BDC Venture Capital

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets.

Eligibility Criteria

Your company must have: 

• a distinct, sustainable and competitive advantage;
• a technological platform;
• a highly-skilled and committed management team with entrepreneurial flair;
• a clearly-defined and realistic business plan;
• a market opportunity to support fast and long-term growth;
• a dominant leadership in the marketplace;
• a readily-perceivable, constructive exit strategy;
• a syndicate of venture capital investors.
  

Eligible Activities

The focus is on technology-based businesses with high growth potential that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets.

The targeted sectors are:

• advanced technologies;
• information technology;
• life sciences;
• telecommunications.

Summary

Long-term Focus

BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and advanced technologies.

• BDC gets involved right at the beginning of a business venture - the seed stage.
• BDC stays involved to later stage situations, such as pre-IPO mezzanine rounds.

Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Contact(s):
See National Contact.

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National Contact(s):
Head Office
Business Development Bank of Canada
Suite 400
5 Place Ville Marie
Montréal, Quebec  H3B 5E7
Fax: 1-877-329-9232
Toll-free (information): 1-877-BDC-BANX (1-877-232-2269)
E-mail: info@bdc.ca
Web site: http://www.bdc.ca/en/home.htm