Evok Innovations

Evok Innovations is a cleantech fund focussed on accelerating the development of critical energy transition technologies across North America. Evok invests in early-stage decarbonization technologies, encompassing carbon management, clean fuels, electrification and critical minerals.

Biddle, Michael

Partner

Chaubey, Naynika

Partner

Naynika Chaubey

Partner

Val Chiykowski

Associate

Jana Hanova

Director

Jane Kearns

Partner

Darren Love

Senior Associate

Erin Madro

Principal

31 past transactions

Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation (aka "Sanctuary AI") is a mission-driven company focused on developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sanctuary AI has built a humanoid general-purpose robot powered by Carbon™, a pioneering AI control system, and designed for work.

Twelve

Series A in 2021
Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design.

Syzygy Plasmonics

Series B in 2021
Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications.The company's reactor is powered by light and operates at over 1,000°F lower temperature than conventional chemical reactor technology that helps in reducing maintenance costs and is able to start or stop production near instantaneously, enabling fuel cell vehicle companies to produce ultra-low-cost hydrogen gas on-site at customer locations.

Allonnia

Series A in 2021
Allonnia, a bio-ingenuity company, is dedicated to extracting value where others see waste. They work in harmony with nature, designing and deploying transformational remediation, upcycling and valorization solutions to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges. Providing safer water, cleaner mining and lower CO2, Allonnia is helping reach a waste-free world. Allonnia’s dedication to sustainability and their unique biotech approach has earned industry recognition including being named a Great Place to Work multiple years in a row, a finalist in Fast Company’s 2023 Best Workplaces for Innovators, 2024 Environment + Energy Leader, and Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies.

VEERUM

Series A in 2021
VEERUM is a SaaS provider that applies digital technology to asset ownership, helping our clients build and maintain a better world. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform provides stakeholders with the latest tools and information to optimize asset outcomes. VEERUM provides a secure cloud-based web solution enabling data transparency across the entire asset lifecycle. It allows asset stakeholders to view aggregated asset data in the context of a 3D model. All information is available for a total audit history of the asset. We are the simplest and easiest to use solution on the market so you can stay ahead of the competition on your journey to digital adoption. Our clients are accelerating the transition to digital asset ownership, effectively building and maintaining the world’s critical infrastructure. Founded in 2014, VEERUM is a global software provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

Expeto

Series A in 2021
Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solution purpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.

Rotoliptic

Series A in 2020
Rotoliptic Pump is a positive displacement pump that consists of two parts. The company's pump architecture implies pump deployment and operating costs. The company extends the advantages to temperatures, gassy conditions, and aromatic applications. Rotoliptic Pump's products focused on pumping crude oil for midstream oil and gas applications.
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation (aka "Sanctuary AI") is a mission-driven company focused on developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sanctuary AI has built a humanoid general-purpose robot powered by Carbon™, a pioneering AI control system, and designed for work.

ARIX Technologies

Series A in 2020
ARIX Technologies is a robotics and data analytics start-up that manufactures pipe-crawling robots for oil and gas pipe inspection. The company's technology integrates robots with advanced data analytics to reinvent the way corrosion is detected and analyzed in manufacturing plants and provide improvements in safety and sustainability, enabling manufacturing companies to save billions of dollars in the cost of manufacturing. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Jackson, Louisiana, USA.

SensorUp

Series A in 2020
SensorUp's vision is to be the fabric that interconnects the world's IoT data empowering the connected workers of the future to apply intelligent automation and drive safety, productivity, and job satisfaction forward.

Quidnet Energy

Series B in 2020
Quidnet Energy is a technology-driven energy company that powers the carbon-free electric grid. Its technology is a form of hydroelectric energy storage using time-tested well-drilling and construction technologies to pump water under pressure into subsurface geological reservoirs to store energy. When variable renewable energy is not available, this water is released to drive hydroelectric turbines to power the electric grid. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Houston with offices in San Francisco and Saratoga Springs, New York.

Expeto

Series A in 2020
Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solution purpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.

Osperity Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Osprey Informatics provides intelligent visual monitoring for industrial operations and transforms images and video into actionable enterprise intelligence. The company’s cloud-based platform, Osprey Reach, detects important operational events, analyzes related images and video along with data from other sensors and systems, and delivers visual reports and alerts to stakeholders across the enterprise. Industrial companies rely on Osprey Reach for enhanced operational efficiency, security, and safety and to remotely inspect facilities and equipment, monitor site activity, optimize labor productivity, and manage more assets without more people. Osprey Informatics was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

VEERUM

Seed Round in 2019
VEERUM is a SaaS provider that applies digital technology to asset ownership, helping our clients build and maintain a better world. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform provides stakeholders with the latest tools and information to optimize asset outcomes. VEERUM provides a secure cloud-based web solution enabling data transparency across the entire asset lifecycle. It allows asset stakeholders to view aggregated asset data in the context of a 3D model. All information is available for a total audit history of the asset. We are the simplest and easiest to use solution on the market so you can stay ahead of the competition on your journey to digital adoption. Our clients are accelerating the transition to digital asset ownership, effectively building and maintaining the world’s critical infrastructure. Founded in 2014, VEERUM is a global software provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

Syzygy Plasmonics

Series A in 2019
Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications.The company's reactor is powered by light and operates at over 1,000°F lower temperature than conventional chemical reactor technology that helps in reducing maintenance costs and is able to start or stop production near instantaneously, enabling fuel cell vehicle companies to produce ultra-low-cost hydrogen gas on-site at customer locations.

Twelve

Seed Round in 2019
Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design.

Rotoliptic

Series A in 2019
Rotoliptic Pump is a positive displacement pump that consists of two parts. The company's pump architecture implies pump deployment and operating costs. The company extends the advantages to temperatures, gassy conditions, and aromatic applications. Rotoliptic Pump's products focused on pumping crude oil for midstream oil and gas applications.

Metabolik Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Metabolik is developing an efficient and scalable bioremediation platform that treats with contaminants found in oil sands tailings ponds.

Osperity Inc.

Series B in 2018
Osprey Informatics provides intelligent visual monitoring for industrial operations and transforms images and video into actionable enterprise intelligence. The company’s cloud-based platform, Osprey Reach, detects important operational events, analyzes related images and video along with data from other sensors and systems, and delivers visual reports and alerts to stakeholders across the enterprise. Industrial companies rely on Osprey Reach for enhanced operational efficiency, security, and safety and to remotely inspect facilities and equipment, monitor site activity, optimize labor productivity, and manage more assets without more people. Osprey Informatics was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Expeto

Series A in 2018
Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solution purpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.

Quidnet Energy

Series A in 2018
Quidnet Energy is a technology-driven energy company that powers the carbon-free electric grid. Its technology is a form of hydroelectric energy storage using time-tested well-drilling and construction technologies to pump water under pressure into subsurface geological reservoirs to store energy. When variable renewable energy is not available, this water is released to drive hydroelectric turbines to power the electric grid. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Houston with offices in San Francisco and Saratoga Springs, New York.

Syzygy Plasmonics

Seed Round in 2018
Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications.The company's reactor is powered by light and operates at over 1,000°F lower temperature than conventional chemical reactor technology that helps in reducing maintenance costs and is able to start or stop production near instantaneously, enabling fuel cell vehicle companies to produce ultra-low-cost hydrogen gas on-site at customer locations.

Kelvin

Seed Round in 2018
Kelvin is a next generation industrial automation software for collaborative control

Ekona Power

Seed Round in 2017
Ekona Power Inc. is a Vancouver-based company focused on producing industrial-scale hydrogen through innovative renewable energy generation technology. The company utilizes methane from feedstock to convert natural gas into clean hydrogen, electrical power, and carbon dioxide. This process not only provides a low-cost solution for hydrogen production but also enables industrial hydrogen consumers and natural gas transmission and distribution companies to access clean energy for their operations. Ekona Power's approach aims to contribute to a sustainable energy future by delivering effective solutions for industrial energy needs.

HARBO Technologies

Series A in 2017
HARBO Technologies offers the fastest and most effective oil spill first response system in the world. Instead of relying on massive, bulky equipment and a large team of skilled professionals, HARBO’s T-FENCE system can be ready for immediate deployment by as few as two people at the spill source – whether on a vessel, at a port or an oil terminal. As the world’s lightest effective solution, it immediately blocks the spreading of oil spills and can be used even in the most remote locations as it requires minimal logistics.

Kelvin

Series A in 2016
Kelvin is a next generation industrial automation software for collaborative control

Twelve

Seed Round in 2016
Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design.

Mosaic Materials

Venture Round in 2016
Mosaic Materials uses metal-organic frameworks to selectively remove impurities like CO2 from gas mixtures in an array of applications, from submarines to power plants. It reduces the cost and environmental impact of fossil fuels through the application of proprietary gas separation technologies.

Rotoliptic

Funding Round in 2016
Rotoliptic Pump is a positive displacement pump that consists of two parts. The company's pump architecture implies pump deployment and operating costs. The company extends the advantages to temperatures, gassy conditions, and aromatic applications. Rotoliptic Pump's products focused on pumping crude oil for midstream oil and gas applications.

Metabolik Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Metabolik is developing an efficient and scalable bioremediation platform that treats with contaminants found in oil sands tailings ponds.

DarkVision Technologies

Series A in 2016
DarkVision Technologies Inc. was founded in 2013 by a group of experienced entrepreneurs that have expertise and a track record in developing and commercializing imaging technologies. The company has developed a new ultrasound-based imaging technology used to image the inside of oil and gas wells. With a clear picture of the inner working of their wells, oil and gas operators can make smart decisions that reduce operating costs, increase production, improve well integrity and minimize environmental impacts. Unlike camera technologies, DarkVision’s high resolution ultrasound imaging system is able to image through opaque fluids that have inhibited the widespread use of cameras and optics as a downhole diagnostics tool.
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