# Grand Challenges Canada: portfolio, investments and team > Grand Challenges Canada is a vc firm based in Canada. 1 investment on record, latest Jan 2013. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/grand-challenges-canada (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) Canada · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Grand Challenges Canada Last cheque observed Jan 2013. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds. Quiet VC firm Grant Advertising Platforms News Biotechnology Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 1 on record Since the last cheque **5046** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$225K** Rounds led **0 of 1** Sole investor **1 rounds** Pitch Grand Challenges Canada ## Grand Challenges Canada highlights - 01 1 rounds on record - 02 Mostly Grant: 100% of its rounds - 03 Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $225K ## What they do - **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified) - **Cheque size:** Not stated - **Sectors:** Advertising Platforms News Biotechnology - **Based in:** Toronto, Canada - **Cold pitches:** Accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **1 appearances** - **2013** 1 round - **Jan** **[Atomwise](https://millionrounds.com/company/atomwise)** Grant · US **$225K** Sole investor 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 **1** person 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) **0** of 16 we have independently watched raise 83% protection BillionScale Health Botswana Innovation Fund Fund for Innovation Global Grand Challenges Network Institut Pasteur Dakar Malawi NCST Rwanda Novo Nordisk Foundation Randomised Controlled Trial SC Johnson Sanofi Foundation Science for Africa Foundation South African Medical The Geneva Learning Foundation The Lighthouse Fund 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. ## The cheque Grant Median round joined **$225K** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$225K** Led 0 of 1 rounds **0%** - **Sole investor:** 1 rounds - **Last cheque:** Jan 2013 Rounds by stage said on their site - Grant *1* **Pitching Grand Challenges Canada?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Quick answers about Grand Challenges Canada ### What does Grand Challenges Canada invest in? Grand Challenges Canada invests most often at Grant (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Advertising Platforms, News and Biotechnology. ### How active is Grand Challenges Canada? 1 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jan 2013. ### How big are Grand Challenges Canada's cheques? The median round it joins is $225K. ### Is Grand Challenges Canada investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jan 2013. ### What kind of investor is Grand Challenges Canada? Grand Challenges Canada is a VC firm based in Toronto, Canada. ### Does Grand Challenges Canada take cold pitches? Yes: its own website says it reads unsolicited pitches. ### When was Grand Challenges Canada founded? Grand Challenges Canada was founded in 2010. ### Where does this information on Grand Challenges Canada come from? From public registers and its own website, checked and rebuilt every night. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=grand-challenges-canada) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=grand-challenges-canada)