Business Development Bank of Canada

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is a government-owned financial institution established in 1944, headquartered in Montreal. It aims to foster economic growth and job creation by providing financial products and services primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Canada. BDC offers a range of services, including business loans, subordinate financing, venture capital, and consulting support in areas such as strategic planning and human resource management. The bank serves various industries, including aerospace, automotive, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, technology, and tourism. With a network of over 100 offices, BDC operates in both official languages, ensuring access to its services for a diverse clientele nationwide.

Steven Abrams

Partner

Nazmin Alani

Partner, Co-Investments

Phil Anzarut

Partner, Growth Venture Co-investment Fund

Dominique Belanger

Managing Partner

Hugo Belisle

Associate, Fund Investments

Tony Bommel

Senior Managing Partner

Kristina D’Amico

Associate, Fund Investments

Nicolas Gravel

Director, Fund Investments

Erika Kurczyn

Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Patrick Latour

SVP Growth & Transition Capital, Wholesale Financing

Joel McInnis

Associate, Fund Investments

Loren Rafeson

Partner, Growth Equity Partners

Michelle Scarborough

Managing Partner, BDC Capital

Robert Simon

Senior Managing Partner

Maxime Tourangeau

Partner

Past deals in Vancouver

FISPAN

Series A in 2019
FI.SPAN Services Inc. develops connecting application programming interface (API's) for the banking and financial industry. It offers Client Connectivity Suite, which helps banks to build and maintain live connections to their clients' enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, and treasury management systems; API Enablement Suite, which allows banks to put an API gateway for legacy payment capability, data enablement, reports and models, and fintech testing; Fintegration Suite, which helps to manage the secure exchange of data and services between banks and fintech companies; FI.CORE, which is a core platform includes a set of extension adapters, which are designed to quickly implement custom connectivity with a banks’ own infrastructure, clients business applications and external FinTech firms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Procurify

Series A in 2016
Procurify is a cloud-based procurement software solution that gives you control and visibility. Their main goal is to help your company generate cost savings. It's done by providing a platform to streamline purchases, give optimized spending, and increase visibility throughout the entire procure-to-pay process.

Procurify

Seed Round in 2015
Procurify is a cloud-based procurement software solution that gives you control and visibility. Their main goal is to help your company generate cost savings. It's done by providing a platform to streamline purchases, give optimized spending, and increase visibility throughout the entire procure-to-pay process.

Axine Water Technologies

Seed Round in 2012
Axine Water Technologies is a Vancouver-based developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions established by founder and Chief Engineer, Colleen Legzdins. They’re specifically focused on overcoming the complex, expensive, and often ineffective nature of today’s incumbent wastewater systems by developing low-cost, energy-efficient solutions for treating dissolved organic pollutants such as phenols, aromatics, acids, dyes, PHPs, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals that enable industrial and municipal customers to reduce costs and improve performance of their wastewater treatment. Their solutions are based on a proprietary electrolytic oxidation technology that treats high concentrations (up to 5000 mg/L COD) of toxic organics, biodegradable organics, ammonia, pathogens, and some inorganics in a single step without chemicals and without producing sludge.

Nexterra

Venture Round in 2011
Nexterra develops, manufactures and delivers advanced gasification systems that enable customers to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power at industrial and institutional facilities using waste fuels. In an era of higher energy prices, this means dramatically lower costs, higher operating margins and less reliance on fossil fuels and grid-purchased electricity. Furthermore, by using renewable biomass fuels such as wood waste, customers can dramatically reduce their carbon footprint.

Colligo

Series A in 2002
Enterprise-strength email management and document management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Colligo Networks is the leader in email and document management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Enterprises that use SharePoint rely on Colligo's award-winning solution suite to improve collaboration, increase productivity, and mitigate corporate risk. Featuring seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer, Colligo drives SharePoint adoption by making it easy to tag, find, store, and share SharePoint content in familiar ways, regardless of device, connectivity, or SharePoint location. Colligo's email and document management solutions for SharePoint are used by over 4800 organizations in 55 countries, with Global 500 customers including Microsoft, Kraft Foods, General Motors, and Siemens. Colligo Networks is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
Interomex Biopharmaceuticals Inc. is dedicated to the identification of novel biological targets in key cellular processes with the aim of discovering lead compounds for the treatment of disease. The company’s proprietary Repressed Trans-activator (RTATM) technology can be used to detect protein-protein interactions between a host and an infectious agent, as well as within cells in normal and diseased states. A particular advantage of RTATM is its ability to detect the interactions of transcription transactivator proteins, which are key control points in viral infections and cell activation.

Neuromed Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2001
Neuromed Pharmaceuticals is focused on the development, production, and marketing of pain therapies in Canada and the United States. Neuromed Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Zalicus in December 2009. Neuromed Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.