BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

BDC Venture Capital

Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums. With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growing presence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.

Yaletown Partners

Discovery Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early and growth stage investments. It seeks to invest in information technology with a focus on hardware and software companies, communications sector that includes mobile technology that includes wireless and networking solutions, new media, health and life sciences focused on biotechnology, environmental and energy technology, water purification, electric power by wind energy and solar energy, and other advanced technologies focused on hardware and software, industrial, alternative energy, energy-saving technology solutions, and clean technology solutions investments.  Discovery Capital seeks to invest in companies based in British Columbia. It also provides capital for follow-on investments. It will invest in eligible small businesses that qualify under the Small Business Venture Capital Act.  Discover Capital invests in those firm in which their business, together with affiliates, must have less than 100 employees at the time of their initial investment. It may make additional investments if the employment level grows beyond 100.  Also, their business must pay at least 75% of its wages and salaries to B.C. employees. This may be reduced to 50% if their business is engaged in the export of goods or services outside B. C. It prefers to have successful exits by way of initial public offerings and sales of portfolio companies.  John McEwen and Harry Jaako founded Discovery Capital in 1986. It has its headquarters in British Columbia in Canada.

Discovery Capital

CTI Life Sciences, a Canadian venture firm makes venture capital investments in high quality emerging life sciences companies at the pre-clinical and clinical development stage in Canada and in the U.S. CTI Life Sciences currently manage $345 million of assets.

CTI Life Sciences Fund

British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC) Inc. (''BC Discovery Fund,'' ''BCDF'' or the ''Fund'') is a diversified venture capital investment fund which allows investors to participate in the emerging technology industry in British Columbia. The Fund issues its shares under the Venture Capital Corporation (VCC) program, a BC government initiative to promote economic diversification and investment in small businesses, including technology ventures. In addition to enabling participation in innovative, local companies, BC Discovery Fund provides retail investors access to private venture capital investment opportunities, which are often only accessible to institutional shareholders and ''angel'' investors.  Eligible individual investors in the Fund receive a tax credit equal to 30% of the amount invested, to a maximum of a $60,000 tax credit per annum. The tax credit on investments into the Fund during the first 60 days of the year can be carried back and applied against the prior year's taxes payable. To the extent that the amount of the tax credit exceeds an individual's British Columbia taxes otherwise payable, the individual is entitled to a refund of the difference. Shares in the Fund are eligible for RRSPs, RRIFs and RESPs. The tax credit is also available to B.C. corporations to reduce B.C. taxes payable.

British Columbia Discovery Fund

BDC Healthcare Venture is a venture capital firm specializes in healthcare investments. The firm prefers to invest in the innovative therapeutics, medical technology, health technology, prevention, diagnostics, personalized treatment, mobile technologies and services, robotics, automation and disease management sectors.

BDC Healthcare Venture

Established in 2015, Quark Venture Inc. is a venture capital investment firm, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and is focused on equity financing of innovative biotechnology and health sciences companies with breakthrough technology platforms and projects.

Quark Venture

GF Securities provides securities broking and trading services. They offer securities brokerage, investment banking, wealth management, asset custody, and investment management services. They also conduct futures and finance businesses.

GF Securities

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The PHEMI Trustworthy Health DataLab is a unique, cloud-based, integrated big data management system that allows healthcare organizations to enhance innovation and generate value from healthcare data by simplifying the ingestion and de-identification of data with NSA/military-grade governance, privacy, and security built-in.

PHEMI Systems provides big-data management infrastructure with built-in privacy features. PHEMI’s Data Privacy Manager offers a cloud-based system for privacy and governance, enabling organizations to centrally manage and control access to data stored across multiple locations. The platform has comprehensive de-identification libraries which anonymize data, enabling analytics to be carried out without the risk of breaching any data privacy guidelines. It also provides other data security features, such as maintenance of audit logs and secure data sharing.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

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PHEMI Systems provides big-data management infrastructure with built-in privacy features. PHEMI’s Data Privacy Manager offers a cloud-based system for privacy and governance, enabling organizations to centrally manage and control access to data stored across multiple locations. The platform has comprehensive de-identification libraries which anonymize data, enabling analytics to be carried out without the risk of breaching any data privacy guidelines. It also provides other data security features, such as maintenance of audit logs and secure data sharing.Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves customers in the healthcare sector, with notable examples as of September 2024 including Roche, Merck, Discovery, The University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Prostate Centre.

OneTrust provides compliance solutions that leverage AI tools and automation across all areas of privacy compliance. The company’s AI-powered solution sees widespread use, providing automation in the areas of data discovery, data subject rights management, consent management (with a user-facing preference center for greater control), data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, incident response reporting, and monitoring.The company also provides regulatory research software that companies can use to train staff and even benchmark their own privacy programs. The company’s Government Records Request Automation solution helps government organizations intake requests, automate data discovery and redaction, and provide a secure two-way communication portal that demonstrates compliance with FOIA, PRR, and the Privacy Act. OneTrust’s products were backed by over 200 patents as of September 2024.OneTrust has strengthened its position in the digital privacy space through several acquisitions in recent years. In March 2021, OneTrust acquired DocuVision, an AI-powered data redaction platform to bolster its data subject rights capabilities through automatic redaction of non-relevant sensitive information. During the same month, OneTrust acquired Convercent to enhance its platform through advanced ethics and compliance capabilities, and helpline and disclosure management. OneTrust acquired the security assurance and certification platform Tugboat Logic in September 2021, to automate its InfoSec assurance and certification processes. Other notable acquisitions include Privacy Core e-learning, DataGuidance, and Integris Software.In March 2023, OneTrust announced the addition of certification automation to the OneTrust GRC and Security Assurance Cloud. This solution which combines automation, pre-built policies and controls spanning 29 industry frameworks, over 100 integrations, compliance content, and expert guidance enables customers to simplify and streamline compliance tasks according to OneTrust.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, OneTrust said it served over 14,000 active customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company claims it serves notable organizations from all industries, with Adobe, Walgreens, Samsung, and Mearsk among its customer base.OneTrust entered a partnership with Dow Jones Risk and Compliance in April 2023, to incorporate risk and compliance data into its third-party due diligence solution.

OneTrust

CENTRL provides automated risk management and privacy management solutions. Through its Privacy360 platform, the company provides solutions to identify compliance gaps, automate data discovery, manage data subject rights requests, consent management (with a user-facing preference center), carry out impact assessments, third-party risk management, monitoring, and reporting.

CENTRL

HighSide provides a secure communications platform for organizations, enterprise archiving solutions, data discovery, and supervision tools in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, etc. In 2019, the company announced the acquisition of Hotshot Technologies, a secure team messaging platform.

HighSide

SecuPI provides a patented platform enabling organizations to achieve compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform achieves this by providing multiple features to protect data such as pseudonymization, consent controls, audit logs, streamlining breach notifications, etc. SecuPI’s platform is deployed in organizations in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, and health industries.

SecuPi

JoinPrivacy is a B2C solution that allows users to manage their personal data from the websites they use, all from one place.

JoinPrivacy

Solutions to prevent the tracking and collection of the personal data of end-users.

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Tools to provide compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and carry out tasks such as data discovery, data governance, consent management, Data Subject Rights (DSR) management, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and managing incident response as mandated by these privacy regulations.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

Central management of data access and data privacy and security policies.

Uses AI/ML to automate workflows such as data discovery and data classification

Uses generative AI to provide conversational recommendations to users to remain compliant with privacy regulations

Solutions in this industry hub are offered under a B2B SaaS model

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