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What does Brightspark Ventures invest in?
Brightspark Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Marketplace, B2C and Sector Agnostic.
Brightspark Ventures highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $1.7M
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8 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We back exceptional Canadian early-stage tech companies that are building the future.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $3.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- MarketplaceB2CSector Agnostic
- Based in
- Montreal, Canada
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first26 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Jan
- 2025
1 round
- Sept
- 2021
1 round
- May
- 2018
1 round
- Oct
- 2016
1 round
- Apr
- 2014
3 rounds
- Jul
- Mar
- Jan
- 2012
1 round
- Aug
- 2011
1 round
- Aug
- 2008
3 rounds
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2007
5 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
- Jul
- May
- JanHopperSeed · CA$1.7MSole investor
- 2006
3 rounds
- May
- Mar
- Jan
- 2005
2 rounds
- Jul
- Mar
- 2002
1 round
- Oct
- 2001
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 7 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
12 of 31 we have independently watched raise
A data connectivityA platform thatA product innovationBuilding the nextForcen enables robotsIndustrial IoT solutionsModernizing and automatingNext-generation hardware andNext-generation interactive 3DPricepointThe world’s largestUnique, patented, microsystemA digital marketplaceAcquired by AxonifyAcquired by Canada PostAcquired by GenesysAcquired by IBMAcquired by InformaticaAcquired by RecursionAcquired by SalesforceAcquired by SynopsysAcquired by calabrioAnalyzes billions ofCoralDirect-To-Consumer (DTC) e-commerceFocused on next-generationRubyState-backed venture aimingTransforming short-haul transportationUses AI andacquired by hmh
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed8 in all
BorderfreeBought by Pitney Bowes$395MMay 2015
BorderfreeBought by Borderfree IncUndisclosedMar 2012
Salesforce Radian6Bought by Salesforce$326MMar 2011
SiperianBought by Informatica$130MJan 2010
MobivoxBought by Sabse TechnologiesUndisclosedSept 2009
NowPublicBought by Examiner.comUndisclosedSept 2009
Think DynamicsBought by IBM (International Business Machines)UndisclosedMay 2003
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.