WUTIF

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.

Michael Volker

CEO

68 past transactions

INETCO Systems Limited

Seed Round in 2007
INETCO® builds smart technology that increases the reliability, safety and value of every digital and self-service payment. Our real-time transaction monitoring and analytics platform, INETCO Insight, has been selected by leading banks, payment service providers and retailers – in over 35 countries - to accelerate their digital transformation strategies and to speed up the detection of payment fraud and performance issues threatening to impact revenue, reputation and the end customer experience.

Target Tape

Seed Round in 2010
Target Tape Inc. develops tools for various surgical procedures. It develops Target Tape, a tool for spinal, vascular, thoracic, and foreign bodies' surgery applications. The company's Target Tape is also used during surgery with intraoperative radiograph, including fluoroscopy. Target Tape Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Human in Motion Robotics

Seed Round in 2020
Human in Motion Robotics

Redlen Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
Redlen Technologies is a leading manufacturer of high resolution Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) semiconductor radiation detectors which are enabling a new generation of high performance detection and imaging equipment including Nuclear Cardiology, CT Scanning, Baggage Scanning and Dirty Bomb Detection. Having successfully pioneered a breakthrough production process for manufacturing advanced CZT semiconductor wafers with its proprietary Traveling Heater Method (THM) technology, Redlen is revolutionizing the performance, cost and availability of radiation detection and imaging – enabling the widespread adoption of this technology for the medical and security markets. The company also offers an advanced thin film solar Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) feedstock product, delivering volume quantities of high purity, high performance semiconductor material to the Thin Film Solar Photovoltaic (PV) market. With its industry-leading CZT growth technology, pioneered by a management and technical team that is deeply rooted in semiconductor and imaging technology, Redlen is changing the landscape for high performance, cost effective radiation-based medical and security imaging equipment.

Clevest Solutions

Seed Round in 2005
Clevest Solutions provides software for mobile workforce management and smart grid deployment and post-deployment operations exclusively for electric, gas and water utilities. They are specialists at enabling utilities to transform their field operations by rapidly automating and optimizing virtually any field work activity or process to improve response time and effectiveness.

Arbutus Medical

Seed Round in 2020
Every hospital in the world is faced with a major challenge - the rising cost of heathcare - we want to do something about it. Arbutus Medical’s purpose is to develop a portfolio of “frugal innovation” devices that save costs for hospitals and improve access to orthopedic surgery for 5 million patients by 2030. Arbutus Medical's flagship product is a radically affordable orthopaedic power tool system that is used in North American Trauma Centers, veterinary hospitals, military deployments, NGO missions, and hospitals in over 30 low- and middle-income countries worldwide.

Interpodia Technology

Angel Round in 2019
Interpodia Technology Corp. operates an online sport registration platform. The company’s online sport registration system simplifies membership management and improve safe sport compliance for organizations, clubs, and events. It allows sport administrators, executive directors, club directors, and event managers to scale their sport, protect their athletes, and save time and money. Its features include customization and branding, flexible membership registration, safe sport coach and official licensing, data distribution and integrated memberships, mail chimp integration, volunteer registration, merchandise stores, club and event sanctioning, dedicated support team, technology consulting services, donation processing and fundraising pages, multi event/series registration, split payments, plug-in google analytics, multi-phase early bird discounts, multi-event series discounts, cross-promotional discounting between events and orgs, merchandise fulfillment integration, promotional integrations, custom pricing logic for discounts, discounts triggered by registration waves, automated discounts for returning user, elite athlete data tracking, timing integration, easy refunds, multi-registration discounts, and coupon codes with specific eligibility. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in North Vancouver, Canada.

Frontly

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Frontly's no-code internal admin tooling platform empowers businesses to build custom applications to solve their greatest business challenges in minutes without writing a line of code.

Actenum

Seed Round in 2005
Actenum optimized schedule software turns upstream oil and gas operations scheduling from a painstaking manual task.

Ibbaka

Seed Round in 2020
Ibbaka provides strategic pricing advisory services.

Good Natured Products

Seed Round in 2011
good natured is producing and distributing one of North America’s widest assortments of better everyday products made with the highest possible percentage of renewable, plant-based materials and no BPAs, phthalates or other chemicals of concern potentially harmful to human health and the environment. With a growing assortment of over 385 products and services, good natured creates eco-friendly home and business products, food packaging, restaurant/take-out containers, medical and industrial supplies designed to do good for the planet, good for human health and good for business by driving incremental sales, minimizing waste and reducing environmental impact, all bundled up in a fresh and approachable brand.

Aprio

Seed Round in 2005
Aprio Inc. develops board portal software. The software helps organizations to run board meetings, keep directors up to date, and keep information secure. The software allows automated agenda creation, administrator do it yourself (DIY) tools to add and remove directors and committees, and reports to track board activity. It caters to credit unions, financial institutions, corporations, non-profits, and public companies across North America. Aprio Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

ChopValue

Seed Round in 2017
Recycling chopsticks into a wood composite used for designer art, furniture and millwork

VINN Automotive Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Working at the intersection of technology and automotive retail, VINN aims to revolutionize the automotive retail model by connecting buyers and dealerships through an online platform.

MailChannels

Seed Round in 2007
MailChannels Corporation provides email filtering and email delivery solutions to meet the challenges of IP blacklisting and spam issues. It offers MailChannels Cloud, an email relay service that identifies spammers within a network to improve email reputation and reliability of email delivery; and MailChannels Dedicated, a carrier-grade software that blocks the delivery of spam from a network to the Internet. The company caters to shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, cloud hosting, and Internet service providers. Its clientele include Enom, Arvixe, SendGrid, SherWeb, and Hostwinds. MailChannels Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Zymeworks

Seed Round in 2005
Zymeworks Inc. is a privately held biotherapeutics company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Zymeworks is committed to developing best-in-class protein therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Zymeworks' approach combines proprietary molecular modeling and simulation software with high-performance computing to create an environment for in silico experimentation and predictive protein optimization. Using this approach Zymeworks has developed multiple platform technologies to advance the field of biologics drug discovery and optimization.

LightIntegra Technology Inc.

Seed Round in 2009
LightIntegra Technology Inc. offers ThromboLUX, an in-vitro diagnostic test intended to provide professionals with qualitative and quantitative information about microparticle content in platelet samples. It provides ThromboLUX test kit, control kit, and ThromboSight, a software tool for analysis of test results. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Lucent Biosciences

Seed Round in 2020
Soileos is a new class of "bio released" micronutrient fertilizers that don't pollute, grows crops with higher yield & nutrient levels at a lower price/ha.

Carbon Engineering

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2009, CE is a Canadian-based clean energy company leading the commercialization of groundbreaking technology that captures CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, and synthesizes it into clean, affordable transportation fuels. From a pilot plant in Squamish, B.C., CE has been removing CO₂ from the atmosphere since 2015 and converting it into fuels since December 2017.

Bio Conscious Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Bio Conscious is a health analytics company which develops technology to proactively identify and treat the onset of disease and avoid complications arising from preexisting chronic conditions. Our flagship product suite addresses diabetes, a global pandemic effecting 420 million. Diabits, a consumer app, predicts patient's future glucose to avoid highs and lows. Endobits, for physicians, collects patient data from Diabits and prioritizes patients to enable better care outcomes and more efficient treatment activities. Services conducted with Endobits are reimbursed under existing CPT codes in the United States.

MazumaGo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MazumaGo is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of payments. It features a software application platform that enables its users to send and receive payments digitally. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in British Columbia, Canada.

Saltworks Technologies

Seed Round in 2009
Saltworks provides advanced solutions for treating the toughest waters. We supply innovative systems with smart design and intelligent automation that make clean water, concentrate brine, extract contaminants, and perform zero liquid discharge. With plants sold worldwide, we have an established history of designing, building, and operating full-scale industrial wastewater treatment systems.

Bionic Power

Seed Round in 2007
Bionic Power makes wearable technology for charging batteries. We are focused on developing our PowerWalk® Kinetic Energy Harvester for the U.S. military. Bionic Power is a privately-held technology company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

CryoLogistics

Seed Round in 2018
CryoLogistics Refrigeration Technologies is a BC-based clean-tech cold chain equipment manufacturer that has developed an innovative rugged, thin-walled, insulated and refrigerated container for shipping palletized loads of high-value, temperature-sensitive food and pharmaceutical product through the global cold supply chain.

A&K Robotics

Seed Round in 2020
A&K Robotics was founded on a shared belief that robotic technologies has the potential to drastically improve Their world and quality of life. They see the future with unique eyes, pushing the boundaries of robotics and seeking real-life applications of new technologies.

Creatus Biosciences

Seed Round in 2018
Creatus Biosciences Inc. engages in the production of genetically engineered species of micro-organism to produce compounds from xylose sugars with applications in industries, such as biofuels and food additives. The company uses genetic engineering techniques that enable micro-organism to produces commercial chemicals with applications across many industrial markets. Creatus Biosciences Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in West Vancouver, Canada.

ehsAI

Seed Round in 2020
ehsAI is a next wave compliance technology company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help organizations reduce the cost and risks of permitting and compliance. ehsAI is committed to integrity, diversity and innovation in all its transactions and developing disruptive solutions that transform environmental, health and safety and compliance management for business. ehsAI serves the technology, manufacturing, energy, chemical, construction and retail industries.

Wantering

Seed Round in 2012
Wantering operates an online fashion discovery platform to help users find clothes. It shows the fashion blogs and social networks into a digest of the most interesting fashion products on the web. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. As of November 24, 2015, Wantering operates as a subsidiary of Clique Media, Inc.

A&K Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
A&K Robotics was founded on a shared belief that robotic technologies has the potential to drastically improve Their world and quality of life. They see the future with unique eyes, pushing the boundaries of robotics and seeking real-life applications of new technologies.

A&K Robotics

Seed Round in 2023
A&K Robotics was founded on a shared belief that robotic technologies has the potential to drastically improve Their world and quality of life. They see the future with unique eyes, pushing the boundaries of robotics and seeking real-life applications of new technologies.

Inverted AI

Seed Round in 2023
Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars 'level 4' and above a reality.

Riipen

Seed Round in 2019
Riipen is an experiential education platform for universities and colleges so that their students graduate with the employable skills and industry connections that will get them relevant employment upon graduation. We connect faculty and students, inside and out of the classroom, to companies that want a more effective and engaging way to create brand awareness and recruit on campuses across the globe.

Ideon Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Ideon Technologies Inc. develops bore-hole detectors for mineral exploration and monitoring applications. The company also develops a discovery platform, which integrates detectors, imaging systems, inversion technologies, and artificial intelligence for the detection of subsurface muons. It provides x-ray-like imaging, geophysical surveys, and three dimensional (3D) density maps. The company serves mining, oil and gas, infrastructure, and security industries. Ideon Technologies Inc. was formerly known as CRM GeoTomography Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Ideon Technologies Inc. in May 2020. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.

Apera AI

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a 4D vision technology designed to provide industrial robotics operations and automation. The company's technology helps robots, automated guided vehicles, and personal robots to perform complex tasks with a human-like 3D vision based on vision intelligence, and motion intelligence, enabling clients to have enhanced capacity of robotic systems, increased efficiencies, reduced downtime, and instant ROI.

CamDo Solutions Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
A world class team of engineers focused on enhancing the camera experience with bespoke solutions, having a current focus on GoPro cameras. Product range is broad including Time Lapse, Battery Eliminators, Solar Power Systems, Weather Proof Enclosures, Deep Water Housings, Underwater Wifi Extenders, Bullet Time Slice rigs etc. Customer base across the world ranging from consumers through to Google, NASA and National Geographic. We believe that every instance of photography and videography has it’s own flavour. We believe professionals and businesses should be able to capture unique and difficult footage. Our passion is developing adaptable solutions to go beyond camera limits and do more!

VitaminLab

Seed Round in 2020
VitaminLab takes your health history, our nutrient testing or health data, and uses our matching algorithm to create an all-in-one personalized supplement that impacts your health. The company, run by a team of pharmacists and health care professionals, was founded to change the status quo of the supplement industry.

Starling Minds

Seed Round in 2019
Starling Minds Inc. provides digital mental health therapy. The company also offers disability management, treatment, and absence management services. It offers solutions in the areas of business, disability management, education, healthcare, insurance providers, and workers compensation. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Guard RFID Solutions

Seed Round in 2008
Guard RFID Solutions Inc. provides active radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and platform for healthcare, industrial, and enterprise sectors. Its products include active RFID tags for infant security, patient protection, and asset management applications in healthcare industries; Argus platform for protection, identification, tracking, and location of people and assets in enterprise, industrial, manufacturing, and security industries; and tag reader/controllers and exciters. Guard RFID Solutions Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Delta, Canada.

Starling Minds

Seed Round in 2018
Starling Minds Inc. provides digital mental health therapy. The company also offers disability management, treatment, and absence management services. It offers solutions in the areas of business, disability management, education, healthcare, insurance providers, and workers compensation. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Care2Talk

Seed Round in 2022
Care2Talk is a video technology platform that provides the easiest and most secure product for older adults in Memory Care, SNF, AL, IL to connect their loved ones & provider groups. Care2Talk is an iOS/Android App which uses a specially designed interface on mobile or tablet device to create an easy-to-use video chat tool for those with cognitive impairments or other limitations. This includes conditions associated with: • Aging & Dementia • Cognitive and Developmental Disabilities • Brain Injuries • Vision and Hearing Impairments (CC) • Physical Disabilities & Mobility Restrictions

LifeBooster

Seed Round in 2020
LifeBooster is a health and safety predictive analytics company that utilizes the latest in wearable technology to help self-insured industrial workforces eliminate preventable workplace injuries. Our flagship product is ErgoSenz, a system of wireless motion capture sensors and a cloud-based risk analytic engine that helps health and safety professionals understand and target the risk factors that lead to the single largest injury type, musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). These injuries on average cost $70k per incident, represent 33% of all injuries in the workplace and cost US companies over $21B in direct costs alone each year, with indirect costs reaching anywhere from 1 to 10 times that of the direct. MSDs have been deemed one of the largest challenges for safety professionals due to the difficulty in obtaining leading indicator metrics and understanding how these injuries occurred. Traditionally ergonomics has been reactive in nature, limited in scope, focused on workplace design, and based on opinion. ErgoSenz solves this by providing an unbiased risk assessment on the biomechanics of an entire workforce, allowing a company to prioritize their risk mitigation strategies and prevent injuries before they occur with just one click of a button. Companies are provided with an unbiased overview of how their workers are moving and engaging with their environments, allowing them to cater training and education to the specific risks of different work groups. If an injury occurs, ErgoSenz provides an unbiased injury analysis from before, during, and after the incident, where a safety professional can visualize exactly what the worker was doing at the time of the incident, making incident reconstruction fast, simple, and cost effective. Our mission is to eliminate these preventable injuries by shifting the focus of health and safety from reactive to proactive.

Netskrt

Seed Round in 2020
Netskrt revolutionizes the Internet experience by extending the reach of internet video to the outskirts of the network. Traditionally, rail and air passengers have limited access to the internet content they want to watch. With the Netskrt mCDN, they can use their existing internet video subscriptions just like they do at home.

Zennea Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Zennea Technologies develops therapeutic wearable that reduces snoring and improve health through sleep. The company is based in Surrey, Canada.

Keycafe

Seed Round in 2019
Keycafe Inc. provides an online exchange for remotely managing access to homes or rental properties. It serves home owners in Canada. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Pocketed

Seed Round in 2021
Pocketed aims to help eliminate financial barriers for entrepreneurs through its platform, which connects businesses to eligible grants and tax credits, and helps them apply for these opportunities through its marketplace.

VINN Automotive Technologies

Angel Round in 2019
Working at the intersection of technology and automotive retail, VINN aims to revolutionize the automotive retail model by connecting buyers and dealerships through an online platform.

LifeBooster

Series A in 2021
LifeBooster is a health and safety predictive analytics company that utilizes the latest in wearable technology to help self-insured industrial workforces eliminate preventable workplace injuries. Our flagship product is ErgoSenz, a system of wireless motion capture sensors and a cloud-based risk analytic engine that helps health and safety professionals understand and target the risk factors that lead to the single largest injury type, musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). These injuries on average cost $70k per incident, represent 33% of all injuries in the workplace and cost US companies over $21B in direct costs alone each year, with indirect costs reaching anywhere from 1 to 10 times that of the direct. MSDs have been deemed one of the largest challenges for safety professionals due to the difficulty in obtaining leading indicator metrics and understanding how these injuries occurred. Traditionally ergonomics has been reactive in nature, limited in scope, focused on workplace design, and based on opinion. ErgoSenz solves this by providing an unbiased risk assessment on the biomechanics of an entire workforce, allowing a company to prioritize their risk mitigation strategies and prevent injuries before they occur with just one click of a button. Companies are provided with an unbiased overview of how their workers are moving and engaging with their environments, allowing them to cater training and education to the specific risks of different work groups. If an injury occurs, ErgoSenz provides an unbiased injury analysis from before, during, and after the incident, where a safety professional can visualize exactly what the worker was doing at the time of the incident, making incident reconstruction fast, simple, and cost effective. Our mission is to eliminate these preventable injuries by shifting the focus of health and safety from reactive to proactive.

Riipen

Seed Round in 2018
Riipen is an experiential education platform for universities and colleges so that their students graduate with the employable skills and industry connections that will get them relevant employment upon graduation. We connect faculty and students, inside and out of the classroom, to companies that want a more effective and engaging way to create brand awareness and recruit on campuses across the globe.

MergeBase

Seed Round in 2020
MergeBase Software Inc. develops an application security service that detects vulnerabilities in the enterprise applications. It offers MergeBase, a second-generation cybersecurity tool that focuses on application security that provides protection from the data breaches. The company’s tool also detect known vulnerabilities in software libraries and components accurately; protects vulnerable areas in the application that remain to be patched; and integrates with other key tools in the security operation to simplify the operations of security analysts and DevSecOps staff. MergeBase Software Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Burnaby, Canada.

Avestec

Seed Round in 2020
Avestec provides a safer means of inspecting hazardous spaces using robotics inspection technology.

Mesentech

Seed Round in 2019
Mesentech Inc. is a regenerative medicine company with a prodrug platform that selectively delivers therapeutics to bone. The company makes bi-specific small-molecule therapeutics that are selective for a tissue target and a molecular target. Its conjugates deliver an active pharmaceutical agent selectively to target tissue thereby eliminating side effects caused by systemic exposure. The company’s product includes MES1007, a bone-targeted prodrug of a prostaglandin mimetic that has the potential to reverse bone-loss caused by diseases, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and osteoporosis. Mesentech Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

UmbraCity

Seed Round in 2020
UmbraCity is an umbrella sharing network using a network of fully automated umbrella rental kiosks. It is also a unique and creative marketing platform.

SHM Control

Seed Round in 2017
SHM Controls Inc. designs a touch-screen device for controlling boilers and hot-water tanks in residential and commercial apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals. It provides remote control over the building's heating system. The company's product enables buildings to monitor the gas consumption through on-device, direct, web, and mobile devices and sends email and text alerts to the users. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

General Fusion

Seed Round in 2007
General Fusion Inc. develops commercial Magnetized Target Fusion, a hybrid between magnetic fusion and inertial confinement fusion for transforming energy supply. It also develops scale subsystems, including scale plasma injectors, acoustic drivers, and liquid metal vortex compression tests. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Burnaby, Canada.

Careteam Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Careteam is a personal care platform for patients and their family caregivers can use to care for their acutely ill, recovering or aging loved ones at home. Careteam provides a care coordination platform based on a care plan that enables healthcare providers, the patient and family caregivers a single mobile and web location to see all the information required to care for a person and to message the other care team members securely based on access permissions for their role. Careteam provides a virtual binder of key health information that patients can access as they transition from one heath care setting to another. Our customers are health care organizations who are responsible for the cost of caring for patient recovering at home following discharge from hospital, in the transition to community care or those aging at home.

Mazza Innovation

Seed Round in 2012
Sensient Natural Extraction Inc. previously known as Mazza Innovation Ltd. develops and provides extraction system for extracting phytochemicals from plants using low polarity water to acquire high-value phytochemicals from plants. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Delta, Canada. As of July 10, 2018, Sensient Natural Extraction Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sensient Technologies Corporation.

HAVEN IAQ

Seed Round in 2020
TZOA (pronounced 'zoa')is the creator of Haven, the complete solution to indoor air quality in your home (residential) or building (commercial).

Penny

Seed Round in 2019
Penny AI Technologies Inc. develops a customer relationship management (CRM) app that uses artificial intelligence and work automation to create personal assistance support for clients in direct sales. Its automation engine prioritizes next steps and focuses on the customer experience, creates consultants, and delivers targeted lists of income producing activity. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Squamish, Canada.

ThisFish

Seed Round in 2018
ThisFish is a emerging leader in seafood traceability software that improves business efficiency and increases trust and transparency in seafood supply chains.

Keela

Seed Round in 2019
Keela provides accessible productive technology for small and medium-sized nonprofit impact organizations. We develop tools for 95% of the nonprofit market underserved by current technological offerings. Our platform helps nonprofits organize and integrate workflows, which saves them time and money. Keela’s tools includes the ability to manage projects, contacts, campaigns, and donations.