Diversified Venture Fund
The Diversified Venture Fund is a stage and sector agnostic fund. The partnership harnesses the experience of seasoned investment and operating professionals from ICT, Life Sciences, Electronics and Advanced Materials to maximize value creation across the portfolio.
Energy/Cleantech Venture Fund
The Energy/Cleantech (ECT) Fund invests in early and development stage cleantech and energy companies based in Canada. We focus our investments in capital efficient and scalable businesses with global market and operations. Within Energy/Cleantech we target materials and ICT (information and communication technology) innovation enabling technology companies.
Health Venture Fund
The Health Venture Fund invests in innovative companies that improve healthcare productivity. By partnering with Canadian entrepreneurs, the Health Fund team focuses on investment opportunities that enable healthcare providers to significantly improve health outcomes. Investments are in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, personalized treatment and disease management. The Fund enters early in the life cycle of companies and supports them through to successful commercialization.
IT Venture Fund
The BDC IT Venture Fund is a Canadian venture capital fund with partners in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa. We actively invest in early stage IT companies with passionate entrepreneurs who think big and will disrupt existing industries or create entirely new markets. Entrepreneurs come first and we use our broad network and operational backgrounds to help companies grow into global leaders. We lead the majority of our investments, which are typically early stage start-ups (late seed and series A) focused on Enterprise, Internet, or Mobile. The fund has invested in many successful companies including Radian6 (acquired by Salesforce), Beyond the Rack, Opalis (acquired by Microsoft), Bycast (acquired by NetApp), and Q1 Labs (acquired by IBM).