Brightspark Ventures
brightspark.com Direct + LP
Brightspark Ventures is a Canadian venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. It manages VC funds and SPVs, and offers secondary transactions to accredited investors.
Brightspark Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Canada, founded in 1999. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to Series A, in technology.
“We back exceptional Canadian early-stage tech companies that are building the future.”
— Brightspark Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Canada
- Invests in
- Canada
- Sectors
- technology
- Founded
- 1999
Team, as Brightspark Ventures publishes it
- Mark Skapinker Partner
- Sophie Forest Partner
- Jacques Perreault Partner
- Éléonore Jarry-Ferron Partner
- Andrew Lugsdin Partner
- Claire Fauquier Venture Partner
- Thomas Tanguay-Sabourin Investment Associate
- Elena Pavel CFO and Partner
- Caroline Rheault Financial Controller
- Alexandra Johnstone Marketing & Communications Manager
- Frédérik Lupien Financial Controller
Names and roles exactly as listed on brightspark.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 48 co-investors found.
- Differential Venture Partners, LLC 2 shared companies: synopsys.com, ibm.com
- Depo Ventures 2 shared companies: salesforce.com, ibm.com
- Inovia Capital 2 shared companies: salesforce.com, hopper.com
- Panache Ventures 2 shared companies: deepskyclimate.com, valencediscovery.com
- Oak Investment Partners 1 shared company: synopsys.com
- Omnes Capital 1 shared company: synopsys.com
- Unless Management LP 1 shared company: synopsys.com
- 8VC 1 shared company: salesforce.com
- Ascent Venture Partners 1 shared company: salesforce.com
- Cota Capital 1 shared company: salesforce.com
and 38 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Brightspark Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://brightspark.com/enname, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status
- https://brightspark.com/en/peoplepeople
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Record 810 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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