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Top 45 Art Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Apr 2024 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

Investor	Art Canada investments
Real Ventures	3
Front Row Ventures	2
Tinie Tempah	2
David Hariri	1
Deepak Jain	1
Veritas Investment GmbH	1
Roger Dickey	1
Capital Angel Network	1
Jody Mulkey	1
LDV Capital	1
Clark Valberg	1
Garage Capital	1
Nitesh Banta	1
Round13 Capital	1
Z Venture Capital	1
Corus Entertainment	1
Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital)	1
Density Ventures	1
Innovate Calgary	1
Nomad Capital	1
Bedrock	1
David Wieland	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Shaw Media	1
Michael Katchen	1
Telegraph Hill Capital	1
Accomplice	1
Schroders	1
Guillaume Laliberte	1
Mike Murchison	1
David Zhang	1
BDC Venture Capital	1
Satish Kanwar	1
Rhino Ventures	1
Anges Quebec	1
Ian Logan	1
Panache Ventures	1
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program	1
boldstart ventures	1
Andrew Chau	1
Harlo Equity Partners	1
Portugal Ventures	1
Dispatch Ventures	1
Google	1
Mistral Venture Partners	1

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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

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Nanotechnology
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.

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.

David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada

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.

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

Investment focus

Art, Gaming, eSports
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anime Universe — Anime Universe Corporate Site

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
Realize Medical — We're a medical virtual reality start up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform combines novel 3D visualization with the familiar and intuitive input of a hand held stylus. We're creating powerful VR tools to unlock new ways for healthcare professionals to view and interact with medicalimages so they can enhance patient care.

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.

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

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

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.
BurnerPage — BurnerPage is an AI and machine learning platform that automatically optimizes web page conversion performance.
Sonus Microsystems — Sonus Microsystems is revolutionizing ultrasound imaging with polymer CMUTs, developing transducers for advanced healthcare, NDT and wearable applications.

Clark Valberg is 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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
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

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
Keychain — Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore.
Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Puerto Rico

Portfolio highlights

Kivera — Enforce preventive controls and secure every interaction with your cloud at build and run time -regardless of how you use it.
Rails — Rails operates as a crypto derivatives trading company.
PocketHealth — PocketHealth is a better way to instantly receive and share sensitive medical imaging information. PocketHealth’s platform allows patients to share imaging records electronically with patients.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Content
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, Japan, Thailand

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.
TicketMe — TicketMe is Japan's largest NFT, allows to freely purchase and sell tickets for live music, theater, sports, and other events. Its purpose is to ''find the hidden value in the world and deliver the appropriate value to the right location.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

UpSmith — UpSmith is significantly enhancing lives by giving people access to training in practical skills and long-lasting careers.
RealSage — We are on a mission to revolutionize the way the real estate industry makes decisions. Real estate decision-making is hard. What makes it harder is your broken data! This creates a data decision gap for your teams and managers. That’s why RealSage combines all of your scattered and nontransparent data to give you a single holistic source of allyour answers with AI that helps you make faster, better decisions.
Gigs — Find hourly jobs in your neighborhood.

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)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wondeur Ai — A long overdue analysis of the drivers of value in the art world, Wondeur is data-driven, unbiased and powered by art historians. Our technology unleashes the financial and cultural power of a new asset class. Wondeur is backed by a team of world-class AI experts and technology visionaries.
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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Art, Marketplace
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.
Capitol AI — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

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.
Atmos — Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen.
Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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 — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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, a pioneering digital platform, redefines the landscape of online collaboration and communication. With a commitment to seamless interaction and connection, Leya empowers individuals and businesses to transform the way they work and engage in the digital realm.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
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.
Ocean — Ocean empowers miners to reclaim control of the intelligent portions of mining and is designed to be non-custodial, transparent, and permissionless.
Monkey Tilt — Monkey Tilt is a crypto fantasy sports platform. It is a cryptocurrency-enabled gambling platform.

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.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CeQur Simplicity — CeQur is revolutionizing mealtime insulin delivery to simplify the lives of people with diabetes and help them keep their blood glucose well controlled.
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.

Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter

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.

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.

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 — listen.dev detects malicious activity in CI/CD pipelines to prevent exfiltration of sensitive data.It integrates seamlessly into your workflows through a GitHub action to monitor your build process and enforce egress controls. Protect your sensitive data, fast-track compliance, and prevent supply chain attacks like Solarwinds, CodeCov andPyTorch.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Art, Social Media
Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Brex — Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. It helps companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US$940 million in venturecapital.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
Thentia Cloud — Thentia Cloud is a highly configurable, low-code government technology platform built for regulators, by regulators.
LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, 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.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

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.

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.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bridgr — All in one Platform to Automate Assessment and provide Action Plans with the only platform that respects your time and amplifies your abilities.
ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.

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.

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.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lotly — Lotly provides and offers housing financial support through partnering with investors. It is based in Toronto, Canada.
Reworkd — Extract web data at scale with AI Agents
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data

National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Norway, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
Connektica — Connektica offers its innovative radiofrequency testing solutions to reduce cost while maintaining quality standards.

Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zuplo — Zuplo is fully-managed API Management designed for developers. Add rate-limiting, authentication and more as fast as you can commit to git.
Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Glooma — Glooma - We detect breast cancer at an early stage
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 — Yon is creating a next-generation hotel brand based on shared living for people who can live and work from anywhere.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Machine Learning
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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CharacterX — CharacterX is a Stanford-led decentralized synthetic social network that blends AGI technology with blockchain to change the social networking landscape. It is building a sophisticated multi-modal AI architecture that inputs and outputs multi-sensory data, including 3D and AR experiences, in conjunction with a next-generation computationalplatform.
AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.
Atheists Helping the Homeless DC — Welcome to Atheists Helping the Homeless DC (AHHDC) As Humanists, the mission of AHHDC is to help people experiencing homelessness in Washington DC and nearby areas by making life easier. Our goals are to help our community, to give, to learn, and to respect ourselves by respecting others. Why Donate? Our goal is to help

Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Expeto — Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solutionpurpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.
Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days

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