Pender Ventures

Canada

Pre Seed

About Pender Ventures

Pender Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Canada, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in Digital Health, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionCanada

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Digital Health

Saas

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Impact-driven health/B2B tech founder scaling post-commercialization North America

health tech

B2B tech

commercialization to scale

North America

impact-driven

Bullish Signals

Backed by PenderFund Capital Managementexternal

4 Canadian offices, pan-North America reachexternal

Hands-on: recruiting, BD, fundraising supportexternal

Actively engaging Prairie founders on-groundlinkedin

Present at Uniting The Prairies ecosystem eventlinkedin

Product strategy, people/culture, ESG platformwebsite

Exit planning & scaling infrastructure includedwebsite

Diverse team reduces investor blind spotswebsite

PenderFund network enhances market intelligencewebsite

Decades of startup building experience internallywebsite

Platform includes people/culture, ESG, exit planningwebsite

High-conviction investor building category leaderswebsite

Contrarian Signals

Canada-rooted, may deprioritize US-onlyexternal

High-conviction = selective deal volumeexternal

Founder Do's

Be at commercialization-to-scale inflection point

Health tech or B2B tech focus

Open to hands-on board engagement

Operate in North America

Show scalability & resilience; embrace diverse teams

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch pre-revenue concepts

Don't expect passive investor

Don't ignore ESG or people/culture

Key GPs & Partners

Jacob Grainger

Associate

community-builderfounder-facingPrairie-focused

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$100M

Saves0

Website

Key People

Maria Acella

Jacob GraingerAssociate

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