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RiSC Capital
RiSC Capital is Canada's Deep Tech Venture Fund. The team has extensive experience operating and investing and describes itself as engineers funding engineers.
RiSC Capital
RiSC Capital is Canada's Deep Tech Venture Fund. The team has extensive experience operating and investing and describes itself as engineers funding engineers. They specialize in Canadian Deep Tech startups at the seed or pre-seed stage and have made 70+ investments over the last 20+ years.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2019
Location
Region
North America
Country
Canada
City
Toronto
Corporate office
Toronto, Canada
Principals
Colin Webster
Co-Founder
Scott Pelton
Co-Founder
Jenny Yang
Partner
Paul Martin
Advisor
Roger Singh
Advisor
Chris Burns
Advisor
Landon Steele
Advisor
Scott Lake
Advisor
Sam Macdonald
Advisor
Kristina McDougall
Advisor
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Does RiSC Capital operate as a fund or as a venture capital firm?
RiSC Capital presents itself as a venture capital firm and describes itself as a deep tech venture fund. The firm does not publicly disclose its legal fund structure, limited partner composition, or AUM, so whether it operates as a single-fund vehicle or a series of funds is not verifiable from public records.
Which investment stages does RiSC Capital target?
The firm invests at the pre-seed and seed stages. Its portfolio page lists each company by stage, and no later-stage or growth rounds appear. Testimonials reference leading seed financings and being a startup's first institutional check.
Who makes investment decisions at RiSC Capital?
No investment decision-makers are named on the firm's website. The site uses collective language ('we are engineers funding engineers') and founder testimonials reference 'the RiSC Capital guys,' but no individual principal, partner, or investment committee member is identified.
How does RiSC Capital source deals?
The firm's deal-sourcing model is not described publicly. Given its focus on university-lab spinouts and technical founders — companies like EECOMOBILITY and ViewsML both originated from academic research — a plausible inference is that sourcing runs through Canadian research universities and technical founder networks, but no formal structure is disclosed.
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