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OMERS Ventures
Corporate VC · Toronto, Canada · North America
OMERS Ventures is the venture arm of OMERS, a pension plan serving municipal employees in Ontario. It invests in early-stage technology founders and has backed companies such as Shopify, Hopper, Hootsuite, Contentful and ClearEstate.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordstechnologyclimate techhealth techproptechinsurtechb2b software
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Or find every investor that fitsOMERS Ventures lists 67 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (20%), AI & Machine Learning (15%) and Space & Defense (10%). 41% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Salesforce Ventures, Golden Ventures and Radical Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name OMERS Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not OMERS Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 67. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 14% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 14% |
| Growth | 43% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 67 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 56th | 14% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 71th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 14th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 20% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 10% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Salesforce Ventures | 8 |
| Golden Ventures | 4 |
| Radical Ventures | 4 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 3 |
| MaRS IAF | 3 |
| Panache Ventures | 3 |
| Real Ventures | 3 |
| Valor Siren Ventures | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6496%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company34%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Salesforce Ventures
Compare OMERS Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with OMERS Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 30 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 28 May 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Aug 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 16 Apr 2025 | Series B | |
| 21 Apr 2021 | Series C+ |
Round details for OMERS Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in OMERS Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
67 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides a platform to automate incentives, mitigate risk, and centralize programs for businesses to drive growth | ConsumerConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Acerta provides a manufacturing quality platform using AI to help manufacturers identify and resolve defects early | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Affinity provides a CRM system for private capital companies | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Alida is a customer experience management and customer insights platform. | Healthcare & BiotechMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Altana AI is an AI-powered network for trusted trade | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Arize provides an agent observability, evaluation, and improvement platform for AI teams | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Birdie provides technology for homecare businesses to manage care, finance, and workforce, among other things. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Cerbos provides an authorization management platform for enterprise software and AI | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Muse develops and sells a headband that tracks and improves mental fitness and sleep | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Clearcover provides car insurance services to its customers. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ClearEstate provides online estate planning and settlement services, including will creation and probate support. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Cohere provides enterprise artificial intelligence solutions for businesses. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Crunchbase provides private company data and predictive intelligence solutions | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Crux modernizes how capital is raised and deployed into clean and critical infrastructure. | FintechEducation | Apr 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| D2L creates and delivers personalized learning at scale with powerful tools and customizable content | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Daedal Systems develops plasma measurement systems for fusion energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| DCG invests in and operates businesses in the crypto industry | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Deep Sky builds, owns, and operates infrastructure to reverse climate change by removing carbon emissions. | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- omersventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Apr 2021
- Companies checked
- 67
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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