Inovia Capital Promotes Mia Morisset to Partner (opens in a new tab)
Growth principal promoted to partner; the release notes the firm has grown about 5x in AUM since she joined.
Growth & Venture Capital
Montreal-headquartered, Canada-anchored multi-stage VC firm with about US$2.5B AUM, investing from pre-seed to pre-IPO.
Inovia Capital, founded in 2007 by Chris Arsenault and Shawn Abbott, calls itself the largest Canada-anchored venture capital firm, with US$2.5 billion under management. It runs three linked strategies: Discovery (pre-seed and emerging-manager funds, including programs with Northleaf and Mila), Venture and Growth. Investment staff sit in Montreal, Toronto, Waterloo, Calgary and London, and there are offices in the Bay Area and Abu Dhabi. For Canadian candidates it is one of the few domestic VC platforms with junior investor and vice-president seats across stages; a 2026 release says the firm has grown from about 15 people to about 50.
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Pre-seed and seed strategy that backs emerging managers and makes direct early investments. It includes Discovery by Inovia x Northleaf (launched May 2026), the Venture Scientist Fund co-managed with Mila, and a European Precede strategy; Inovia reports 23 emerging managers and 1,200+ underlying companies.
Early-stage team leading seed to Series A/B rounds in AI, cybersecurity, fintech, digital health, future of work and infrastructure/developer tools (e.g. lead on Nue's Series A, co-lead on Bench IQ's seed).
Growth funds that double down on breakout companies, often ones first backed by the Venture team. Growth Fund III held its first close in mid-2024 with CDPQ, Investissement Québec, FSTQ and BDC as co-leads.
Platform team covering talent, product and technology, corporate development and marketing, plus entrepreneurs and executives in residence who support portfolio companies.
No official office list. The Montreal address comes from the privacy policy. Calgary, Toronto, Waterloo and London come from the team page's city filter, and the Nov 2025 release adds the Bay Area and Abu Dhabi. Addresses outside Montreal are not published. This list may be incomplete.
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Partner and CEO (Co-founder)
Growth
Co-founded Inovia in 2007 and created its platform and growth funds; he is based in Montreal and was named Partner and CEO in a November 2025 release. He has backed companies such as AppDirect, Lightspeed, Luxury Retreats and Super.com, and sits on boards including AppDirect, Super.com and Talent.com.
Partner (Co-founder)
Venture
Calgary-based co-founder of Inovia (2007), after about 20 years as a founder, inventor, angel investor and executive. He focuses on portfolio governance and sits on boards such as Certn, Top Hat and Bench; previous boards include Solium, which Morgan Stanley bought in 2019. He was founding chair of the A100 and helped establish AccelerateAB.
Partner
Growth
Toronto-based Growth partner who joined in 2018 to launch Growth Fund I with Chris Arsenault and Patrick Pichette; he leads the firm's value-creation strategy. He was CFO and COO of RIM (BlackBerry) from 1995 to 2010, including its IPO, and later COO of D2L. Board seats include AlayaCare, Symend, WorkJam, Vidyard and BenchSci.
Partner
Discovery / Venture
Toronto-based partner who joined Inovia in January 2010; he built much of its Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo footprint and its Discovery strategy. He led or co-led investments in Clearpath Robotics, TripleLift, Rubikloud and BufferBox, and sits on boards including Clearco, Vidyard and Fellow. Before Inovia he worked on enterprise software architecture at RBC; Ivey MBA and Waterloo math/CS degree.
Partner
Venture
Montreal-based Venture partner with over 25 years as an entrepreneur, operator and investor, including COO of PasswordBox (acquired by Intel) and VP worldwide sales at Hostopia.com. She sits on the boards of gaiia, Medeloop, Novisto and Rewind and on the CVCA board.
Partner
Growth
Montreal-based Growth partner who joined Inovia in 2018 and was promoted from Principal to Partner in June 2026. She led growth investments in Guesty, Novisto and Motion and works with AlayaCare, Super.com and Talent.com. She was earlier in private equity at PSP Investments and consulting at Roland Berger, and is a Kauffman Fellow.
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Jun 5, 2026
Mia MorissetPromotion
Partner, Growth
Inovia Capital → Inovia Capital
Promoted to Partner on the growth team after seven years at the firm; Inovia framed it as part of its succession planning.
Dec 11, 2025
Kory JeffreyPromotion
Partner, Venture
Inovia Capital → Inovia Capital
Ex-Google Canada engineering chief of staff who joined in 2022 and led the Cohere and Spellbook investments; promoted to Partner on the Venture team.
Dec 11, 2025
Taha MubashirPromotion
Partner, Venture
Inovia Capital → Inovia Capital
Joined as a Venture Principal in 2022 and was promoted to Partner alongside Kory Jeffrey.
Aug 27, 2025
Bench IQ
Co-lead investor · Legal tech / AI
Buyer Inovia Capital and Battery Ventures (co-leads)
Co-led a $5.3M seed (currency not stated) in Bench IQ, an AI judicial-intelligence platform from a repeat Inovia founder.
May 20, 2025
Novisto
Lead investor · Software (sustainability reporting)
Buyer Inovia Capital Growth team (lead)
The Growth team led a US$27M Series C for Novisto, a Montreal sustainability-reporting platform that the Venture team first backed in early 2023.
Jan 28, 2025
Nue
Lead investor · Software (revenue lifecycle management)
Buyer Inovia Capital (lead) and other investors
Inovia led a US$20M Series A for Nue, a platform that covers configure-price-quote through billing and invoicing.
Aug 15, 2019
Lightspeed POS Inc. (secondary offering)
Selling shareholder · Technology (Software)
Seller DHIDasilva Holdings, CDPQ, Inovia Capital and management
Selling shareholders sold 5,399,602 Lightspeed subordinate voting shares at $35.00 per share in a marketed secondary offering.
Growth principal promoted to partner; the release notes the firm has grown about 5x in AUM since she joined.
Launch of a joint Discovery platform for emerging Canadian managers and founders.
New co-GP fund aimed at closing the gap between Canada's AI research talent and its share of AI venture funding.
Kory Jeffrey and Taha Mubashir promoted to Partner.
New ADGM office to build partnerships in the UAE and Gulf region.
Inovia reports deploying over US$194M in 2024 across new and existing companies and emerging managers.
First close of Growth Fund III, co-led by CDPQ, IQ, FSTQ and BDC.
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