Lumira Ventures

Lumira Ventures, previously known as Lumira Capital, is a Canadian venture capital firm based in Toronto, Ontario, with offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Boston.

Organization

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is an investor in Lumira.[1]

Portfolio

In 2001, Lumira made a $14.5 million investment in Protiva Biotherapeutics.[2]

Other current and former portfolio companies include:[3]

  • Alveolus
  • AmacaThera
  • Antios Therapeutics
  • Antiva Biosciences
  • Aurinia Pharmaceuticals
  • Bardy Diagnostics
  • BioTheryX
  • Bright Angel Therapeutics
  • Cardiac Dimensions
  • Ception Therapeutics
  • Congruence Therapeutics
  • Corus Pharmaceuticals
  • Corvia Medical
  • Cyrano Therapeutics
  • DAMONA Pharmaceuticals
  • Deka BioSciences
  • Depomed
  • Edesa Biotech
  • Endotronix
  • Engage Therapeutics
  • enGene
  • ESSA Pharma
  • Exact Imaging
  • Forbius
  • Fusion Pharmaceuticals
  • G1 Therapeutics
  • GenEp
  • Guava Technologies
  • HistoSonics
  • IMV
  • ISTA Pharmaceuticals
  • Iterion Therapeutics
  • KAI Pharmaceuticals
  • KalGene
  • KisoJi Biotechology
  • LAVA Medtech Acquisition Corp.
  • MAKO Surgical
  • Medexus Pharmaceuticals
  • Morphotek
  • Notch Therapeutics
  • OncoMyx Therapeutics
  • Opsens
  • OsteoQC
  • Pharmasset
  • PIC Therapeutics
  • Resonant Medical
  • Satsuma Pharmaceuticals
  • Specific Biologics
  • Spinal Kinetics
  • Swift Medical
  • Think Research
  • Thryv Therapeutics
  • U-Systems
  • XyloCor Therapeutics
  • X4 Pharmaceuticals
  • Zymeworks

  1. Lumira Capital. Business Development Bank of Canada. Retrieved April 27, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.04.28-044715/https://www.bdc.ca/en/bdc-capital/venture-capital/portfolio/lumira-capital-ii ↩︎

  2. FOI Request - HTH-2015-51828. (2016, February 12). Government of British Columbia. https://web.archive.org/web/20220428045844/http://docs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/Response_Package_HTH-2015-51828.pdf ↩︎

  3. Portfolio. Lumira. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230326213612/https://www.lumiraventures.com/portfolio-companies/ ↩︎

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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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