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Pender Ventures
Venture capital · Vancouver, Canada · North America
Pender Ventures is a thematic venture capital firm that partners with B2B technology and health tech founders. It provides capital and hands-on support including talent, business development, fundraising, product and AI strategy, board governance and exit planning.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsb2b softwareaihealth techearly growthcanadanorth america
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Or find every investor that fitsPender Ventures lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (26%), AI & Machine Learning (22%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (13%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside MaRS IAF, Accelerate Fund and Brightspark Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Pender 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 Pender Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 15. 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 39th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 26% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 9% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| MaRS IAF | 2 |
| Accelerate Fund | 1 |
| Brightspark Ventures | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| DCVC | 1 |
| Diagram | 1 |
| Emerald Technology Ventures | 1 |
| Evergy Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers15100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 togetherCompare Pender 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 Pender Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jul 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 19 Jan 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for Pender Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Pender Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarius produces portable handheld wireless ultrasound scanners for point of care use | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Copperleaf provides AI-powered technology solutions for effective capital allocation | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| DistillerSR develops and provides AI-enabled software for automating literature reviews and managing literature-based research and surveillance. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides utility asset management software | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Insidedesk automates and streamlines revenue cycle management for dental support organizations (DSOs). | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides practice management software for health and wellness clinics. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Librestream provides remote expert and artificial intelligence support for field teams | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides online hormone therapy and wellness services, including diagnostic testing and prescription treatments, for men and women in Canada. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| SensorUp provides industrial system of action solutions for oil and gas operations | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Spark provides software for real estate developers, project brokerages, marketers, and sales teams to manage new development projects | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides advanced wound care management solutions using artificial intelligence and a large database of wound images. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Traction Complete provides data management software for Salesforce | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Traction Rec provides a member management CRM platform for communities and organizations. | Real Estate & ConstructionLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Veritree helps businesses invest in tree planting with full confidence and ground-level transparency. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- penderventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 15
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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