SciVest Capital

SciVest Capital is a Canadian investment-management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (rather than a traditional venture capital firm as the old description positions it). The firm was founded by John Schmitz (PhD Chartered Financial Analyst) as a quantitative / systematic asset manager, and operates across Canadian equity long-short, market-neutral, and related quantitative-investment strategies for institutional and high-net-worth-individual clients, rather than as an early-stage technology VC investor. The firm is registered with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and Canadian provincial securities regulators as an investment-management / exempt-market-dealer entity. Aggregate AUM is in the CAD low-hundreds-of-millions range. The row should be reclassified in the database as Quantitative Investment Management / Hedge Fund (rather than Venture Capital), consistent with the actual operating profile; the ''life sciences and technology sectors'' description in the old entry is not a core accurate characterisation.