-capital)
- Location: Halifax, Canada
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wade-dawe-24193b35/

Wade Dawe is a post-ipo equity investor at Brigus Capital in Halifax focused on Mining and Life Science. Wade Dawe is based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia and is the CEO and Board of Director of Torrent Capital. He previously worked at Brigus Gold as Chairman & CEO. Wade Dawe attended the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining | 3 | 50% |
| Life Science | 1 | 17% |
| Nanotechnology | 1 | 17% |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 17% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Equity | 3 | 50% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| E-Tech Resources | E-Tech Resources is an exploring and development business with a focus on REE. | $700K | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 21, 2023 |  |
| Antler Gold | Antler Gold is focused on exploring a property known as the Wilding Lake Project in Central Newfoundland. The Wilding Project is virtually unexplored and recently became accessible as a result of logging activity at which time Brian Jones and Gary Rowsell discovered mineralized boulders containing visible gold alongside a new road. The Project liesadjacent to Marathon Gold’s Valentine Lake gold camp which currently holds an NI 43-101 compliant estimated resource (combined Measured and Indicated) totaling 1,060,000 oz. gold at a grade of 2.20 g/t (Murahwi, 2015). Initial exploration work by Antler has yielded numerous showings of mineralization including visible gold over approximately 3 kilometers. The remaining 47 kilometers of trend has not been explored. A systematic exploration program has been initiated, to identify new showings throughout the trend. | $332K | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 28, 2020 |  |
| Coloursmith Labs Inc. | Coloursmith develops breakthrough optical filtering technologies in ophthalmic devices. | $470K | Pre-Seed | Jul 09, 2019 |  |
| Torrent Capital | Torrent Capital is a publicly traded investment company |  | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 15, 2019 |  |
| Antler Gold | Antler Gold is focused on exploring a property known as the Wilding Lake Project in Central Newfoundland. The Wilding Project is virtually unexplored and recently became accessible as a result of logging activity at which time Brian Jones and Gary Rowsell discovered mineralized boulders containing visible gold alongside a new road. The Project liesadjacent to Marathon Gold’s Valentine Lake gold camp which currently holds an NI 43-101 compliant estimated resource (combined Measured and Indicated) totaling 1,060,000 oz. gold at a grade of 2.20 g/t (Murahwi, 2015). Initial exploration work by Antler has yielded numerous showings of mineralization including visible gold over approximately 3 kilometers. The remaining 47 kilometers of trend has not been explored. A systematic exploration program has been initiated, to identify new showings throughout the trend. | $1.2M | Private Equity | Nov 09, 2016 |  |
| Linear Gold Corp | Linear Gold Corp is a mining company based out Halifax, NS, Canada. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2003 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Beresford Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beresford-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creative Destruction Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-destruction-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Island Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/island-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Killick Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/killick-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Brigus Capital

VC Fund · Halifax, Canada

Brigus Capital is investment company focused on investing in small-cap publicly traded companies.

1 contacts available at Brigus Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wade Dawe | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wade-dawe-9a11 |

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## FAQ

### What does Wade Dawe invest in?

Wade Dawe invests primarily in Mining, Life Science and Nanotechnology startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Private Equity stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Wade Dawe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Wade Dawe closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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