Desjardins Group

Desjardins Group, founded in 1900 and based in Montreal, Canada, is a cooperative financial institution that provides a comprehensive range of financial services to individuals and businesses. Its offerings include personal banking services such as credit and prepaid cards, loans, insurance, and investment products. For businesses, Desjardins provides solutions like financing options, asset management, trade finance, and payroll services. The organization also specializes in venture capital and development capital, supporting various sectors including real estate and agriculture. With a robust distribution network and online platforms, Desjardins Group aims to meet the diverse financial needs of its clients across Canada.

Martin Brunelle

Vice President of Growth, Acquisition and Development

Philippe Collerette

Director of Development

Boris Collignon

Vice President, Strategy, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships

Guy Cormier

President and CEO

Nicolas Gravel

Vice President, Venture Capital

Roland Leger

Associate Vice President

Caroline Poissant

Investment Director

Past deals in Montreal

Local Logic

Series B in 2023
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that specializes in digitizing the built environment to provide actionable insights for consumers, investors, developers, and governments. By leveraging artificial intelligence and geospatial data, the platform quantifies lifestyle and location characteristics, offering predictive analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector. With access to over 75 billion data points, Local Logic supports clients in the $217 trillion real estate market across the US and Canada, providing tools for urban planning and project strategy. The company collaborates with various stakeholders, including commercial real estate, travel, and media firms, to enhance the planning and development of sustainable and equitable urban spaces.

Prevu3D

Series A in 2023
Prevu3D Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in cloud-based interactive 3D visualization and modeling software. The company's platform empowers users to create, edit, and collaborate on photorealistic 3D replicas of real-life environments, enhancing practices and collaboration across various industries. Utilizing advanced digital twin technology, Prevu3D enables users to scan and capture detailed three-dimensional models while providing tools for measuring and documenting contextual information. This intuitive software is designed to facilitate understanding and interaction within virtual environments, making it a valuable resource for applications in reality capture technologies.

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.

Potloc

Series B in 2022
Potloc Inc. operates an online consumer insights platform that provides businesses with valuable data regarding consumer preferences and purchasing habits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Toronto, Paris, and Geneva, Potloc utilizes innovative surveying methods, including web panels, phone surveys, and geo-targeted surveys through social media, to gather authentic feedback from a diverse audience. This platform enables clients to connect effectively with their target markets and enhance their local business strategies. Trusted by numerous leading brands, consulting firms, and investment funds, Potloc has established itself as a standard in market research by delivering high-quality insights with precision. The company's approach ensures that businesses receive relevant and accurate data tailored to their unique needs, facilitating better decision-making and consumer engagement.

Prehos

Seed Round in 2022
Prehos is a Canadian company based in Quebec City, with an office in Montreal, founded in 2015. Initially a project of Chalifour Digital Solutions, Prehos became a distinct entity focused on enhancing prehospital care. The company develops a medical fleet management platform that optimizes various tasks in the prehospital care chain. This platform features cartography, real-time traffic conditions, and emergency department status, which collectively assist paramedics, ambulance services, and health agencies in improving their efficiency and effectiveness. Prehos employs a diverse team, including professionals in development, quality assurance, customer support, and data science, with several members bringing firsthand experience as paramedics. The company's mission is to enhance patient care through innovative technological solutions tailored for paramedical and extrahospital services.

RenoRun

Series B in 2022
RenoRun is building the world's largest single source platform for general contractors to purchase materials. Their mobile-friendly platform is a one-stop-shop when it comes to construction material supply. This app is revolutionizing the construction industry by maximizing productivity, saving contractors wasted run-around hours, and allowing their clients to leave their competition in the dust. Their trained runners will collect and deliver the desired materials to the job site. RenoRun was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Toronto and Austin, Texas.

BrainBox AI

Series A in 2021
BrainBox AI Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions for building energy management. The company focuses on optimizing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems through its autonomous technology, which employs cloud-based computing and deep learning algorithms. By analyzing data generated from building operations, BrainBox AI provides predictive maintenance modules and fault detection diagnostics, helping building operators enhance energy efficiency and reduce operational costs. The technology allows buildings to operate autonomously, contributing to significant energy savings and lower carbon emissions.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2021
My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a Montreal-based company specializing in artificial intelligence and systems biology. It offers biopharmaceutical companies interactive augmented intelligence systems that facilitate accurate biological simulations during the early stages of drug development. These systems assist life scientists in creating precisely targeted and personalized therapies. MIMs also develops software designed for efficient and personalized medicine and agricultural systems, packaged as a software-as-a-service solution. Its offerings support patient stratification and the selection of therapeutic targets and biomarkers, which are essential for advancing personalized therapies. The company emphasizes open and explainable AI and data integration, enabling life-science organizations to leverage their big data and artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance food and drug production.

Deeplite

Seed Round in 2021
Deeplite is a Montreal-based company that specializes in optimization software for deep learning applications, focusing on the deployment of deep neural networks (DNN) on both cloud and edge devices. The company's flagship product, Neutrino, utilizes a proprietary AI engine to automatically streamline DNN models, making them smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient. This technology addresses common challenges associated with deep learning, such as the size and speed of models, which can hinder deployment on smaller hardware and impact battery life in devices. Deeplite's solutions are applicable across various sectors, including automotive, smartphones, smart cameras, and IoT devices, thereby enabling efficient AI integration in everyday technology. By leveraging advancements in tinyML and a unique design space exploration approach, Deeplite empowers clients to optimize their AI investments and enhance their deep learning capabilities.

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 longstanding challenges associated with the trial-and-error approach to treatment selection in depression, which is a leading cause of medical impairment. The company's application software features treatment prediction, interpretability, patient data tracking, and electronic patient record capabilities. By processing de-identified data, Aifred's AI model generates tailored therapeutic options for individual patients, enabling clinicians to make more informed decisions among various treatment options that may appear effective at a population level but vary significantly in effectiveness for individuals.

Local Logic

Series A in 2020
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that specializes in digitizing the built environment to provide actionable insights for consumers, investors, developers, and governments. By leveraging artificial intelligence and geospatial data, the platform quantifies lifestyle and location characteristics, offering predictive analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector. With access to over 75 billion data points, Local Logic supports clients in the $217 trillion real estate market across the US and Canada, providing tools for urban planning and project strategy. The company collaborates with various stakeholders, including commercial real estate, travel, and media firms, to enhance the planning and development of sustainable and equitable urban spaces.

Breathe Life

Series A in 2020
Breathe Life Inc. is a Montreal-based company that designs and develops a software platform specifically for the life insurance industry. Founded in 2017, it offers an enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that facilitates the digital distribution of life and health insurance policies, eliminating the need for traditional brokers. The platform features a streamlined, single-session quote creation and application process, allowing consumers to independently explore financial products, identify their needs, and complete purchases online. By providing an end-to-end system, Breathe Life enhances the speed of policy delivery and helps insurers reduce operational costs, thereby improving overall efficiency in the distribution of financial security products.

Prevu3D

Seed Round in 2020
Prevu3D Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in cloud-based interactive 3D visualization and modeling software. The company's platform empowers users to create, edit, and collaborate on photorealistic 3D replicas of real-life environments, enhancing practices and collaboration across various industries. Utilizing advanced digital twin technology, Prevu3D enables users to scan and capture detailed three-dimensional models while providing tools for measuring and documenting contextual information. This intuitive software is designed to facilitate understanding and interaction within virtual environments, making it a valuable resource for applications in reality capture technologies.

Deeplite

Seed Round in 2020
Deeplite is a Montreal-based company that specializes in optimization software for deep learning applications, focusing on the deployment of deep neural networks (DNN) on both cloud and edge devices. The company's flagship product, Neutrino, utilizes a proprietary AI engine to automatically streamline DNN models, making them smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient. This technology addresses common challenges associated with deep learning, such as the size and speed of models, which can hinder deployment on smaller hardware and impact battery life in devices. Deeplite's solutions are applicable across various sectors, including automotive, smartphones, smart cameras, and IoT devices, thereby enabling efficient AI integration in everyday technology. By leveraging advancements in tinyML and a unique design space exploration approach, Deeplite empowers clients to optimize their AI investments and enhance their deep learning capabilities.

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 (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.

Sollio Cooperative Group

Venture Round in 2019
Sollio Cooperative Group, based in Montreal, Quebec, is an agri-food federation that serves over 60,000 members through nearly 70 cooperatives across Canada. Established in 1922, it employs more than 13,000 individuals and generates annual revenues of approximately $6.3 billion. The organization is structured into three main divisions: Olymel S.E.C, which includes brands such as Olymel, Flamingo, and Lafleur; the Agri-business division, which operates under various banners including La Coop and Agrico; and the BMR Group, known for its BMR and Unimat stores. Sollio Cooperative Group provides agricultural producers with essential goods and services, supporting them in crop production and enhancing their operational capabilities.

Sofdesk

Series B in 2019
Sofdesk Inc. is a software company based in Montreal, Canada, that specializes in developing sales acceleration solutions for the solar, roofing, and utilities sectors. Founded in 2013, the company provides intuitive web applications designed to help small to medium-sized businesses enhance their infrastructure and scale operations. Its flagship products include SolarGraf, which assists solar installers in managing leads and proposals, and RoofGraf, tailored for roofing companies to streamline their business development efforts. By offering centralized and user-friendly tools, Sofdesk aims to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency in these industries.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2019
My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a Montreal-based company specializing in artificial intelligence and systems biology. It offers biopharmaceutical companies interactive augmented intelligence systems that facilitate accurate biological simulations during the early stages of drug development. These systems assist life scientists in creating precisely targeted and personalized therapies. MIMs also develops software designed for efficient and personalized medicine and agricultural systems, packaged as a software-as-a-service solution. Its offerings support patient stratification and the selection of therapeutic targets and biomarkers, which are essential for advancing personalized therapies. The company emphasizes open and explainable AI and data integration, enabling life-science organizations to leverage their big data and artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance food and drug production.

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 that reflect the resources of 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 both Percé and Montreal, providing venues for patrons to enjoy their products. The establishment includes a shop for purchasing bottled beers and a patio that allows visitors to savor their brews by the sea. The company currently employs 37 people, contributing to the local economy and community.

Potloc

Series A in 2019
Potloc Inc. operates an online consumer insights platform that provides businesses with valuable data regarding consumer preferences and purchasing habits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Toronto, Paris, and Geneva, Potloc utilizes innovative surveying methods, including web panels, phone surveys, and geo-targeted surveys through social media, to gather authentic feedback from a diverse audience. This platform enables clients to connect effectively with their target markets and enhance their local business strategies. Trusted by numerous leading brands, consulting firms, and investment funds, Potloc has established itself as a standard in market research by delivering high-quality insights with precision. The company's approach ensures that businesses receive relevant and accurate data tailored to their unique needs, facilitating better decision-making and consumer engagement.

Motorleaf

Seed Round in 2018
Motorleaf is an agriculture technology company specializing in artificial intelligence tools for greenhouse production. We design algorithms and data-driven products using techniques in machine learning to deliver insights that help farmers maximize yield and reduce operational costs in commercial greenhouses. Our team of data scientists specialize in model development and data mining to produce products that help farmers manage greenhouses, get insights on plant health optimization, and preemptively address potential farming issues. The results speak for themselves: our technology can reduce error in harvest forecasting by 50% to 70% from the start and becomes even more accurate with time. AI-powered estimates are typically more than twice more accurate than those made by a human. Situated within a global hub of innovation in artificial intelligence, Motorleaf is a Montreal-based company founded in 2016.

Potloc

Seed Round in 2018
Potloc Inc. operates an online consumer insights platform that provides businesses with valuable data regarding consumer preferences and purchasing habits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Toronto, Paris, and Geneva, Potloc utilizes innovative surveying methods, including web panels, phone surveys, and geo-targeted surveys through social media, to gather authentic feedback from a diverse audience. This platform enables clients to connect effectively with their target markets and enhance their local business strategies. Trusted by numerous leading brands, consulting firms, and investment funds, Potloc has established itself as a standard in market research by delivering high-quality insights with precision. The company's approach ensures that businesses receive relevant and accurate data tailored to their unique needs, facilitating better decision-making and consumer engagement.

Ni2

Venture Round in 2018
N(i)² develops and markets technology for the operation and management of information technology (IT) infrastructure and IT service support. It offers a suite of IT infrastructure management applications that share knowledge-based configuration management database (CMDB) platform to identify, catalog, track, optimize, and manage the configuration items. The company offers asset management application for managing IT asset lifecycle according to preset business rules; and rack and connectivity application that optimizes containership of data centers by managing card positioning in chassis and chassis in racks. N(i)² was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Keatext

Seed Round in 2018
Keatext Inc. is a Montreal-based company that offers a cloud-based text analytics platform designed to enhance business performance by analyzing customer feedback from various sources. Established in 2010, Keatext utilizes artificial intelligence and natural language processing to synthesize large volumes of unstructured data, such as open-survey responses, online reviews, chat logs, and social media posts. The platform provides clients with actionable insights through a comprehensive dashboard, enabling them to understand customer sentiments and identify key areas for improvement. By delivering instant clarity on customer preferences and needs, Keatext empowers businesses to cultivate meaningful relationships with their customers and respond effectively to their feedback.

Moka

Seed Round in 2018
Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.

Kube Innovation

Seed Round in 2017
Kube Innovation Inc. is a Montreal-based company that manufactures a high-precision measuring instrument specifically designed for dental professionals. Founded in 2015, the company developed the Innobyte, an innovative medical device that quantifies patients' bite force. This technology allows dentists to accurately assess the need for appropriate treatment, thereby enhancing patient care. By providing reliable measurements of bite force, Kube Innovation aims to improve the daily practice of dentistry and support healthcare providers in delivering effective treatment solutions.

Local Logic

Seed Round in 2017
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that specializes in digitizing the built environment to provide actionable insights for consumers, investors, developers, and governments. By leveraging artificial intelligence and geospatial data, the platform quantifies lifestyle and location characteristics, offering predictive analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector. With access to over 75 billion data points, Local Logic supports clients in the $217 trillion real estate market across the US and Canada, providing tools for urban planning and project strategy. The company collaborates with various stakeholders, including commercial real estate, travel, and media firms, to enhance the planning and development of sustainable and equitable urban spaces.

Victrix

Venture Round in 2011
Victrix is a high-level information technology consulting company. With expertise in a range of complementary fields, Victrix focuses its practice on four areas: infrastructure, telecommunications, security, and collaborative solutions. From its offices in Montreal and Quebec City, Victrix serves more than 400 active clients in Quebec, including large organizations in both the private and public sectors.

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.

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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