Waterpoint Lane
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
Waterpoint Lane is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Agriculture and Food and Beverage. Waterpoint Lane (WPL) is focused on growth stage investments (targeted to be in the C$500k-C$5M range) in companies beyond the commercialization stage in primary production, disruptive technology and services and consumer product businesses that focus on and promote sustainable practices throughout the food supply chain.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
Last updated:
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Industries Waterpoint Lane invests in
Stages Waterpoint Lane invests in
Countries Waterpoint Lane invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
4 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $969k–$5.1M
- Series A
- $4.8M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 4 (31%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (23%)
- Farming 2 (15%)
- Software 2 (15%)
- Analytics 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- Canada 6 (46%)
- United States 3 (23%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Gibbons
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Relocalize
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Relocalize is decarbonizing and hyperlocalizing food & beverage manufacturing with distributed networks of fully autonomous hyperlocal micro-factories. RELO micro-factories produce fresher, greener, and more affordable packaged foods and beverages. They co-locate food production, packaging, and distribution in close proximity to distributioncenters to achieve localized fulfillment. By eliminating unnecessary upstream trucking from production plants to retailers, the RELO system effectively reduces greenhouse gas emissions, operating costs, and supply chain risks.Transporting products made primarily of water on trucks comes at a huge economic and environmental cost. 20% of the GHG footprint of food comes from transportation according to Nature Sustainability, much of it from middle mile trucking. While the majority focuses on replacing their traditional trucking fleets with electric vehicles, we are questioning the fundamental design of centralized food supply chains by pioneering a distributed, hyper-local food production system, with the aim of completely eliminating trucks and the chain.Recently, Relocalize made a groundbreaking achievement, launching the world's first autonomous food & beverage micro-factory in collaboration with Southeastern Grocers in Florida. The RELO system produces packaged ice hyper-locally on-demand, effectively eliminating 100% of upstream logistics and transportation. The result is fresher, better and more affordable ice with an impressive 90% reduction in transportation carbon emissions. | $5.1M / Seed / Mar 01, 2026 | |
Heritable Agriculture
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Heritable Agriculture is all about using advanced breeding techniques, biotechnology, and genetic research to improve crops, making them more resilient to diseases, pests, and environmental stress. Heritable Agriculture goal is to create varieties that can produce higher yields, require fewer resources, and adapt better to changing climates. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 09, 2025 | |
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Heritable Agriculture
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Heritable Agriculture is all about using advanced breeding techniques, biotechnology, and genetic research to improve crops, making them more resilient to diseases, pests, and environmental stress. Heritable Agriculture goal is to create varieties that can produce higher yields, require fewer resources, and adapt better to changing climates. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 09, 2025 | |
Verdi
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Verdi is building the data science platform for hyper-specific farm actions, starting with irrigation. | $4.7M / Seed / May 15, 2025 | |
Verdi Expeditions
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Verdi Expeditions is a scalable platform for agricultural automation and tailored plant health. | $4.7M / Seed / May 15, 2025 | |
4T2 Sensors
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4T2 Sensors is a fluid sensor designer and data analytics company that focuses on sensor technologies meant to analyze fluids in real-time utilizing electrical impulses. | $969.3K / Seed / Jan 17, 2025 | |
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4T2 Sensors
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4T2 Sensors is a fluid sensor designer and data analytics company that focuses on sensor technologies meant to analyze fluids in real-time utilizing electrical impulses. | $969.3K / Seed / Jan 17, 2025 | |
Starfish
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Starfish is a supply chain traceability technology company focused on enabling transparent and secure data sharing across the food system. It helps businesses improve visibility, compliance, and trust by connecting product data across complex supply chains. The platform supports real-time, interoperable data exchange from origin to consumer forbetter safety and efficiency. | Seed / Nov 18, 2024 | |
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Relocalize
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Relocalize is decarbonizing and hyperlocalizing food & beverage manufacturing with distributed networks of fully autonomous hyperlocal micro-factories. RELO micro-factories produce fresher, greener, and more affordable packaged foods and beverages. They co-locate food production, packaging, and distribution in close proximity to distributioncenters to achieve localized fulfillment. By eliminating unnecessary upstream trucking from production plants to retailers, the RELO system effectively reduces greenhouse gas emissions, operating costs, and supply chain risks.Transporting products made primarily of water on trucks comes at a huge economic and environmental cost. 20% of the GHG footprint of food comes from transportation according to Nature Sustainability, much of it from middle mile trucking. While the majority focuses on replacing their traditional trucking fleets with electric vehicles, we are questioning the fundamental design of centralized food supply chains by pioneering a distributed, hyper-local food production system, with the aim of completely eliminating trucks and the chain.Recently, Relocalize made a groundbreaking achievement, launching the world's first autonomous food & beverage micro-factory in collaboration with Southeastern Grocers in Florida. The RELO system produces packaged ice hyper-locally on-demand, effectively eliminating 100% of upstream logistics and transportation. The result is fresher, better and more affordable ice with an impressive 90% reduction in transportation carbon emissions. | $4.7M / Seed / Oct 03, 2023 | |
Peak Power
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Peak Power is a cleantech company founded in 2015 operating in Ontario, New York, New England, and California. Their flagship software, Peak Synergy, provides energy management solutions for commercial real estate and industrial customers by optimizing three core energy assets: battery energy storage systems, grid-interactive buildings, andelectric vehicles. Peak Synergy enables customers to minimize operational costs, reduce emissions, and sell energy back to the grid. Peak Power’s software delivers results with innovative projects that take commercial and industrial scale storage systems and electric vehicles into electricity markets. Peak Synergy is deployed in over 13M sq. ft. of real estate, with ~150 MWh of battery and electric vehicle capacity under contract or committed. | $20M / Series A / May 18, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
Desjardins Capital
2 deals together
Echo River Capital
2 deals together
Elemental Impact
2 deals together
Elemental Impact
2 deals together
Genome British Columbia
2 deals together
Jetstream
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does Waterpoint Lane invest in?
Waterpoint Lane invests primarily in Agriculture, Food and Beverage and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Waterpoint Lane's check size?
Waterpoint Lane typically joins rounds of $969k–$5.1M at Seed and $4.8M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Waterpoint Lane participates in.
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Who are the partners at Waterpoint Lane?
The team at Waterpoint Lane includes Ben Gibbons (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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