MONTREAL, QUEBEC – March 7, 2025 – Canada Growth Fund Inc. (“CGF”) announced an investment of $40 USD million in dcbel Inc. (“dcbel”), a Montreal-based smart home energy platform company which has developed a unique bidirectional electric vehicle (“EV”) charging hardware integrated with a home energy management system. This transaction was completed in the context of […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – October 2, 2024 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce an investment in Entosystem, which diverts tonnes of organic materials from landfills to upcycle them into valuable agricultural products such as animal feed and fertilizer through an innovative insect-based farming process using […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – September 18, 2024 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce an investment in Mosaic, who offers an automated additive manufacturing platform delivering the flexibility, cost efficiency, and throughput required to reshore industrial manufacturing applications while reducing waste produced by conventional manufacturing processes. […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – June 11, 2024 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce an investment in Parity, who offers energy efficiency solutions tailored to the multi-family real estate market which maximize the performance of existing HVAC systems in real-time with remote automation software. Read Parity’s […]
MONTREAL, March 25, 2024 /CNW/ – Today, Canada Growth Fund Inc. (“CGF”) announced a C$50M commitment to Idealist Climate Impact Fund LP (the “Fund”), a fund managed by Montreal-based Idealist Capital (“Idealist”), an investment manager pursuing commercialization stage growth equity investment opportunities in companies whose products, technologies and services are accelerating the energy transition. Read press release here.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – August 17, 2023 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce an investment in dcbel, whose r16 Home Energy Station combines bidirectional EV charging and its proprietary Orchestrate OS platform to empower homeowners to take control of their energy, avoid blackouts, and reduce […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – MARCH 20, 2023 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce an investment in XNRGY Climate Systems, a leader in the design and manufacturing of energy efficient commercial HVAC systems. Led by industry pioneers, XNRGY is on a mission to reduce the carbon […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – MARCH 13, 2023 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce an investment in SPARK Microsystems, a Montreal-based fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-wideband short-range wireless communications. SPARK’s transceivers transcend the performance limitations of legacy wireless platforms, featuring ultra-low power consumption, short latency, and […]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – JANUARY 16, 2023 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce a $25 million investment in Sollum Technologies, a Quebec-based enterprise whose fully dynamic, smart LED lighting solution for greenhouses increases energy efficiency and positively impacts crops. Read Sollum Technologies’ press release here.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – OCTOBER 5, 2022 – Idealist Capital, a private equity investment firm focused on the energy transition, is pleased to announce the appointment of François Boudreault as Partner. “François is a talented and experienced investor with an impressive track record, having invested in many businesses across industries, including in the energy transition sector. […]