Growth Food / AgTech Investors in Canada

AGT Foods (Strategic Investments)

Regina, SK

Strategic minority investing by AGT Food and Ingredients (Fairfax majority-owned); led Chickapea 2025 round.

BDC Climate Tech Practice

Canada

BDC Capital's Climate Tech Practice — the team investing in Canadian climate technology since 2018, deploying through its Climate Tech Fund I and II (

BDC Financing

Canada

BDC's debt financing arm providing loans to Canadian businesses across all stages. Over $9.7B in annual loan acceptances across 123+ business centres

Climate Innovation Capital

Toronto, Ontario

Companies with proven, deployment-ready climate technologies with near-term profitability.

Cycle Capital Management

Montreal, QC

Leading private ClimateTech VC platform investing across North America, Europe and Asia in companies enabling net-zero transition, reducing GHG emissi

Crown corporation with over B in investment capital. Invests in Canadian VC/PE funds and co-invests directly in export-oriented companies via the Inve

FCC Capital

Regina, SK

Venture and growth investing arm of Farm Credit Canada, a federal Crown corporation; direct minority stakes plus fund commitments across agriculture a

Family holding company of Pierre Karl Peladeau making direct minority investments such as Connect and GO and Moment Factory.

Fonds de solidarité FTQ

Montreal, QC

Quebec's largest labour-sponsored venture capital fund with $20B+ in net assets. Provides venture and development capital to thousands of Quebec busin

Forage Capital Partners

Calgary, AB

Calgary agri-food growth-equity firm (about 150 million dollars) taking direct minority and control stakes across the agriculture and food value chain

InBC Investment Corp

Vancouver, BC

A 500 million dollar strategic investment fund of the Government of British Columbia; invests directly in BC-tied companies and as a limited partner i

InvestEco

Toronto, Ontario

Fast-growing expansion-stage companies promoting health and sustainability in food and agricultural sector.

Quebec provincial government's investment arm fostering economic development. Offers loans, loan guarantees, and equity investments, frequently co-inv

Leaps by Bayer

Leverkusen, Germany

Leaps by Bayer is Bayer's corporate venture and impact investment arm, founded in 2015. It invests in breakthrough life-science advances in health car

Lune Rouge

Montreal, QC

Family office of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte making direct and fund investments across technology and media.

Manitoba First Fund

Winnipeg, MB

Province of Manitoba fund-of-funds committing to venture funds active in Manitoba.

Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund (OCIF)

Calgary, AB

Wholly-owned investment fund of the City of Calgary deploying milestone-based quasi-equity capital into scaling companies.

Power Sustainable Lios

Toronto, ON

Agri-food investing arm of Power Sustainable (Power Corporation) taking direct minority and control stakes in mid-market food and agriculture companie

Renewal Funds

Vancouver, BC

Climate technology startups improving sustainability and resilience of infrastructure, production and manufacturing.

Serruya Private Equity

Markham, ON

Family office of the Serruya family (Yogen Fruz founders) taking direct minority and control stakes in consumer, restaurant, and retail brands.

Yaletown Partners

Vancouver, BC

North America's Intelligent Industry through software, AI/ML, and IIoT. Digitalization, transformation, and sustainability.