VENTURE CAPITAL • BRITISH COLUMBIA

Greatness from
small beginnings.

Origineer sees opportunity early—and helps build promising companies into businesses ready for what comes next.

We combine early capital with the technology, operating experience and relationships founders need to move from possibility to progress.

For Founders Our Investment Thesis

OORIGINEER

CAPITAL

TECHNOLOGY

OPERATIONS

COMPLIANCE

NETWORK

ORIGINATE → ENGINEER → SCALE

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THE ORIGINEER IDEA

Great companies rarely look great at the beginning.

Before the traction, the team and the institutional round, there is usually a founder with uncommon insight—and an opportunity others have yet to recognize.

That is where Origineer invests.

We work alongside ambitious founders to strengthen the product, sharpen the business and build the foundation for what comes next.

We invest early.
We build deliberately.
We grow together.

OUR ROLE

The venture academy for companies before they become obvious.

Large funds are built to finance proven companies. Origineer works earlier—when active support, operating judgment and the right first capital can make the greatest difference.

From idea to product

From product to customers

From customers to repeatable growth

From early traction to institutional investment

Our role is not to fund every stage ourselves. It is to help companies earn their way to the next one.

OUR THESIS

Invest where early opportunity
becomes lasting advantage.

We look for founders and companies with the potential to create disproportionate value through technology, strong execution and a real understanding of the market they serve.

Meaningful Problem

A real and important problem with customers who need a better answer.

Founder Insight

Resourceful founders with uncommon knowledge, conviction and the ability to learn quickly.

Technology Leverage

A clear opportunity for software, AI, automation or digital infrastructure to transform how something works.

Path to Scale

A product, market or operating model capable of growing well beyond its beginning.

People We Can Build With

Transparent and ambitious operators who value an active partner—not simply a cheque.

OUR VALUES

How we choose
to work.

These commitments shape how Origineer works with investors, founders, portfolio companies, professional advisers and each other.

Focus on Real Economic Impact

We look beyond short-term valuations to customers, revenue, operating capability, market position and a credible path to sustainable cash flow.

Respectful Collaboration

We build relationships grounded in trust, candour and respect for each party’s role, expertise and time.

The Courage to Be Accountable

We take responsibility for decisions, communicate openly about risks and setbacks, close the loop and focus on the next responsible action.

Bold but Disciplined Innovation

We value ambitious thinking when supported by evidence, clear economics and responsible risk management. Innovation should solve a real problem.

WHERE WE INVEST

Technology for the
real economy.

We invest where better systems can create measurable and durable advantage.

MORE THAN CAPITAL

Early companies need
more than early money.

Origineer brings together investment capital and hands-on company-building capability.

ORIGINEERACTIVE PARTNER

Capital

Early investment aligned with meaningful company milestones.

Product

Support turning an insight into a product customers can understand and use.

Technology

Practical experience across software, AI, cloud infrastructure, security and connected devices.

Operations

Stronger systems, metrics and decision-making as the company matures.

Positioning

A clearer story for customers, partners, talent and future investors.

Network

Introductions to specialists, customers, strategic partners and subsequent sources of capital.

HOW WE WORK

From potential
to progress.

Discover

Find promising founders, technologies and overlooked market opportunities.

Understand

Develop conviction around the founder, problem, market and path to value.

Invest

Provide early capital against clear company-building milestones.

Engineer

Work alongside the founders to strengthen the product, business and operating foundation.

Prove

Help the company produce the traction and evidence required for its next stage.

Scale

Connect the company with the capital, customers and partners needed to grow beyond us.

FOR FOUNDERS

Build the company others will eventually wish they found earlier.

Origineer works with founders at the stage when the company is still taking shape and the right decisions carry disproportionate weight.

You understand a problem unusually well
You have built—or are ready to build—a credible product
Technology creates a meaningful advantage
Early customer evidence supports the opportunity
You want an investor willing to think and build alongside you
You are working toward a larger institutional round

Build With Origineer

FOR INVESTORS

Invest before the opportunity becomes obvious.

Origineer gives investors early exposure to promising B.C. companies selected and supported by experienced operators.

Our strategy is built around recognizing opportunity early, acquiring meaningful ownership and helping companies reach the milestones that attract larger pools of capital.

Investor Enquiries

Early Access

Exposure to companies before institutional pricing and broader market recognition.

Active Development

Hands-on support designed to improve each company’s product, operations, positioning and readiness for subsequent investment.

B.C. Advantage

A focus on promising businesses connected to British Columbia’s economy and innovation ecosystem.

VCC Structure

Origineer Venture Capital (VCC) Inc. operates within British Columbia’s venture-capital framework.

Misty coastal mountains and evergreen forest in British Columbia

BUILT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Global ambition can begin close to home.

British Columbia has no shortage of capable founders, original ideas or difficult problems worth solving.

What early companies often lack is the first combination of conviction, capital and practical support required to move forward.

Origineer was built to help close that gap.

From Kitsilano to Kelowna, B.C. brings together technology, trade, natural resources, health, finance, hospitality and globally connected entrepreneurs.

We believe the companies built here can do more than leave the province in search of opportunity. They can begin here, grow here and carry British Columbia’s ingenuity into the world.

From local insight to global company.
From first conviction to lasting value.
From small beginnings to something great.

Build From B.C.

HOW WE THINK

We back builders
because we are builders.

Origineer was built around a simple idea: the best investors shouldn't stand on the sidelines. When we see an opportunity, we want to understand it, work on it and help make it better.

We bring capital, but we also bring technology, operating experience, problem-solving and people who can help move a business forward.

BUILD, DON’T OBSERVE

We prefer working alongside entrepreneurs to watching from a boardroom. Ideas matter. Execution matters more.

MAKE TECHNOLOGY USEFUL

Technology is not the thesis by itself. We look for places where software, AI, automation and better infrastructure create measurable business advantage.

CREATE REAL VALUE

Growth should come from making the underlying business better — better products, stronger operations, better margins, stronger customer experiences and greater capability. Not financial engineering for its own sake.

PLAY THE LONG GAME

We want to build businesses that remain valuable after the current funding cycle, technology trend or market narrative changes. Durability matters.

See what others overlook.
Build what others won't.
Create what didn't exist before.

That's what it means to Origineer.

PEOPLE

Operators, specialists
and entrepreneurs.

Built for founders who want an engaged partner in the work of building what comes next.

Ian Yang

ICD.D, MBA, MFin, FCSI, CIM

General Partner

Corporate finance, venture capital and governance.

Rex Fong

General Partner

Entrepreneur, technologist and operator focused on company building, AI, software and digital transformation.

ADVISORY BOARD

Elaine Lau, MBA
Marketing & Strategic Partnerships Advisor

Terry Mak, MBA
Financial Operations, Compliance & Controls Advisor

Andrei Sergheev
Technology & Cybersecurity Advisor

ORIGINEER / INSIGHTS

Ideas for people
who build.

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What could your business
become from here?

If you’re building a company with the foundations to grow and the ambition to go further, we’d like to hear from you.

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