RBCx Growth Fund I

A $1.4 billion initiative to scale Canada’s next generation of global technology champions.

The RBC advantage:
more than capital.

By drawing on RBC’s scale, connectivity, and talent, the Fund intends to give portfolio companies a structural edge no traditional investor can match, accelerating their path to global leadership.

Commercialization opportunities

Programs to facilitate international trade and global connections.

Strategic growth advisory

Support to identify and validate expansion opportunities, provide marketing and customer strategy expertise, and operational and financial experience.

Ecosystem access

Connections to late-stage investors across venture capital and growth equity, curated network events and C-suite forums, and proprietary market and funding insights.

Building Canada’s global tech leaders.

Building Canada’s
global tech leaders.

Canada produces an outsized share of world-class
entrepreneurs and tech talent who want to build global
companies at home, but too often, when they’re ready
to scale, they get pulled elsewhere.

RBCx Growth Fund I aims to close that gap by putting
capital and partnership behind our most promising
homegrown innovators.

Building Canada’s global tech leaders.

Building Canada’s global tech leaders.

Canada produces an outsized share of world-class entrepreneurs and tech talent who want to build global companies at home, but too often, when they’re ready to scale, they get pulled elsewhere.

RBCx Growth Fund I aims to close that gap by putting capital and partnership behind our most promising homegrown innovators.

Investment focus.

Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software

Applied AI, cybersecurity, data and analytics

Health Tech

Health Tech

Digital health, care delivery platforms, clinical software

Frontier Tech

Frontier Tech

Aerospace, dual-use defence, quantum and 
advanced computing

Energy & Climate Tech

Energy & Climate Tech

Carbon management, energy transition

Ag Tech

Ag Tech

Precision agriculture, field automation, supply chain

The people behind the initiative.

The team is built around investors and operators who bring deep venture capital experience and differentiated connections across the innovation ecosystem.

investment

Sid Paquette

Head of RBCx and General Partner, RBCx Growth Fund

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Ethan Rotstein

Associate, Strategy & Investments

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value creation

Shikha Bhuchar

Head, Strategy & Investments

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Nicole Kelly

Head, Platform

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Investing in the capabilities that matter.

Anchored in RBC’s commitment to Canada’s nation-building efforts, the RBCx Growth Fund I aims to expand capabilities in areas of national importance, from defence and infrastructure to helping Canadian companies grow abroad.
Investing in the capabilities that matter.

Investing in the capabilities that matter.

Anchored in RBC’s commitment to Canada’s nation-building efforts, the RBCx Growth Fund I aims to expand capabilities in areas of national importance, from defence and infrastructure to helping Canadian companies grow abroad.

Insights to help you scale.

FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY.

The RBCx Growth Fund I is a proposed initiative of RBC. It is subject to internal, regulatory and other approvals. The proposed structure of the RBCx Growth Fund I is subject to change. This webpage is not intended to be an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities. If an offering of securities of the RBCx Growth Fund I is made in the future, such offering will be made pursuant to a confidential offering memorandum which will contain material information not contained in this document (including disclosure regarding risks related to an investment in the RBCx Growth Fund I) and which shall supersede this document or any other materials relating to the RBCx Growth Fund I which are disclosed to any individual prior to the distribution of a confidential offering memorandum. The disclosure in this document shall be qualified, in its entirety, by such confidential offering memorandum.

Ready to build with us?

Ready to build with us?

Ready to build with us?