Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) VC Funds in Canada
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) VC Funds in Canada
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
- Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
Cycle Capital is a pioneer in Canadian Cleantech venture capital fund management investing in companies at the development and commercialization stages in North America. Founded in 2009 by Andrée-Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital’s Platform has become an important venture capital investor of the Cleantech industry with its 3funds totaling $230M Assets Under Management (AUM). Cycle Capital is looking to invests in promising ventures that are not capital intensive and/or that can benefit from the leverage brought by Cycle Capital extensive network of investors, strategic partners and advisors.In addition to its core investments, Cycle Capital targets companies with high growth potential – especially those with strong intellectual property, leading edge technologies and with exceptional management talent that would benefit from the firm’s network of strategic industrial partners and expert advisors. With its core investment and business expertise, Cycle Capital plays an active role adding meaningful and tangible value to its portfolio companies at all stages of their life.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Fibracast — Fibracast is the innovator of FibrePlate™, the next generation in MBR technology. This unique hybrid ultrafilter integrates the best attributes of hollow-fiber and flat-plate membranes into a compact, strong and energy efficient immersed membrane.
- Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
- Cycle Momentum — Cycle Momentum is a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to the cleantech startups. Founded by Cycle Capital, the accelerator works with entrepreneurs that develop and commercialize clean technologies to help build globally competitive companies. Cycle Momentum offers entrepreneurs a specialized and personalized program of trainingworkshops, networking sessions, experienced mentors and gives access to the investors to some of the most promising Canadian cleantech ventures.
Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
- Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
- Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
- Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
- Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians,we are building a stronger economy.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
- Dartmouth Ocean Technologies — Dartmouth Ocean Technologies is a sensor platform-based company offering sensor platforms for use in the oceans. It manufactures towed platforms, vertically profiling platforms, moored platforms, and a variety of lab-on-chip sensors.
Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. is Saskatchewan's first Provincial Labour-sponsored Investment Fund which was launched in 1999 and is registered as a Labour-sponsored Investment Fund Corporation under The Labour-sponsored Venture Capital Corporations Act (Saskatchewan). Saskatchewan residents who purchase Shares of the Fund receive a 15%Federal tax credit and a 20% Provincial tax credit for a total of 35% in tax credits to a maximum contribution of $5,000 annually. Investments are also 100% RRSP eligible.With the capital raised, the Fund makes investments in Saskatchewan companies, or other entities that carry on business in Saskatchewan, that have less than 500 employees at the time of investment and that pay at least 25% of all their wages and salaries to Saskatchewan employees (as per current regulation which may be amended from time to time). The objective of the Fund is to realize long-term capital appreciation of its investments in eligible businesses. Potential investments are evaluated according to, among other things: stage of development; size; quality of management; the market potential of the products or services sold or distributed; the profit potential of eligible business; and the opportunity for realization by the Fund of its investments.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Farming, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Chrysalis — A meta-business in the SaaS industry, Chrysalis' goal is to develop technology that improves the human experience. We achieve this by supporting the businesses that naturally develop inside the Chrysalis ecosystem and by acquiring similar companies that support our vision. Chrysalis, its teams, and its companies develop software solutions thatenable people to create memorable and valuable moments where the digital meets the personal. With six more locations spread out around North America, Chrysalis is a privately held business with its main office in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Mega Group — Mega Group offers billing, expert accounting, consumer finance, business basics, merchandising, marketing, integrated website, digital services, store design, and fundamentals services.
- Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- Silfab Solar — Silfab solar panels are designed and engineered specifically for the North American environment and manufactured utilizing advanced robotics.
- Andion Global — Andion Global is a technology provider that offers a fully integrated, comprehensive solution for Wastewater Treatment (“WWT”) and Waste to Energy (“WTE”) plants through Engineering, Procurement and Construction (“EPC”) and Operation and Maintenance (“OM”) contracts combined with efficiency guarantees. The technology is valuable to WWT and WTEdevelopers that want to improve the water cycle of industrial processes and treat, for example, municipal, slaughterhouse and organic waste while producing energy, pellets, fertilizer and protein (under development) out of the feedstock.
The Emmertech Venture Capital Fund (Emmertech), managed and operated by Conexus Venture Capital Inc. addresses this challenge. Launched in April 2021, this $40 million venture capital fund focuses on harnessing the momentum in Canadian agtech, food-tech,
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Seed, Series C
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
- Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
- Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities.
Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
- OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
- Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
Builders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries including healthcare, agriculture, industrials and real-estate.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Breaking — Breaking is a plastic degradation and synthetic biology company.
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- 280 Earth — Our Direct Air Capture systems pull CO2 permanently out of the atmosphere, improving the climate for generations to come.
SaskWorks Venture Fund is a Saskatchewan-based retail mutual fund that invests in privately-held small and medium-sized businesses owned or primarily operated in Saskatchewan. As a labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC), investments in SaskWorks are eligible to receive a tax credit equal to 35% in addition to their RRSP tax deferral.Since its inception, the Fund has provided a unique opportunity for Saskatchewan residents to keep their investment dollars at home, helping to grow local companies and creating jobs in their province.
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Investment focus
- Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
- 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
- Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities.The E-Fund involvesspecific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Frontly — Build internal tools in minutes with AI
- Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
- VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation — Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issuesthat arise from creating human-like machines.
Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.
- Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
- Renewable Power Capital — Renewable Power Capital invest in the development, construction and long-term ownership of solar, onshore wind and battery storage projects.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Propulso — Break the barrier between digital and physical world: target your competitors, target events, measure physical visits and generate results!
- Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
At Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), they fund Canadian cleantech projects and coach the companies that lead them as they move their ground-breaking technologies to market.SDTC’s support of cleantech translates into jobs, growth, and export opportunities for Canadian companies, as well as economic, environmental and healthbenefits for all Canadians. They are independent but don’t work alone. A big part of their role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad. They operate at arm’s length and receive funding from the Government of Canada.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Energy, Software
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
- Carbonova — Carbonova takes carbon dioxide plus methane that combined with waste heat produces carbon nanofiber. Carbonova sees waste and pollution as a new untapped resource creating a true circular economy. It has applications in a wide variety of industries including replacing carbon black, tires, batteries,
- ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession,financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MONDATA — Mondata develop MD.ECO, a scalable cloud-based platform that provides a full cybersecurity ecosystem for companies of all sizes
- Finalta Capital — Finalta Capital is a financial advisory firm that specializes in providing tax credit solutions.
- InnovMetric Software — About InnovMetric Software Inc.Founded in 1994, in Quebec City, Canada, InnovMetric Software Inc. is the leading provider of universal 3D metrology software solutions.InnovMetric develops PolyWorks:registered: and, together with its business partners, markets PolyWorks to industrial manufacturing organizations. InnovMetric and its businesspartners also offer a broad range of technical services to deploy customized PolyWorks-based solutions across the manufacturing cycle, from the product engineering phase up to production.Based in Quebec, QC, Canada, and with subsidiaries in the USA, China, and India, InnovMetric has approximately 125 employees, including 30 application specialists. InnovMetric has also built its own network of dedicated PolyWorks software support partners in the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Turkey, and Thailand that employ more than 30 additional application specialists. For more information, visit www.innovmetric.com
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- BioLoomics — BioLoomics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that uses evolution in a microscope to develop drug discovery tools and protein drugs. Our VariVolve platform tests millions of protein designs for a targeted activity in hours, enabling efficient mining of the vast chemical space of protein designs. A strong advantage of our approach is theuse of whole intact cells as test vessels that capture complex drug behavior not attainable in conventional assays.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.
The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
- Exxel Polymers — Exxel Polymers takes post-industrial and post-consumer plastic waste from various sources and processes it using granulation, shredding, and extrusion. The company sells recycled materials through an established distribution network.
- London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.
WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
- Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
- VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
Proud to be 100% invested in Canadian agriculture and food.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Coffee
- Debt Financing, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Swiss Water — Swiss Water is an innovative, 100% chemical free decaffeination process company removing caffeine for coffee roasters around the world.
- Goodleaf Farms — GoodLeaf Farms is focused on producing local and ultra-fresh greens in Ontario, without pesticides. We do this using innovative vertical farming technology.
- Global Institute for Food Security — Finding solutions to the challenges facing the global food system requires an innovative and collaborative approach that moves at the speed of business.
We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- ionobell — They are a battery R&D company with expertise in battery material development and cell development. They bring a combined several decades of energy storage, Li-ion, and fabrication knowledge and experience, in both academia and industry alike. They have found a way to build the greenest battery in the world by using unwanted materials aroundus. We have a mission of minimizing environmental impact while continuing to power our lives.
- Guided Energy — Guided Energy is the smart energy platform to power the next generation of renewable, electric fleets. Our platform makes it easier and cheaper to charge, operate and manage electric vehicles.
- Celadyne Technologies — Celadyne Technologies develops membranes for use in electrolyzers and fuel cells that require minimal heat and water management. The company is founded in 2018 and based in Chicago, IL
Cavallo Ventures, VC arm of Wilbur Ellis, introducing technologies across all four divisions and markets of Wilbur-Ellis globally
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- AgroSpheres — We're transforming agriculture through reliable and affordable bio-based solutions.
- Talus Renewables — Low cost, carbon free fertilizers and fuels.
- Kuehnle Agrosystems — Kuehnle AgroSystems curates a unique set of algae originating from pristine waters and ecosystems of Hawaii, as well as tropical botanical accessions representing plants prized by Polynesian voyagers.
Leaps by Bayer invests in paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences and specializes in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture, and scientific breakthrough. The firm's approach is making significant and sustained investments in disruptive biotechnologies that could have the greatest impact on humanity.It was founded in 2015 andheadquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, China
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- Huma — Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England.
- Transcarent — The One Place for Health and Care
- GRO Biosciences — GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency,stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders, and autoimmunity. The company, co-founded by Dr. George Church, is located at the Harvard Life Lab, shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotechnology startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
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- Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- BioDefense — BioDefense presents Bioshield, which is made from food to protect your food, and it maximizes safety, freshness, and self-life for any fresh produce.
- Bluemethane — We measure, capture and ultimately utilize methane from water to prevent its escape to the atmosphere, in turn creating a new bio fuel.
- Wittaya Aqua — A better approach to aquaculture management
Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of our teams. Led by Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, we investin founders at the seed stage across foodtech, digital health and enterprise saas.
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- Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- Chiyo — Fertility, pregnancy & postpartum meal delivery for new mothers. Eastern food therapy meets nutritional science, we use whole, nutrient-dense ingredients to help alleviate or avoid pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness, heartburn, gestational diabetes and more. OBGYN recommended, nutritionist curated, ready-to-eat.
- Ducky — Ducky improves your team's efficiency with automation that helps customer support agents respond to tickets faster and more accurately.
- SocialCrowd — SocialCrowd automates employee incentives by tracking progress towards goals, reminding them of the work they have left, and instantly rewarding employees – so you can save time and stay focused!
AgCapital Canada provides capital to help owner-operators take their companies to the next, higher level.
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- AgTech, Analytics, Internet of Things
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada
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- Ukko Agro — Ukko Agro develops an agriculture ecosystem that helps optimize pesticide usage to minimize crop losses. It offers technology tools that facilitate on-farm decision making with minimal time investment from the growers.The company is driven to optimize pesticide use for better crop yield, by integrating technologies to track, analyze, andquantify sustainability gained. Its product features realtime on-farm monitoring, predicts disease or pest attacks, prescribe pesticide spray, integrates with external on-farm equipment and technologies, reduces crop losses, and optimizes crop inputs.Ukko Agro was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
- P&P Optica — What's in your food? Do better than visual inspection! Future-proof your plant with a proven automated detection of low-density foreign materials. Book a call.
- eQcell — Canadian Regenerative Medicine Company addressing condition and diseases affecting sporting and domestic animals
Bee Partners, a preSeed venture capital fund, partners with Founders with the smarts, grit, and humanity to create tomorrow's machines. We invest in three vectors: Human Machine Interaction, Machine-to-Machine Learning, and Biological Machines.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Wellplaece — Wellplaece | Home - A more streamlined way for Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) + Group Practices to purchase supplies.
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
- Izote Biosciences — Biomanufacturing Scale-Up Solution
Since our inception in 2012, McRock has been widely recognized as the first investment firm focused exclusively on the Digital Industrial.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Canada, United States, Spain
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- Worldsensing — Welcome to the home of IoT wireless monitoring for critical infrastructures. Find out how we use technology to improve your safety every day.
- e2ip technologies — e2ip technologies creates new possibilities in printed electronics, Smart Surfaces, and Human Machine Interface (HMI) solutions.
- Plus One Robotics — The fastest and most reliable parcel handing robotics solutions in your warehouse.
S2G Ventures is is a multi-stage venture fund investing in food and agriculture. We're harnessing the power of food innovation to create better outcomes for people and the planet.
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- Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
- Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
- Kuehnle Agrosystems — Kuehnle AgroSystems curates a unique set of algae originating from pristine waters and ecosystems of Hawaii, as well as tropical botanical accessions representing plants prized by Polynesian voyagers.
Ecofuel is a venture capital fund specialized in cleantech startups. Ecofuel Fund invests smart money in startups that develop and commercializes clean technologies.
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- Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Semiconductor
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada
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- HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
- POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
- TENGIVA — All-inclusive digital solutions for textiles: B2B distribution, sourcing, and data management.
Matchstick is an early stage venture fund in the North and Rockies. We invest where innovative ideas, huge markets and, most importantly, diverse founders strike. We are honored to support "underdog" founders who will stop at nothing to succeed. Matchstick exists to act as a catalyst for our founders, our partners, and our startup communities.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, India
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- Freeplay — Freeplay builds AI features that do real work.
- Liminal — Unlock generative AI without compromising on data security. Liminal provides horizontal security for enterprises looking to leverage gen AI across any use case.
- Tab Commerce — Tab Commerce helps restaurants of all sizes consolidate, analyze, and better manage every single expense they have.
Renewal Funds is a mission venture capital firm. We add value for entrepreneurs through capital, networks, and expertise. We aim for above market returns for our partners while catalyzing social and environmental change.Building upon our experience investing in successful high-impact businesses, Renewal Funds focuses on underfunded sectorsof organic food and environmental innovation; sectors critical to a sustainable economy where we can support meaningful shifts in consumer behaviour. Renewal Funds supports passionate, experienced, change-agent entrepreneurs, whose business we can help grow with our capital, networks and expertise.For updates, please visit us online at renewalfunds.com
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- Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- HOLOS — The Super Breakfast built for your active lifestyle. Organic, plant-based & gluten free with 20g protein, 12g fibre, 13 vitamins & minerals and even more. Free shipping across Canada.
- SHARE Mobility — Empowering tools and services to easily manage, understand, and optimize transportation programs for employees and municipalities.
- Fresh Prep Foods — Get a high-quality, sustainable, and fresh ingredient meal kit conveniently delivered to 20 communities across BC and Alberta.
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Tough Commerce — White-label commerce solutions for merchants, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers in complex industries such as construction. Touch Commerce provide operation management, dispatch, e-commerce, customer portal, trucking, delivery and finance solutions to complex industries.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- BluWave-ai — Artificial Intelligence for Clean Energy. BluWave-ai's distributed, AI-enabled platform optimizes multiple renewable and non-renewable energy sources in real-time to minimize cost and maximize availability and reliability.
Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
- Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
- Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
- Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.
Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
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- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
- Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.
- Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.
99 Tartans identifies the highest potential early-stage CMU affiliated companies and help them succeed through access to capital and networks.
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- Robotics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Gather AI — The world's first software-only autonomous inventory management platform for modern warehouses./.
- Finish Robotics — Finish Robotics' mission is to solve the labor crisis on the construction job site through job-specific mobile robots. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
- Barnstorm Agtech — Barnstorm Agtech is a robotic swarm-farming venture providing an open platform for precision and powered deployment of farm technology. The company was co-founded by Parker Wells a 4th generation farmer in Saskatchewan Canada who operates a 6,000 acre farm, and Mitchell London (who previously founded Astrobotic Technology, Venture Foundry,ConnectSoft, and Headroom Learning).
Fall Line Capital primarily seeks investment in broadacre farmland and agricultural technologies. The firm engages in purchasing and actively managing farmland throughout the United States, and by investing in technology companies that are strategic to our landholdings. Fall Line Capital's primary goal is to realize untapped productivity infarmland.
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- Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
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- Bonsai Robotics — Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California.
- Micropep Technologies — Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact.The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.
- UNCAGED Innovations — What if we could make leather without the animal? We are a biomaterials company combining the power of nature and technology to reimagine leather.
Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm focused sustainable, early-stage ag and food tech startups.
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- Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Seed, Series A, Grant
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- FarmSense — FarmSense provides commercial farmers and agricultural operators the ability to monitor, count, and identify insect pests in real time.
- Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
- Impetus Agriculture — Impetus Agriculture focuses on developing multiple topical or transgenic insect control products. Products that are safe, effective, and sustainable. Products that are not subject to the same insect resistance that has developed in current commercial products.
Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in Seed, Seed Plus and Series A tech companies primarily in the U.S.
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- Software, Health Care, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- Völur — Ensuring optimal use of every single animal through cutting and processing.
- HerdDogg — HerdDogg is passionate about livestock. Its innovative data platform sits at the intersection of agtech, the internet of things, and global food security. Our patented DoggTags and DoggBone, together with our Animal Traceability Platform, help producers make more money from every animal they raise. The HerdDogg system enables animal tracking,welfare monitoring and traceability in an easy-to-use application. For more information, visit herddogg.com.
- Bonsai Robotics — Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Ecomtent — Ecomtent enables brands to create eCommerce content with Generative AI. Using Ecomtent's self-service tools, customers can generate their entire optimized Amazon listing, using our AI product photo generator, AI Generate infographics at scale, a+ content, and generate optimised copy.
- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
- Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.
FedDev Ontario aids the southern Ontario economy by supporting innovation, commercialization, business growth, productivity, and communities.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Aethon Aerial — Aethon Aerial is a gloabl provider of innovative data-driven services that enables 21st century utility asset management by providing clients with critical asset health information and analysis through remotely captured data.
- Virica Biotech — Viral Sensitizers (VSE) for drug developers and manufacturers are small molecules that improve viral yields and effectiveness by reducing the antiviral defences on a cellular level.
- Microbix Biosystems — We offer cutting-edge biological and technical infectious disease diagnostic solutions and vial filling solutions for the global diagnostics industry.
Middleland Capital is a private investment firm focused on global early-stage technology opportunities. Leveraging a unique breadth of geographic and industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value around the world.
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- Agriculture, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Arable — Arable provides in-field monitoring and real-time insights on weather, plant, soil, and irrigation for more sustainable and productive agriculture.
- Ordaos Bio — De novo designed mini-proteins to help drug hunters deliver life-saving treatments.
- Groundwork BioAg — Explore sustainable agriculture solutions at Groundwork BioAg. Our innovative bio-based products enhance soil health, boost crop yields, and promote environmental stewardship.
We leverage deep insights from our global business, offering investment partners a pathway to real-world traction and growth, while shaping a friendlier future.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- AgriWebb — Livestock management software for farmers and ranchers ready to move forward. Run your most profitable, efficient and sustainable business.
- KODE LABS — Kodelabs excels in smart building technology, focusing on software solutions for energy efficiency, data integration, and sustainability in modern buildings.
- Acorn Biolabs — The first non-invasive solution to preserving your younger follicle cells for use in future cell treatments.
Forage Capital Partners is a growth equity fund for Ag & Food Business Solutions. Forage Capital is an investor in the agriculture and food industry, who invests in uncertain times to help Canadian companies grow profitably and compete on the world stage.
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- Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Water
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Ostara — Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. helps protect precious water resources by changing the way cites around the world manage nutrients in water streams
- Vytelle — With Vytelle, cattle producers increase accuracy of feed intake and bodyweight measurement, improve certainty of genetic selection and accelerate progress.
- Croptimistic Technology Inc — SWAT MAPS variable rate technology helps you understand the why of field variability and how to better manage it.
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, France
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- Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
- Rcm Modulaire — Rcm Modulaire is engaged in the designs and manufactures quality modular buildings.
- Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.
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