# Whitecap Venture Partners

> Whitecap Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Health Care and Software. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 54%
- Fund size: $102M
- Last fund: Dec 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecap-venture-partners/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/WhitecapVP
- Website: http://www.whitecapvp.com/

Whitecap Venture Partners is a Canadian-based Venture Capital fund investing in early stage technology companies. Whitecap is headquartered in Toronto and invests across Canada and the Northeastern US. Since Whitecap’s inception the early 1990s, Whitecap recognises the power of real collaboration between entrepreneurs and investors. This rapportenables them to provide significant value to companies along with strong returns across investment cycles.Whitecap specialises in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and Medical Technologies. Whitecap is continually searching for upcoming ventures to support as the next generation of exceptional enterprises.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $717k–$5M |
| Series A | $4.1M–$20M |
| Series B | $8.3M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 12% |
| Software | 5 | 10% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 10% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 6% |
| Medical Device | 3 | 6% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 17 | 34% |
| Seed | 11 | 22% |
| Series B | 8 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 23 | 46% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blaine Hobson | Chair of Investment Committee | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blaine-hobson |
| Carey Diamond | Managing Director/Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carey-diamond |
| Damien Steel | Venture Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damien-steel |
| Kim Coote | VP of Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-coote |
| Natalie Smith | Senior Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natalie-smith |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Future Fertility | Future Fertility is a fertility technology company focused on AI-enabled and non-invasive diagnostic solutions to optimize decision making throughout the IVF journey, maximizing the probability of positive outcomes in IVF workflows. The first product is an egg assessment software, which uniquely provides insights in egg quality and has thepotential to improve success rates of IVF, egg freezing and egg donation cycles. | $4.1M | Series A | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Frugal | Frugal is a cloud cost optimization solution that focuses on optimizing application code and managed service usage rather than just tuning infrastructure. It uses AI to automatically detect inefficiencies in code and cloud service consumption and writes fixes to reduce waste.It supports all coding languages across major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP,Azure) and integrates with various services such as storage, logs and metrics, AI services, messaging, serverless functions, and databases. Frugal applies cost-saving techniques like rebalancing API vs. | $5M | Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Felix Health | Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you. | $53M | Series C | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| LocusX | LocusX is a gaming technology startup focused on accelerating and automating the bug resolution cycle in game development using an AI-powered issue resolution engine. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| InvestNext | At InvestNext, we set out on a mission to transform the way investment firms raise and manage capital. The company is based in Detroit, Michigan, and was founded in 2016. At the time, we realized the industry as a whole operates within a black box, with countless hours spent on activities that made fundraising, investment management, and investorrelations tedious and inefficient.Since day one, we’ve known that tomorrow’s investor is one who will not only have access to detailed performance metrics across their portfolio, but also have the full picture of the positive impact they have made on the communities they have invested in. With that in mind, we’ve built a software platform that enables investment firms to operate more effectively and provide greater transparency to their investors. Instrumental to this effort, has been our close partnerships with commercial real estate syndicators and other investment firms around the globe. As of today, we are trusted by tens of thousands of investors, with billions of dollars managed on the platform. | $15M | Series B | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| Lyteflo | Lyteflo provides electric vehicle (EV) sales tools. | $3M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Frate | Frate pioneers peer-to-peer returns to save retailer profits and our planet. It enables retailers to drop ship returns from customer-to-customer. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Deep Sky | Deep Sky is a developer of a CO2 removal infrastructure designed to reduce the carbon footprint. Deep Sky provides CO2 collection and storage services powered by renewable energy at scale, allowing the compliance, voluntary, and government procurement industries to profitably charge more. | $41.8M | Series A | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Felix Health | Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you. | $13.4M | Series B | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| InvestNext | At InvestNext, we set out on a mission to transform the way investment firms raise and manage capital. The company is based in Detroit, Michigan, and was founded in 2016. At the time, we realized the industry as a whole operates within a black box, with countless hours spent on activities that made fundraising, investment management, and investorrelations tedious and inefficient.Since day one, we’ve known that tomorrow’s investor is one who will not only have access to detailed performance metrics across their portfolio, but also have the full picture of the positive impact they have made on the communities they have invested in. With that in mind, we’ve built a software platform that enables investment firms to operate more effectively and provide greater transparency to their investors. Instrumental to this effort, has been our close partnerships with commercial real estate syndicators and other investment firms around the globe. As of today, we are trusted by tens of thousands of investors, with billions of dollars managed on the platform. | $8.3M | Series A | Mar 31, 2023 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Whitecap Venture Partners invest in?

Whitecap Venture Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Whitecap Venture Partners's check size?

Whitecap Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $717k–$5M at Seed, $4.1M–$20M at Series A and $8.3M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Whitecap Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Whitecap Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Whitecap Venture Partners?

The team at Whitecap Venture Partners includes Blaine Hobson (Chair of Investment Committee), Carey Diamond (Managing Director/Co-founder) and Damien Steel (Venture Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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