Stand alongside the builders.
Corporate and partner tiers for organizations that want proximity to the network. Host events in it. Put your name next to what's being built.
No banner placement. No broadcast. Partners show up, engage, and work with us on curated services.
Existing partners: Osler LLP, TD Innovation Partners, and Communitech.
Four ways to engage.
Corporate tiers put your people in the room. Partner tiers add event presence, visibility, and curated services.
Corporate Member
- → 1 individual membership for someone on your team
- → They work from the room and join member programming
- → Your window into what the network is building
Corporate + Events
- → Everything in Corporate
- → +1 BC-produced event with your brand per year
- → BC handles the event. You show up.
- → Additional events at a reasonable price
6-Month Partner
- → 3 service requests per term
- → Event presence across BC programming
- → Newsletter + website recognition
- → One request active at a time
Annual Partner
- → 6 service requests per year
- → Everything in the 6-Month tier, extended
- → Dinners, workshops, build days, partner events
We identify and develop the talent that leads the next wave.
The people in this room are going to build, lead, and fund the most important companies of the next decade. We know who they are before the rest of the world does.
We run a fund that capitalizes on the best of what we see.
Barn Ventures writes first cheques before traction exists. Before the pitch deck, before the raise, before most investors are paying attention.
We learn how businesses get built in the AI era from the ground up.
That learning gives us an edge. It also lets us enable more people to expand what they're capable of.
771 builders across 29 sectors.
The range goes well beyond software. Founders working in logistics, climate, agritech, defense, and more. BC is one of the most diverse builder networks in the region.
What moved in H1 2026.
Share-based comparison of idea categories across two six-month periods. H2: Jul–Dec 2025 (n=327) vs H1: Jan–Jun 2026 (n=173).
| Sector | H2 2025 share | H1 2026 share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI / ML | 8.7% | 13.3% | +4.6pp ↑ |
| HR / Future of Work | 2.9% | 5.4% | +2.5pp ↑ |
| SaaS / B2B | 7.7% | 10.2% | +2.5pp ↑ |
| Developer Tools | 4.8% | 7.2% | +2.4pp ↑ |
| Media / Entertainment | 2.9% | 4.8% | +1.9pp ↑ |
| Hardware / Robotics | 12.9% | 7.8% | −5.0pp ↓ |
| Biotech / Health | 8.7% | 5.4% | −3.3pp ↓ |
| EdTech | 6.4% | 3.6% | −2.8pp ↓ |
Trend reflects the composition of events and applications in each period. Different events attract different crowds.
32% come through word of mouth.
The room grows because people who join send others. That's the signal that matters.
210 founders above Barn's investment threshold.
Barn Ventures backs founders before they're fundable. Students, recent grads, and experienced builders starting fresh. BC is where Barn sees these founders before they're raising, before a pitch deck exists, and often before they've told anyone outside the room what they're working on.
Jesse Rodgers
Jesse has been building in the Waterloo ecosystem for over two decades. He founded both Velocity and the Creative Destruction Lab, two of Canada's most consequential early-stage programs, before founding Builders Club and Barn Ventures.
He's a founder himself, which means he knows what builders need before they know how to ask for it. That proximity is the edge. BC isn't a program he designed from the outside. It's a room he built because it didn't exist.
His writing on the Waterloo ecosystem reaches thousands of builders, investors, and operators every month across two Substack publications and a long-running presence on LinkedIn and X. In 2026, BetaKit named him to its Most Ambitious list.
The thesis is simple: the most interesting builders don't look like builders yet. Jesse has spent his career learning how to find them early.
Let's talk about what fits.
Partnership at BC isn't a banner ad. It's proximity to serious builders in one of Canada's most productive tech ecosystems. If that's interesting, reach out.