Top 45 Art Startup Investors in Canada
A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Art startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Art Startup Investors in Canada
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
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
- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Queva — Transform your pet care with Queva, the ultimate Pet Health & Behavior Tracking Technology. Ensure your furry friend's well-being with our easy-to-use device, designed to monitor health trends, track behavior, and provide actionable insights. Perfect for pet parents who want peace of mind.
- Fincentify — Access up to $150 interest-free. Build credit history on auto-pilot. Earn rewards when you check or improve your credit score.
- EmergConnect — Emergconnect is creating the first ever digital 'front door' for patients seeking same day care.
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
- FinTech, Art, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
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.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.
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
- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Estonia, United States
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.
Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
- Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
- Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
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
- Software, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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 — Runtime monitoring & Egress Controls for GitHub actions. Prevent supply chain attacks before they happen.
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
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tough Commerce — White-label commerce solutions for merchants, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers in complex industries such as construction. Touch Commerce provide operation management, dispatch, e-commerce, customer portal, trucking, delivery and finance solutions to complex industries.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- BluWave-ai — Artificial Intelligence for Clean Energy. BluWave-ai's distributed, AI-enabled platform optimizes multiple renewable and non-renewable energy sources in real-time to minimize cost and maximize availability and reliability.
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
- FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
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
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
- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Propulso — Break the barrier between digital and physical world: target your competitors, target events, measure physical visits and generate results!
- Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Unlockit — Revolutionizing Real Estate Transaction Management. Streamline your processes and unlock success with Unlockit's advanced solutions
- Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.
- Yon Living — Living designed for Digital Nomads. Flexible stays in inspiring homes with like-minded people. Work-ready and fully serviced apartments, with no deposits. Find your next home in Lisbon.
Round13 Capital are different than a typical Venture Capital fund. Round13 are more than just capital, and are a thought partner for management with deep experience in building businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Puerto Rico
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
- Biotechnology, Financial Services, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
- Forteus — Forteus is an asset manager focused on blockchain technology and digital assets.
- Redcliffe Labs — Redcliffe LifetechRedcliffe Lifesciences specializes in reproductive health testing, rare diseases, and cancer genetic diagnostics. The company offers a wide range of advanced products and services for healthcare companies, research institutions, and other public and private partnerships, such as testing using molecular and gene-based diagnostics,therapeutic molecules and advanced therapies, next-generation sequencing, and all bioinformatics services.
David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada
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Investment focus
- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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.
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
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Benepass — Give your employees flexible benefits.
- Agio Ratings — Agio enables firms that trade and invest in digital assets to protect capital, underwrite credit, and secure long-term success
- Ansel Health — Give your employees peace of mind with supplemental health insurance from Brella. Our plan offers more coverage, less hassle, and a faster, simpler claims experience.
VC seed fund investing in cutting-edge technology companies that drive innovation in digital entertainment and interactive media
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Investment focus
- Software, Virtual Reality, Computer
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
- BeatConnect — Connect and collaborate with beat makers around the world in real time with BeatConnect. Download it for free now!
- Anomaly — Anomaly is an AI-enabled gaming app chain that focuses on gaming and layer 3 blockchain innovation.
Google is a multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. Their products address a wide range of use cases, including email, navigation, cloud computing, web browsing, video sharing,productivity, operating systems, cloud storage, language translation, photo storage, video calling, smart home, smartphones, wearable technology, music streaming, and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 3DAiLY — My3dMeta develops software and digital tools that creates three-dimensional and digital versions of humans, animals, or things. It is based in Bengaluru, India.
- Namma Yatri — Book a ride with Zero Commission | 100% Open Source
- LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
- Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
- Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Harlo Capital is a Toronto-based private equity company identifying and investing in real estate developments across Canada.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Plantiga — Plantiga combines smart insoles and 1:1 coaching to keep you moving at your best - in sport, training and life.
- 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.
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
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States, Portugal
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.
- Frenter — Helping equipment rental businesses manage their day-to-day operations so they can focus on growing their business in-person and online. Request a Demo today
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
- Art, Auctions, Software
- Convertible Note
- Canada
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.
Early stage investor, co-investments in North America & Europe. We write small cheques and help with making companies investable for others.
Focus: Machine Learning in Health, Industrial. Focus going forward: climate positive startups with real impact (Energy generation, distribution, conservation, mobility, zero waste)
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Germany, United States
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 — Acne is a very common skin condition, and for many people, it can be a real pain to deal with. Many people have tried to find a cure for acne using expensive
- 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.
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
- FinTech, Art, Social Media
- Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brex Inc. — Simplify expense management with Brex's spend management platform. From business cards to banking, empower growth, automate processes, and get better insights.
- 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.
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
- Software, SaaS, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
- Lottielab — Create and ship animations to your products faster. Bring your websites and apps to life with the simplest editor for Lottie animations.
- 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
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
- Art, Apps, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Canada, United States
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.
- Kin Community — Kin is a lifestyle entertainment company that develops, creates and distributes lifestyle entertainment in all forms and across all platforms for women in the “Builder” stage of their lives.
- Execution Labs — Execution Labs
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
- Software, Transportation, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Aerodome — The future of air support.
- RealSage — Leni is an AI-powered platform for multifamily owners and operators. Helping them improve their bottom lines with better reporting and AI-driven actionable Insights. Integrate directly with Yardi. !
- Cape — Cape develops privacy-enabling technology that allows users to reclaim their privacy and security on electronic devices. The company's technology communicates with electronic devices while maintaining anonymity and privacy without compromising user experience.
There is more to choosing an investor than selecting the term sheet with the highest valuation. Strategic capital, in its true form, extends the founding team’s capacity. That’s what we do at Rhino. We invest in companies where we can add tangible value. We’ve been on the other side of the table and appreciate the importance of funder and founderalignment. From startup, growth to exit; it is entrepreneurial ambition that drives value, not venture capitalists. We invest in individuals; trust and values fit are a centerpiece in every investment.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Education
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, Isle of Man, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Super Advisor — Super Advisor helps Advisors gain independence with the best advisor and client experience in the industry. Use our automations to streamline your business and give your top-tier service to every single client.
- Twig Fertility — Every nest starts with a twig. We are the next generation of fertility care.
- Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.
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
- Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Colombia
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.
- HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
- Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
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
- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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.
Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Noded Ai — Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Noded brings them all together using your notes history and gives you exactly what you needed , when you need it. So you’re always prepared and one step ahead.
- Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
- Lumina — Lumina is a versatile design platform that empowers both designers and non-designers to create content through personalized user experiences match ing your level. Acting as an intelligent creative assistant, Lumina understands you and your business. Just as human creators immerse themselves in your brand, Lumina tailors the content youcreate—whether it's video, graphic design, or 3D—for ads, e-commerce, and more
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
- Apps, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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.
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
- Sonus Microsystems — Sonus Microsystems is revolutionizing ultrasound imaging with polymer CMUTs, developing transducers for advanced healthcare, NDT and wearable applications.
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Norway, Denmark
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.
- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Connektica — Connektica offers telecommunications testing services solutions for RF component measurements in space and terrestrial applications. The company reduces test costs through the use of machine learning and offers decentralized traceability and diagnostic tool.
Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
- Exact Technology — Concrete monitoring & data driven solutions. Harness the power of real-time, online data to increase revenue, decrease costs and improve quality.
- Float — Float offers a corporate card and spends management solution that allows managing corporate cards, reimbursements, approvals, and invoices. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- Recovo — Buy deadstock materials (textile, yarns or trimmings) from top fashion houses and manage surplus inventory while providing you with traceability and impact data.
- Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
- Leya — Leya is a legal platform that delivers conversational, personalized support.
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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- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
- Storm Labs — We are an open-source software development studio that builds infrastructure for the next financial generation.
- Layer2 Financial — Layer2 is a regulated Payments infrastructure that enables payment processors, fintechs, neobanks to launch innovative payments products in weeks.
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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- Internet, Software, Education
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- Hallow — Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.
- 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.
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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- Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, South Korea, Thailand
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- k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
- Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
- Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
- Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
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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- Art, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Canada
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.
Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter
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- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- 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.
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
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- Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation — Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issuesthat arise from creating human-like machines.
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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- Art, Gaming, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Anime Universe — Anime Universe Corporate Site
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
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- Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
- Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!
- Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience
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