Thomas Martinuzzo

Investor - Senior Director, ESG and value Creation chez Fonds de solidarité FTQ

📍 Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Dec 2021
We assist manufacturers to apply continuous improvement. From the shop floor to the executive level, our solution enables better decision making and facilitates collaboration so organizations can meet production goals.
Board Observer
Dec 2020
INNO-3B is a generator of agro-technology adapted for various applications in response to today's environmental challenges. Our propriety YieldFactory™ technology allows high efficiency environmental control chambers providing new means for plant or insect production. We offer solutions for various market segments such as Food industry, Pharmaceutical, Industrial processes and research centers. YieldFactory™ technology allows enhanced yield, uses less energy, less resources, in less time and space. It generates pesticides free homogeneous crops with literally no human intervention.
Board Observer
Mar 2018
Mnubo’s SmartObjects solution provides AI & IoT Data Analytics to help product manufacturers build better connected products and services. Mnubo’s solution equips manufacturers with insights that allow them to improve product usage, increase customer engagement, reduce customer churn and lower the cost of operations. SmartObjects facilitates the exploration and analysis of sensor time series and events in order to obtain insightful and actionable information about connected products, enabling ‘connected things’ to become ‘smart things’. Mnubo was founded in 2012 by a team of industry experts in the areas of next-generation mobile networks, highly scalable and flexible databases, and subscriber data management.
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Board Observer
Mar 2018
AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries at the forefront of the world’s dual challenge meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. AspenTech solutions address complex environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. Through our unique combination of deep domain expertise and innovation, customers in asset-intensive industries can run their assets safer, greener, longer and faster to improve their operational excellence. To learn more, visit AspenTech.com.
Member of the Board
Nov 2017
TransferTech Sherbrooke (autrefois connue sous SOCPRA) travaille depuis 2007 à développer des liens entre les entreprises de haute technologie et les 1200 professeurs de l’Université de Sherbrooke et ses centres de recherches affiliés. Des entrepreneurs de même que de petites et moyennes entreprises, jusqu’à certaines du Top Fortune 500, ont d’ailleurs pu bénéficier de notre expertise et de notre savoir-faire. TransferTech Sherbrooke contribue de façon considérable au développement et à la valorisation de nombreuses technologies universitaires, à l’amélioration de la compétitivité des entreprises innovantes et surtout à enrichir le monde de demain. Commercialiser les inventions issues des travaux de recherche de l’Université de Sherbrooke, telle est la mission de TransferTech Sherbrooke. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TransferTech Sherbrooke (formerly known as SOCPRA) has been working since 2007 to build connections between high-tech businesses and the 1200 professors of the Université de Sherbrooke and its affiliated research centres. Entrepreneurs and some small and medium-sized enterprises, including some Top Fortune 500, have been able to benefit from our expertise and know-how. TransferTech Sherbrooke has substantially contributed to the development and valorization of numerous university technologies, the improvement of the competitiveness of innovative businesses, and especially the enrichment of the world of tomorrow. Our mission: To commercialize the inventions resulting from research work of the Université de Sherbrooke.
Board Observer
Feb 2017
Founded in 2007, LeddarTech is an automotive ADAS and AD software company that offers comprehensive end-to-end raw data fusion and perception solutions enabling customers to solve critical challenges across the entire value chain. LeddarTech’s automotive-grade software technology, LeddarVision™, is a flexible, robust, cost-effective, sensor-agnostic solution that delivers highly accurate 3D environmental models. This scalable software supports all SAE autonomy levels by applying AI and computer vision algorithms to fuse raw data from sensors employed in L2-L5 applications. LeddarTech’s use of raw data fusion detects very small obstacles on the road with better detection rates and fewer false alarms than legacy “object fusion” solutions. In addition, unclassified obstacles are also detected, providing an additional layer of safety to the vehicle. LeddarTech is responsible for several innovations in cutting-edge automotive and mobility applications, with over 150 patents granted or applied for, enhancing ADAS and autonomous driving capabilities. https://leddartech.com https://investors.leddartech.com/
Board Member
Jun 2014
Baton Simulations helps organizations fuel their digital transformation by engineering software solutions that are beautifully designed, effective and simple to use. Thousands of people across the globe including SAP leaders, managers and users use our software solution, ERPsim™, to help organizations make informed software decisions, improve user adoption and engagement, increase understanding of business process and improve cross-silo communication. In our continuous effort to improve enterprises system adoption and on-the-job performance, we have developed a rich flexible cloud-based SaaS solution named 'Digital Adoption Solution'​ or ‘DAS’. DAS seamlessly injects into Fiori and provides users with a suite of tools to improve their experience with SAP’s latest enterprise software. The R&D team at Baton is currently working on adding Artificial Intelligence capabilities to its products, and on a Public Sector version of ERPsim. Baton is a member of the Scale-AI Industry Super Cluster. Through our academic partner, the ERPsim Lab at HEC Montreal, over 200 universities around the world use ERPsim at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Board Member
Apr 2014
Castor Optics, a strategic partner of Thorlabs, is developing a new line of double-clad fiber optic couplers. These optical properties allow double-clad fiber couplers to function as an alternative to free-space beamsplitting optical systems in many experiments. For example, they have been used to combine OCT imaging with fluorescence imaging, and for speckle-free single fiber endoscopy.
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2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
We assist manufacturers to apply continuous improvement. From the shop floor to the executive level, our solution enables better decision making and facilitates collaboration so organizations can meet production goals.
Manager, ESG and Value Creation
Sep 2021
Created in 1983, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a development capital fund that calls upon the solidarity and savings of Quebecers to help fulfill its mission to contribute to Québecs economic growth by creating, maintain or protecting jobs through investments in small and medium-sized businesses in all spheres of activity. The Fonds also seeks to encourage Quebecers to save for retirement and to offer its over half a million shareholders-savers a reasonable return over and above the outstanding tax benefits they receive by purchasing Fonds shares. The largest development capital network in the province, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ was created on the initiative of the FTQ, Québec’s largest central labour body. Through its governance and codes of ethics, the Fonds is a socially responsible investor committed to sustainable economic development where people come first. Aside from investing capital, the Fonds is committed to supporting the growth of its partner companies by offering value-added services such as economic training. With net assets of $13.8 billion as at May 31, 2020, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ has become a hub of knowledge and resources for Québec businesses and a key player in the local economy.
2020
Board Observer
Dec 2020
INNO-3B is a generator of agro-technology adapted for various applications in response to today's environmental challenges. Our propriety YieldFactory™ technology allows high efficiency environmental control chambers providing new means for plant or insect production. We offer solutions for various market segments such as Food industry, Pharmaceutical, Industrial processes and research centers. YieldFactory™ technology allows enhanced yield, uses less energy, less resources, in less time and space. It generates pesticides free homogeneous crops with literally no human intervention.
2018
Anges Québec Capital
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Limited Partnership Advisory Committee member
Mar 2018
Panache Ventures is Canadas most active seed stage venture capital fund. Panache is led by a team of experienced operators, with a strong angel investor track record, years of institutional VC experience and a strong network in Canada, in Silicon Valley and worldwide. The fund has a founders-first philosophy, a commitment to diversity and strategically coinvests with smart angel investors and seed stage funds. If you are going to invest in the best early stage tech startups, better invest with Panache! Panache Ventures est le fonds de capital de risque d’amorçage le plus actif au Canada. Panache est mené par une équipe d’opérateurs d’expérience, anges investisseurs à succès et avec des années d’expérience en capital de risque. L’équipe a un réseau vaste au Canada, dans la Silicon Valley et ailleurs dans le monde. Le fonds a une approche qui favorise les entrepreneurs, privilégie la diversité et co-investit stratégiquement avec les meilleurs anges investisseurs et autres fonds d’amorçage. Si vous voulez investir dans les meilleures jeunes entreprises techno, faites-le avec Panache !
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