Boreal Ventures

Burai is an AI automation platform that enhances business workflows by creating digital twins of organizations and automating 20-30% of repeatable tasks without the need for coding or extensive setup.

SmartD Technologies specializes in Clean Power Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and advanced motor control solutions, utilizing innovative SiC MOSFET technology to enhance energy efficiency and reduce harmonic distortion.

Puzzle Medical Devices® Inc. is a Canadian company specializing in the development of a platform device implanted <5 minutes with a 4 Fr axillary driveline, focusing on minimally invasive heart pump solutions for patients with heart failure.

A life sciences company developing innovative solutions for smoking and vaping cessation, including a prescription-based medical inhaler and a companion digital therapeutic.

Sami Agtech is committed to revolutionizing agriculture through advanced robotic solutions for harvesting and managing selective crops, utilizing cutting-edge technology to improve global food production.

Can-Explore specializes in geomatics, offering services in inspection, surveying, engineering, and technology solutions.

Management software designed for gyms, training centers, and studios.

Trustii provides pre-hiring and pre-rental screening solutions, focusing on privacy and user experience.

Palisade is a browser extension designed to protect users from online scams, phishing, and fraudulent content by scanning web pages in real-time and providing alerts for suspicious activities.

Pre-seed lead investor for deeply technical AI, biotech, climatetech and infrastructure startups, offering female operator-led go-to-market expertise and structured fellowships to source technical-founder deal flow. Divergent Capital is run by two female operator-investors who combine deep-tech investing experience with hands-on go-to-market expertise, and they cultivate deal flow through structured fellowships targeting students and emerging investors in their technical-founder network.

Red Bike Capital is a Latina and woman-led fund founded by Costa Rica-born Rachel ten Brink, who combines rare experience as a YC-backed founder (Scentbird, 500K+ subscribers) with 15 years leading brands at P&G, L'Oréal, and Estée Lauder. The fund focuses on helping pre-seed and seed founders land their first enterprise customers through hands-on go-to-market support, sourcing 80% of deals through founder-to-founder recommendations rather than traditional investor networks.

Early institutional backer that sources tech from academia and government labs, partnering with scientist- and engineer-led teams to deeply interrogate science, dual-use/defense opportunities, and amplify through an in-house media platform. Explicitly aims to "turn science fiction into science fact" by backing companies at the intersection of the new and the not-yet-imagined, built around scientists, engineers, and polymaths rather than traditional finance backgrounds who can deeply interrogate emerging science and complex tech. The firm systematically mines academia and government labs for "technological gems" and has become one of the earliest institutional backers of dual-use and defense technology.

Uncork Capital is one of the original "micro-VC" firms that helped prove small, seed-focused funds could work at scale when Jeff Clavier started investing his family's savings in 2004 and raised one of the first institutional seed funds in 2007. The firm has stayed "small by design" over 20 years to preserve discipline at seed stage while being unusually hands-on without formulaic playbooks, building custom one-on-one plans for each company and refusing to pass declined founders to other VCs because they view it as a harmful negative signal.