Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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) Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.
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- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- 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.
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture 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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- Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- 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.
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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- 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
- Mega Group — Mega Group offers billing, expert accounting, consumer finance, business basics, merchandising, marketing, integrated website, digital services, store design, and fundamentals services.
- Rivercity Innovations — Automated cold chain temperature monitoring to prevent food loss and digitize compliance data. No Wifi, No Bluetooth, and no cheap sensors. We do it right.
- 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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- 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 280 Earth — Our Direct Air Capture systems pull CO2 permanently out of the atmosphere, improving the climate for generations to come.
- Pathos — Pathos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on re-engineering drug development with the power of advanced AI technologies.
- Beyond Presence — Human cloning company
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- Energir — Energir is a energy producer located in Montreal Canada.
- 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
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
- 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.
- HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
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.
- Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
- BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
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
- Talus Bio — Talus Bioscience combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to target hard-to-treat transcription factors driving cancer & beyond.
- CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
- Axonis Therapeutics — AXONIS Therapeutics, Inc. is advancing breakthrough discoveries to develop first-in-class therapies for neurological disorders.
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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- Manufacturing, Energy, Software
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Brazil
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- 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.
- 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.
- Marine Thinking — Marine Thinking is focused on redefining the marine industry through artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies. It gathers data from marine environments and fish farms using remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs and analyze it using artificial intelligence.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
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- Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) — Hexoskin is the leader in Smart Clothing, Software & AI Data Analytics. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are clinically validated for continuous ECG, HRV, Respiratory, Activity, Sleep & Stress monitoring. The Hexoskin Smart Garments are used by sports scientists, healthcare, defense, aerospace & research professionals.
- Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
- HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
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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- 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.
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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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- Energir — Energir is a energy producer located in Montreal Canada.
- 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.
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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- Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
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- 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.
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Kahi — Kahi's Automated Asset Intelligence offers near real-time tracking. See your assets in transit and on your job sites. Mobile App.
- 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.
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.
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.
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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- 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.
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, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
- Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
- Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com
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 custom apps with no code
- 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.
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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- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Levr.ai — Levr.ai supercharges your team with easy to implement tools that increase conversion, save time and provide a better experience for everyone.
- 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.
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.
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
- Catalera — Catalera BioSolutions offers proprietary bio-based pest control products to enhance the well-being of people, plants, and planet.
- Vision Greens — Fresh, great tasting sustainably produced leafy greens harvested from our state-of-the-art vertical farm in Welland, Ontario.
- 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.
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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- 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
- Catalera — Catalera BioSolutions offers proprietary bio-based pest control products to enhance the well-being of people, plants, and planet.
- Vision Greens — Fresh, great tasting sustainably produced leafy greens harvested from our state-of-the-art vertical farm in Welland, Ontario.
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- Lumo — An all-in-one precision irrigation system that delivers exceptional crop and business outcomes.
- 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.
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
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.
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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- Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- 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.
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- Bonx — Bonx a startup studio focusing on operations (supply chain, construction, and industry), reinvents ERP for French SMEs. Bonx is a no-code ERP that can be deployed in a matter of weeks and readily adjusts to the difficulties unique to each manufacturer.
Richard Cargill is the founder of Turas Mara.
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- AgTech, B2B, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Toolsvilla — India's leading B2B eCommerce Marketplace for Machinery, Tools & Supplies that solve operational inefficiencies in Indian SMBs specially in the Agri-Food Category.
- Milk Moovement — Milk Moovement is a powerful tool that connects all players in the raw milk supply chain. With features for transportation monitoring, production tracking, quality monitoring and producer payment, Milk Moovement is the only tool your team needs to manage raw milk.
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