Andrée-Lise Méthot

Andrée-Lise Méthot is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cycle Capital. She has more than 25 years of experience in venture capital, management, and engineering. She founded Cycle Capital, an impact fund manager, which is the largest investment platform in clean technologies in Canada. To date, Cycle Capital manages more than half a billion dollars under management through four North American funds, one Chinese fund, and a global circular innovation fund in collaboration with Demeter, as well as an accelerator, Cycle Momentum. In addition to serving on portfolio companies’ Boards of Directors, Andrée-Lise is on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Infrastructure Bank, the Laval University, the Montreal Heart Institute, and the Pointe-à-Callière museum. She is the Founder and Chairperson of Cycle Momentum, Co-Founder of the Switch - the Alliance for a Green Economy, and the industrial cluster ─ Ecotech Québec. She is a member of the Paris Fonds Vert Advisory Board, of the Task Force on Women in the Economy of the Canadian Government, and the Ambassador in clean technologies for Investissement Québec. She is a former member of the Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Andrée-Lise has been named Officière de l’Ordre du Québec (2018) and received numerous honors, such as the 2019 Grand Prix d'excellence from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, the Personality of the year Award in management and entrepreneurship of La Presse (2020), and the “Summa Carrière” prize from the Laval University Faculty of Science and Engineering (2021). She has a Master’s Degree in Science from the University of Montreal, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Geological Engineering from the Laval University. She also studied physics of the atmosphere and climate science.