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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Canada in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Canada in April 2025

Investor	Artificial intelligence Canada investments
Real Ventures	42
BDC Venture Capital	36
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	27
Inovia Capital	22
Anges Quebec	21
Panache Ventures	20
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	17
Ontario Centres of Excellence	17
Golden Ventures	17
Brightspark Ventures	15
N49P	14
Radical Ventures	14
Business Development Bank of Canada	13
Desjardins Venture Capital	13
Capital Angel Network	12
Innovacorp	11
Export Development Canada	10
Mistral Venture Partners	9
Garage Capital	9
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	8
VA Angels	8
Flying Fish Partners	8
Right Side Capital Management	7
Round13 Capital	7
Accelerate Fund	7
ScaleUP Ventures	7
Build Ventures	7
Business Development Bank of Canada	7
OMERS Ventures	7
StandUp Ventures	7
Hedgewood	7
Two Small Fish Ventures	7
Hustle Fund	7
Angel One Network	6
Maple Leaf Angels	6
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	6
WUTIF	6
Good News Ventures	6
Yaletown Partners	6
iGan Partners	6
Drive Capital	5
NAventures	5
Globalive	5
Fonds Innovexport	5
Sustainable Development Technology Canada	5
Horizons Ventures	5
SOSV	5
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	5
Amplify Capital	5
Hike Ventures	5

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Moselle — Automated inventory forecasting, purchasing, and planning for fast growing multi-channel brands.

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.
nue.io — Finally, an easy-to-manage, omni-channel RevOps platform designed to meet the needs of the modern business.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) — Hexoskin is the leader in Smart Clothing, Software & AI Data Analytics. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are clinically validated for continuous ECG, HRV, Respiratory, Activity, Sleep & Stress monitoring. The Hexoskin Smart Garments are used by sports scientists, healthcare, defense, aerospace & research professionals.
HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...

Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.

The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Deck — Open Data API accessing Energy, Water, Government and many more data verticals to power sustainability, credit check, accounting, bill payments and many more use-cases. Start building now with Deck's self-serve platform.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.

Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Optable — Data Collaboration - Data Clean Room Platform
Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Radical Ventures invests in the future of how we live, work and play, partnering with founders who understand the transformational power of AI.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Firsthand — Protect, control, & deploy your content across conversational campaigns that are powered by custom AI agents, and distributed anywhere your consumers are.

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Laserax — Laserax manufactures industrial laser machines and systems for specific applications in the automotive, primary metals, as well as other manufacturing markets.
Hyperlume — At Hyperlume, we are at the forefront of a new era in AI. Ultra-fast, low-power microLED-based interconnects are the future of connectivity.
Styx Intelligence — Styx Intelligence's digital risk protection platform helps organizations protect their brand, manage attack surface exposure, and reduce third party risk.

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
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.

Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VueReal — VueReal is making micro- and nano- technology a reality by developing and commercializing platforms that enable efficient, practical, and scalable production and integration of micro-and nano- devices.
Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
Mangrove Lithium — Mangrove Lithium is a ground-breaking refining platform that redefines the industry standard for battery grade lithium refining

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.
Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.

MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
Grey Matter Neurosciences — Grey Matter Neurosciences is a neurotechnology firm developing new medical devices and drug-device combinations to treat age-related brain illnesses like dementia.

VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

Investing in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
Variational AI — We are a team of AI/machine learning and business specialists using advanced generative AI for drug discovery. We collaborate closely with biopharmaceutical partners to develop new therapeutics across disease areas, aiming to positively impact lives.
Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
WOMBO — WOMBO is the world's best AI-powered lip sync app. Take a selfie, pick a song, and let WOMBO work its magic. Available for early access.
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.

Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PulseMedica — PulseMedica is developing a medical device to treat eye diseases that affect over 500 million people worldwide. Our device consists of a state-of-the-art 3D imaging and surgical platform that allows for comprehensive patient treatment.
Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
Care Group — Care Group is revolutionizing mental health with advanced AI and disruptive technologies, empowering individuals and communities by introducing scalable, user-friendly solutions that respect all users.

ScaleUP Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports creative entrepreneurs and assists with investments. It is focused on early-stage venture capital with a preference for Business-to-Business opportunities. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.

The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help.They’re based inHalifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

TrojAI — The Leading AI/ML Risk Management & Security platform for Enterprises.
Musical AI — Musical AI is a Rights Management Platform for AI. We bridge the gap between music rights holders and AI companies with apps that generate AI Music allowing rights holders to track artist attributions from AI generated tracks.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Canada, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
Laserax — Laserax manufactures industrial laser machines and systems for specific applications in the automotive, primary metals, as well as other manufacturing markets.
Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
Arize AI — Arize AI offers a platform that explains and troubleshoots production AI. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Berkeley, California.
Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.

StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in female-founded companies in the B2B software and digital health sector.The firm is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors, and other strategic mentors who willprovide high-touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from its network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Indiegraf — Indiegraf provides technology and services purpose-built for small and startup news publications. Get everything you need to grow your audience and multiple revenue streams - all in one place.
MaxRetail — Max Retail helps you sell unsold inventory to 80+ million end consumers, buy immediates on our exclusive retailer marketplace and more.
Mercator AI — Our mission is to give business developers more time to do what they do best, and support them with the insights they need to have informed and productive conversations. We mine and analyze millions of construction data points across the project lifecycle so that our customers can confidently find and qualify projects and partners faster.Mercator is used by Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Manufacturing companies to inform strategic and tactical decision making.Mercator AI is a privately held company that has recently closed a pre-seed round.

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

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Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Joyride — Make mobility instantly connected, keyless, shareable and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
Viggle AI — Viggle AI is a pioneering Canadian firm that uses artificial intelligence to enable people of all skill levels to easily create high-quality animated video using simple text instructions.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
Scout — Scout is a financial planning company that offers financial education, wealth management, and tax preparation services for athletes.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

Maple Leaf Angels are an experienced group of private investors looking for great entrepreneurs, great products and great companies. Bringing together investment, experience and knowledge, we help accelerate companies to become market leaders in their industry.We focus on four main investment areas as follows:- Information Technology- CleanTechnology- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials- Special Opportunities

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
EmergConnect — Emergconnect is creating the first ever digital 'front door' for patients seeking same day care.

BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
Swift Medical — Swift Medical is a digital wound care technology to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. From Capture to Claim: The world's most advanced and comprehensive wound care management software for the healthcare enterprise. Precise, consistent measurement, instant documentation and wound progression images with a smartphone.
Eigen Innovations — Eigen combines imaging and AI to detect issues traditional vision systems miss, revolutionizing quality inspection.

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Levr.ai — Levr.ai supercharges your team with easy to implement tools that increase conversion, save time and provide a better experience for everyone.
A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Polar Beer Taps — Polar Beer Taps Permafrost V3 system is leading the way in the future of portable beverage serving. They can provide reliable, high-quality commercial draft systems to any location, which elevates any event.

We invest in founders who are driven to push the limits of what is possible

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
Coinchange — Turn your crypto into more crypto with Coinchange, an easy to use bridge into DeFi for everyone. Earn up to 20% returns on your crypto annually.
Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.

Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
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.

iGan Partners is one of Canada's largest healthcare-focused venture capital firms, investing across North America. We provide capital and expertise to scale innovative healthcare solutions.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Okadoc — The quickest way to book from thousands of doctors, manage your appointments and attend video consultations. All online: healthcare in your hands.
Segmed — At Segmed, our platform Insight democratizes healthcare data. We work with data partners to ensure secured, anonymized medical data for AI developers.
RetiSpec — RetiSpec is a medical imaging company using advanced AI for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases through hyperspectral imaging of the eye.

Drive Capital is a venture capital firm in Columbus that invests in world-class founders building the next generation of market-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Droxi — Droxi is an AI-based platform that helps primary care physicians to reduce the amount of time spent on non-patient-facing tasks.
SymbyAI — SymbyAI automates peer review, replication, and analysis with AI, making high-quality scientific research painless.
Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.

We invest in startups and developing compagnies and support them every step of the way to ensure their success.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Maxa AI — Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions.
Synctera — Making it easier for community banks and FinTechs to find their perfect match and work together. Welcome to the new FinTech frontier.
Walnut Insurance — Insurance for everyone. Pick from transparent plans made for you.

Globalive fuels innovation by partnering with visionary entrepreneurs. Join our venture studio or explore funding opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pibox — Pibox is an all-in-one platform, where music production professionals manage, share, and refine audio. Perfect for project management, audio collaboration, collecting feedback, and seamless communication.
Appello — Streamline workforce management, health & safety compliance, and resource allocation for construction businesses with Appello.
Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.

Fonds Innovexport is an Investing Service that provides in targeting international markets to forge the Quebec of tomorrow.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Botpress — Botpress is a modern developer stack to build enterprise and open-source chatbots. Learn about our conversational AI platform built for developers.
AlayaCare — AlayaCare is a revolutionary cloud-based home care software platform for agencies looking for innovation and efficiencies across the entire agency.
CONTXTFUL Technologies — Contxtful is a patent pending AI-driven technology leverages sensors from mobile smart devices such as phones, tablets & smart watches to identify user intent and context. It's designed with privacy in mind to be compliant with GDPR so we don't need to request permission from users. No need for GPS, camera or microphone. CONTXTFULprovide attention, viewability and predictive marketing analysis, performance improvement and business intelligence on the environment context of any digital audience. Our technologies generates different strategic activities like audience engagement, segmentation, online marketing security and real-time marketing data insights and can be used in many industry, including Adtech, Martech, Insurance/Banking, Fintech, Video Streaming and Game Engines providers to gather better context aware intel about their audience and customers.Our solution is respect privacy, it’s real-time and always-on.

At Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), they fund Canadian cleantech projects and coach the companies that lead them as they move their ground-breaking technologies to market.SDTC’s support of cleantech translates into jobs, growth, and export opportunities for Canadian companies, as well as economic, environmental and healthbenefits for all Canadians. They are independent but don’t work alone. A big part of their role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad. They operate at arm’s length and receive funding from the Government of Canada.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Software
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
Marine Thinking — Marine Thinking is focused on redefining the marine industry through artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies. It gathers data from marine environments and fish farms using remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs and analyze it using artificial intelligence.

Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
Owlstone Medical — Owlstone Medical has developed a breathalyzer for disease. With a focus on non-invasive diagnostics for cancer, inflammatory disease, and infectious disease, the company aims to save 100,000 lives and $1.5B in healthcare costs.The company’s Breath Biopsy® platform has introduced a new diagnostic modality making it possible to discover novelnon-invasive biomarkers in breath using a platform with the potential to transition to point-of-care. The award-winning ReCIVA Breath Sampler ensures a reliable collection of breath samples. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the breath are analyzed using proven microchip chemical sensor technology (FAIMS) to detect biomarkers of disease.The Breath Biopsy platform can be used in clinical diagnostics and precision medicine with applications in cancer and a wide range of other medical conditions. Highly sensitive and selective, these tests allow for early diagnosis when treatments are more effective and more lives can be saved.Owlstone Medical is currently developing tests for lung and colorectal cancer, two of the most common cancer killers worldwide, and for asthma stratification by the therapeutic response. The company also Breath Biopsy products and services to academic, clinical, and pharma partners who want to develop breath-based diagnostics for their own applications.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

M12 are a venture capital fund, by Microsoft. Our investment teams are based globally to support your business from start up funding to Series C investment.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RAAPID INC — RAAPID INC's Neuro-Symbolic AI revolutionizes risk adjustment. Improve accuracy, reduce costs, and stay ahead of the curve in healthcare.
Nuon — Deploy your app into customer cloud accounts and make it feel like SaaS. Unlock sensitive customers and integrate with customer data, networks and LLMs in minutes.
Innovaccer — Innovaccer is a healthcare data activation company focused on delivering effective healthcare through the use of pioneering analytics and transparent data.Innovaccer aims to make full use of all the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect. Its Gartner and KLAS-recognized data activation platform and artificial intelligence products havebeen deployed all over the US across more than 500 locations, enabling over 10,000 providers to transform care delivery and work as one. Innovaccer's Data Activation Platform (DAP) TM has been successfully implemented for several institutions, governmental organizations, and several corporate enterprises such as Mercy ACO, Orlando Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, StratiFi Health, UniNet Healthcare Network, Catalyst Health Network, Hartford Healthcare, and Osler Health Network. Innovaccer is based in San Francisco and has 5 offices across the United States and Asia.

Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Lyteflo — Lyteflo provides electric vehicle (EV) sales tools.
ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

Hike Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CalmWave — Transparent AI for reducing alarm fatigue and nurse burnout. ICU noise reduction via tailored, patient-specific alarm configurations and data-based insights.
Nowadays — Nowadays acts as your in-house event planner, taking away the hassles of organizing while factoring in your company's unique tastes and needs.
Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.

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