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Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in B2b startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	B2B Canada investments
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	5
BDC Venture Capital	5
Two Small Fish Ventures	3
1517 Fund	3
OMERS Ventures	3
Angel One Network	3
Anges Quebec	2
Brightspark Ventures	2
Garage Capital	2
Concrete Ventures	2
Georgian Angel Network	2
Killick Capital	2
Innovacorp	2
Right Side Capital Management	2
TIMIA Capital	2
FundersClub	2
Vanedge Capital	2
Active Impact Investments	2
Real Ventures	2
Connetic Ventures	2
Rhino Ventures	2
Stacked Capital	2
Jonathan Ehrlich	2
Ryan Holmes	2
E-Fund	2
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	2
Powerhouse Ventures	2
Hello Ventures	2
Lachy Groom	2
Panache Ventures	2
Adapt Ventures	2
Canso Investment Counsel	1
Jim Newton	1
Bradford Woloson	1
Jerry Grandey	1
Futurpreneur	1
Daniel Wolfson	1
James Appleyard	1
Hedgewood	1
Andrea Baronchelli	1
Malcolm Leggett	1
Chris Adams	1
Kensington Capital Partners Limited	1
Alexandra Nestertchouk	1
Base10 Partners	1
Wells Fargo	1
GoAhead Ventures	1
Jackson Square Ventures	1
Keiretsu Forum Northwest	1
Bearing Capital	1

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tali AI — You can use Tali AI to dictate your medical notes directly into your Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. Additionally, this extension will enable you to look up information from evidence-based medical databases at the point-of-care without needing to leave the EMR.
AmacaThera — Amacathera is developing an injectable hydrogel platform to provide localized, sustained drug delivery
Sibli — Institutional investors leverage our technology to secure an information advantage, reduce blind spots, and improve performance.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We are an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the next frontier of computing and its applications.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
Joyride — Make mobility instantly shareable, connected, keyless and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

1517 Fund is an early stage venture capital fund that supports teams led by dropouts, deep-tech scientists & founders working outside of tracked institutions.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Trilobio — Trilobio was created to improve synthetic biology and life science research processes by building robotic lab automation modules coupled with an "app store" to package and distribute lab protocols as code. The goal is to deploy fully automated labs that dramatically improve data quality and reproducibility.
Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Integrated Dynamics — turning food waste into green hydrogen with extremophile archaea

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Solink — What is Solink? Solink is a cloud-based video security and loss prevention system. Gain complete visibility into your business, with a powerful platform
Deep Sky — Deep Sky is building infrastructure to scale CO2 removal. Deep Sky will remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground, back where it belongs. A new benchmark for Scope 3 Emissions: durable, scalable, and inherently measurable and verifiable.
Redwood Materials — Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.

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Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Deep Sky — Deep Sky is building infrastructure to scale CO2 removal. Deep Sky will remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground, back where it belongs. A new benchmark for Scope 3 Emissions: durable, scalable, and inherently measurable and verifiable.
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.
Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Concrete Ventures finds great ideas and founders in Atlantic Canada that are ready to build massively scalable businesses and work with them to grow their businesses.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
Shoelace Learning — Shoelace Learning is the create games that instil a love for reading.

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Investment focus

Health Care, B2B, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Neurovine — Connecting concussion patients with their own brain data so they can take control of their recovery. Click to learn more!
CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.

Killick Capital is a leading Atlantic Canadian private equity firm, dedicated to partnering with Atlantic Canadian businesses and Aerospace businesses. Our team of professionals work closely with portfolio companies to maximize success.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mysa — Control your electric heating and cooling with Mysa Smart Thermostats. Use the mobile app to control remotely - Save energy and money with smart home features.
Frenter — Helping equipment rental businesses manage their day-to-day operations so they can focus on growing their business in-person and online. Request a Demo today
Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.

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.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
Precision Compounding — Precision Compounding compounds customized medications to meet the specific needs of patients and their pets. They benefit patients by providing formulations customized for dosage, taste, and ingredients. Their services include proscripts, concierge pick-up options, and professional delivery. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contactform, and email.

TIMIA Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing growth capital to B2B and SaaS companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

EnergyWatch — Sustainability and energy data management are fully integrated to track all energy, water, waste, and emissions data on your journey towards net-zero emissions.
Agentis — Agentis is a Chicago-based technology company revolutionizing the way utilities engage and empower businesses to manage energy usage, saving money and increasing competitive advantage.Agentis is driven by the belief that utilities hold valuable data that can catalyze a new energy future. The success of the Agentis platform is driven by ourunderstanding of the unique voice and needs of the utility customer managing complex energy challenges. Our employees are united through their ability to transform these challenges into a solution while working in a fun and dynamic environment.
Lasso MD — Elevate your dental practice with Lasso MD's all-in-one marketing and software solutions. From lead generation to patient scheduling, we've got you covered.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Govly — Govly is building a market network for government contracting, like AngelList for government procurement.
Quindar — Satellite Mission Management for startups. Operate faster than your competition.
Zerobroker — Zerobroker is building the best logistics system to empower businesses globally to automate their supply chain processes and ship all their products broker-free. The company was founded by Georgy Melkonyan and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vanedge Capital is a venture capital firm which invests in the enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, security, digital media and cloud computing sectors. The firm targets companies that are post-revenue with a fast-growing user base and have demonstrated product market fit.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Olyns — Integrated hardware and software enabling a new paradigm for funding and collections of recycled plastic.
Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
Bonsai Micro — Bonsai Micro operates as a fabless semiconductor company that develops essential network infrastructure for future wireless networks.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, CleanTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Optiwatt — Optiwatt integrates your exact electricity rates so you can save on EV charging and HVAC. Automatically use electricity off-peak and earn rebates in utility programs.
Metafold 3D — Metafold 3D is a Toronto-based B2B SaaS startup that drives new applications for industrial 3D printing through our cloud-based Design for Additive Manufacturing software. Our lattice technology help engineers achieve reductions of up to 85% in the amount of material required for products in aerospace, medical, automotive and consumer goods. Wealso help them bring those products to market faster by dramatically reducing the preprocessing required for additive manufacturing.
Othersphere — Othersphere identifies the most profitable and sustainable locations for deployment of zero / low greenhouse gas industrial technologies, with initial focus on hydrogen. Utilizing a breakthrough software platform which tightly integrates energy systems models and geospatial data, Othersphere will ac

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies.The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures wasfounded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Scription — Scription offers maintenance companies the only end-to-end solution for pricing, selling, and managing personalized maintenance contracts.
Cloverleaf.me — Cloverleaf helps build great work teams and improve employee engagement using assessments like Enneagram, DISC and 16-Types to identify team strengths and coach work teams to work better together.
SupportPay — The ultimate app for financial caregiving Manage your caregiving expenses, schedules, communications, and more! Save Time & Reduce Financial Conflicts

There is more to choosing an investor than selecting the term sheet with the highest valuation. Strategic capital, in its true form, extends the founding team’s capacity. That’s what we do at Rhino. We invest in companies where we can add tangible value. We’ve been on the other side of the table and appreciate the importance of funder and founderalignment. From startup, growth to exit; it is entrepreneurial ambition that drives value, not venture capitalists. We invest in individuals; trust and values fit are a centerpiece in every investment.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, Isle of Man, United States

Portfolio highlights

Super Advisor — Super Advisor helps Advisors gain independence with the best advisor and client experience in the industry. Use our automations to streamline your business and give your top-tier service to every single client.
Twig Fertility — Every nest starts with a twig. We are the next generation of fertility care.
Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.

Stacked Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in various technology companies. The firm utilizing a systematic approach for screening and sourcing investment opportunities, including venture accelerators, incubators, seed funds, as well as direct investments. It uses a strict systemic approach to evaluate ventures for strong businessfundamentals and a path to profitability.Stacked Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Avvir — Avvir harnesses the power of reality capture data by automating progress and earned value tracking, quality control, and as-built creations.
Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
HAAS Alert — HAAS Alert’s mission is to build lifesaving mobility solutions to make vehicles and roads safer and smarter. Our vision is a connected, collision-free world where everyone gets home safely. HAAS Alert’s Safety Cloud service sends real-time digital alerts to drivers, connected cars, and autonomous vehicles via vehicle dashboards and infotainmentsystems, navigation applications, and smartphones to aid drivers earlier in making safer, smarter driving decisions.

Jonathan is a Venture Partner at Foundation Capital.Jonathan joined Foundation Capital as an EIR in January, 2013. Prior to Foundation, Jonathan co-founded Utah Street Labs, a Foundation portfolio company. Mr. Ehrlich was previously the Director of Marketing at Facebook. From November 2003 until 2007 he was the Executive Vice-President, Onlineat Indigo Books & Music Inc. (TSE: IDG), Canada's largest book retailer, where he was responsible for that company's Online business. Prior to joining Indigo, Mr. Ehrlich was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mosaic Venture Partners and before that was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for MobShop Inc, a pioneer in Online eCommerce. MobShop was funded by GE Capital, Visa International, Mayfield Fund and Marc Andreessen. His previous business experience also includes several years at CYBERplex interactive media and MacLaren McCann advertising.He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Klue — Klue is a competitive intelligence platform that enables product marketers to collect, curate, and deliver competitive intelligence across every department of every business.
Properly — Properly is your hassle-free partner to buy and sell homes in Canada.
Luxury Presence — Luxury Presence helps realtors thrive online with beautiful, award winning real estate agent websites and marketing. Trusted by 20+ of the WSJ Top 100 agents.

Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.

The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities.The E-Fund involvesspecific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Frontly — Turn your Google Sheets into modern dashboards and internal business tools in minutes.
Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.

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, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
Victory Advanced Technologies — Victory Advanced Technologies offers the development and manufacturing of electric motors and drive systems to clean the mobility supply chain by producing powertrain components in a sustainable way.

Powerhouse Ventures backs entrepreneurs building the digital infrastructure for rapid decarbonization.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Solar
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tyba — Tyba provides end-to-end modeling of standalone and hybrid storage projects from early-stage development through operations, giving your business the edge to build and operate the best projects faster and more profitably.
Rock Rabbit — We make the rebate process quick, accurate, and efficient so contractors and homeowners can focus on their projects.
Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. We are the leading provider of energy certificate management software for utilities, helping to streamline certificate managment processes and enabling utilities to launch next-generation green offers, including transparency down to the hourly level.

Hello Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Skygauge — The Skygauge takes ultrasonic testing to the skies. Conduct faster, safer industrial asset inspections by drone.
Qohash — Qohash provides modern data solutions with a focus on data discovery, classification, and integrity assurance. Its core solution, the Qostodian data security platform, monitors data across the enterprise, and implements an integrity assurance regime to protect your most precious data and business process.
Hidden Bands — We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way.

Lachy Groom

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Early-stage venture capital firm with a global mandate

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.
Niko Energy — Niko is a Mexico-based provider of residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners. It is the first solar company in the country offering rent-to-own financing products on top leasing and cash payments. Fully focused on customer experience, Niko provides a 5-star journey owning each step of the value chain in-house, ensuringquality, security and peace of mind for its customers.

Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. was founded in 1997. Their business is the fundamental valuation of financial securities and the management of investment portfolios.Canso is a private company that is owned by its investment professionals.Their offices are in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. They are registered as a Portfolio Manager with allten Canadian provinces.They are a member of the Portfolio Management Association of Canada.Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. claims compliance with the CFA Institute Asset Manager Code of Professional Conduct. This claim has not been verified by CFA Institute.They comply with the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct and Standards of Practice of the CFA Institute.They comply with National Instrument 24-101 Trade Matching and Settlement.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Retail
Series A, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hubba — Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers. It also serves as a commerce network designed to empower independent companies to connect on business opportunities to grow their business.Hubba allows buyers to discover new products to meet their customer demands. Throughthis, brands get increased distribution for their products. Currently, Hubba powers over 75,000 small-medium businesses.It was founded in January 2011 and is based in Toronto, ON.
Wattpad — Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.

Jim Newton is a General Manager at CN.

Investment focus

B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.

Bradford Woloson

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nudge.ai — Affinity is the most powerful relationship intelligence platform enabling teams to leverage their network to close the next big deal. Using patented technology, Affinity manages your relationships by auto-populating your CRM pipeline and unlocking introductions to decision makers.
v2 Ventures — v2 Ventures (formerly known as Adknowledge) specializes in partnering with remarkable founders with fresh perspectives and unparalleled passion, from the first concept through all stages of growth. We make long-range commitments to our senior leadership and the companies they run. We seek to recognize entrepreneurs as people first, appreciatingtheir ingenuity while playing to their strengths.v2 Ventures understands that success doesn't have a blueprint. It can’t be pigeonholed or stereotyped. It is our continued responsibility to support our leaders with trusted and valuable insights as they nurture their initial concepts into amazing, enduring companies.Current portfolio companies include Pushly, Sellozo, AdParlor, Giant Media, ReachMobi, and Amply and can be seen at https://www.v2.ventures/portfolio.
CouponCabin — CouponCabin is a leading provider of online, printable and grocery coupons for more than 3,000 merchants.The team at CouponCabin rigorously tests its coupons up to three times a week to ensure they work every time and recently launched the CouponCabin Guarantee. If a guaranteed offer doesn't work, CouponCabin will buy you dinner in theform of a $25 gift certificate to Restaurant.com.CouponCabin.com does not require registration, but users can opt in to a daily newsletter of featured offers, or sign up for alerts to receive an email notification when new coupons are added for selected merchants. CouponCabin also offers a toolbar for download to automatically notify you of available offers while you shop online.

Jerry Grandey is a former president and CEO of uranium producer Cameco Corporation.

Investment focus

B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.

If you want to start a business in Canada, Futurepreneur will give mentorship, financing, and resources. Learn about our impact across Canada.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Child Care
Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Periculum — An Alternate Credit Assessment Solution for Underserved Markets
NONA Vegan — Italian plant-based sauces that bring everyone to the table!
HopKidz Technologies Inc. — B2B2C marketplace, real-time search & booking engine: parents locate a short notice childcare, book it, pay online and can either drop-off their child in as little as within 15 min or get a sitter over to their place within an hour. All caregivers are 100% screened. B2B application on EAP as back-up care, business-subsidized. First-to-market inCanada, competitors in US and Australia. World market = $200b+. Growth plan to dominate the market.

Daniel Wolfson is a Founder & Principal at Oldslip Group.

Investment focus

B2B, Banking, FinTech
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Sauce — Sauce boosts restaurant delivery sales by up to 40% with dynamic pricing.

James Appleyard is an experienced technology investor and operator, with a desire to combine strong investment outcomes with human progress. Having spent the past decade helping build the fundraising technology company Artez Interactive into an international success, with presence in Canada, the U.S., Australia, and the U.K, the company'ssale in 2013 has enabled him to focus on supporting other entrepreneurs. A graduate of The London School of Economics and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, James has contributed to building a number of innovative companies and other organizations.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hubba — Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers. It also serves as a commerce network designed to empower independent companies to connect on business opportunities to grow their business.Hubba allows buyers to discover new products to meet their customer demands. Throughthis, brands get increased distribution for their products. Currently, Hubba powers over 75,000 small-medium businesses.It was founded in January 2011 and is based in Toronto, ON.
WatrHub — Citylitics is the marketplace data & intelligence platform for Infrastructure Industries such as water, transportation, and energy.

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 — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
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.

Y-Combinator & Rocket Internet Alum. Financial and Technology background. I love finding solutions to challenging problems and getting things done. I excel at managing hyper growth products, developing and implementing tech solutions.Currently CEO and Co-Founder of Aspire. Previously EVP Lazada (Alibaba Group), Chief Marketing Officer atLazada in Singapore. I spent the last five years developing marketplace platforms across South East Asia, covering multiple roles within Lazada Group including co-founding and managing Lazada's C2C platform Lamido, setting up Home vertical in key South East Asian markets. Prior, I was part of the founding team of Lazada Crossborder Hub in Hong-Kong.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, Canada, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Brick — Brick is a financial data application programming interface (API) that allows developers to offer in-app financial services.
Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Sweetguest — We manage the whole process of short-rental, giving to our clients and their guests a high quality service. We enhance our client to earn money and time. Reservations, checkin, checkout, laundry and cleaning. We deal with just about anything!

Malcolm Leggett is a member Board of Directors.

Investment focus

B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.

Chris Adams - Founder & Managing Director @ Adams Hamilton

Investment focus

B2B, Farming, Nutrition
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

FreshSpoke — Wholesale buyers from restaurants, retail and institutions place orders using FreshSpoke's mobile or web app. Delivery is then arranged using FreshSpoke's shared delivery system that leverages the excess capacity that already exists in the food delivery system, giving commercial drivers, including local food producers, the ability to earnextra income delivering local food. The entire transaction is paperless; every aspect of the delivery from dispatch and routing, to arrival notification and order acceptance is handled on the driver’s smartphone. FreshSpoke is in the market and commercialized in Canada and the USA with a web app and three mobile apps. These include FreshSpoke buyers’ app, FreshDispatch app for Drivers and a consumer facing app called Local Food Champion that authenticates the source of local food served or sold by FreshSpoke buyers.

Kensington Capital Partners is an investment firm in the business of wealth creation, providing access to high quality investments for over 25 years.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Humi — Your all-in-one HR, payroll, insurance, and benefits solution. Give all your employee data a home, pay employees with ease, and streamline your group benefits experience.
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.
Plus One Robotics — The fastest and most reliable parcel handing robotics solutions in your warehouse.

Alexandra is the Founder and CEO of HopKidz.com, Mompreneur, Public Speaker, Author, Community Leader, Supporter of Women Empowerment movement, Parent's advocate, Women of Influence 2018' Nominee. Alexandra has a Business Management Degree and background in Computer Science, she is has 10+ years of hands-on experience in Business withthe focus on Business Development, Operations Management, Project Management, and Business Analysis. Alexandra is a Serial Entrepreneur, she thrives in high-paced environment and enjoys the buzz of Technology Startups.

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Family
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

HopKidz Technologies Inc. — B2B2C marketplace, real-time search & booking engine: parents locate a short notice childcare, book it, pay online and can either drop-off their child in as little as within 15 min or get a sitter over to their place within an hour. All caregivers are 100% screened. B2B application on EAP as back-up care, business-subsidized. First-to-market inCanada, competitors in US and Australia. World market = $200b+. Growth plan to dominate the market.

Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy. They bring automation to traditional sectors of the economy. Today, the company has backed nearly 30 companies. Base10 creates industry teams that consider what is going to happen in the next five years, and then call the companies they see playing arole. It either turns into an investment, or Base10 will follow the company for 18 months.It is based in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2017.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
Loop — Fully automated delivery intelligence platform. Loop is your co-pilot to manage your food brand. Empower your team to minimize errors, stay ahead of food trends and boost revenue through data driven smart workflows.
Clasp — With Clasp, platforms like yours can embed Health Benefits Administration directly into their product. Clasp integrates with major carriers like Kaiser, Aetna, and Humana so employers can connect their existing plans in just a few clicks.

Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer finance through more than 10,000 stores, over 12,000 ATMs, and the internet across North America and internationally.Wells Fargo is an American multinational banking and financial services holdingcompany with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second-largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit cards. In 2011, Wells Fargo was the 23rd largest company in the United States. Wells Fargo is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with "hub quarters" throughout the country.In 2007 it was the only bank in the United States to be rated AAA by S&P, though its rating has since been lowered to AA− in light of the financial crisis of 2007–2012. The firm's primary U.S. operating subsidiary is the national bank Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., which designates its main office as Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Wells Fargo in its present form is a result of a merger between San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Company and Minneapolis-based Norwest Corporation in 1998 and the subsequent 2008 acquisition of Charlotte-based Wachovia. Following the mergers, the company transferred its headquarters to Wells Fargo's headquarters in San Francisco and merged its operating subsidiary with Wells Fargo's operating subsidiary in Sioux Falls.In 2012, Wells Fargo had more than 9,000 retail branches and over 12,000 automated teller machines in 39 states and the District of Columbia. A "Big Four bank", it has over 270,000 employees and over 70 million customers. As of July 12, 2013, Wells Fargo became the world's biggest bank by market capitalization, worth $236 billion.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HBCU CDAC — HBCU Coalition building economic development surrounding HBCU and MSI communities.
Operation HOPE — Our mission is to advance economic opportunity by providing the tools they need to reach their goals.
The Jackie Robinson Foundation — JRF provides college and graduate school scholarships, mentoring and leadership development opportunities for students of color.

GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley. As a startup ourselves, we are always looking to innovate and break the Venture Capital mold. We are a people-first fund and as such we like to cover a lot of ground and meet talented founders from across the globe. Check out our website to submit your pitch to ourmanaging partners, this is the first step for all founders that we meet. All 3 of our managing partners review every submission, and from there we give founders a NEXT DAY decision after a partner pitch! We have begun deploying from our new fund and we lead ~40 deals per year.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Telo Trucks — Explore TELO Trucks: unmatched in EV efficiency. Discover the future of electric pickups today!
Roofer.com — Roofing on-demand using drones and AI, serving the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin Texas regions.
Grapefruit Health — Grapefruit Health helps to connect health care providers, community organizations, and public health agencies so they can improve patients' access to preventive and chronic care services.

Jackson Square Ventures is an an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Chile

Portfolio highlights

OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
CoPilot — CoPilot pairs you with a 1:1 coach to make long-term positive changes for a healthier life.
Harness Wealth — Join thousands of founders, early employees, and investors who use Harness to discover advisors and insights to make better equity decisions.

Keiretsu Forum is a community of private equity investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs with a network of over 50 global chapters and more than 2,500 investor members.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

iQure Pharma — iQure Pharma preclinical and clinical drug development
Levered Learning — Levered Learning is a classroom-tested and teacher-designed instructional system providing 3rd-5th grade mathematical learning. The company was founded in 2017 by Mitch Slater and is headquartered in Soquel, California, United States.
Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.

Bearing Capital is private, family-backed investment firm focused on investments in innovative, high-growth consumer companies

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS
Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hubba — Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers. It also serves as a commerce network designed to empower independent companies to connect on business opportunities to grow their business.Hubba allows buyers to discover new products to meet their customer demands. Throughthis, brands get increased distribution for their products. Currently, Hubba powers over 75,000 small-medium businesses.It was founded in January 2011 and is based in Toronto, ON.
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