AVAC Ltd.

AVAC Ltd. is a private not-for-profit company that invests strategically in promising early-stage commercial businesses focusing on the expansion of Alberta’s value-added agri-business, ICT, life sciences, and other industrial technology sectors. AVAC also participates in commercially-relevant agricultural research and is a strategic fund-of-fund investor in early stage venture capital. Created in 1997, AVAC has invested in over 100 early-stage companies, 47 agriculture research programs and projects, and 3 venture capital funds to date.

Website:: http://www.avacltd.com
Tags:: Venture Capital
Address:: 220 - 6815 8 St NE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Events Hosted by AVAC Ltd.

AVAC Presents: Sunflower King Speaks!

Spitz International Inc., Canada's top producer of sunflower and pumpkin seeds is being acquired by PepsiCo. Please join us on January 28, 2009 to hear Spitz founders, Tom and Emmy Droog, and Myles... [more]

Blog Posts About AVAC Ltd.

MoboVivo downloads $1 Million from AVAC

Calgary-based MoboVivo announced last week that Alberta-based venture capital company AVAC Ltd. will invest $1 million in their multi-media distribution company. The investment falls under AVAC's... [more]

Meet the Alberta Innovators Who Have Received AVAC/IVAC Financing

I should have googled the Commonwealth Hall and Conference Centre on 52nd Ave NE in Calgary before I went downtown to find it ... anyway ... I took in the latter part of the AVAC 10 year... [more]

AVAC's new IVAC initiative invests $5.7M in Alberta High-Tech companies

I sat beside Jacques LaPointe last week at a CCAT luncheon in Calgary ... Jacques is a Senior Investment Manager at AVAC and we quickly got to talking about the high-tech community in Alberta. I... [more]