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BDC Growth Venture Fund
BDC Growth Venture Fund is a government or Crown investor based in Canada. BDC Growth Venture Fund has backed 9 Canadian AI companies in the Index, joining 2 tracked rounds. The most recent was Cohere's US$100M bridge round in September 2025. BDC Growth Venture Fund most often invests alongside AMD Ventures, BNY and Canapi Ventures.
Government/Crown based in Canada. 9 Canadian AI companies in the Index, 2 tracked rounds.
- Type
- Government/
Crown - HQ country
- Canada
- Companies
- 9
- Tracked rounds
- 2
- Led
- 0
- First tracked deal
- Conquest Planning, Jun 2025
- Latest tracked deal
- Cohere, Sep 2025
- Website
- bdc.ca
Portfolio
| Company | Rounds joined (date, round size) | Company's total raised | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere | Bridge/Extension · Sep 2025 · US$100M round | C$9.1B | — |
| Conquest Planning | Series B · Jun 2025 · US$80M round | C$132.8M | — |
| Avidbots* | — | — | — |
| BenchSci* | — | C$95M | — |
| Element AI* | — | — | — |
| Hopper* | — | — | — |
| StackAdapt* | — | — | — |
| Symend* | — | US$92M | — |
| Vention* | — | C$352.3M | — |
A round's size is the whole round as announced, not this investor's cheque.
* Held per the firm's portfolio page or reported coverage, without a round tracked in the Index.
Frequent co-investors
AMD Ventures (1 shared round), BNY (1 shared round), Canapi Ventures (1 shared round), Citi Ventures (1 shared round), Goldman Sachs Asset Management (1 shared round), Inovia Capital (1 shared round), Nexxus Capital Management (1 shared round), NVentures (Nvidia) (1 shared round)
Data as of November 10, 2026.