We are ^1000 Amplitude.
The name is new but we, decidedly, are not. We stand proudly on a foundation of deep experience and a demonstrable body of success creating, building, and growing break-out companies.
About Us
We are savvy investors and proven company builders who, at the core, are driven to bring the best healthcare innovations to market to help improve the lives of patients one patient at a time.
A foundation
for success
We have spent decades working with healthcare entrepreneurs to realize their vision of bringing life changing therapies to patients, while delivering superior value to investors.
Most recently, we worked together to lead healthcare venture investing at Canada’s most active venture investor, creating, building and growing globally competitive Canadian healthcare companies. This strong track record has attracted leading institutions as investors in Amplitude.
The Team
Our
Intent
The Amplitude culture mirrors the outlook of the founders. We are equal parts visionary and pragmatist.
We see the promise that medicine holds. We see a healthcare environment where Canadian entrepreneurs with cutting-edge technologies can enable patients to live longer and happier lives
The Amplitude team is bolstered by a strategic advisory board of the leaders in the Canadian life sciences industy. All company builders with deep experience taking biopharma and medical device companies from idea to exit.
Innovation Potential
Canada boasts an innovation-rich healthcare ecosystem teeming with world-leading academic and research centres. For too long, however, the capital and expertise necessary to scale potentially game-changing ideas into break-out companies has been largely missing. Our mission is to unite innovators with the necessary capital and our builder vision to create and scale great companies. This is where we focus and thrive.
Where we focus
We believe the future of healthcare lies in today’s tremendous Canadian innovation ecosystem. Our current investment focus is on precision medicine where world-class innovators are driving the future of healthcare by:
- Enhancing the quality and accuracy of diagnoses, delivering more precise treatments, reducing financial costs and side effects.
- Leading the world by combining software and biology by applying artificial intelligence to accelerate therapeutic development, working with next generation imaging to enable robot-assisted surgery, and combining microelectronics and living cells to enable 3D printing of tissues and organs.
- Selecting the right treatment for the right patient with targeted therapies (including antibodies, immunotherapy, and cell & gene therapy).
We direct our efforts towards those opportunities that allow us to create, build, and grow hyper-growth companies with real potential to deliver accelerated growth and build and deliver sector leading value.
We have offices in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, home to world-leading centres of excellence in the field of precision medicine.
The Amplitude Model
Put simply, we exist at the nexus of need and solution. Our mantra is creating, building, and growing companies that bring breakthroughs to patients. The Amplitude team has screened thousands of opportunities during our careers and our first question is always “what problem are you solving?” with the second being, “how big can this be?”
We target companies that are at the acceleration stage, investing capital and leveraging our networks and strategic alliances to help entrepreneurs attract the team and assets needed to enable hyper-growth.
As proven builders, we know how and when to scale teams to propel companies at the acceleration stage. We have forged key strategic partnerships that we leverage on behalf of our portfolio companies to help build critical mass and attract the top talent required to accelerate to hyper growth.
To amplify
output
Pre-Amp is Amplitude’s internal engine to discover, incubate, and fund innovation on jet-fuel. Our team of inventors and entrepreneurs partners with academics and company builders around the world to advance proof-of-concept data that will enable breakthrough treatments to patients.
Fellowship
The Amplitude Fellowship is a crucible where Canada’s brightest health-focused PhD candidates, post docs and MDs - many of whom are also inventors - come together each summer to explore “what if” biotech concepts as the first step in creating novel, life-changing health science companies.
Learn morePortfolio
Our portfolio is the best example of how our team helps founders and entrepreneurs create, build, and grow their companies. This hands-on approach is hard-wired in the Amplitude culture as we know that investment capital alone is never enough. The Amplitude team is responsible for the initial investment or significant additional investment and value creation in the following companies while at BDC Capital and now at Amplitude.
Advisory Board
