We Are AgeTech Capital

Alan MacIntosh

Alan MacIntosh is a Founding Partner at AgeTech Capital with over 25 years of experience in venture capital, 15 years of commitment to startup community development, and an international operating career spanning the energy, IT and mobile sectors.

Alan has co-founded three investment fund platforms (GSM Capital/The Wireless Internet Fund, Acta Wireless, Real Ventures) amounting to over USD700M in AUM. Most recently, Alan held the role of Co-founder and Board Partner of Real Ventures, an early-stage, sector-agnostic Canadian venture firm, where led investments including PasswordBox (acquired by Intel), Fabric Engine (acquired by Apple), Bus.com, Hacking Health Accelerator (notably Dialogue Health Technologies (IPO: CARE), Algolux (acquired by Daimler Truck/Torc Robotics), XpertSea, Swift Medical, Clean.io (acquired by Human), and BIOS Health. Of his 60+ career investments, successful exits include five IPOs.

Alan is committed to nurturing the communities and connections that help entrepreneurial founders thrive and has been a long-time champion within the Montreal and Canadian startup ecosystem, focusing on the convergence of AI and neuroscience as well as community diversity and inclusion. He was a key instigator of many impactful initiatives including Notman House, Startup Montreal, Hacking Health, AI4GoodLab, Front Row Ventures, TechAide, Techstars Toronto, Techstars AI Montreal and the Mobile Giving Foundation

Lyne Landry

Lyne Landry is a Founding Partner at AgeTech Capital and has more than 20 years of experience in Impact Investment, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Board Governance.

Lyne is a pioneer in impact investing and blended finance for European LPs. She started her finance career providing M&A consulting services to international telecommunications and venture capital firms in North America, Africa and Europe. She structured 4 impact investing funds, and built an advisory division and impact and ESG frameworks for ThirdWay Partners based in London.

Lyne is committed to building the impact investing ecosystem. She joined SecondMuse Capital as an Advisor and co-led the raise of its Climate Tech VC fund; is one of the three partners at BAngels Capital, a $35M private equity impact holding, and an Investor in Residence at Anges Quebec leading on the impact deals; and is an active Board member of the Aging in Place Program for the National Research Council Canada, providing non-dilutive tech innovation in Canada.

Lyne is also the founder of CIVIC, a GP Impact Investing practitioner group, and several initiatives which prioritize impact with an international lens of which MIIIM, a blockchain marketplace to connect impact-driven startups with all types of experts.

Bruce Simpson

Bruce Simpson is a Founding Partner at AgeTech Capital and a global thought leader in delivering societal impact and shareholder returns through sustainability and ESG. Bruce is an expert in navigating complex environments across the public, private, and non-profit sectors, particularly in the healthcare and AgeTech spaces in Canada. He plays a key role in building value-creation post-investment. He mentors startups on growth and performance strategies and sustainability risk mitigation, which many founders overlook.

Bruce has 35 years of advisory and business-building experience at McKinsey, helping companies build new products and services, develop new businesses, and improve performance. In his tenure, Bruce led McKinsey’s healthcare practice in Canada, co-founded, led and built McKinsey’s Purpose/ESG practice globally, was the Managing Partner of McKinsey Canada, convened the firm’s global Operations Practice for 6 years, and served on McKinsey’s global board for 12 years. Bruce is a former senior advisor to Blackstone and is a reputed coach for executives at corporate and portfolio company levels. He also founded and ran an Innovation incubator at McKinsey selecting, funding and growing 100 tech startups out of 1000 initial proposals – with the top 10 valued at > $1B within 18 months.

Bruce is an active mentor to leading AI startup incubators including the Creative Destruction Lab, and an advisor to several distinctive AI and sustainability startups including Tomorrow.io, Quadfi, and Re:Co. Bruce has made successful personal investments in multiple early-stage ventures, including MobileKlinik (acquired by Telus), Fearless Ventures (a mission-focused fund), Appex, HigherGround, Diggs, Figur8, and Modality.ai.

Bruce’s deep commitment to social and environmental impact extends to the nonprofit space where he is a current/past Board member of 6 leading NGO’s including Human Rights Watch, the Trans Canada Trail, Catalyst, Sick Children’s Hospital, and the Smart Prosperity Institute.

Sarah Thomas

Sarah Thomas is a global aging expert advising startups, large corporations and investors, and has over 20 years of dedicated experience transforming the aging experience. She served as Executive-in-Residence at Aging2.0 and currently serves as Principal Fellow in the Nexus Insights firm for aging transformation, soon to become the Milken Institute’s Aging Innovation Collaborative. Sarah co-founded AgeTech News (news and deal flow worldwide) and led all global innovation for the largest post-acute care provider in the US, Genesis, serving more than 55,000 individuals daily.

She combines her Occupational Therapy expertise with her operational, clinical and entrepreneurial experience to inspire global improvements in design and systems innovation worldwide; She designed an innovation center in China as a part of a vitality initiative to improve the health and well-being of global communities. Sarah has been very involved in the tech ecosystem for a long time, she has held multiple advisory positions, sits on numerous boards, and is an accomplished keynote speaker.