Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Haig Farris is one of Canada's best-known venture capitalists and experts in high-technology start-ups and turn-arounds, with a varied 30+ year history of involvement, commitment, and management. He has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-founder and former Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of D-Wave, and he is the President of Fractal Capital, a private venture capital company financing high technology start-ups and resource service technology companies.

Previously, Dr. Farris was a co-founder and partner of the Ventures West Management group of venture capital funds (1972-1990). In 2001, he received the British Columbia Technologies Industry Association's (BCTIA) Bill Thompson Award.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UBC in 1997 and named A Pioneer of Innovation by the Vancouver Board of Trade in 2001.