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Top 30 Art VC Funds & Investors in Canada (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Canada Art startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Art startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Real Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $650k–$50M
Panache Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $717k–$20M
Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $10k–$5M
Front Row Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $18k–$4.1M
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
VC Fund
1 Canada, Norway, Denmark Grant, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $25k–$2M
boldstart ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1M–$67M
Tribune Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, SaaS, Software
Veritas Investment GmbH
VC Fund
1 Canada Convertible Note Art, Auctions, Software
Backbone Angels
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Bahamas Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
1 Portugal, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $110k–$2.1M
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
1 Canada, Spain, United States Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $366k–$3.1M
Triptyq Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Virtual Reality, Gaming
LDV Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $1.1M–$16M
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $603k–$16M
Google
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Grant, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$13M
Round13 Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Puerto Rico Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $951k–$19M
Portage Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$60M
Bedrock
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.8M–$100M
Schroders
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, India, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services $6.5M–$115M
Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Financial Services $125k–$18M
Corus Entertainment
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Art, Apps, Gaming
Harlo Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 Canada, Israel, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Sports, Machine Learning
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Content $1.4M–$255M
Garage Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$50M
Shaw Media
VC Fund
1 Canada Seed Art, Apps, E-Commerce
Accomplice
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Internet $1.8M–$50M
Nomad Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, Estonia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, SaaS $5.3M–$10M
Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Financial Services $535k–$15M
Innovate Calgary
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $73k–$1.9M
Density Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, Germany, United States Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data $15k–$1.3M
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Art startups

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 207
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $2.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Art startups

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.8M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.
  • Qohash — Track and secure high-risk files to reduce oversharing and accelerate GenAI adoption with Qohash
  • OnCall Health — Leading behavioral health EHR software and electronic healthcare record solutions built to modernize care, manage workflows and improve patient outcomes.
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Art startups

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pelcro — Pelcro is an all-in-one platform for businesses selling digital memberships, subscriptions, magazines, newspapers, and everything in between.
  • Serenity Power — Serenity Power is a developer of solid oxide fuel cell systems delivering low-emission, noise-free, multi-fuel clean energy for industries.
  • Tydra Laboratories — Tydra Labs is a biotechnology company that transforms crustacean shell waste into chitin and bio-products.
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National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $35k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Inception venture capital for Bold Technical Founders Building the Autonomous Enterprise

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 190
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Series A $7M–$31M; Series B $18M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $192M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Roadie — Roadie is the most customizable Internal Developer Portal with built-in best practices, automated workflows, actionable insights built on Backstage
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Tribune Capital
VC Fund · Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Tribune Capital is a venture capital firm located in Weyburn, SK.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Reach — Reach is the premier ecommerce payments partner connecting you to global consumers. Unlock the true power of in-country payment without the complexities.
  • Masterpiece Studio — The first complete VR 3D creative suite for indie creators. Access our suite of professional, intuitive and easy-to-use tools - for FREE!
  • Immigrate Software — Connect with global talent for Canadian employers. 99.5% approval rate. Learn more!
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Veritas Investment GmbH
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ceremonia — Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall.
  • Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
  • Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$658k
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • PLUTOS — We are here to make sure that your Puppy gets the best treat! PLUTOS were created specifically for dogs to have fun. Find out our dog healthy chews.
  • SCUBIC — SCUBIC is a developer of a cloud-based analytics platform. They were designed to help water utilities and industries improve the management of water supply systems. They combine water management, energy efficiency techniques, data science, hydraulics, and software engineering in order to deliver impactful solutions that improve systems andprocesses. They are specialized services that account for the energy usage in homes, service buildings, or industrial plants.
  • KeepIt Energy — KeepIt - KeepIt will place an energy storage technology on the market and thus contribute to a successful energy transition. This technology, which can potentially be used in different market segments, from home solar systems in developing countries to grid support in developed countries, will make an important contribution to harmonisingproduction and consumption in a world that runs on electricity produced entirely from renewable sources. KeepIt is a spin-off from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, stemming from the doctoral work in which its founding partners were involved.
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$3.1M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bounce — Bounce has reimagined how students get together and create experiences. An all in one platform that helps you organize, discover, and collect payments for events on your campus.
  • 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.
  • CubicSpace — CubicSpace is a startup that provides the most immersive 3D spatial media user experience possible for all users on all displays.
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LDV Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.6M; Series A $6.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dannce.ai — dannce.ai uses AI-driven 3D-aligned neural networks to automate behavioral analysis for faster, more accurate drug development and clinical care.
  • 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.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arteria AI — Arteria unlocks the power of your contracts by helping you to generate, negotiate and turn your executed contracts into data that allow you to diagnose problems, identify opportunities and drive value for your organization.
  • Augmenta Inc. — Design sustainable, code compliant and fully constructible buildings in hours.
  • CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Google
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$10M; Grant $50k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
  • Britto's Brainwaves — Britto's Brainwaves is a healthcare company that emerges as a beacon for those seeking in-depth medical insights.
  • Power Solutions Solar — Empresa especializada em limpeza e manutenções de usinas Solar, atendemos clientes que possuem usinas solares em todo Brasil, garantindo mais geração e mais retorno do investimento realizado pelos clientes. Elaboramos um pacote de manutenções anual, onde os clientes apenas agendam as datas e nossa equipe realiza todo serviço, zerando os custos commão de obra , compras de equipamentos, manutenções de equipamentos, treinamentos, EPI´S, EPC´S, aquisição de veículos e manutenções. Nossa equipe e equipamentos a disposição dos clientes nas datas certas.
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Round13 Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $951k–$8.7M; Series A $4.8M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mysa — Smart Thermostats for Central HVAC, Baseboard, Mini-Split & In-Floor
  • TITAN — Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token.
  • Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $6.6M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
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Bedrock
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $18M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $401M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$30M; Series B $31M–$61M; Series C $38M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Cyberhaven — DLP works for 1% of companies; fortunately there is Cyberhaven for the other 99%. Cyberhaven makes data protection simple, accurate, and comprehensive. With it's Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform, Cyberhaven automatically discovers and classifies data, provides continuous risk detection, delivers accurate blocking and incidentresponse, and improves user behavior.
  • PB Fintech — PB Fintech develops online platforms for insurance and lending products, primarily via Policybazaar and Paisabazaar.
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Dispatch Ventures
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Apps, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
  • 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
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Harlo Equity Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M; Series B $1.6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.
  • PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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Garage Capital
VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7M; Pre-Seed $800k–$3.6M; Series A $7.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoRecruit (formerly Quil) — Quil is the AI assistant helping recruiting agencies eliminate hours of busywork. Automate interview notes, ATS updates, candidate submittals & more.
  • Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
  • tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
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Shaw Media
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Art startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.2M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $405M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $535k–$2.5M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Stats across 39 deals from 54 investors.

54
investors
in Canada Art startups
39
deals
in Canada Art startups
$401k
median round
in Canada Art startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Grant
most common funding stage

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