Brightspark Ventures
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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 directly in companies, 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 investor
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 48 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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