BDC Capital

BDC Capital Inc. is the private equity and venture capital arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada, focusing on direct and fund of funds investments. It specializes in various financing options, including subordinate, recapitalization, bridge, and venture capital, targeting middle market, later stage, and small to medium-sized businesses. BDC Capital engages in venture capital activities across all stages, from seed funding to pre-IPO financing, with a particular emphasis on technology and healthcare sectors. Its investment strategy includes a commitment to supporting women-led firms and spans industries such as life sciences, telecommunications, information technology, and advanced technologies. The firm typically invests between CAD 0.1 million and CAD 35 million, often seeking minority stakes and board representation in its portfolio companies. BDC Capital prefers to exit investments within three to five years, utilizing strategies such as initial public offerings and strategic sales. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Montreal, the firm also has offices in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta, focusing its investments primarily within Canada.

Dinar Ahmed

Principal

Amine Benmoussa

Principal

Kristina D’Amico

Director, Fund Investments

Ajay Gopal

Associate Director

Nicolas Gravel

Director, Strategic Investments and Partnerships

Saif Hashmi

Principal, Seed Fund and IT Venture Fund

Karim Kennedy

Director - Cleantech Practice

Dion Madsen

Senior Managing Partner

Claude Miron

Managing Partner - Growth Equity Partners

Alison Nankivell

Vice President, Fund Investments and Global Scaling

Thomas Park

BDC Capital’s Deep Tech Venture Fund Partner

Salman Qadir

Associate Principal - Sustainability Venture Fund (SVF)

Loren Rafeson

Partner

Karl Reckziegel

Senior Vice President

Joseph Regan

Managing Partner, Industrial Innovation Fund

Lally Rementilla

Managing Partner

Victor Scutaru

Managing Director, Private Equity Funds Portfolio

Allyson Tighe

Analyst, Healthcare Venture Fund

Zoltan Tompa

Director, Cleantech Practice

Ron Warburton

Managing Partner

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Verafin

Private Equity Round in 2019
Verafin provides a cloud-based cross-institutional software platform for Fraud Detection and Management, BSA/AML Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management, and Secure 314(b) Information Sharing. More than 2600 banks and credit unions use Verafin to effectively fight financial crime and comply with regulations. Leveraging its big data intelligence, visual storytelling, and collaborative investigation capabilities, Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts, delivers context-rich insights, and streamlines the daunting BSA/AML compliance processes that financial institutions face today. Verafin is the exclusive provider for Texas Bankers Association, Western Bankers Association, Florida Bankers Association, Illinois Bankers Association, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and CUNA Strategic Services, with industry endorsements in 47 U.S. states.

Focus FS

Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2012, Focus FS has quickly become a leading provider of advanced technology systems to a wide range of clients across the mining, oil, transportation, utilities, and municipal services sectors. They create powerful information management solutions that fulfill their clients’ need for smarter data—and smarter thinking. Whether you’re interested in capturing operational worksite data, improving logistics or enhancing personnel safety and security, Focus FS delivers intelligent solutions so you can make smarter business decisions. It’s just that simple.

R17

Convertible Note in 2013
R17 (was RUMAnalytics) measures, monitors, diagnosis and optimizes websites for speed. Faster websites have higher conversion rates, lower bounce rates, higher search engine rankings, lower bandwidth costs and a better user experience on personal computers and mobile devices. They created R17 to make the internet faster. R17 combines the world's foremost experts on performance optimization with easy-to-understand analytics, actionable recommendations and mind-blowing CDN technology.

Flixel Photos

Seed Round in 2011
Flixel lets you easily create beautiful living photos, also known as 'cinemagraphs'. Unlike a still photo, a living photo contains a portion of of seamless and infinitely looping motion. Whether it's hair blowing in the wind or a flickering fire in the background of an otherwise still image, the effect can be mesmerizing.

AnyWare Group

Series B in 2005
AnyWare Group, Inc. provides remote access solutions for hospitals and healthcare organizations in North America. It offers role oriented access management (ROAM), a managed service that is designed to integrate and deliver Web, legacy, client/server, and other custom applications to a personal computer or MAC for use in healthcare. The company also provides ROAM Portal, a presentation layer that is delivered through a Web browser; ROAM services, such as online collaboration and video conferencing, live remote support, and office and personal computer desktop access; and ROAM Identity Manager, which provides integration with active directory and single sign-on into application delivery. In addition, it offers Embedded Security Agent, a clientless security agent that manages the encrypted tunnels between users and applications. Further, the company provides ROAM VPN service, an access capability that provides tunneling capability over SSL to support users who need remote access to client/server applications. AnyWare Group, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Saint John, Canada.
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