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The Fraser Student Venture Fund invests in companies in exchange for company equity.

Our student investors seek highly scalable, early-stage companies, led by driven and innovative founders on a mission to bring their business to the global market.

Working with the Fraser Student Venture Fund offers companies a unique opportunity to explore the investment-raising process in an encouraging environment, where growth, development, and venture capital literacy are both the goals of the company and the students.

Together, we are passionate about creating an environment which fosters innovation and collaboration between the top students and entrepreneurial talent our province has to offer.

Portfolio companies

Archaeosoft

2023 | Archaeosoft: A software platform to digitize note taking for archaeologists in the field.


Jan. 2022 | BioHuntress has developed, BG008, an alternative approach to fight cancer. It uses a natural molecule derived from bee propolis for killing drug-resistant cancer cells. BG008 has exhibited superior cancer-fighting properties compared to Lenalidomide and Revlimid, which currently are the standard chemotherapy drugs in the market.

It also has shown little to no side effects in a clinical trial on human bone marrow cells. BG008 is patented in Canada, USA, and India. It has shown promising results during pre-clinical trials when used against drug-resistant blood cancer cells. There are over 1.4 million blood cancer patients in North America.


CleanMeter

2023 | Cleanmeter: A credit platform to ease the burden of capital expenditures associated with the purchase of clean- energy systems in Africa.


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2023 | Homeschool to Go: Offers online multilingual homeschool curriculums for parents.


Jun. 2022 | Picketa Systems has developed a handheld scanning device that farmers use to easily monitor plant nutrient levels.

Currently, this analysis is done by performing soil analysis, which is done in the laboratory and is time-consuming and inaccurate. Picketa’s solution can be done right in the field by the farmer, at a lower cost and with greater accuracy.


Norm Couturier, President and CEO

Jan. 2020 | Operating within the 3D Aerial Image Fusion industry, 3D Planeta's software provides the next generation of 3D imaging and terrain visualization.

Using deep expertise in image fusion, their online platform brings 3D maps to conventional computers and devices, showing users what view-lanes would be available if they were on the ground.

This allows military tactical field operators to be better able to assess terrain, structures, and objects of interest more quickly and with greater accuracy than ever before. 


James Stewart, CEO

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Jan. 2021 | Troj AI is developing solutions to protect artificial intelligence platforms from adversarial attacks on training data and AI models, such a poisoning or embedded Trojan and evasion attacks.

Focused on computer vision platforms, their secure SaaS service also includes a forensically tracked archival repository system to provide customers with a complete solution for peace of mind AI security and brand protection.

One of ten companies selected, Troj AI recently completed the TechStars Montreal AI accelerator program, and has been named one of seven "Atlantic Canada start-ups to watch" by betakit. 


Interested in scheduling a pitch? Contact: ibec@unb.ca.