Amplitude Ventures

Amplitude Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Montreal, with additional offices in Toronto and Vancouver, that specializes in early-stage investments. The firm focuses on biotechnology and healthcare, particularly targeting emerging Canadian companies. Since its founding in 2012, Amplitude Ventures has raised over $700 million in equity capital across private and public markets. In November 2019, it launched its first private capital fund, a $200 million initiative aimed at investing in leading Canadian precision medicine companies. The firm’s 2023 vintage fund, Amplitude Ventures Fund II, extends its investment reach to the United States and Europe, seeking opportunities in sectors such as diagnostic equipment, therapeutic devices, drug delivery, surgical devices, monitoring equipment, biotechnology, and drug discovery.

Nancy Harrison

Venture Partner

Dion Madsen

Co-Founder & Partner

Michael Mee

Principal

Jean-François Pariseau

Co-Founder & Partner

Matthew Rosenberger

Vice President Finance

Bharat Srinivasa

Principal

Ali Tehrani Ph.D

Partner

Allyson Tighe

Associate

17 past transactions

Abdera Therapeutics

Series A in 2023
Abdera is an oncology company developing targeted alpha therapies (TATs) for patients with relapsed, refractory, and metastatic cancers. Its targeted radiotherapies utilize purpose-built vectors to specifically target high-energy radio-isotopes to tumors and metastatic cancer lesions. This new class of drugs holds tremendous untapped therapeutic and commercial potential, and has generated over $10B in recent M&A, financings, and product launches – and are expected to comprise 70% of the $30B nuclear medicine market by 2030. It was launched by adMare BioInnovations, Canada’s global life sciences venture, in partnership with industry leaders AbCellera, and some of the country’s most successful scientist entrepreneurs.

DrugBank

Seed Round in 2022
DrugBank is a comprehensive online database that contains information on drugs and drug targets. They organize, collect, and curate all the important information about drugs into a single unified resource. It also combines detailed drug such as pharmacological, pharmaceutical, and chemical data with the comprehensive drug target sequence, structure, and pathway information. DrugBank is widely used by the drug industry, medicinal chemists, pharmacists, physicians, students, and the general public. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Edmonton, AB, USA.

Celsius Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
Celsius Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focuses on the development and research of innovative drugs. Established in 2017, the company utilizes single-cell genomic analysis and machine learning to gain insights into the cellular ecosystems of diseases. This approach allows Celsius Therapeutics to identify critical biomarkers that can enhance patient care and contribute to the creation of transformative medicines. The company's commitment to advancing the understanding of complex diseases positions it as a key player in the biotechnology sector.

Congruence Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Congruence Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company working at the interface of computational and experimental drug discovery to design novel small molecules for diseases of protein misfolding.

Gandeeva Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Gandeeva Therapeutics has developed a proprietary platform that combines innovative technologies across biochemistry, structural biology, imaging and machine learning to characterize protein-drug interactions at the atomic level, all designed to provide new insights into targeting protein function.

InVivo AI

Seed Round in 2021
InVivo AI is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in using artificial intelligence to enhance pharmaceutical research and development. The company primarily focuses on preclinical toxicology, aiming to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of drug development processes. By leveraging advanced AI technologies, InVivo AI seeks to transform traditional methodologies in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately contributing to faster and more reliable outcomes in drug safety assessments.

Prilenia

Series B in 2021
Prilenia Therapeutics B.V., a clinical stage biotech company, researches and develops products for movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases affecting adults and children. It offers Pridopidine, an orally bioavailable small molecule investigational drug for huntington disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease levodopa induced dyskinesia, neurodegenerative eye disease, Parkinson’s disease, rett syndrome, fragile X, and Alzheimer’s disease. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in the Netherlands.

Thryv Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Thryv Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for long QT syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by prolonged ventricular repolarization, which can lead to life-threatening arrhythmias. The company's research centers on SGK-1, a regulator of sodium channels in heart cells, which is implicated in the overactivity associated with long QT syndrome. By targeting this kinase, Thryv aims to address the underlying causes of the disorder and improve treatment options for affected patients. Based in Laval, Canada, the company is committed to advancing its pipeline to enhance patient outcomes in this critical area of cardiovascular health.

Deep Genomics

Series C in 2021
Deep Genomics Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) therapeutics company, develops individualized genetic medicines by creating AI systems that are used to accelerate various steps of drug discovery and development, including target discovery, lead optimization, toxicity assessment, and innovative trial design. It develops and markets therapies for rare metabolic, ophthalmologic, and neurodegenerative disorders. The company develops oligonucleotide therapies that target the genetic determinants of disease at the level of RNA or DNA. Deep Genomics Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Giiant Pharma

Seed Round in 2021
Giiant is a preclinical-stage biotech company that, with its proprietary Precision Delivery technology platform, designs gut-restricted, tissue-specific, small molecule, drug therapeutics with various biological targets in gastroenterology. Its lead program GT-2108 is a microbiota-activated PDE4 inhibitor prodrugs, with improved drug tolerability and enhanced therapeutic effect.

Notch Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Notch Therapeutics Inc., an immune cell therapy company, develops gene-edited allogenic T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company offers induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) AlloCAR therapy products for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Notch Therapeutics Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Deep Genomics

Series B in 2020
Deep Genomics Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) therapeutics company, develops individualized genetic medicines by creating AI systems that are used to accelerate various steps of drug discovery and development, including target discovery, lead optimization, toxicity assessment, and innovative trial design. It develops and markets therapies for rare metabolic, ophthalmologic, and neurodegenerative disorders. The company develops oligonucleotide therapies that target the genetic determinants of disease at the level of RNA or DNA. Deep Genomics Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes etripamil for the treatment of cardiovascular indications. It is developing etripamil, a novel channel blocker, which is in Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in the United States and Canada, as well as for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, angina, and other cardiovascular indications. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Zymeworks

Post in 2019
Zymeworks Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Vancouver, Canada, that specializes in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biotherapeutics, primarily for cancer treatment. The company’s leading candidates include ZW25, a bispecific antibody currently undergoing Phase I and II clinical trials targeting various cancers, and ZW49, a bispecific antibody-drug conjugate in Phase I trials for advanced HER2-expressing cancers. Zymeworks employs advanced computational biotechnology techniques, utilizing proprietary molecular modeling and high-performance computing to optimize therapeutic antibodies and other protein-based therapeutics. The company has established strategic partnerships and collaborations with several major pharmaceutical firms, including Merck, Eli Lilly, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, among others, to enhance its research and development efforts. Founded in 2003, Zymeworks continues to focus on developing innovative solutions for cancer and other serious diseases.

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Venture Round in 2018
PHEMI Systems Corporation specializes in developing a privacy, security, governance, and data management system tailored for Microsoft Azure. Founded in 2013 and based in Vancouver, Canada, the company provides the PHEMI Data Privacy Manager, a cloud-based solution designed for the healthcare sector. This system addresses the critical need for organizations to secure and govern access to privacy-sensitive information while facilitating compliance with privacy regulations. Optimized for Microsoft Azure, the software connects to numerous data sources and integrates seamlessly with popular data science and business analysis tools. Built on a privacy-by-design architecture, PHEMI Data Privacy Manager supports data sharing and offers a flexible usage-based pricing model, making it scalable for organizations of varying sizes.

Imagia

Venture Round in 2018
Imagia’s mission is to detect and quantify cancer changes early. When it matters. Despite systematic imaging and new genetic testing, tumor changes are often detected too late to improve cancer patient outcomes. Our Artificial Clinical Intelligence Platform enables us to provide critical information and timely imaging insights for primary tumors and metastasis for each cancer patient thus personalizing their cancer care continuum. Deep Radiomics™ — uniting radiomics and deep learning — utilizes existing routine clinical imaging data to discover robust imaging biomarkers that predict cancer patient outcomes.