Desjardins Capital

Desjardins Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Mouvement des caisses Desjardins, based in Quebec, Canada. It provides growth capital, mezzanine, and select debt financing to early-stage through mature companies across industrial, manufacturing, technology, and service sectors, with emphasis on health care, life sciences, and biotechnology. The firm also supports cooperatives, including worker-owned and housing cooperatives, and network cooperatives, financing development, acquisitions, expansions, and succession plans. It primarily invests in Quebec and surrounding regions, and can finance growth, acquisitions, management buyouts, and modernization. Investments may be equity or debt, including unsecured loans, with instruments ranging from senior debt to equity, and tenures typically five to eight years for equity and three to five years for debt. The firm often takes minority stakes with board participation. It does not invest in natural resource exploration or financial services. Desjardins Capital traces its roots to 1974 and operates within the Desjardins Group.

Daniel Archambault

Investment Manager

Nathalie Bernard

COO

Eric Bolduc

Investment Director

Jean-Yves Bourgeois

Managing Director and Group Head, Capital Markets

Martin Brunelle

Vice President of Growth, Acquisition and Development

Jean-Philippe Bujold

Investment Manager

Jean-Philippe Coiteux

Investment Manager

Boris Collignon

Vice President, Strategy, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships

Guy Cormier

President and CEO

Sylvain Fontaine

Investment Manager

Michel Leclerc

Vice President, Subordinated Debt

Roland Leger

Associate Vice President

Caroline Poissant

Investment Director

John-Patrick Saker

Investment Manager

Marc Villeneuve

Vice President, Development and Outreach

Jean-Marc Wassef

Senior Investment Manager

Past deals in Montreal

Puzzle Medical Devices

Series A in 2025
Puzzle Medical Devices develops innovative heart pump solutions to treat advanced heart failure. Its flagship product, ModulHeart, is a modular percutaneous device designed to reduce cardiac afterload and improve renal perfusion. The device's unique design enables safe percutaneous implantation, supporting both renal and cardiac function with low risk of complications. Puzzle Medical has successfully completed its first-in-human study, demonstrating improvements in cardiac and kidney function.

Local Logic

Series B in 2023
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that focuses on digitizing the built environment to make location data understandable and actionable for various stakeholders, including consumers, investors, developers, and governments. The platform harnesses artificial intelligence, geospatial data, and user-generated information to offer insights into lifestyle and location characteristics. With proprietary insights derived from over 75 billion data points, Local Logic provides predictive and precise analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector, which impacts the vast real estate market in the US and Canada. The company's services cater to commercial real estate, urban planning, and other location-based industries, assisting major developers and investors in shaping sustainable and equitable urban environments.

Korbit Technologies

Series A in 2023
Korbit Technologies, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, specializes in developing Korbi, an artificial intelligence tutor designed to enhance the learning experience for students globally. The AI-driven platform offers interactive exercises and conversations that adapt to individual learning profiles, delivering personalized pedagogical support such as definitions, explanations, examples, and visual aids. Korbi's features include hands-on exercises, quizzes, visual diagrams, and performance tracking, all aimed at improving learning outcomes and motivation. The company serves a diverse audience, including students, teachers, publishers, and corporations, and has successfully trained nearly 20,000 learners in data science and AI. Korbit Technologies is committed to democratizing education by providing high-quality, personalized learning experiences at an accessible cost, and it has gained recognition as one of the top AI startups globally, receiving positive media coverage from prominent publications.

MY01

Series A in 2023
Founded in 2015, MY01 specializes in developing digital medical devices for accurate real-time muscle pressure measurement. Its flagship product is designed to enhance the diagnosis of Acute Compartment Syndrome (ACS) by providing timely and precise measurements.

Puzzle Medical Devices

Series A in 2023
Puzzle Medical Devices develops innovative heart pump solutions to treat advanced heart failure. Its flagship product, ModulHeart, is a modular percutaneous device designed to reduce cardiac afterload and improve renal perfusion. The device's unique design enables safe percutaneous implantation, supporting both renal and cardiac function with low risk of complications. Puzzle Medical has successfully completed its first-in-human study, demonstrating improvements in cardiac and kidney function.

Prevu3D

Series A in 2023
PreVu3D Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing cloud-based interactive 3D visualization and modeling software. The company's technology focuses on creating photorealistic digital twins of real-life environments, enabling users to scan, capture, and edit three-dimensional models. PreVu3D's intuitive platform allows for easy collaboration and sharing of these models, facilitating enhanced understanding and interaction within virtual spaces. Its software is particularly tailored to support Reality Capture technologies, making it a valuable tool for various industries seeking to improve practices and streamline workflows through advanced 3D visualization.

Groupe Canva

Venture Round in 2022
Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee company serves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience.

Prehos

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in Quebec City, Canada in 2015, Prehos is a technology company dedicated to enhancing patient care through innovative solutions for paramedical and extra-hospital services. Its platform optimizes prehospital care tasks by integrating cartography, real-time traffic conditions, and emergency department status.

RenoRun

Series B in 2022
RenoRun Inc. is a construction materials delivery company that caters to the needs of the construction industry. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, the company offers a wide range of products, including beams, bricks, and concrete mixes. RenoRun has developed a mobile-friendly platform that allows general contractors to place orders easily, streamlining the process of procuring materials. This innovative service minimizes wasted time and effort for contractors by providing efficient delivery directly to job sites, with trained runners ensuring timely collection and drop-off of materials. In addition to its Montreal headquarters, RenoRun operates in Toronto, Canada, and Austin, Texas, positioning itself as a significant player in the construction supply market.

BrainBox AI

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2017, BrainBox AI develops autonomous building technology that optimizes HVAC systems using artificial intelligence. Its cloud-based solution analyzes data to predict maintenance needs and maximize energy efficiency, reducing operational costs.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2021
Montreal-based My Intelligent Machines designs biology software that combines artificial intelligence and systems biology to support early-stage drug development and personalized therapies. The company offers a software-as-a-service platform enabling augmented intelligence-driven simulations, patient stratification, and the identification of therapeutic targets and biomarkers. By leveraging big data and AI, it helps life-science teams design precise therapies and streamline research, while also applying its platform to agriculture to optimize production systems. The goal is to accelerate efficient, targeted therapies and improve outcomes across biopharma and related fields.

Aifred Health

Seed Round in 2020
Aifred Health Inc. is a Montreal-based company that specializes in developing a deep-learning clinical decision support tool aimed at enhancing personalized medicine in psychiatry. Founded in 2017, Aifred Health addresses the challenges associated with the traditional trial-and-error approach to treatment selection for mental health, particularly in depression, which is a leading cause of medical impairment worldwide. The company's application software provides features such as treatment prediction, interpretability, and patient data tracking, enabling physicians to make informed decisions tailored to individual patients. By processing de-identified data, Aifred Health's AI model facilitates personalized therapeutic choices, thereby improving the likelihood of effective treatment outcomes for patients who often do not respond to initial interventions.

Local Logic

Series A in 2020
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that focuses on digitizing the built environment to make location data understandable and actionable for various stakeholders, including consumers, investors, developers, and governments. The platform harnesses artificial intelligence, geospatial data, and user-generated information to offer insights into lifestyle and location characteristics. With proprietary insights derived from over 75 billion data points, Local Logic provides predictive and precise analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector, which impacts the vast real estate market in the US and Canada. The company's services cater to commercial real estate, urban planning, and other location-based industries, assisting major developers and investors in shaping sustainable and equitable urban environments.

Breathe Life

Series A in 2020
Breathe Life Inc. is a Montreal-based company established in 2017 that specializes in providing a software platform for the life insurance industry. This enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution facilitates the digital distribution of life insurance policies, effectively removing the need for brokers. Breathe Life's platform enables insurers, distribution organizations, and advisors to enhance business operations by streamlining the policy delivery process and lowering operational costs. With features that allow consumers to create quotes and complete applications in a single session, the platform empowers users to independently purchase financial security products. Overall, Breathe Life aims to modernize and optimize how insurance companies engage with clients and manage their offerings.

Prevu3D

Seed Round in 2020
PreVu3D Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing cloud-based interactive 3D visualization and modeling software. The company's technology focuses on creating photorealistic digital twins of real-life environments, enabling users to scan, capture, and edit three-dimensional models. PreVu3D's intuitive platform allows for easy collaboration and sharing of these models, facilitating enhanced understanding and interaction within virtual spaces. Its software is particularly tailored to support Reality Capture technologies, making it a valuable tool for various industries seeking to improve practices and streamline workflows through advanced 3D visualization.

BrainBox AI

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2017, BrainBox AI develops autonomous building technology that optimizes HVAC systems using artificial intelligence. Its cloud-based solution analyzes data to predict maintenance needs and maximize energy efficiency, reducing operational costs.

Groupe Canva

Venture Round in 2019
Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee company serves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience.

Moka

Series A in 2019
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. is a financial technology company based in Montreal, Canada, that operates an application designed to assist users in achieving their financial goals. Founded in 2015 and rebranded from Mylo in July 2020, Moka's app automatically rounds up everyday purchases and invests the spare change, allowing users to start investing without requiring significant financial knowledge or lifestyle changes. Since its launch in 2017, the app has gained popularity, with over 750,000 downloads and numerous positive reviews. Moka leverages artificial intelligence to provide personalized financial insights and recommendations, simplifying money management for its users. The company is also focused on developing additional features, such as expense reduction tools, debt repayment acceleration, financial coaching, and cashback rewards, to further empower individuals in their financial journeys.

Sollio Cooperative Group

Venture Round in 2019
Sollio Cooperative Group, headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, is a prominent agri-food federation that serves agricultural producers and consumers across Canada. With over 60,000 members organized into nearly 70 cooperatives, Sollio Cooperative Group employs more than 13,000 individuals and generates an annual revenue of $6.3 billion. The organization operates through three main divisions: Olymel S.E.C, which encompasses meat processing brands like Olymel, Flamingo, and Lafleur; the Agri-business division, which includes brands such as La Coop, Élite, Agrocentre, Agrico, and Agromart; and the BMR Group, featuring BMR, Unimat, and Potvin & Bouchard. Established in 1922, Sollio Cooperative Group plays a crucial role in providing agricultural services and support, enabling farmers to enhance their crop production and overall operational efficiency.

Sofdesk

Series B in 2019
Sofdesk Inc. is a software company based in Montreal, Canada, specializing in sales acceleration solutions for the solar and roofing industries. Founded in 2013, Sofdesk develops intuitive web applications designed to help small to medium-sized companies enhance their infrastructure and streamline operations. Its primary products include SolarGraf, which assists solar installers in generating leads and proposals, and RoofGraf, which aids roofing companies in sourcing new business opportunities. By offering a comprehensive suite of tools for project management, automation, and advanced quoting, Sofdesk enables its clients to reduce operational costs and improve their overall efficiency in a competitive market.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2019
Montreal-based My Intelligent Machines designs biology software that combines artificial intelligence and systems biology to support early-stage drug development and personalized therapies. The company offers a software-as-a-service platform enabling augmented intelligence-driven simulations, patient stratification, and the identification of therapeutic targets and biomarkers. By leveraging big data and AI, it helps life-science teams design precise therapies and streamline research, while also applying its platform to agriculture to optimize production systems. The goal is to accelerate efficient, targeted therapies and improve outcomes across biopharma and related fields.

Pit Caribou

Venture Round in 2019
Pit Caribou is a microbrewery founded in 2007, located in L'Anse à Beaufils on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. The brewery focuses on crafting quality beers by utilizing local resources from the Gaspé region. It offers a diverse selection of wheat and red beers in various flavors, catering to a wide range of customer preferences. In addition to its production facilities, Pit Caribou operates pubs in Percé and Montreal, where patrons can enjoy their offerings. The company also features a shop for customers to purchase bottled products and a patio that allows visitors to savor their beers by the sea. Currently, Pit Caribou employs 37 people.

XCCommerce

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, XCCommerce specializes in developing web-based software solutions tailored for the retail industry. The company's core offering is its Promotion Solution Suite, which enables retailers to create, manage, and track promotions across various channels, including e-commerce sites, kiosks, and point-of-sale devices. XCCommerce also provides support and implementation services, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Ni2

Venture Round in 2018
N(i)² is a technology company specializing in the development and marketing of software solutions for the management of information technology (IT) infrastructure and service support. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, the company provides a comprehensive suite of IT infrastructure management applications that utilize a knowledge-based configuration management database (CMDB) platform. This platform allows organizations to identify, catalog, track, optimize, and manage their configuration items effectively. N(i)²'s offerings include an asset management application designed to oversee the IT asset lifecycle in accordance with established business rules, as well as a rack and connectivity application that optimizes data center operations by managing the positioning of cards within chassis and racks. The software aims to enhance service delivery for IT service providers, enabling them to streamline their infrastructure management and improve collaboration and innovation.

Keatext

Seed Round in 2018
Keatext is a Montreal-based technology company that provides an AI-powered text analytics platform to synthesize customer feedback from multiple channels including surveys, online reviews, chat logs, social media, and support tickets. Using natural language processing, the platform consolidates data into a single view to surface actionable insights, helping businesses understand what customers care about, identify improvement opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to enhance customer experience and related outcomes.

Moka

Seed Round in 2018
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. is a financial technology company based in Montreal, Canada, that operates an application designed to assist users in achieving their financial goals. Founded in 2015 and rebranded from Mylo in July 2020, Moka's app automatically rounds up everyday purchases and invests the spare change, allowing users to start investing without requiring significant financial knowledge or lifestyle changes. Since its launch in 2017, the app has gained popularity, with over 750,000 downloads and numerous positive reviews. Moka leverages artificial intelligence to provide personalized financial insights and recommendations, simplifying money management for its users. The company is also focused on developing additional features, such as expense reduction tools, debt repayment acceleration, financial coaching, and cashback rewards, to further empower individuals in their financial journeys.

Kube Innovation

Seed Round in 2017
Kube Innovation Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, specializes in manufacturing high-precision dental measuring instruments. The company's flagship product is Innobyte, a device that quantifies patients' bite force, assisting dentists in determining appropriate treatments.

Local Logic

Seed Round in 2017
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that focuses on digitizing the built environment to make location data understandable and actionable for various stakeholders, including consumers, investors, developers, and governments. The platform harnesses artificial intelligence, geospatial data, and user-generated information to offer insights into lifestyle and location characteristics. With proprietary insights derived from over 75 billion data points, Local Logic provides predictive and precise analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector, which impacts the vast real estate market in the US and Canada. The company's services cater to commercial real estate, urban planning, and other location-based industries, assisting major developers and investors in shaping sustainable and equitable urban environments.

Victrix

Venture Round in 2011
Victrix is a prominent information technology consulting company based in Montreal and Quebec City. It specializes in four key areas: infrastructure, telecommunications, security, and collaborative solutions. The company serves over 400 active clients across various sectors in Quebec, including both large private enterprises and public organizations. Victrix provides a comprehensive range of specialized services aimed at enhancing enterprise productivity, with a focus on technology infrastructure, networking, development, collaboration, and information security. This diverse expertise allows Victrix to deliver tailored solutions that combine excellence and agility, ultimately enhancing the customer experience for its clients.

Alyotech Canada

Venture Round in 2007
Alyotech Canada, Inc. operates through its subsidiary Groupe Conseil OSI, Inc. which provides Information Technology (IT) consulting services. The company offers management consulting and permanent placement services. Alyotech Canada is based in Montreal, Canada. Alyotech Canada, Inc. is a subsidiary of Alyotech.

Spinlogic Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
Spinlogic Technologies, Inc. provides a suite of software that enables trading partners to exchange business documents electronically. It develops and commercializes a software suite designed to optimize organizations' logistic chain, from manufacturers to distributors and retailers. The company's products include Negotium, a client-side software that enables the processing of various documents and business procedures in conformity with retailers' requirements; and the PEG-SERVR platform, which is an integrated transaction server that allows the exchange of a range of electronic documents between business partners. Spinlogic Technologies also offers PEG-Insourced, a solution that eliminates the risks associated with upgrading the current electronic data interchange (EDI) software or outsourcing the EDI system. PEG-Insourced includes hardware, software, system integration, project management, as well as technical support. The company offers its products to enterprises within the healthcare/biomedical, food and beverage, hardware/home improvement, electronics, apparel, and manufacturing/industrial sectors. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Resonant Medical

Series B in 2005
Resonant Medical is a Montreal-based company focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing 3D ultrasound image-guided adaptive radiotherapy products for cancer treatment. Founded in 2000, the company offers innovative solutions such as the Clarity Breast System for precise guidance in breast treatments, the Clarity Prostate System for non-invasive prostate treatments, and the Multi-Anatomy System for soft tissue anatomy guidance in various applications. These products are designed to enhance radiation therapy planning, verification, and delivery, providing a non-invasive and radiation-free approach that meets the technical and clinical needs of healthcare providers. Resonant Medical serves a range of professionals within cancer treatment centers, including physicians, physicists, therapists, and administrators. In 2010, the company was acquired by Elekta, further solidifying its commitment to advancing patient care in radiation therapy.

Topigen Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2005
Topigen Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that is focused on the scientific research and development of therapeutic drugs. It develops treatments for respiratory disorders, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Topigen Pharmaceuticals offers TPI ASM8, a drug that is developed for the management of moderate to severe asthma; and TPI 1100, a drug that is developed for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Topigen Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Pharmaxis in January 2010. Topigen Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2000 and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Topigen Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2004
Topigen Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that is focused on the scientific research and development of therapeutic drugs. It develops treatments for respiratory disorders, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Topigen Pharmaceuticals offers TPI ASM8, a drug that is developed for the management of moderate to severe asthma; and TPI 1100, a drug that is developed for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Topigen Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Pharmaxis in January 2010. Topigen Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2000 and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Chronogen

Series B in 2003
Chronogen Inc. a biotechnology company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
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