Venture capital is the same from coast to coast to coast. Venture capital in Canada will come in once you have a product. If you've started commercialization, you've already shown the market will buy your product. Venture capital starts at the seed phase. Pre-seed funding is very rare, and there is very little what we call friends, family and fools money. These are people who are willing to invest very early on based on an idea. Of course, the risk is greater, but that's why we call it capital de risque or venture capital.
The way venture capital is structured in Canada mostly, with a lot of partners and funds handling institutional money, the ability or the willingness to take a lot of risk and to move pre-seed has some obstacles to that.