Industrial Innovation Venture Fund

Our Industrial Innovation Venture Fund brings direct investment and strategic support to visionary management teams with the desire, ambition and courage to become Canada’s next generation of global leaders.

Breakthrough ideas

We target legacy industries where enabling technologies and leading-edge innovation hold the promise to reshape Canadian companies into global leaders.

Our focus

  • Early-stage equity investment – Series A and beyond
  • Seeking Canadian companies with demonstrated market validation
  • Supporting companies in sectors of Canadian economic advantage

Industries

With patient investment, we support innovation-oriented Canadian companies with next-generation solutions for strategic industries including:

  • Manufacturing 4.0
  • Agri-tech and Food-tech
  • Extractive industries (Mining, Oil & Gas, etc.)

Leading innovation

With our Canada-wide network, cross-functional expertise and ability to lead transactions, we help ground-breaking companies fulfill their global ambitions.

Disruption

Helping legacy industries evolve

Scale

$250M fund

Collaboration

A hands-on investment partner

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Our team

Joseph Regan - Industrial innovation venture fund at BDC
Joseph Regan

Senior Managing Partner

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Aditya Aggarwal - Partner venture capital at BDC
Aditya Aggarwal

Managing Partner

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Nicolas Gravel
Nicolas Gravel

Partner

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Erin Sheets

Partner

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Byron Thom - Associate principal, Framework Venture Partners
Byron Thom

Partner

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Jonathan Goodkey - Principal, industrial innovation fund at BDC
Jonathan Goodkey

Principal

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Alexandre Préfontaine - Principal industrial innovation fund at BDC
Alexandre Préfontaine

Principal

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Leana Keto - Associate Principal, Industrial Innovation Venture Fund at BDC
Leana Keto

Associate Principal

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Laurence Lavoie-Aubuchon - Analyst, industrial innovation fund at BDC
Laurence Lavoie-Aubuchon

Associate

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Alexandre Lazier, bdc employee
Alex Lazier

Associate

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Sandy Li - Associate, Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund at BDC
Sandy Li

Associate

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Akhilesh Prabhu, Senior Analyst at BDC
Akhilesh Prabhu

Associate

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BDC employee Sabreen Sidhu
Sabreen Sidhu

Analyst

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Thomas Byron

Portfolio

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