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’.
Vive Crop Protection Inc. is excited to announce its first Canadian product registration with the introduction of AZteroid™ FC3.3 fungicide. AZteroid FC3.3 protects potatoes against several diseases.
Montréal agtech startup ChrysaLabs, which provides soil-testing technologies, raised a $15-million CAD round. Leaps by Bayer, TELUS Ventures, and BDC Capital are among new investors.
An inside look at how SwarmFarm Robotics partnered with an Australian farm to revolutionize how they operate, with robots completing tasks in a fraction of traditional farm labour hours.
Emmertech participates in the US $4.3M seed round for Vivid Machines. The company has developed technology that gives the fruit supply chain accurate real-time crop data down to the plant level.
Investing in diversity has been shown to perform better over time and that is evident in our portfolio returns. We are proud that almost 2/3 of our capital is 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, challenges, and opportunities in the Canadian agtech space in an article published in the Globe & Mail.
