BDC Industrial Innovation Venture Fund — Full Portfolio

A&K Robotics builds Cruz, an all-electric, AI-enabled autonomous micro-mobility pod for shared use in large venues such as airports and museums to move people and goods.

AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationRoboticsVancouver

Anson Kung(Executive Officer)Jessica Yip(Executive Officer, Director)inMatthew Anderson(Founder)in

Co-investorsBDBDC Fund Investments (Fund-of-Funds)BDBDC Venture CapitalFUFundersClubWUWUTIF CapitalGRGREP VCVAVantage Futures

Acerta provides an industrial AI analytics platform for discrete manufacturers to identify and resolve production defects early, reducing scrap, rework, and downtime.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise SoftwareKitchener, CA

GCGreta Cutulenco(Founder)in

Co-investorsBDBDC Fund Investments (Fund-of-Funds)BDBDC Thrive Venture Fund for WomenBDBDC Venture CapitalCRCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)GAGarage CapitalL-L-SPARK+7 more

Ambyint offers an AI-powered platform for optimizing oil and gas production, using physics-informed models and analytics to monitor wells, detect anomalies, and manage controller setpoints.

AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaSCalgary, CA

Co-investorsGEGE VenturesACAccelerate FundFLFlyover CapitalFRFrontera Technology VenturesMEMercury FundSASaints Capital+3 more

Vancouver-based developer of 4D Vision software that combines 3D vision and AI to guide industrial robots.

Co-investorsEMEmerging VenturesFLFlying Fish VenturesLOLobby CapitalWUWUTIF CapitalBDBDC Capital CorporationJ-J-Ventures

Félix Bélisle Dockrill(Founder)in

Co-investorsBABastien Family OfficeCRCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)ECEcofuel FundFRFront Row Ventures

BDC is a Canadian financial institution that provides financing and business advisory services to small and medium-sized enterprises across all sectors.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechCanada, CA

Co-investorsBDBDC Climate Tech Fund IIBDBDC Fund Investments (Fund-of-Funds)BDBDC Growth Venture FundBDBDC Life Sciences Venture FundBDBDC Seed Venture FundBDBDC Sustainability Venture Fund+8 more

BinSentry makes machine-vision sensors that capture 3D images inside feed bins on farms and ingredient bins at mills, feeding real-time level and inventory data into web dashboards.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningIoTKitchener

BABen Allen(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardJamie Weston(Director)Chuck Warta(Director)Dennis Organ(Director)Jonathan Goodkey(Director)inPBPaul Bell(Director)in

Co-investorsGAGarage CapitalLELead Edge CapitalBDBDC Capital CorporationBDBDC Venture CapitalLELewis & Clark AgriFood

Brizo Data (Brizo by Datassential, formerly Brizo FoodMetrics) provides big-data analytics and business intelligence for the food service industry.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFoodTechSales TechQuebec City, CA

IDIan Delisle(Chief Executive Officer (CEO))inGCGaétan Corneau(Chief Information Officer (CIO))inTrevor Shimizu(Chief Revenue Officer (CRO))inJVJean-Sébastien Vachon(Chief Technology Officer (CTO))in

Co-investorsBRBranded Strategic HospitalityFRFramework Venture PartnersBDBDC Venture Capital

SaaS platform to manage and collaborate on project documents from conception to archiving.

Toronto, CA

JLJohn Laslavic(Founder)in

Co-investorsBOBoreal Ventures

ChrysaLabs provides soil carbon measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) using patented direct-contact proximal sensing technology deployed in field soil.

AgTechClimate TechDeep Tech

Samuel Fournier(Founder)in

Co-investorsBABastien Family OfficeCRCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)ECEcofuel FundEMEmmertechBDBDC Venture Capital

Kepler operates a satellite constellation designed to relay data between spacecraft in low Earth orbit and beyond, functioning as internet exchange points for space-to-space communications.

Advanced ManufacturingCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureHardwareIoTSpace TechToronto, CA

MMMina Mitry(Founder)inJeffrey Osborne(Founder)Mark Michael(Founder)Wen Cheng Chong(Founder)

Co-investorsBEBerkeley SkyDeck FundCACanaan PartnersDNDns CapitalEVEvolution VC PartnersGAGarage CapitalGOGood News Ventures+12 more

Laserax designs and builds turnkey laser machines and standalone laser systems for industrial manufacturers, covering cleaning, welding, texturing, and marking applications.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware

Co-investorsDEDesjardins Capital

Maxa is an agentic platform that uses AI agents to build and maintain production-grade dbt data pipelines for finance and operations teams, unifying enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and Workday into a single data model.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

ACAlexis C. Steinman(Founder)in

Co-investorsBABastien Family OfficeFRFramework Venture PartnersGRGraphite VenturesNANAventuresYOYork IEAQAQC Capital+1 more

MineSense builds sensor-based hardware and software for the mining industry, applying real-time ore-grade sensing and data analytics to mining and processing operations.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechHardwareVancouver, CA

ABAndrew Bamber(Executive Officer, Director)inJMJeff More(Executive Officer, Director)inFKFadi Kanafani(Executive Officer)inABAlan Bradford(Executive Officer)inLPLisa Payne(Executive Officer)inJSJohn Slaven(Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsCHChrysalixPRPrelude VenturesAUAurus CapitalCYCycle CapitalEVEvok InnovationsEXExport Development Canada (EDC)+2 more

Develops tools to formulate and manufacture nanoparticles used as medicines; acquired by Danaher in 2021.

BiotechVancouver

Andrew Booth(Director)R. James Taylor(Executive Officer, Director)JVJoe Victor(Executive Officer, Director)Euan Ramsay(Executive Officer)Daniel Nixon(Director)

BoardAJAndrew J. Schwab(Director)in

Co-investorsINInnovative Solutions CanadaPAPage One VenturesRIRising TideTETelegraph Hill Partners5A5AM Ventures

Mississauga, Ontario-based brand of non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan plant-based products for retail and food service.

DBDror Balshine(Founder)in

Co-investorsINInvestEcoBDBDC Venture Capital