Backing founders building a more equitable and sustainable future.
Planet-friendly solutions
Equity and inclusion
Community-building innovations
Sustainable growth
Portfolio Companies
Transforming agricultural waste into high-value, sustainable fibre offering a clean alternative to wood pulp.
Stage at Investment: Seed
Founders: Marek Hejduk
Why we invested:
HEJMAS has engineered something the pulp industry thought impossible ~ a patented process that produces industry-specification fibre from hemp waste with no toxic black liquor and zero process waste. Every byproduct is monetized, every part of the plant has a purpose. The environmental numbers are extraordinary, and the economics are even better.
Building AI tools to streamline funding processes for founders, specifically underrepresented founders.
Stage at Investment: Pre-seed
Founders: Argentina Beltran
Why we invested:
InclusifAI, founded and led by a woman with deep roots in finance and startup incubation, tackles one of the most persistent bottlenecks in early-stage capital: founders and investors from diverse backgrounds simply not finding eachother.
Diversity isn't a feature bolted onto InclusifAI but rather the reason the platform exists. The result is a platform positioned to do for capital access what few others have managed: turn a well-known pain point into a scalable solution.
AI powered blood test for microRNA multi-disease screening.
Stage at Investment: Seed
Founders: Victoria Xu, Hai Hu, Chistopher M. Gallagher
Why we invested:
miRoncol Health, led by a highly driven female CEO, has taken Nobel Prize-winning science and turned it into an early pre-screening tool that is inexpensive enough and simple enough to reach anyone, anywhere, including remote and underserved communities that have historically been locked out of early detection.
The impact case is as clear as it gets: earlier cancer diagnosis means dramatically better long-term outcomes.
PakVille designs and manufactures modular buildings, made from 100% recycled materials.
Stage at Investment: Seed
Founders: Parinaz Pakniat
Why we invested:
PakVille is a female founded company that has engineered a way to build homes with plastics that doesn't come with the microplastics problem. The result is a construction material that cuts costs to builders by 35% compared to regular home construction, without the enviornmental trade-off that's kept plastic-based building out of serious construction.
PakVille combines genuine innovation with real costs savings to translate a compelling pitch into real commercial traction.
Axon Health creates an all-inclusive platform for client care.
Stage at Investment: Seed
Founders: Konain Qurban
Why we invested:
Axon health sits between healthcare delivery and meaningful socialimpact. After working in addiction recovery, the founder saw firsthand how fragmented systems forced frontline workers to spend too much time on administrative tasks while patients too often slipped through the cracks.
By centralizing care management into a single platform that follows patients across treatmnet settings, improving continuity of care and freeing providers to focus on what matters most: delivering timely, high-quality support to the people who need it.
Arma Biosciences is building a new sensor technology for biomarker-informed digital healthcare.
Stage at Investment: Seed
Founders: Shana Kelley, Surath Gomis, and Hanie Yousefi
Why we invested:
Arma Biosciences is redefining how diseases are detected by making diagnostics more accessible, affordable and scalable. Rather than relying on traditional blood tests, Arma's biomarket sensor technology can detect a wide range of diseases using everyday bodily fluids, opening the door to earlier diagnosis and disease prevention for more people.
The company combines a world-renowned founder with deep scientific expertise and a CEO with proven track record of bringing startups to market, creating a strong foundation for execution
A snapshot of the companies we support.
| 66% Female Founded Companies | Canada + International Geographic Reach | Pre-Seed, Seed Stages Represented |
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