Founded on the idea of pooling capital to support and build the local economy, Conexus Credit Union launched Conexus Venture Capital to fuel the local tech ecosystem.
Our first fund (Fund #1) launched in 2019, investing in prairie based technology start ups.
In 2021 Conexus Venture Capital launched an agtech focused fund, Emmertech, backed by key stakeholders in the North American agricultural ecosystem.
This fund invests where ‘technology meets the farm’.
Investing in diversity overall has been shown to perform better over time and that is evident in our portfolio returns. We are proud to say that almost 2/3 of our capital has been invested in companies with a female founder.
Emmertech co-leads the initial $12M AUD Series A fundraise with Swarm Farm Robotics, an automated agricultural technology company in Queensland, Australia.
Emmertech portfolio company, IntelliCulture, and Saskatchewan-based, Precision AI, are two of eight companies selected in the John Deere 2023 Startup Collaborator Program.
Ground Truth Agriculture Inc. announced the close of a $4 million seed round. The funding round was led by Conexus Venture Capital Inc. and includes $2 million from its agtech-focused Emmertech fund.
Emmertech Managing Directors, Sean O’Connor and Kyle Scott, highlight tailwinds in the Canadian agtech space in a recent article published in the Globe and Mail. We have a generational opportunity to lead the world in one of our most critical industries by investing in innovation and not stifling with counter-productive policy.
CBC News discusses how Saskatchewan has become a hub for emerging agtech, speaking with several industry leaders, agtech founders, and farmers.
The AGTECH ACCELERATOR shared the results of its inaugural cohort, which saw unprecedented success, in the first half of 2022! The AGTECH ACCELERATOR brings together both agriculture and technology to accelerate the growth of Canadian agtech startups built to solve global problems.
Vancouver digital health startup, Curatio, has announced it has merged with Sydney, Austrailia’s RxMx to form RxPx. Learn more here.
