Fund profile / Canada

Radical Breakouts Fund

Geography: Canada
Stage: Series C
Fund size: $1B
Focus
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Radical Breakouts Fund

Growth capital for AI companies with the potential to become category-defining, trillion-dollar-scale businesses, spanning foundation models, robotics, autonomous systems and materials science Geography: Headquartered in Toronto, deploying globally alongside Radical's London, New York and San Francisco offices.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionCanada

Funding StageSeries C

Industry Focus

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Technical AI founders solving frontier science, infra, or embodied AI

deep AI

frontier models

AI infra

biotech+AI

robotics

spatial intelligence

quantum computing

autonomous systems

energy-first AI

Bullish Signals

Fei-Fei Li, DeepMind alumni in portfolioexternal

Backed Stargate/OpenAI infra playexternal

Nobel-linked AlphaFold founder investedexternal

Day-zero to pre-IPO full stackexternal

World Labs (Fei-Fei Li) spatial AI leaderexternal

Generalist: DeepMind + Boston Dynamics embodied AIexternal

Crusoe: gigawatt-scale energy-efficient AI infrastructureexternal

Portfolio spans inference, robotics, biotech, quantumexternal

Etched: deep stack co-design, frontier inferenceexternal

Decart: real-time world models, spatial computeexternal

Cohere: enterprise agentic AI, privacy-firstexternal

Waabi: autonomous trucking, generative AI-firstexternal

Discovery Loop: automating scientific discoveryexternal

Aspect: 3D bioprinting tissue engineeringexternal

Nabla Bio: generative AI drug designexternal

Orbital Industries: generative AI materials discoveryexternal

Muon Space: satellite-based Earth intelligenceexternal

Emerald AI: grid-aware AI power orchestrationexternal

Contrarian Signals

Very deep tech, long time horizonsexternal

Multiple acquired exits, not mega IPOsexternal

Backing quantum computing (Xanadu) despite uncertaintyexternal

Founder Do's

Build in AI-native architecture

Target enterprise or scientific impact

Come with deep technical pedigree

Show path from day-zero to scale

Solve hard physical or digital world problems

Partner with domain experts (biotech, robotics, materials)

Address energy/infrastructure constraints upfront

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch thin AI wrappers

Don't ignore energy/infra constraints

Don't lack domain-expert founders

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$1B

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Unknown PartnerPartner

Backers

Known LPs

BMO Financial GroupBank

CPP InvestmentsInvestment vehicle

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)Pension fund

+3 more LPs in LP Radar

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