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Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in September 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in September 2025

Investor Automotive Canada investments
BDC Venture Capital 8
Ontario Centres of Excellence 6
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation 5
Real Ventures 4
Active Impact Investments 3
Build Ventures 3
Fondaction 3
Capital Angel Network 3
Export Development Canada 3
Brightspark Ventures 3
Pallasite Ventures 2
Round13 Capital 2
IBI Group 2
Banana Capital 2
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund 2
WUTIF 2
S28 Capital 2
FedDev 2
OMERS Ventures 2
10x Group 2
Celtic House Venture Partners 2
Innovacorp 2
FundersClub 2
BrandProject 2
Business Development Bank of Canada 2
Radical Ventures 2
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund 2
SV Angel 2
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 2
NBIF’s Venture Capital Fund 2
VA Angels 1
Fonds de solidarité FTQ 1
Tech Square Ventures 1
Verizon Ventures 1
Airbus Ventures 1
Haystack 1
Natacor Inc. 1
Playground Global 1
FirePower Capital 1
Business Development Bank of Canada 1
Desjardins Venture Capital 1
General Motors Ventures 1
XPND Capital 1
EQT Ventures 1
SVB Financial Group 1
FundingBox Deep Tech Fund 1
SaaS Ventures 1
The Houssian Foundation 1
Silicon Valley Bank 1
Pacific Reach Properties 1
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BDC Venture Capital VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
  • Blumind — Blumind provides analog machine learning inferencing engines for edge smart sensors and smart devices.
  • 4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.
Ontario Centres of Excellence VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
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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.
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation VC Fund · Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Analytics
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Profitual — Profitual is an AI-powered financial modeling platform designed specifically for startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to simplify complex financial planning and forecasting. The platform aims to level the playing field for founders who may lack formal financial expertise, by providing intuitive tools to build, analyze, andcommunicate financial projections that are both compelling and investor-ready
  • AgroGene Solutions — AgroGene Solutions offers rapid and reliable lab testing for your beehives. We provide diagnostics and monitoring to help avoid colony losses. Order your test today and get a comprehensive hive health report within a few days.
  • Smart Skin Technologies — SmartSkin helps pharma and beverage manufacturers reduce breakage, optimize line efficiency, and achieve zero-defect operations.
Real Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
  • Nomic — The world's fastest & most seamless protein profiling service, with as fast as 1-week turnaround. Multiplexing without compromise.
  • BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
Active Impact Investments VC Fund · North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We support environmental resiliency through profitable investment. We provide capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures catalyzing the transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water & products.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Sustainability
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Rodatherm Energy — A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop
  • King Energy — King Energy enables commercial-scale solar at shopping centers and office buildings, bringing financial benefit to property owners
Build Ventures VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • 3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.
  • Tenera — Welcome to Tenera Care Tenera Care exists to help families live happier, healthier and safer lives. Our platform provides reliable, modern, real-time technology to senior living facilities to monitor and analyze the health patterns and activities that impact the safety of residents and staff, reducing risk and changing behaviours you have the
Fondaction VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • DimOnOff — Smart Control Solutions to Manage Connected Assets Smart Street Lighting Increase the sustainability of your street or commercial lighting infrastructure,
  • Mechasys — Project your construction plans on-site with the all-new FramR. Get unmatched accuracy and achieve laser speed layout.
  • Can-Explore inc — Founded in 2014, Can-Explore analyzes and disseminates urban, roadway and building infrastructure data. The company is committed to innovation and cutting-edge technology including artificial intelligence to excel in geomatics and structural and infrastructure inspection services. The Québec City-based company employs close to 70.
Capital Angel Network VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
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.
Export Development Canada VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 22 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • GHGSat — GHGSat’s mission is to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse gas (GHG), air quality gas, and other trace gas emissions from any source in the world.In June 2016, GHGSat launched the world’s first high-resolution satellite capable of measuring greenhouse gas (CO2 & CH4) emissions from any industrial facility in theworld. GHGSat is using this unique satellite and its patented technology to provide greenhouse gas emissions monitoring data and services globally,with better accuracy and at at a fraction of the cost of comparable alternatives. Owners of industrial facilities are now able to monitor all of their facilities, local or remote, anywhere in the world, with a common technology, in near-real-time. Significantly improved emissions information is enabling industries to better measure, control, and ultimately reduce emissions of GHGs.Building on lessons learned from its demonstration satellite, GHGSat launched its second satellite in Sept 2020 and a third is scheduled for Q1'21. Three more satellites are under construction for launch in early 2022. GHGSat also uses the same instrument technology from its satellites on aircraft, to provide complementary resolution and performance for customers in shale plays. GHGSat’s technology can also be used to monitor air quality gases, as well as other trace gases, in the atmosphere. Business cases are being developed for key markets, such as measuring SOx from ships.
  • Hydrostor — Hydrostor, a global leader in long-duration energy storage, pioneers technology to scale carbon reduction with a dedicated professional team.
  • Torngat Metals — We are a company dedicated to developing the Strange Lake rare earth project in northern Quebec. Through our commitment to drawing on best environmental
Brightspark Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jozu — Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments.
  • Brio — Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features
  • Coral — Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause and menopause.
Pallasite Ventures VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pallasite Ventures is an agile venture capital firm providing early-stage financing for high-growth companies across a variety of industries.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ionomr — Ionomr designs & manufactures advanced ion-exchange polymers & membranes that enable high performance and efficiency in applications like water & wastewater treatment, hydrogen production and advanced energy storage.
  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • Zeno Power — Clean, plug-and-play power, anywhere in the universe.
Round13 Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
  • 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.
IBI Group VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
IBI Group is a global architecture, engineering, planning, and technology firm defining the cities of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
  • Software, CleanTech, Automotive
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • SWTCH — SWTCH provides electric vehicle charging & energy management solutions for businesses and individuals.
Banana Capital VC Fund · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Banana Capital is an early stage investment firm
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BinStar — BinStar is New England's newest bargain store. Discover deals on overstock and returned merchandise from your favorite brands and retailers.
  • Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
  • Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • nEYE Systems — NEye Systems develops programmable photonic integrated circuits that integrate high-radix optical circuit switching on silicon chips. These optical switches aim to address challenges in AI and machine learning systems by reducing power requirements and facilitating network expansion. The company's technology, based on over a decade of researchfrom Professor Ming Wu's lab at UC Berkeley, utilizes MEMS-based silicon photonics to create wafer-scale optical circuit switches. These switches are designed to provide direct optical connections among GPUs and memory units, potentially enhancing performance and scalability in data centers. NEye Systems has secured funding from investors, including CapitalG, M12, Micron Ventures, and NVIDIA.​
  • Upscale — Upscale your brand with AI-powered video ads that generate, target, and optimize for real performance on TV and digital platforms.
  • Eventual — Eventual is tackling one of the hardest infrastructure problems in AI: making multimodal data (images, video, audio) as easy to process as SQL tables. While every company races to build AI applications, they're stuck forcing tools designed for bank transactions to handle petabytes of video and images. Our platform eliminates months ofinfrastructure work, letting developers query massive multimodal datasets with simple Python scripts that automatically scale. Built on our open-source Daft engine, we deliver 10x performance improvements and handle all the messy realities of production AI workloads—from out-of-memory errors to flaky API calls. We're already processing petabytes daily at companies like Amazon, Together AI, and CloudKitchens, powering everything from autonomous vehicles to foundation model training
WUTIF VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
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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.
S28 Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
S28 Capital is a venture fund based in San Francisco, run by operators and entrepreneurs who are helping the next generation of founders build their companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
  • Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes.  After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind.  It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
  • Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
FedDev VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 10 investments in the past 12 months
FedDev Ontario aids the southern Ontario economy by supporting innovation, commercialization, business growth, productivity, and communities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Universal Seal — Is a professional manufacturer & exporter of polyurethane hydraulic seals and SPECIAL URETHANE products.
  • DMZ — The DMZ at Ryerson University is a business incubator for tech startups in Canada. It helps startups build businesses by connecting it with customers, capital, experts, and a community of entrepreneurs and influencers. This means creating an environment where people can focus on scaling businesses.The DMZ at Ryerson University was founded on 2010and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
  • PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise — PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise provides regular workshops, conferences, and events to support personal and professional development. They provide business support including access to funding for women entrepreneurs living. Their customers communicate via phone, address, and online applications.
OMERS Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months
OMERS Ventures is an early-stage tech investor serving fintech, vertical software, enterprise app and AI/infra founders.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Octaura — Octaura, an industry-led electronic trading, data and analytics solution for syndicated loans.
  • Crux — The ecosystem for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact & manage transferable tax credits.
  • Group14 Technologies — Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer thecost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future.
10x Group VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany
10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
  • finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Celtic House Venture Partners VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
  • FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
  • Raven Connected — Raven Connected - The connected dash camera for every need. The single device with all of the tools necessary to safeguard your vehicle and those in it. Gain peace of mind and freedom to focus on what's important to you, knowing Raven will call if there's any sign of trouble.
Innovacorp VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
FundersClub VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AthenaHQ — AthenaHQ is the one-stop-shop for marketers for everything AI Search.
  • Sorcerer — Sorcerer builds weather balloons that fly for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar and reaching previously inaccessible regions
  • Airweave — Airweave transforms content into searchable knowledge bases for agents to search user apps by connecting productivity tools and databases.
BrandProject VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round.BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly,Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products..Find out more at www.brandproject.com
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  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
  • Great Many — Explore non-surgical PRP hair restoration and hair loss treatments at Great Many. Shop hair growth products or book a consultation at our NYC clinic.
  • The Gleamery — The Gleamery is a health and wellness startup that focuses on professional-grade, expeditious teeth whitening, and cleaning.
Business Development Bank of Canada VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
  • LSL Pharma Group — LSL Pharma Group is a manufacturing company that innovates and manufactures life sciences products. Formed to integrate the operations of its Canadian subsidiaries, each boasting over two decades of expertise, LSL Pharma Group excels as a niche manufacturer in the life science industry. The company offers turnkey formulation, development andmanufacturing services.
  • Conquest Planning — Conquest Planning is a FinTech company that is developing an innovative solution for the financial services industry.
  • Highwood Asset Management — Highwood Asset Management is an asset management company that manages oil production and oil midstream spaces.
Radical Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Radical Ventures invests in the future of how we live, work and play, partnering with founders who understand the transformational power of AI.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • OffDeal — OffDeal is building an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. We use custom AI agents and big data to screen thousands of SMBs each day, matching buyers with the perfect acquisition target in days instead of months. Unlike legacy M&A advisors, we can search for targets for hundreds of buyers concurrently, 24/7.
  • Emerald AI — Emerald AI creates a platform that enables AI data centers to adjust power consumption from electricity grids dynamically. This system orchestrates computing loads across data centers to bolster grid reliability. The technology aims to advance AI innovation while ensuring power affordability and electric system stability.
  • Slingshot AI — Slingshot AI is a mental health research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental health care more accessible, and to help people change their minds and lives the way they want to.
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • 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.
  • Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
SV Angel VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 29 investments in the past 12 months
SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
  • TravoAI — Mobile app for annotating PDF worksheets with real-time AI tutoring. Made by Stanford students.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 10 investments in the past 12 months
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians,we are building a stronger economy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
  • Canada, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Liveable Cities — Liveable Cities produces smart LED lighting manufactured in Canada. Intelligent LED street lighting systems are being used across Canada and throughout the world. Contact us to learn more about our smart street lighting and city sensor systems, available internationally.
  • Oberland Agriscience — We deliver premium feed ingredients for poultry, pets and plants, making the BSFL a natural and sustainable solution to a resilient feed-secure future.
  • EcoMarine Technologies — EcoMarine Technologies prevents invasive species and offers an efficient and effective in-water cleaning solution.
NBIF’s Venture Capital Fund VC Fund · Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Our Venture Capital Fund provides New Brunswick start-ups with the seed investment they need to rapidly grow and delivery their products to customers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • CareerBeacon — Find new job opportunities across Canada on CareerBeacon. Browse through thousands of job openings from leading employers. Find your ideal fit today.
  • Sonrai Security — Sonrai Security delivers an enterprise security platform for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. The Sonrai Dig platform is built on a sophisticated graph that identifies and monitors every possible relationship between identities and data that exists inside an organization’s public cloud. Dig’s Governance Automation Engine automatesworkflow, remediation, and prevention capabilities across cloud and security teams to ensure end-to-end security.
  • Drinkable — At Drinkable we're passionate about water autonomy. We believe everyone has the right to know what's in their water, so they have the agency to manage their own risks. We've harnessed that passion into the worlds first effortless, affordable, and accurate handheld testing device, that detects drinking water contamination with thepress of a button. With a simple thumbs up/down display you'll know within seconds if your water requires further attention. You can pair our device with your smart phone to receive an expanded contamination report, risk profile, and a treatment plan that's tailored just for you.
VA Angels VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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.
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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
Fonds de solidarité FTQ VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession,financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.
  • Rustica Foods — Rustica Foods is a family-run business that has become an industry leader in the production of authentic Italian products, but our story began long before that. Their name is recognized for our distinguished pizzas, frozen pizzas, and focaccias. Rustica Foods serves four principal market segments.
  • TTI Air Conditioning Heating — TTI Air Conditioning Heating is a wholesaler of air conditioning and heating products for photovoltaic solar panels and central heat pumps.
Tech Square Ventures VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Tech Square Ventures invest in innovative technology startups that have the potential to transform their markets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Saleo — Saleo is the #1 sales demo experience platform helping software companies create incredible demos, that are data complete, directly within their live SaaS product. We help revenue teams shorten their sales cycle, increase win rates and close more deals by removing the burden of missing data, outdated demo environments and time consuming demo prep.Saleo provides complete control over every element on the page - graphs, metrics, tables, text, images & icons, enabling you to create the perfect software demo that connects directly to your customer's pain points and lands exactly the way you want. Customize new demos in minutes that turn more deals into “closed won.”
  • Veckta — VECKTA is the Energy Transition Market Platform. VECKTA integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. VECKTA empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energysituation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability and/or emissions) and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably.
  • Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
Verizon Ventures VC Fund · Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Shop Verizon smartphone deals and wireless plans on the largest 4G LTE network. First to 5G. Get Fios for the fastest internet, TV and phone service.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TileDB — TileDB is the foundational database designed for scientific discovery. Powered by shape-shifting arrays, TileDB resolves the complexity of multimodal data like population genomics, proteomics, single-cell and bioimaging so scientists and data teams can effectively glean biologically meaningful insights that drive drug and target discovery.
  • Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.
  • Origin AI — Origin's AI WiFi Sensing technology and products provide a solution to keeping homes safe and secure, while maintaining privacy and comfort. Home, health and automotive. Learn more today.
Airbus Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Operating in service of deeptech entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, France, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
  • Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
  • Eureka Robotics — Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.
Haystack VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Haystack VC partners with innovative software and tech startups. We invest $500K-$2M in initial rounds, leading or participating. Discover how our decade of experience can fuel your startup's growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
  • Pangram Labs — The most accurate technology to detect AI-generated content. Detects ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, Claude, and more. Supports 20+ languages with 99.98%+ accuracy.
  • Astrix Health — Plug and play AI agents for healthcare organizations.
Natacor Inc. VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Natacor Inc. is a firm that provides financial and business advising as well as capital investments.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Angel, Seed
  • Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Viafoura — Viafoura is the leading audience engagement and community platform trusted by over 800 global media brands. Boost loyalty, grow revenue and activate first-party data.
  • Nicoya Lifesciences — Get binding kinetics & affinity data on your benchtop. 600+ innovative researchers worldwide are using OpenSPR to publish faster.
  • Vida Fresh Air — Vita Fresh Air Corp has developed and is set to commercialize a new catalytic converter technology, the Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC), which aims to lower emissions, lower fuel consumption, and lower equipment costs. Vida’s mission is to develop automotive products that genuinely improve engine performance and emission control in anethical, economical and sustainable manner.
Playground Global VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Playground is an early-stage investment firm that helps old and new investors and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of bits, atoms, and AI. It focuses on investment, innovation, connected hardware, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Playground was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomic AI — AI-driven RNA drug discovery, with atomic precision
  • Robust.AI — Robust.AI: Creating a New Foundation for the Future of Robotics
  • Outpace Bio — Outpace Bio is a biotechnology company that creates smart cell therapies aimed at improving efficacy and safety.It offers a platform that combines custom-designed biological functions with cellular control modalities that program the right response at the right time and place. It creates a mechanism-driven solution tailor-made to improve efficacyand safety. The company collaborates with Lyell Immunopharma to develop and commercialize a potential immune cell therapy for the treatment of cancer, auto-immune diseases, infectious diseases, degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, metabolic disorders, and genetic disorders, enabling healthcare providers to cure a wide range of diseases as per patient's need.
FirePower Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Navigating critical business
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Analytics
  • Debt Financing, Private Equity, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • CheckSammy — CheckSammy offers same-day, nationwide on-demand junk and bulk waste removal plus Sustainabillity, Power Washing and Open Top Dumpster services
  • Shiny Health & Wellness — Shiny Health & Wellness helps people never settle, and live fully by being a trusted source for health and wellness solutions and services.
  • Spearhead Corporate Development — The luxury of choice for acquisitive strategics and private equity firms
Business Development Bank of Canada VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
  • LSL Pharma Group — LSL Pharma Group is a manufacturing company that innovates and manufactures life sciences products. Formed to integrate the operations of its Canadian subsidiaries, each boasting over two decades of expertise, LSL Pharma Group excels as a niche manufacturer in the life science industry. The company offers turnkey formulation, development andmanufacturing services.
  • Conquest Planning — Conquest Planning is a FinTech company that is developing an innovative solution for the financial services industry.
  • Highwood Asset Management — Highwood Asset Management is an asset management company that manages oil production and oil midstream spaces.
Desjardins Venture Capital VC Fund · Lévis, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cegerco — Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc.
  • Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
  • Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
General Motors Ventures VC Fund · Warren, Michigan, United States
GM Ventures combines investing in automotive-related tech startups with General Motors support to drive innovation and advance the future of mobility.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Software, Energy
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Nanoramic Laboratories — Established in 2016 to extend the use of nanomaterials into new markets, Nanoramic® Laboratories is the exclusive designer, manufacturer, and licenser of Neocarbonix™ electrodes, Fastcap® Ultracapacitors and Thermexit™ thermal interface gap filler pads. Nanoramic was born from the research and development of world record high temperatureultracapacitor technology funded by NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense. Now Nanoramic is commercializing this technology to revolutionize growing industries like electric vehicle batteries and consumer and industrial electronics.Nanoramic’s predecessor, FastCAP Systems (now FastCap Ultracapacitors), was founded in 2009 by two PhDs from MIT. The company received sizable government grants leading to the development of the only ultracapacitors capable of operating in temperatures up to 150°C and under conditions of high shock and vibration. The FastCap Ultracapacitors family of products has since expanded to include wide temperature range lithium-ion capacitors, structural ultracapacitors, and the only reflowable, low ESR, slim profile ultracapacitor on the market. The hard work required to develop energy st orage for such extreme environments drove our engineers to develop Neocarbonix, an electrode platform for rechargeable Li-ion batteries, Li-ion capacitors, and supercapacitors that would outperform all competitors.In addition to Neocarbonix and FastCap Ultracapacitors, the Nanoramic product family includes Thermexit. Thermexit is a line of high-end thermal interface gap filler pads. Thermexit gap fillers are a non-reactive, non-silicon, no cure system featuring high thermal conductivity and high thermal stability. Our culture of transparency, empowerment, disciplined thinking, and experimentation is what drives us to build world-class technology
  • Silverfort — Silverfort offers a revolutionary agentless and proxyless authentication platform for enterprises. It extends Multi-Factor Authentication, Risk-Based Authentication and Zero Trust policies in a unified, AI-driven manner across all corporate users, devices and systems, both on-premise and in the cloud, without requiring any modifications toendpoints and servers. That includes systems that couldn't be protected before, such as homegrown applications, legacy systems, IT/OT infrastructure, file shares, command-line tools, machine-to-machine access (service accounts) and more. Silverfort allows companies to detect and prevent identity based attacks (including account compromise, lateral movement, brute force, password spraying and more), achieve compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, NIST and HIPAA, and securely migrate servers and applications to the cloud without modifying them.
  • Addionics — Addionics creates the next generation of rechargeable batteries by using smart 3D structures to improve battery performances
XPND Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
As a growth equity investor, They seek out exceptional companies and talented entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their development in new markets or new geographies through internal growth and acquisitions.
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Investment focus
  • Railroad, Automotive, Blockchain
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Taxelco — Taxelco is to consolidate the interests of the taxi industry to the benefit of its stakeholders and for the citizens of Montreal. With this approach, we can ensure that the economic and social benefits derived from the use of fully electric vehicles, the creation of operational synergies and the efficient use of information technologies will remainin the hands of its constituents. A collaborative and supervised pilot project will start in November 2015 with 50 electric vehicles driving around Montreal. The objective of this project is to optimize the performance of electric vehicles operating as taxis and in Montreal's rigorous weather conditions. This ambitious project will help position Montreal as a green, avant-garde city where public transports are a means to responsible economic and social development, echoing the unique, cultural and innovative personality of its citizens.
  • Gora — Goracle is a oracle network built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to bring real world data to smart contracts.
EQT Ventures VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 22 investments in the past 12 months
EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
SVB Financial Group VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States
Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Hive Wealth — Hive Wealth is a community-first mobile app that helps people grow their wealth and leave a legacy for future generations.
  • Flushing Bank — Flushing Bank is a New York State chartered stock commercial bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The Bank serves consumers, businesses, and public entities by offering a full complement of deposit, loan, and cash management services through its 17 banking offices located in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Nassau County. TheBank also operates an online banking division, iGObanking.com®, which offers competitively priced deposit products to consumers nationwide.
  • Bright Machines — Bright Machines is a manufacturing startup that aims to eliminate manual labor from manufacturing electronic devices by combining robots and new software. Its software-defined manufacturing platform helps customers innovate faster to meet the growing demands of a new era of manufacturing.The company was founded by former Autodesk executive, ArmarHanspal, in 2018.
FundingBox Deep Tech Fund VC Fund · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
FundingBox Deep Tech Fund provides funding to companies from the technology industry. It offers investment to early-stage organizations. FundingBox Deep Tech Fund was founded in 2020 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Poland, Canada, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Aleet — Aleet has developed sophisticated systems encompassing proprietary digital twin technology for strategic fleet operational planning and advanced AI-driven routing optimization. It serves sectors such as fleet operators, e-commerce, food delivery, civil services, defense, and more.
  • SilkPLM — Managing a collection of products is a collaborative effort - which is why a single platform to manage the process, such as SilkPLM, is key to success. See for yourself!
  • TrustLynx — TrustLynx is a software solution that provides convenient and accessible tools to integrate electronic signing in daily operations of any organisation.
SaaS Ventures VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
SaaS Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in visionary B2B SaaS founders at the earliest stages and alongside proven winners at the later stages by utilizing unused pro-rata rights.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Finofo — Finofo allows you to send and receive money globally, convert currencies, and automate your accounts payables - all from one place.
  • KredosAI — Our human centered AI platform drives real engagement with consumers leading to positive payment outcomes for enterprises.
  • Qualytics — Helping enterprises proactively manage their full data quality lifecycle through contextual data quality checks, anomaly detection and remediation.
The Houssian Foundation VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Houssian Foundation leverages philanthropic giving, impact investing, and movement-building to promote environmental protection, gender justice, and resilient communities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, CleanTech, Insurance
  • Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • SWTCH — SWTCH provides electric vehicle charging & energy management solutions for businesses and individuals.
  • Virtual Gurus — Our virtual assistants provide superhero admin support to help busy organizations accomplish more. Find out today how our assistants in Canada and the United States can help you.
Silicon Valley Bank VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 26 investments in the past 12 months
Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • UpEquity — UpEquity is a tech-enabled lender that is changing the mortgage process for the better. With UpEquity you can make an all-cash offer at zero cost!
  • Lantronix — IoT building blocks & gateways, cloud-based device management, automated downtime managers: Lantronix IoT products and services help you connect smart!
  • Terra CO2 Technologies — We offer innovative solutions to decarbonize cement.
Pacific Reach Properties VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pacific Reach is a diversified investment firm that investments in real estate, hospitality, healthcare, and technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Hotel, Leisure
  • Series A, Private Equity, Corporate Round
  • Canada, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • SWTCH — SWTCH provides electric vehicle charging & energy management solutions for businesses and individuals.
  • BookJane — Fill open and last-minute shifts with your internal staff and see immediate results with BookJane!
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna — The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna is a casual yet luxurious retreat offering contemporary amenities, farm-to-table dining, and spa treatments. It offers a holistic 21st-century guest experience, this is where legendary service and imagination are innate.
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