Innovate Calgary
innovatecalgary.com Direct investor
Innovate Calgary is the innovation transfer and business incubator centre for the University of Calgary. It manages the UCeed Fund, a group of early-stage philanthropic investment funds that back startup companies.
Innovate Calgary is an investor headquartered in Calgary, Canada, founded in 1986. It invests directly in companies, in health, child and maternal health, social impact and energy.
“UCeed Fund is a group of early-stage investment funds accelerating startup companies to advance problem-solving research, create jobs and fuel the economy.”
— Innovate Calgary, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Stage
- Not stated
- Sectors
- health, child and maternal health, social impact, energy, therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, software
- Founded
- 1986
Team, as Innovate Calgary publishes it
- Shawn Baxter, MBA Interim President & CEO
- Sherry Wei, BComm, CGA Senior Director – Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Lisa Clarke, LL.B, LL.M, PhD General Counsel
- Peter Santosham, MBA Executive Director, UCeed Funds
- Nima Najand, PhD Executive Director, Innovation & Intellectual Property
- Kevin Dahl, BComm Senior Director, ElevateIP Alberta
- Alex Guo, E.I.T. Prototyping Lab Manager
- Alla Bondareva, MSc, PM Senior Laboratory Manager, Life Sciences Innovation Hub Labs
- Allison Numerow BA, JD Senior Legal Counsel
- Amber Woodford, BA, CPHR Director, People, Culture & Services
- Amy Inkster Events and Engagement Lead, Marketing and Communications
Names and roles exactly as listed on innovatecalgary.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Innovate Calgary publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://innovatecalgary.com/name, hq_country, hq_city, status
- https://innovatecalgary.com/programs-funding/uceed/is_investor, layer, sectors, thesis_quote
- https://innovatecalgary.com/our-story/type, description, founded
- https://innovatecalgary.com/team/people
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Record 13682 · added 2026-10-19 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence medium
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