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The Ecofuel Accelerator appoints Patrick Gagné as President and CEO

The Ecofuel Accelerator’s Board of Directors announces that Patrick Gagné has been appointed as the new President and CEO of the Ecofuel Accelerator. Patrick will be responsible for strategic and operational management of Ecofuel Accelerator’s staff and acceleration programs, including the outreach in the local and international ecosystems. “We are thrilled to have Patrick join the Ecofuel Accelerator’s team as we expand the acceleration programs and increase collaborations with partner venture funds and industrial partners. As a serial entrepreneur that has helped build multiple ventures, including in cleantech, Patrick has a deep understanding of the main challenges faced by cleantech entrepreneurs....

15 September 2020

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Ecofuel Accelerator announces the appointment of Morgan Guitton as Director of Operations

Montreal, April 13th, 2020 – Ecofuel Accelerator, aspecialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announces the appointment of Morgan Guitton as Director of Operations. « We are pleased to have Morgan in the Ecofuel Accelerator team. In addition to her experience tech transfer and deep network, Morgan has a good understanding of the startup ecosystem and we are convinced the entrepreneurs will appreciate her broad expertise », said Richard Cloutier, President and CEO of the Ecofuel Accelerator. Morgan has more than 10 years of experience in the management marketing of technological innovations, startups and business development. Before joining Ecofuel, she worked...

13 April 2020

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Ecofuel Accelerator Unveils its 11th Cohort

Montreal, April 6th, 2020 – Ecofuel Accelerator, a specialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announces the five companies of the Spring 2020 Cohort. Selected amongst thirty applicants, they’re the participants of the eleventh cohort of the Ecofuel Accelerator. Over the next three months, the entrepreneurs and executive teams from B3D Performance, Extergy, GRAD4, Planetary Hydrogen and Rithmik Solutions will experience an acceleration program tailored to their needs, which was already a success factor for many companies in the past years. They will receive mentorship and advice from about forty mentors who are references in the cleantech sector, business, global...

6 April 2020

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Ecofuel unveils its 10th cohort

Montreal, October 16th, 2019 – Ecofuel, a venture capital fund and specialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announces the four companies of the Ecofuel Accelerator Fall 2019 Cohort. Selected amongst many applicants, they’re the participants of the tenth cohort of the Ecofuel Accelerator, which will continue until January 2020. Over the next three months, the entrepreneurs and executive teams from Calogy Solutions, Chrysalabs, Axipolymer and Pyrocycle will experience an acceleration program tailored to their needs, which was already a success factor for many companies in the past five years. They will receive mentorship and advice from about forty mentors...

21 October 2019

Catherine Bérubé

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Ecofuel unveils its 9th cohort

Montreal, March 25th, 2019 – Ecofuel, a venture capital fund and specialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announces the five companies of the Ecofuel Accelerator spring 2019 Cohort. Selected amongst many applicants, they’re the participants of the ninth cohort of the Ecofuel Accelerator, which will continue until June 2019. Over the next three months, the entrepreneurs and executive teams from Bosk Bioproducts, ADCT, Impactful Health R&D, OPA Technologies and SG2B will experience an acceleration program tailored to their needs, which was already a success factor for many companies in the past five years. They will receive mentorship and advice from about forty...

27 March 2019

Catherine Bérubé

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The Billion Dollar Fund For Women™/Canada launches to tackle the gender funding gap

Six Canadian Venture Funds have already pledged as part of the global campaign to mobilize $1B February 20th, 2019 (Toronto and Montreal) – The Billion Dollar Fund For Women launches its Canadian campaign to mobilize a consortium of Canadian venture funds to pledge to increase their investment in women-founded companies. While the gender pay gap is well documented in Canada, what is not is the gender funding gap of venture capital in companies. To address this, The Billion Dollar Fund for Women (“TBDF”) was established to tackle the gender funding gap. A founding group of Canadian venture capital funds are proud...

20 February 2019

Catherine Bérubé

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Ecofuel Fund successfully completes second closing expanding to $40.6M

Montreal, January 25th, 2019 – Ecofuel Fund - one of Canada’s largest seed stage cleantech venture capital funds - is pleased to announce its second closing for total investor commitments of $40.6 million. The Fund collected additional $10.6M in equity to support cleantech seed stage companies from Quebec and Eastern Canada. As part of this closing, the Fund welcomes Desjardins Capital and a number of high net worth investors and receives increased commitment from Investissement Québec, acting as mandatory of the Government of Québec. The other initial investors in the Fund are BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business...

25 January 2019

Catherine Bérubé

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Ecofuel unveils its 8th cohort

Montreal, October 23rd, 2018 – Ecofuel, a venture capital fund and specialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announces the six companies of the Ecofuel Accelerator Fall 2018 Cohort. Selected amongst 33 applicants, they’re the participants of the eight cohort of the Ecofuel Accelerator. Entrepreneurs from Tero, Lekla, Nexus Robotics, SPI Bio, BluWave-aiand Concept GEEBEE will experience in the last three months an acceleration program tailored to their needs, which was already a success factor for many companies in the past four years. They will receive mentorship and advice from about forty mentors who are references in cleantech, business, global...

23 October 2018

Catherine Bérubé

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Ecofuel Accelerator announces its 6th cohort

Montreal, December 17, 2017 – Ecofuel, a venture capital fund and specialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announces the two companies of the Ecofuel Accelerator Autumn 2017 Cohort. Selected amongst 30 applicants, they’re the participants of the sixth cohort of the Ecofuel Accelerator, which will continue until December 2017. Entrepreneurs from Biotechnologies Ulysse and Helios UAV have experienced in the last four months an acceleration program tailored to their needs, which was already a success factor for many companies in the past three years. They have receive mentorship and advice from about forty mentors who are a reference in...

18 December 2017

Catherine Bérubé

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Ecofuel Fund: $30M to support cleantech companies

Montreal, December 17, 2017 – Ecofuel, a venture capital fund and specialized and personalized accelerator in the cleantech sector, announced today the first closing of the Ecofuel Fund, in the presence of the Quebec’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and Minister responsible for the Northern Plan and the Fund’s limited partners: Investissement Québec, acting as mandatory of the Government of Québec, BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Fondaction, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and the Centre Québécois de valorisation des biotechnologies (CQVB). The Ecofuel Fund, a $30M venture capital fund, will invest...

18 December 2017

Catherine Bérubé

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