Pender Ventures

Established in 2017, Pender Ventures is a Canadian venture capital firm headquartered in Vancouver. It focuses on investing in data-centric startups operating within health-tech and enterprise software sectors.

Derek Hemmes

Venture Partner

Kenndal Mcardle

Founding Member and Principal

David Roberts

Venture Partner

Isaac Souweine

Partner

7 past transactions

Catio

Seed Round in 2025
Catio is a developer of a cloud infrastructure platform that specializes in technology stack evaluation, planning, and evolution. The company leverages artificial intelligence to assist businesses in optimizing their cloud-native technology stacks, thereby enhancing overall user experience. Catio's focus is on enabling organizations to excel in their cloud strategies, ensuring they effectively adapt to the dynamic demands of modern technology.

Catio

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Catio is a developer of a cloud infrastructure platform that specializes in technology stack evaluation, planning, and evolution. The company leverages artificial intelligence to assist businesses in optimizing their cloud-native technology stacks, thereby enhancing overall user experience. Catio's focus is on enabling organizations to excel in their cloud strategies, ensuring they effectively adapt to the dynamic demands of modern technology.

Traction Complete

Series A in 2023
Founded in 2019, Traction Complete offers a RevOps Data Management Suite for Salesforce, empowering revenue operations teams to cleanse, connect, and automate complex data tasks. This enables organizations like Asana, Zoom, and YMCA to save time and scale efficiently.

DistillerSR

Secondary Market in 2022
DistillerSR develops software that automates the entire process of literature review in evidence-based research. It enables researchers to manage data analysis at scale, enhancing accuracy, transparency, and efficiency. This facilitates more informed decisions in health policy, clinical practice guidelines, regulatory submissions, and overall research.

DistillerSR

Venture Round in 2022
DistillerSR develops software that automates the entire process of literature review in evidence-based research. It enables researchers to manage data analysis at scale, enhancing accuracy, transparency, and efficiency. This facilitates more informed decisions in health policy, clinical practice guidelines, regulatory submissions, and overall research.

Spark

Series A in 2021
Spark is a platform specifically designed to power the entire process of selling and marketing real estate. Using technology to help turn leads into buyers, inventory into contracts, and information into usable metrics. Spark is a safe, secure and cost-effective solution for selling and marketing real estate.

Veritree

Veritree is a technology company dedicated to advancing nature-based climate solutions globally. It develops an innovative planting management platform that leverages blockchain technology for efficient tracking of ground-level data in large-scale reforestation projects. This platform enables planting organizations to manage their projects more effectively, thereby accelerating the adoption of nature-based climate solutions.
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