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Top 45 Art Startup Investors in Canada (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Canada Art startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Art startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Real Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $650k–$50M
Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $10k–$5M
Front Row Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $18k–$4.1M
Panache Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $717k–$20M
Tinie Tempah
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada Seed FinTech, Art, Apps $2M–$7.9M
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $603k–$16M
Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Financial Services $125k–$18M
David Hariri
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Art, Apps, Mobile
Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
1 Portugal, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $110k–$2.1M
Karman Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $2.5M–$167M
Clark Valberg
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.2M–$72M
Accomplice
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Internet $1.8M–$50M
Round13 Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Puerto Rico Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $951k–$19M
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Content $678k–$255M
Shaw Media
VC Fund
1 Canada Seed Art, Apps, E-Commerce
Portage Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$80M
Veritas Investment GmbH
VC Fund
1 Canada Convertible Note Art, Auctions, Software
Jody Mulkey
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B FinTech, Art, B2B
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
1 Canada, Spain, United States Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $366k–$3.1M
Deepak Jain
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Art, Gaming, eSports
LDV Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $1.1M–$16M
Backbone Angels
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Bahamas Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care $1.1M–$7.9M
Harlo Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 Canada, Israel, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Sports, Machine Learning
Mike Murchison
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Art $1M–$8.5M
Garage Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$50M
Michael Katchen
Angel
1 Canada Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, FinTech $7.4M–$39M
Triptyq Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Virtual Reality $1M–$3M
Rhino Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.5M–$115M
Density Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, Germany, United States Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data $15k–$1.3M
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
VC Fund
1 Canada, Norway, Denmark Grant, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $25k–$2M
boldstart ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.2M–$67M
Bedrock
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.8M–$100M
Schroders
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, India, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services $6.5M–$115M
Roger Dickey
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Colombia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Education, E-Commerce $731k–$5M
Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Financial Services $534k–$15M
Ian Logan
Angel
1 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Art, Apps, Mobile
Google
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Grant, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$10M
Satish Kanwar
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile Apps, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$17M
Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Spain, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, E-Commerce $329k–$10M
David Zhang
Angel
1 United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D FinTech, Art, Apps
Guillaume Laliberte
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Art, Apps, Mobile
Nomad Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, Estonia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, SaaS $5.3M–$10M
Innovate Calgary
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $73k–$1.9M
Andrew Chau
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Software, Art $1.3M–$7.5M
David Wieland
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Brazil Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Education $200k–$19M
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Art startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $2.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
  • Canvass AI — Canvass AI empowers industrial workforces to leverage data and create immediate impact in their day-to-day operations.
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Art startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$5M; Angel $10k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
  • 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.
  • Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.
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Front Row Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Art startups

Front Row Ventures believe , students are in a unique position to challenge the status quo. Their university years are an entrepreneurial sweet spot, and they want their peers to capitalize on their potential. Their want to help them to launch unthinkable ventures, and start companies that change the world.Their bigger mission is to spread startupand venture capital culture across Montreal campuses. They engage and empower students to learn, get involved, and create from Montreal’s vibrant technology sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pelcro — Pelcro is an all-in-one platform for businesses selling digital memberships, subscriptions, magazines, newspapers, and everything in between.
  • Swish Solar — Swish Solar is building breakthrough technologies that keep solar panels clean and intelligent, combining self-cleaning nanotech with AI optimization to maximize energy yield, lower costs, and make solar truly sustainable.
  • Serenity Power — Serenity Power is a developer of solid oxide fuel cell systems delivering low-emission, noise-free, multi-fuel clean energy for industries.
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Art startups

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.8M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
  • Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
  • MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.
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Tinie Tempah
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Canada Art startups

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Art, Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Axonify — Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance.
  • RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
  • Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
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Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Dispatch Ventures invests in founders building early-stage technology companies. Over the years, Dispatch has nurtured dozens of startups- helping them find corporate clients, skilled employees, gain media coverage, and raise millions in venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.1M; Series A $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leav — Sign up for a free trial of the most intuitive mobile self-checkout platform designed for today's retailers.
  • Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
  • Stamped Technologies — Stamped is an accounting firm using technology to provide SMEs with fast, easy and affordable financial and corporate tax preparation.
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David Hariri
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$658k
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Azulfy — Real-time pollution monitoring for EU municipalities. Satellite-based environmental compliance tools for local governments and smart cities.
  • PLUTOS — We are here to make sure that your Puppy gets the best treat! PLUTOS were created specifically for dogs to have fun. Find out our dog healthy chews.
  • Hostels HUB — Hostels HUB is a hostel developer that is looking for opportunities both in city as leisure locations around Portugal.
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Karman Ventures
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.3M; Series A $6M–$40M; Series B $23M–$167M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jarsy — Jarsy Inc offers a platform for global investment opportunities using stablecoins.
  • Collate — Collate is a semantic intelligence platform built on a semantic metadata graph to power trusted discovery, governance, and AI across your data ecosystem.
  • Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
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Clark Valberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Clark Valberg Clark Valberg is the Managing Partner at Tiferes Ventures. He previously worked as the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies,including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $4.8M–$72M; Series B $28M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Macro — You've never zoomed like this before.
  • Carrot — The app that automatically saves your finds and helps you get back to them when you're ready to buy. Download on Chrome & iOS
  • Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.
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Accomplice
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 281
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.2M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $405M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Privy — Rated the #1 sales app in the Shopify App Store. Used by 600,000+ online brands around the world to grow sales NOW with email & SMS.
  • Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
  • PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.
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Round13 Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada. The firm invests in high-potential companies across a range of sectors, with a focus on supporting their growth and development over the long term. Round13's team of experienced investors and operators bring a wealth ofexpertise and insight to every investment, helping portfolio companies to realize their full potential. With a commitment to building an enduring 100-year firm, Round13 is dedicated to creating long-term value for its investors and the companies it supports. For more information, please visit www.round13.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Puerto Rico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $951k–$8.7M; Series A $4.8M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.
  • PocketHealth — Get early access to your medical imaging results. Trusted by more than 2M patients and 900 hospitals and clinics.
  • CWX — CWX is a full-service enterprise cloud consulting company.
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $678k–$33M; Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $1.6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Metalogos — Metalogos operates a public stock information service. It provides individual investors with easy-to-understand and unambiguous information regarding public offerings.
  • Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
  • Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.
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Shaw Media
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wondereur — Wondereur is a digital art platform that gives the market for art assets real-time intelligence. This platform examines factors that affect an artist's market value over the long term, such as endorsements from galleries and museums, publications, art movements, and ideas. It then produces intelligent indices that include a suggested pricerange and the projected growth rate for any work of contemporary art.
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $6.6M–$36M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
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Veritas Investment GmbH
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Veritas was founded in 1991 as a capital management company under German law and is now nearly 25 years successfully in the German market operates. As group-independent investment boutique we exclusively concentrate on our core competence: asset management.They specialize in the systematic, non-predictive investment strategies. They want tospecifically take advantage of opportunities in the markets and reduce risks consistently.With their 20-strong team, we manage asset management and equity funds. Awards and indices show that the quality of our investment strategies and funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Auctions, Software
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iCollector — Founded in 1997, icollector.com was one of the pioneers in bringing auctioneers together with interested buyers. Today, we have over 1000 auction house clients worldwide, among them the top auction houses and licensed dealers in their respective categories. We specialize and excel in coin auctions, vintage collectibles, gaming memorabilia,collectible firearms, movie props and original set costumes. Furthermore, our clients excel in placing native memorabilia, original prints and paintings as well as vintage and one of a kind jewellery and diamonds.Our main service offering is pay per use access to our platform icollector.com on which we list our client’s items for sale in a catalogue order to coincide with the physical auction at the location and date they chose. Our software tools and reporting suite let interested bidders register for a free account online, place bids raise or alter bids on as many items they like and ultimately bid live in real time against hundreds of other bidders on the auction floor or around the world.Having run over 10,000 auctions since our inception, we can draw from a deep and well structured database of past bidders, auction item stats, sold prices and other useful information for bidders and dealers alike. Coupled with innovative marketing using a combination of email marketing, social media and traditional vehicles to reach bidders, we are a full service firm focused on doing the best things to help our customers grow in their business.Before, during and after each auction, we offer full auction house support. This ranges from reporting functions such as geo targeting of bidders and marketing efforts to credit approval payment and shipping integration to facilitate and automate as many functions of our client’s operations as possible.Icollector.com also has shared functions with its sister platform www.liveauctionworld.com which is mainly used to promote industrial and commercial sales at auction.Icollector.com also belongs to the same group of brands that operates www.liveauctiongroup.com, which is a custom software builder for the auction industry, lending a client a unique and powerfully branded platform while giving them full access to all the major tools and reports the auction industry relies on for its success.
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Jody Mulkey
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Jody Mulkey has worked at Shopzilla since January 1999. After wearing many hats along the way Jody is currently the Chief Information Officer responsible for the overall technology development and operations of the company. Before joining Shopzilla, Mulkey was in charge of the Web presence at Isocor. Before that he worked at WilliamO'Neil + Co., an institutional investment services company. He was part of the team that brought both the flagship WONDA product to the Internet and created an online consumer version of Daily Graphs.Mulkey holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, with concentrations in information systems, and is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Program. He originally hails from the great state of Texas, but is happy to have called California home for the past 18 years. Mulkey is an avid snowboarder and can be found most winter weekends on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Art, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
  • Stasis Labs — Stasis Labs has converted medical hardware into a big data, SaaS product with a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform. On average 80% of patients in emerging markets, and 60% of patients in developed countries have their vitals checked manually every 4-8 hours because existing monitoring systems are overly complex and cost prohibitive.Stasis was apart of the first cohort of 11 companies in Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai. Stasis was recently awarded grant funding by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group to help improve the medical technology of India. Currently, Stasis is live in Indian hospitals and continues to roll out their pilot program
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$3.1M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
  • Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
  • Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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Deepak Jain
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
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LDV Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.6M; Series A $6.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Dannce.ai — dannce.ai uses AI-driven 3D-aligned neural networks to automate behavioral analysis for faster, more accurate drug development and clinical care.
  • Sonus Microsystems — Sonus Microsystems is revolutionizing ultrasound imaging with polymer CMUTs, developing transducers for advanced healthcare, NDT and wearable applications.
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Backbone Angels
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

We are a collective of angel investors. We are coming together to invest in women and non-binary founders with a focus on investments in Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour-led companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Bahamas

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wygo
  • Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
  • Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.
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Harlo Equity Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Harlo Capital is a Toronto-based private equity company identifying and investing in real estate developments across Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Sports, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
  • Mid-Day Squares — Mid-Day Squares: Perfectly designed to stop your hunger or cravings in between meals. Each Square is packed with Clean Plant Protein, Real Chocolate & Superfoods.
  • Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies — Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) is a Toronto-based VFX studio focusing on premium TV series. We deliver feature-film quality on TV timelines.
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Mike Murchison
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
  • Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
  • Garnet Labs — Protect modern dev/ops environments with behavioral monitoring, threat detection and enforcement. Detect and block unknown threats in real-time before they impact users.
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Garage Capital
VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7M; Pre-Seed $800k–$3.6M; Series A $7.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoRecruit (formerly Quil) — Quil is the AI assistant helping recruiting agencies eliminate hours of busywork. Automate interview notes, ATS updates, candidate submittals & more.
  • Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
  • Ownly — Ownlyi specializes in big data, data analysis, customer experience, data analytics, sales, and lead generation.
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Michael Katchen
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $7.4M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
  • Exact Technology — Discover innovative solutions to measure, monitor, and control concrete curing with EXACT Technology, ensuring efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
  • Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.
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Triptyq Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

VC seed fund investing in cutting-edge technology companies that drive innovation in digital entertainment and interactive media

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Virtual Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • LocusX — LocusX is a gaming technology startup focused on accelerating and automating the bug resolution cycle in game development using an AI-powered issue resolution engine.
  • Streamforge — Streamforge helps companies find the most relevant creators for their games and products using the most sophisticated platform and technology on the market.
  • Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
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Rhino Ventures
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Rhino partners with entrepreneurs to build, acquire, and scale market-leading platforms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $62M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Diginex — World leading blockchain-enabled software to collect, digitize and improve your ESG and sustainability impact. Accessible, intuitive and affordable.
  • Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
  • ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.
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Density Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Consulting and mentoring to startup founders and CEOs as well as to investors. Our focus areas are strategy, turnarounds and operational efficiencies. We

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wondeur Ai — Wondeur researches the dynamics of value creation and biases in the art world. Wondeur equips museums and art professionals with new information to achieve their curatorial goals and provides the financial industry the tools and knowledge necessary to deliver responsible art asset strategies. It quantifies the artist’s growth, tracks the evolutionof value, and measures the past and future influence of museums and galleries, globally.
  • Elucid Labs — Elucid Labs is a MedTech company developing augmented intelligence imaging solution for early detection and diagnosis of skin cancer.Its proprietary imaging technology probes the molecular makeup of the skin at different layers and produces an unique fingerprint for the mole/lesion. The company has developed a proprietary AI technologytranslates this fingerprint into valuable clinical informatics to assist dermatologists in making better, faster, and more well informed decisions. With its technology, detection and diagnosis of skin cancer can be performed at much earlier stages of development which in turn reduces the cost of treatment as well as significantly reducing the unnecessary biopsies carried out every year.
  • InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
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National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups, 11 in the past 12 months

National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Norway, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $35k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hydron Energy — Hydron Energy is a cleaner fuel company helping hard-to-decarbonize sectors of transportation and industry.
  • Quantum eMotion — Located in Greater Montreal, Canada, QNC is an advanced developer of a new generation of cryptographic solutions based on Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG). We work with microprocessors vendors and OEM to develop and market the most secure and affordable encrypted communication solutions for the financial/banking, military, mobile andinternet telecommunication sectors. Their technology is based on many years of extensive research by the Physics Department of Sherbrooke University, Canada. Develop and market a new generation of quantum random number generators (QRNG) that delivers high volume of full-entropy random numbers that is affordable and specifically designed to secure everyday communication.Allow their clients and partners to develop the most secure hardware encryption for consumer and enterprise devices including mobile phones, computers, Internet of Things (IoT), networking equipment and at the same time powerful enough to secure demanding cloud based applications, servers and military devices.
  • Volatus Aerospace — At Volatus Aerospace,our mission is clear: to provide unmatched innovation, reliability, and expertise in every aerial intelligence solution.
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boldstart ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Inception venture capital for Bold Technical Founders Building the Autonomous Enterprise

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $7M–$31M; Series B $18M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $192M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Stellate — Stellate brings the power of edge computing to GraphQL APIs, delivering enterprise-grade security, global scalability, and low latency. Safeguard your APIs with advanced protections while building resilient, high-performance systems at the edge.
  • Liveblocks — Liveblocks provides the infrastructure to handle concurrent edits on shared data, so people and AI agents can collaborate without breaking your app.
  • Superstream — Keeping your Kafka healthy, reliable, and cost-efficient even while you sleep.
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Bedrock
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $18M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $401M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Popmenu — Popmenu is a SaaS company that helps restaurants turn their menu into a customer conversion engine. Its cloud-based marketing and customer engagement platform use smart algorithms to track and convert menus, feedback, customer ratings, and related information into an interactive forum for hotels and customers to communicate directly with each otherand access personalized menu and restaurant recommendations in real-time. The platform enables businesses to take control of their menu and increase customer engagement.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • PayMongo — PayMongo is the easiest way to get paid online. Create an account in minutes and start accepting credit cards, GCash, GrabPay, PayMaya and more.
  • Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
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Schroders
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

As a global investment manager, we help institutions, intermediaries and individuals across the planet meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$30M; Series B $31M–$61M; Series C $38M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vercel — Vercel gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
  • PB Fintech — PB Fintech develops online platforms for insurance and lending products, primarily via Policybazaar and Paisabazaar.
  • ixigo — ixigo is an intelligent, AI-based travel app with over 150 million users. ixigo allows Indian travelers to organize, book, and track trips from 120+ travel suppliers and OTAs across flights, trains, hotels, buses and cabs. ixigo’s vision is to empower travelers with trustworthy and personalized travel recommendations. ixigo is the fastest growingand most trusted travel app in the market. ixigo trains app has become the world’s 6th most downloaded travel app on the Google Play store as per analytics platform SensorTower’s 2018 report. It is also the 2nd most downloaded travel app in India. The company has played a pioneering role in launching innovative products in the travel space driven by AI, Voice, and ML. Over the past few years, ixigo has won an impressive string of awards and accolades including the Phocuswright people's choice award for their multi-lingual AI-driven voice-based travel assistant - TARA, and the best UI/UX award for ixigo flights app at Google India App Summit in 2018.
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Roger Dickey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $731k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
  • Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
  • Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
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Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Mistral Venture Partners - The leading seed stage venture capital firm in Canada

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $534k–$2.5M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
  • Rewind — Protect your mission-critical SaaS data now. Get Rewind, get peace of mind. Explore backups for ecommerce, development, accounting & more with Rewind.
  • Nook — Nook is a personal knowledge base that helps capture, organize, and intelligently resurface what you need to know and do throughout your day. Get early access.
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Ian Logan
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Ian Logan is the VP Engineering at Rose Rocket, a SaaS-based Transportation Management System (TMS) specializing in workflow automation for Enterprise and SMB transport companies.He was the former VP Engineering at Drop, an intelligent app that surfaces offers & rewards based on what members are spending, creating a personalized, seamlessexperience.He was also a former Director of Engineering for Payments at Airbnb, a community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world. Ian has led engineering teams over many years, overseeing architecture and implementation of the website and helped Airbnb grow the payments platform internationally to process dozens of different currencies and payment methods. Ian joined Airbnb as an early engineer and built out other teams related to growth and site performance engineering. In a previous life, Ian built core trading algorithms and applications for world-class investment banks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Cartage — Cartage is an AI operating system for shippers & 3PLs that automates routine tasks and connects users to carriers.
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Google
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Google provides the Android operating system, the Chrome web browser, and a search engine to support global connectivity. Its software suite includes productivity tools such as Gmail, Docs, and Calendar, alongside media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. The firm designs hardware, including the Pixel line of smartphones, tablets, and wearabledevices integrated with Wear OS. Through its research divisions, the company creates generative models and tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Veo 3.1 for image creation, video generation, and conversational assistance. Current features include Agentic Vision for visual reasoning and Personal Intelligence, which utilizes Google Photos for contextual content creation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$10M; Grant $50k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.
  • TAE Technologies — TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Their core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. Their groundbreaking work has led to industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics,and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on their results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow.
  • Britto's Brainwaves — Britto's Brainwaves is a healthcare company that emerges as a beacon for those seeking in-depth medical insights.
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Satish Kanwar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $10M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
  • NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
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Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Pre-Seed $329k–$2.5M; Series A $1.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • TACMIND — Tacmind is an AI platform that helps companies understand how AI models perceive, describe, and recommend their brand. It analyzes how large language models and other AI technologies speak about a brand, detecting tone, emotion, and narrative. Tacmind provides insights that allow companies to see their brand's presence and reputation inAI-driven environments, benchmark against competitors, and optimize their brand assets and messages specifically for how AI systems view them. This helps companies influence and improve the narrative AI models generate about their brand to better control brand perception and increase visibility in AI-assisted searches and recommendations. Tacmind’s tools give companies a strategic advantage in the evolving landscape where AI plays a significant role in shaping consumer decisions and brand discovery.​
  • Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
  • Ezra AI Labs — The company emerged from stealth in early 2025, with founder Ophir Samson.
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David Zhang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Art, Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's finance platform. From company cards to banking, Brex helps you drive growth, automate processes, & earn more.
  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
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Guillaume Laliberte
Angel · Redwood City, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
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Nomad Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Nomad Capital is a seed stage fund that invests in emerging companies that are developing marketplaces and B2B software.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Estonia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $5.3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • UserHub — The quickest way to add Billing & Seat Management features to your SaaS product. A User Based Billing Platform compatible with Stripe Billing, Auth0, Google Firebase, and more.
  • Capitol AI — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
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Innovate Calgary
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Innovate Calgary is a central innovation hub at the University of Calgary. See our programs and fundings and learn more about our innovation hubs here.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $73k–$428k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
  • InventoRR MD — InventoRR MD focuses on commercializing groundbreaking trauma and general surgery devices that improve patient recovery outcomes, simplify procedures for doctors, and reduce costs for healthcare organizations.
  • Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
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Andrew Chau
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Andrew Chau is the co-founder of Neo Financial He used to be the co-founder of SkipTheDishes. He handles business development and strategy for this company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
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David Wieland
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $315k–$1.5M; Series A $750k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hallow — Pray every day this Lent with Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
  • Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
  • Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
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Art Investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 49 deals from 75 investors.

75
investors
in Canada Art startups
49
deals
in Canada Art startups
$195k
median round
in Canada Art startups
24%
lead investors
lead at least one round
37%
Grant
most common funding stage
75/25
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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