Investors / RiSC Capital
RiSC Capital
Venture capital
RiSC Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in Canadian deep tech startups. The team describes itself as engineers funding engineers and reports having made over 70 investments over 20+ years.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdeep techcanadaseedpre-seedengineering
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Or find every investor that fitsRiSC Capital lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Robotics & Hardware (14%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (14%). 100% of its companies are based in Canada. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. and 1517 Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name RiSC Capital, 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 RiSC Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 13. 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 | 75% |
| Series A | 25% |
| 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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 97th | 31% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 14% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Education | 10% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 5% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. | 2 |
| 1517 Fund | 1 |
| Accelerator Centre | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Caffeinated | 1 |
| Continuum Health Ventures | 1 |
| Debiopharm Innovation Fund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers13100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare RiSC Capital 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 RiSC Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Aug 2025 | Seed | |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Seed |
Round details for RiSC Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in RiSC Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A&K ROBOTICS develops and offers an AI-enabled micro-mobility pod for transportation in large venues. | Robotics & Hardware | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Aeroflux is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of magnetic brakes for business, commuter, and commercial aircraft. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Astrus develops software tooling that uses AI to empower analog designers to create advanced microchips. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Aug 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| The company develops and manufactures MEMS oscillators for timing applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bonsai Micro develops and produces Edge-AI controllers and smart power amplifier modules for improving performance of high data rate communication systems | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| EECOMOBILITY develops and provides battery testing technology for production-speed testing of battery cells and modules. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| MesoMat provides a tire management platform with real-time data and insights for fleets | Mobility & Logistics | Jun 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Nexera Robotics has developed a proprietary technology that leverages advances in soft grasping and AI to meet the needs of the robotics market | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Peregrine Hydrogen produces clean hydrogen using a dual production approach that reduces energy requirements and outputs valuable co-products | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Versos prepares and delivers video datasets to AI companies, model developers, and partners | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops digital pathology technology to analyze tissue samples and provide quantitative biomarker data from routine H&E slides. | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| XLYNX Materials designs and manufactures fluorine-free diazirine crosslinkers for various applications | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Zero Point Cryogenics builds premium, customizable dilution refrigerators and cryogenic equipment for the quantum and low-temperature research industries. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- risc.capital
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Jun 2025
- Companies checked
- 13
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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