BDC Fund Investments (Fund-of-Funds)

Byron Thom is a partner at BDC's Industrial Innovation Venture Fund (I2VF), where he invests in and advises startups and technology companies on strategy, go-to-market, and governance. He previously served as Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy at Cymax Group Technologies and as a Principal at Framework Venture Partners, where he was a board observer for Cymax following its Series B financing. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Governors at UBC and Chair of its Finance Committee, holds the ICD.D designation obtained in 2025, and is licensed to practice law in British Columbia.

Daniel Drouet is a Partner with the Black Entrepreneurs Fund at BDC and has worked in technology for over 25 years as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and mentor. He founded several companies, including the early-stage venture capital fund Real Ventures, and has experience in venture financing, product management, engineering, and M&A across North America, Africa, and the Middle East. He has mentored in multiple startup accelerators, led a training program for venture capitalists, and served for five years as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship.

François Crémet is Managing Director at BDC. His background spans roles as an investor, advisor, and operator, working with companies on financial and business strategy.

Mathieu Duffar is a Partner on the Growth Venture Fund at BDC Capital, a role he has held since January 2024, where he focuses on late-stage businesses in areas including artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and IoT across sectors such as eCommerce, AdTech, AgTech, and HealthTech. His investments include StackAdapt, Colab Software, KOHO, and Certn, and he serves as a Board Observer at Powerside. He also contributes to BDC's Dual Defense Team, which addresses solutions in mobility, defense, and robotics.

Nader Bekhouche is a Lead Quantitative Economist in the Office of Economic Policy at the Ontario Ministry of Finance. He has worked as an economist and policy analyst across the Canadian, Ontario, and British Columbia public services, with a focus on quantitative modelling and analysis, research, and policy development.

Phil Anzarut is Vice President and Partner in Asset Management at BDC Capital. He has experience across corporate strategy, corporate finance, venture capital, marketing, human resources, and mergers and acquisitions. His board committee experience includes HR, audit, M&A, strategy, governance, and CEO search.

Remi Fournier is a Partner at BDC focused on clean energy, climate technologies, and sustainability investments. With over 20 years of experience in venture capital and entrepreneurship, he cofounded Fibrenoire, a fiber optic network for businesses in Eastern Canada that was subsequently acquired by Videotron, where he served as VP of Sales and Engineering. His background spans telecommunications, digital advertising, software technologies, and product commercialization, complemented by technical expertise and farming operations.

Steven Abrams is a Partner at BDC Venture Capital, where he focuses on the IT Venture, Thrive, and Women in Tech Funds. He serves as a board director or observer for numerous portfolio companies including Hopper, Waabi, Sanctuary AI, and Sheertex, among others, and has invested in companies that have achieved exits including Coveo, Unsplash, and Sonder. Abrams is a charter member of the C100 and holds board positions with the Upside Foundation and Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation.

Arun Eapen is a Partner at BDC Venture Capital, where he works across the IT Venture, Thrive, and Women in Tech Funds. He serves as a board director, observer, or investor in portfolio companies including Hopper, Waabi, Sanctuary AI, Lufa Farms, and Sheertex, with past investments in firms such as Coveo, Unsplash, and RenoRun. Eapen is a Charter Member of the C100, sits on the Upside Foundation board, and is a former Vice-Chair of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation.

Christopher Gillam is a Principal at BDC's Industrial Innovation Venture Fund. The Fund invests in technologies applied to core sectors of the Canadian economy, including agtech and foodtech, advanced manufacturing, and natural resources, with a focus on partnering with entrepreneurs to scale their businesses.

Connor Edwards is a Principal at BDC, focusing on early-stage venture investments in climate, software, and AI. His background includes management consulting and banking, along with an early role at Hootsuite. He also makes personal investments in capital-light, AI-native businesses, with interests spanning vertical AI, B2B software, fintech and embedded finance, digital health, and the future of work.

Jason Baibokas is Managing Director, Private Equity Funds Portfolio at BDC Capital Inc. In this role, he oversees a portfolio of private equity funds.

Kristina D'Amico is a Partner at BDC, focusing on venture capital investment in clean energy, climate technologies, and sustainability. She has over 20 years of experience in business and venture capital across the telecommunications, digital advertising, and software sectors, and cofounded Fibrenoire, a fiber optic network for businesses in Eastern Canada that later became part of Videotron, where she served as VP of Sales and Engineering. Outside of her investment work, she farms grapes, organic vegetables, and flowers.

Leana Keto is a Principal with BDC Capital's Industrial Innovation Venture Fund, drawing on an engineering background in the energy industry and experience with early-stage ventures. She previously served as Program Manager at SVG Ventures | THRIVE, an investment fund and accelerator for food and agriculture ventures, and as Energy Stream Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab, where she supported science-based start-ups in accessing mentorship and raising capital; her earlier engineering roles include positions at Schlumberger and Husky Energy. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the Sauder School of Business, both from the University of British Columbia.

Nicole Leite is a Principal with the Climate Tech Fund at BDC Capital. Her background includes impact investing, investment banking, and renewable project financing. She holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Paras Sharma is a Principal with the Climate Tech Fund at BDC Capital. His background includes impact investing, investment banking, and renewable project financing. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Sara Cavalluzzi is Vice President & Partner, Asset Management at BDC Capital. Her experience spans corporate strategy, corporate finance, venture capital, marketing, human resources, and M&A, including work with investee companies on board recruitment, due diligence, and strategic direction. Her board committee experience includes HR, Audit, M&A, CEO Search, and chair roles on Strategy and Governance committees.

Aadit Parikh is an investor with BDC's Seed Venture Fund and IT Venture Fund. He focuses on early-stage Canadian founders developing new technologies and business models.

Aashna Kumar is a Partner with the Black Entrepreneurs Fund at BDC, with more than 25 years in the technology sector as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and mentor. Kumar has founded several companies, including the early-stage venture capital fund Real Ventures, and has experience in venture financing, product management, engineering and M&A across North America, Africa and the Middle East. Kumar has mentored startups in multiple accelerators, led a training program for venture capitalists, and served for five years as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship.

Alexa Goldhar is an investor with BDC Capital's Growth Venture Fund. She holds an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship and has over four years of experience in financial analysis and market research, with a background in health-tech spanning the supply chain and pharmaceutical sectors.

Alroy Almeida is an Associate Principal with the Climate Tech Fund at BDC and holds the CFA designation. He has more than eight years of experience investing in venture capital funds and directly in companies, with work spanning financial analysis, deal structuring, industry research, and portfolio management. His investment activity has involved supporting evaluation and due diligence across these areas.

Brian Chan is an Associate Principal with the Climate Tech Fund at BDC. He has more than eight years of experience investing in venture capital funds and making direct company investments, with work spanning financial analysis, deal structuring, industry research, and portfolio management. Chan holds the CFA designation.

Cassidy Emby is a Senior Analyst with the Thrive Venture Fund and the Women in Technology Fund at BDC. She previously worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Scotiabank, covering the consumer, industrial, and retail sectors in Western Canada.

Cole Brodkin is an Analyst at BDC's Thrive Venture Fund, which invests in women-led startups across Canada. He holds an MBA from the Ivey Business School and has a background in early-stage venture capital.

Darian Hirst is an investor with the Indigenous Fund at BDC Capital. His background includes experience in UX, product, and strategy, spanning work with design and product management teams, portfolio company leadership, and investment thesis development. His stated professional interests include climate change and reaching net-zero emissions.

David Uponi is an Investor with the Indigenous Fund at BDC Capital. His background includes experience in UX, product, and strategy, including work on user experience, product roadmaps, and investment theses. His interests include climate change and reaching net-zero emissions, and outside of work he writes and records music and reads.

Erika Remigio is a Venture Capital Analyst at BDC, where she works with early-stage startups on pre-seed fundraising. She holds a graduate degree (MASc) in chemical engineering and previously completed an internship at 3M Canada, focusing on research and problem-solving related to materials synthesis. Her prior experience also includes project management.

Evan Greene is an investor with BDC Capital's $500M Growth Venture Fund, where he leads financial, market, and commercial underwriting for growth-stage technology investments, including companies such as Cohere, KOHO, Miovision, and ApplyBoard. His prior experience includes several years in transaction execution across a 30-company venture portfolio—covering restructurings, share conversions, secondary transactions, and exits—more than three years in commercial technology banking, and a go-to-market role at a venture-backed SaaS company; he has also served as a board observer for two venture-backed businesses. He is completing an Executive MBA at the University of Oxford.

George Chen is an investor with the Growth Venture Fund at BDC Capital. He holds an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship and has over four years of experience in financial analysis and market research, with a background in health-tech focused on the supply chain and pharmaceutical sectors.

Harjot Juneja is an Investor at BDC's Growth Venture Fund. He previously worked as an Investment Analyst at a sector-agnostic venture capital fund with a portfolio of more than 20 startups, and began his career as a Relationship Manager at ICICI Prudential AMC, where he provided portfolio advisory to clients across equity, fixed income, PMS, and alternative investments. He has completed all levels of the CFA Program and cleared both groups of the CA IPCC examination.

Joshua Smith is an Associate Director on the Fund Investments team at BDC Capital, where he invests in venture capital funds across Canada. Previously, he served as an investment manager at Big Society Capital in London, deploying £15 million across four venture funds focused on health, financial inclusion, and education, and led the development of the venture team's co-investment program and several data initiatives. Earlier in his career, he worked as a management consultant with KPMG Australia and MaRS Discovery District for nearly five years.

Listed as the BDC Capital lead contact for the ArcTern Ventures fund relationship, serving as Director, Funds.

Mathieu Goyette is a Senior Analyst with the Thrive Venture Fund and Women in Technology Fund at BDC. He previously worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Scotiabank, where he focused on the consumer, industrial, and retail sectors in Western Canada.

Nikita Tuboltsev serves as Head of Platform at Ag Ventures Alliance, a business development organization focused on value-added agricultural ventures. The organization's members, comprising farmers and individuals connected to agriculture, participate in value-added agriculture businesses.

Rainee Mistry is a Senior Analyst with the Sustainability Venture Fund at BDC Capital. Trained as an aero-mechanical engineer, Mistry previously designed structures for supersonic aircraft and special-purpose machines, working in product development, corporate strategy, and R&D across the manufacturing and automation sectors. Mistry holds a graduate degree in Basic Mountaineering from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and has climbed more than 80 peaks worldwide, including Mt. Renok (5,200m) and Salkantay Pass (4,600m).

Rakshith Nagaraj is a Senior Analyst with the Sustainability Venture Fund at BDC Capital, focusing on startup and deep tech investments. An aero-mechanical engineer by training, he previously designed structures for supersonic aircraft and special-purpose machines, working in product development, corporate strategy, and R&D across the manufacturing and automation sectors. He holds a graduate degree in Basic Mountaineering from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and has climbed more than 80 peaks worldwide, including Mt. Renok (5,200m) and Salkantay Pass (4,600m).

Roland Ngo is an investor with BDC Capital's $500M Growth Venture Fund, where he handles financial, market, and commercial underwriting for growth-stage technology companies including Cohere, KOHO, Miovision, and ApplyBoard. His earlier experience includes transaction execution across a 30-company venture portfolio at BDC, over three years in commercial technology banking, and a go-to-market role at a venture-backed SaaS company; he has also served as a Board Observer for two venture-backed businesses. Ngo is completing an Executive MBA at the University of Oxford.

Sarah McCullough is an investor with BDC's Seed Venture Fund and IT Venture Fund, where she focuses on early-stage companies. Her investments target Canadian founders developing new technologies and business models.

Sony Nguyen is an Associate in Venture Capital at BDC Capital, where she invests in early-stage, women-led companies. Her experience spans capital markets and the startup ecosystem, with investment focus areas including fintech, technology, media, digital healthcare, and life sciences. She is multilingual.

Vincent Fréchette-Coculuzzi is a Senior Analyst in fund investments at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), where he works on venture capital and private equity fund investments. He holds a master's degree in finance.