Top 35 Art VC Funds & Investors in Canada (September 2026)
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $700k–$50M |
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Innovate Calgary
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical, Medical Device | $48k–$2.1M |
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Front Row Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $18k–$4.1M |
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Portugal, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $107k–$3.6M |
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $10k–$2.7M |
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $713k–$20M |
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PowerOne Capital Markets Limited
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Post-IPO Equity, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Mining, Mineral, Battery | $1.2M–$16M |
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Bedrock
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.8M–$100M |
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Schroders
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, India, Australia | Series A, Series B, Series C | Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services | $6.5M–$115M |
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boldstart ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.2M–$80M |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$20M |
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Density Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Germany, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $15k–$1.3M |
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National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $25k–$2.1M |
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LDV Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $1M–$16M |
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Corus Entertainment
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed, Series C | Art, Apps, Gaming | $5.3M–$7M |
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $376k–$3.4M |
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Nomad Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Blockchain | $3M–$10M |
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$80M |
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Round13 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.1M–$37M |
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Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $125k–$20M |
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Backbone Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Bahamas | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Fashion, Software | $1.1M–$8M |
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Triptyq Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Gaming, Virtual Reality | $998k–$3M |
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Rhino Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $1.5M–$115M |
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Shaw Media
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Art, Apps, E-Commerce | |
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Content | $613k–$52M |
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Veritas Investment GmbH
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Series A, Convertible Note | Art, Auctions, Internet | |
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Google
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$9.3M |
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Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $534k–$15M |
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Accomplice
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$45M |
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Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $340k–$13M |
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Garage Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $765k–$50M |
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Karman Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation | $3M–$167M |
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Tribune Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Oil and Gas, Software, SaaS | $557k–$24M |
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Harlo Equity Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Wellness | $402k–$5.5M |
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OST
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Series A | Art, Software, Open Source | |
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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
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 276
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
- SPARK Microsystems — SPARK Microsystems delivers Low Energy Ultra-Wideband (LE-UWB) technology with ultra-low latency, high data throughput, and revolutionary power efficiency.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $931k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $48k–$770k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
- Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
- Possibility Neurotechnologies — Connecting hearts and minds while fostering community through simple, accessible brain-controlled technology. #BCIs #assistivetech #inclusion
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $18k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swish Solar — Eliminate inefficiencies and maximize energy output with our breakthrough waterless self-cleaning solar panel technology. Perfect for arid regions with zero moving parts.
- Serenity Power — Advanced SOFC technology with high-efficiency targets, lower emissions, and fuel flexibility for oil & gas, industrial operations, and distributed power applications.
- Tydra Laboratories — High-performance fibrillated chitin that replaces toxic additives without sacrificing cost or performance.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Portugal, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 350
- Round size: Seed $121k–$2M; Pre-Seed $107k–$796k; Venture - Series Unknown $121k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aptoide — Find, discover and download the best apps and games for Android in the official Aptoide app store
- Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $183k–$2.7M; Angel $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $188k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Afynia Laboratories — #FemTech startup developing fast, easy-to-use products to fill current gaps in #womenshealth-- starting with at-home testing for #endometriosis.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $912k–$6M; Pre-Seed $713k–$2.5M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
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- Ranger AI — Discover how Ranger RFX simplifies proposals with innovative tools designed for manufacturers. Improve accuracy, reduce downtime, and achieve cost savings today.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
PowerOne Capital Markets Limited is a diversified merchant bank focused on providing early stage capital and advisory services to emerging growth companies
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- Industry: Mining, Mineral, Battery
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Private Equity $6.5M–$8.3M; Post-IPO Equity $1.2M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $11M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HeatMap, Inc — Discover heatmap, the only on-site analytics platform that ties revenue to every pixel on your website. Optimize for buyer behavior and increase your ecommerce sales with revenue-backed, AI-powered heatmaps, scrollmaps, screen recordings, and more.
- Big Ridge Gold — Big Ridge Gold Corp. owns and operates gold exploration projects in Quebec, Manitoba and Ontario.
- Full Circle Lithium — Solutions for lithium-ion battery fires, offering rapid extinguishing, safety & sustainability. Buy our extinguishers: CA: https://t.co/TGcseZEg0f US: https://t.co/pbyaaWEVJD
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $25M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Durin — Mineral exploration technology company
- TensorZero — TensorZero builds open-source tools for production-grade LLM applications: LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluations, and experimentation.
- Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, India, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $6.5M–$30M; Series B $31M–$61M; Series C $38M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $447M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ElevenLabs — Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform. Access 5,000+ voices in 70+ languages with secure APIs and SDKs.
- PB Fintech — PB Fintech develops online platforms for insurance and lending products, primarily via Policybazaar and Paisabazaar.
- AuMEGA Metals — AuMEGA Metals is an ASX- and TSX-listed Company exploring for high grade #gold in Newfoundland, Canada
Inception venture capital for Bold Technical Founders Building the Autonomous Enterprise
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $6M–$31M; Series B $18M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $38M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Baz — Baz AI Code Review is an AI-native code review platform designed to help engineering teams ship higher-quality code faster
- Surf AI — In a world of AI attackers, remediation can no longer be done at human speed. Surf AI is the only way to maintain security posture at the speed of AI.
- Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 527
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Spark — Spark provides the platform required to sell, market, close and report on your entire portfolio of new development projects.
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- Neurio Technology — Neurio makes ordinary appliances smart and homes more efficient by letting you know what’s going on, when you need to know it - like if you forgot to turn off your stove, when your kids are home from school, and if they’re watching TV when they should be doing homework. With a Neurio sensor, our smartphone apps let you know what’s happening inyour home, which appliances are in use and the amount of energy they use without having to install sensors at every device.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wondeur Ai — Wondeur researches the dynamics of value creation and biases in the art world. Wondeur equips museums and art professionals with new information to achieve their curatorial goals and provides the financial industry the tools and knowledge necessary to deliver responsible art asset strategies. It quantifies the artist’s growth, tracks the evolutionof value, and measures the past and future influence of museums and galleries, globally.
- Elucid Labs — Elucid Labs is a MedTech company developing augmented intelligence imaging solution for early detection and diagnosis of skin cancer.Its proprietary imaging technology probes the molecular makeup of the skin at different layers and produces an unique fingerprint for the mole/lesion. The company has developed a proprietary AI technologytranslates this fingerprint into valuable clinical informatics to assist dermatologists in making better, faster, and more well informed decisions. With its technology, detection and diagnosis of skin cancer can be performed at much earlier stages of development which in turn reduces the cost of treatment as well as significantly reducing the unnecessary biopsies carried out every year.
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $35k–$2.1M; Non-Equity Assistance $27k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Landing Zones — Landing Zones uncrewed vehicle systems and aerospace solutions are recognized worldwide for their reliability, reusability, and ruggedness.
- Cheetah Networks — Cheetah Networks empowers network owners with real-time, actionable visibility across LTEM, IoT, and 5G networks.
- Resiliocs Intelligence — State-of-the-art Climate Risk and Resilience Platfrom - A Climate risk and Analytics prediction powerhouse.
LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $6.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $31M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
- Tensorevo LLC — TensorEvo provides an end-to-end platform for automated visual inspection. They ingest multi-source image/video data, streamline annotation with active learning and synthetic data, and train optimized CV models. One-click deploy to edge or cloud with real-time monitoring, 99.9% uptime SLA. Trusted by 500+ enterprises and used to process 10M+images.
- Arcturus — Experience sports like never before.
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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- Industry: Art, Apps, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $803k–$3.4M; Angel $376k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
- Solving.AI — Solving.AI is an AI training platform that helps in solving business software adoption issues.
- Elisa Interactive — Elisa Interactive operates an asset-light, prompt-to-environment software model designed to lower technical entry barriers in user-generated gaming ecosystems. Its core application platform, Me-Z-Scene, utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically arrange existing asset kits into complex 3D worlds based on natural language inputs. Thecompany's value proposition centers on empowering casual gamers and amateur builders to deploy custom virtual spaces without requiring coding or digital design expertise.
Nomad Capital is a seed stage fund that invests in emerging companies that are developing marketplaces and B2B software.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Neutron — Neutron: The most secure CosmWasm platform in Cosmos, Neutron lets smart-contracts leverage bleeding-edge Interchain technology with minimal overhead
- Cambrian — The financial intelligence layer for agents & institutions. Cambrian's API helps you make the best financial decisions onchain. Testnet waitlist @ https://t.co/eohvz17ALp
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $6.8M–$33M; Series B $8.6M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $83M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
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- Moss — Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software.
- Faye — Travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 support, instant claims processing and more.
Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada. The firm invests in high-potential companies across a range of sectors, with a focus on supporting their growth and development over the long term. Round13's team of experienced investors and operators bring a wealth ofexpertise and insight to every investment, helping portfolio companies to realize their full potential. With a commitment to building an enduring 100-year firm, Round13 is dedicated to creating long-term value for its investors and the companies it supports. For more information, please visit www.round13.com.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.9M; Series A $5.1M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.8M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $149M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- InsideDesk — Reduce AR days, boost collections, and streamline billing operations with InsideDesk's centralized revenue cycle management platform.
- CWX — CLOUDWERX provides elite engineering resources to accelerate your business.
- Lightworks — Lightworks is a Canadian consulting company that focuses on enterprise AI infrastructure and control systems. The company works with the biggest and most regulated companies in the world to plan, manage, and safeguard AI-powered systems.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.1M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leav — Sign up for a free trial of the most intuitive mobile self-checkout platform designed for today's retailers.
- Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
- Stamped Technologies — Stamped is an accounting firm using technology to provide SMEs with fast, easy and affordable financial and corporate tax preparation.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Bahamas
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wygo — This is why you've gotta go outside.
- Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is the Certified B Corp.™ behind the only natural incontinence care line that outperforms conventional brands. Our products and packaging combine innovative, plant-based materials with cutting edge technology to deliver high performance, skin-safe protection women can trust while supporting better overall health and wellbeing. We arealso deeply committed to eliminating the shame and stigma historically associated with urinary incontinence and ensuring women have access to reliable information about this condition, including treatment options that may be available.Attn: Grace was founded by Mia Abbruzzese and Alexandra Fennell in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.
VC seed fund investing in cutting-edge technology companies that drive innovation in digital entertainment and interactive media
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M; Pre-Seed $998k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $31M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- LocusX — LocusX is a gaming technology startup focused on accelerating and automating the bug resolution cycle in game development using an AI-powered issue resolution engine.
- Streamforge — Streamforge helps companies find the most relevant creators for their games and products using the most sophisticated platform and technology on the market.
- Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
Rhino partners with entrepreneurs to build, acquire, and scale market-leading platforms.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.1M; Series A $3.8M–$15M; Series B $62M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Diginex — World leading blockchain-enabled software to collect, digitize and improve your ESG and sustainability impact. Accessible, intuitive and affordable.
- Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
- ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.
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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- Industry: Art, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wondereur — Wondereur is a digital art platform that gives the market for art assets real-time intelligence. This platform examines factors that affect an artist's market value over the long term, such as endorsements from galleries and museums, publications, art movements, and ideas. It then produces intelligent indices that include a suggested pricerange and the projected growth rate for any work of contemporary art.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $613k–$16M; Series A $2M–$45M; Series B $3.2M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $190M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
- Melife — Melife offers training programs, web services,computer education and system development.
- Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.
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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- Industry: Art, Auctions, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pillow — Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals whileenabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb.
- 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.
Google provides the Android operating system, the Chrome web browser, and a search engine to support global connectivity. Its software suite includes productivity tools such as Gmail, Docs, and Calendar, alongside media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. The firm designs hardware, including the Pixel line of smartphones, tablets, and wearabledevices integrated with Wear OS. Through its research divisions, the company creates generative models and tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Veo 3.1 for image creation, video generation, and conversational assistance. Current features include Agentic Vision for visual reasoning and Personal Intelligence, which utilizes Google Photos for contextual content creation.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 382
- Round size: Seed $300k–$9.3M; Grant $50k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sylica LLC — Infin8t.tech provides state-of-the-art AI-powered customer support infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Create, deploy, and manage intelligent chatbots trained on your specific content for personalized and efficient customer interactions that scale with your business needs.
- Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems — The fastest path to clean, limitless fusion energy.
Mistral Venture Partners - The leading seed stage venture capital firm in Canada
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $708k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $534k–$2.5M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Backboard.io — Sovereign AI infrastructure for organizations
- Partage Club — Share more, own less
- Chatforce — Chatforce is an AI-powered game studio. Four AI agents turn your ideas into playable, shareable games in minutes. No coding required.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 365
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.6M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $405M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
- Chomp — Chomp is a social network platform that focuses on on question-and-answer with prediction-based systems.
- Realm.Security — Realm.Security transforms sprawling security data into a unified intelligent entity. Leveraging AI and cutting edge data processing technology, we deliver the right information to the right destination at the right time.
Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $340k–$2.5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TACMIND — Tacmind is an AI platform that helps companies understand how AI models perceive, describe, and recommend their brand. It analyzes how large language models and other AI technologies speak about a brand, detecting tone, emotion, and narrative. Tacmind provides insights that allow companies to see their brand's presence and reputation inAI-driven environments, benchmark against competitors, and optimize their brand assets and messages specifically for how AI systems view them. This helps companies influence and improve the narrative AI models generate about their brand to better control brand perception and increase visibility in AI-assisted searches and recommendations. Tacmind’s tools give companies a strategic advantage in the evolving landscape where AI plays a significant role in shaping consumer decisions and brand discovery.
- Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
- Ezra AI Labs — Helping recruiting teams quickly screen and rank hundreds of applicants through customizable voice AI interviews.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $765k–$3.6M; Series A $7.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
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.
- ChatFeatured — ChatFeatured is a software platform that provides tools for tracking and managing how brands appear in AI search systems. It monitors brand mentions, sources, and visibility across AI platforms. The system analyzes data to identify gaps and content issues. It generates content plans and supports writing and publishing based on search data. Theplatform includes a dashboard that shows performance, citations, and sentiment. It provides site audits with scores and tasks for content and technical review. The service connects with content systems and tools to manage data and updates.
Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7.3M; Series A $6M–$40M; Series B $23M–$167M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jarsy — Pre-IPO Reimagined. Access + Research + Community.
- Collate — Collate is built on OpenMetadata, the open semantic context layer for AI. Automate data management in natural language and ground every AI agent in trusted data.
- Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
Tribune Capital is a venture capital firm located in Weyburn, SK.
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- Industry: Oil and Gas, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $557k–$1.9M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HP Capital — HP Capital is a private credit manager that specializes in asset-based lending solutions across a number of industries.
- Astara Energy Corp. — Astara Energy Corp. is an emerging, private junior oil and gas company with operations in Alberta.
- Complete Framing Solutions — Complete Framing Solutions specializes in designing, manufacturing, and supplying light steel framing systems.
Harlo Capital is a Toronto-based private equity company identifying and investing in real estate developments across Canada.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $402k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
- Kasheesh — Split any online payment across multiple cards. Use both debit and credit cards to split one payment. Pay with multiple cards on websites
- Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
We help market leaders take the guesswork out of growth and strategy by tackling the challenges of digital product development, management and innovation.
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- Industry: Art, Software, Open Source
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
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