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Top 45 Cannabis Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cannabis startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cannabis companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Cannabis Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024

Investor	Cannabis Canada investments
Btomorrow Ventures	4
Green Acre Capital	3
Tribune Capital	2
SOSV	2
Groupe Roski	1
Brett Wilson	1
Aubrey Graham (Drake)	1
Paradigm Capital	1
Delbridge Capital Partners	1
Jon Oringer	1
Colin Harris	1
Gaingels	1
Lanny Lipson	1
InnoStart Capital	1
Third Kind Venture Capital	1
Ethan Oren Perlstein	1
Brett Wilson	1
Robin Knox	1
KarpReilly	1
Innovacorp	1
LAGO Innovation Fund	1
Anges Quebec	1
RIV Capital	1
Gotham Green Partners	1
Chuck Rifici	1
Jon Oringer	1
Jon Oringer	1
GTMfund	1
Aman Chatha	1
Golden Section	1
Hedgewood	1
Kathia Cambron	1
Tomas Lestrup	1
Ken Miyoshi	1
Globalive	1
Pareto Holdings	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
James Pardieck	1
Monroe Asami	1
Ontario Brain Institute	1
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	1
John Nemanic	1
FedDev	1
WGD Capital	1
Kevin Liles	1

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Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.

Green Acre Capital is a private investment fund dedicated exclusively to the Canadian medical and recreational cannabis industry. The fund invests in sectors across the cannabis value chain including production, research, consumer products and retail.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Claybourne — Claybourne is a cannabis breeder, cultivator, and retail brand that is known for its broad line of flower, pre-roll, and concentrate products.
humble+fume — humble+fume is Canada’s leading distributor of cannabis accessories. We offer the largest range of products and accessories to legal dispensaries, head shops and smoke shops of all sizes. We work with over 200 of the leading industry brands and offer more than 10,000 products and accessories. With distributions centres across North America, we arewell positioned to help grow your business. Our team believes pairing cannabis accessories is at the heart of contemporary enjoyment, we look forward to working with you and creating the perfect experience for your customers.
HC Solutions Holdings — HC Solutions Holdings operates as a distributor of cannabis. HC Solutions Holdings formed as a Joint Venture between Green Acre Capital Distribution Corp. and Humble & Fume.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Groupe Roski is a private investment company that has been involved in venture capital since 2013 with companies that improve the quality of life and the environment for individuals.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spiderwort — Spiderwort is an innovator in all-natural, plant-based biomaterials that have the potential to repair spinal cord injuries and promote healing.
Groupe Evex — Groupe Evex deals with the commercial real estate projects.
Marmax — Marmax deals with residential and commercial construction, renovation and roofing.

W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

Aubrey Graham (Drake) is the Founder of OVO Sound.

Investment focus

eSports, Shopping, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
Bullrider — There's cannabis then there's Bullrider. Legacy in the making since 2004. Cannabis dispensary selling and delivering legal weed in Brampton, Canada from 67 Shelby Road.
StatusPro — Completely rewrite the rules of the game and leave your legacy in the latest NFL and NFLPA-licensed VR experience, NFL PRO ERA 25

Paradigm is a research-driven investment dealer. Their sales and trading desk focuses on companies they cover. Their investment banking team provides innovative and attentive service. They believe that teamwork and long-term relationships are the key to exceptional success and growth.

Investment focus

Mining, Precious Metals, Mineral
Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
Canada, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
Moneta Porcupine Mines — Moneta holds a 100% interest in 5 core gold projects strategically located along the highly prospective Destor Porcupine Fault Zone.
Fronsac Real Estate Investment Trust — Canadian Net REIT is a Canadian publicly-traded open-ended real estate investment trust with a focus on triple net and management-free retail properties

Delbridge Capital Partners accelerates successful enterprise software start-ups by providing direct investments and supporting the go-to-market strategy and execution in the early stages of start-up growth. Delbridge invests in start-ups focusing on enterprise corporate technologies solving complex business problems in the areas of corporatefinance, sales, data management, and cybersecurity. Delbridge Capital Partners are experienced owners and operators of successful B2B enterprise software companies. Delbridge supports its portfolio companies in scaling their businesses by providing access to Delbridge’s extensive network of enterprise customers, capital markets, sales channels and talent.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Software, Compliance
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

GrowerIQ — Compliance, Cultivation, Manufacturing, Quality Management System, and CRM all in one easy-to-use platform for cannabis operators globally.
Data Sentinel — Data Sentinel is a sensitive data management platform that provides deep technology to protect, identify, inventory, classify and tag sensitive data for your company.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Colin is Chief Operating Officer of PMC-Sierra Inc. Colin is a founder of PMC-Sierra, has served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer since February 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations at PMC-Sierra from July 2004 and Vice President of IC Technology from May1997 to July 2004. Colin is anelected member of the Global Semiconductor Association Board of Directors and serves on the advisory board of the Design for E-Beam (DFEB) initiative. Colin currently also serves on the board of directors for Yaletown portfolio company Redlen Technologies

Investment focus

Software, Industrial Automation, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
Further — Further is on a mission to empower first-time home buyers to achieve their dream of homeownership with confidence and ease. We simplify the complex home buying process through innovative tools and personalized guidance, ensuring that buyers are well-prepared every step of the way. Our platform offers financial planning, tailored insights, andresources designed to make homeownership more accessible. At Further, we believe that with the right support, anyone can realize their goal of owning a home. Join us as we help make the path to homeownership clear and attainable for all.

Lanny Lipson

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.

Investment focus

Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
Ludex — A web3 protocol that enables video games to operate on-chain.

Actual contact with an alien is a Close Encounter of the Third Kind

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Macro — Macro is the platform professionals use to review, draft, collaborate, and compare documents faster and wiser.
Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
Regolith Labs — Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam.

Over the course of the last decade, first as a graduate student at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology with PhD advisor Professor Stuart Schreiber and then as an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University, Dr. Ethan Perlstein developed an approach to studying old drugs anddiscovering new drugs in model organisms called evolutionary pharmacology. Ethan is an author on 19 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, including the discovery of a novel mechanism of action for the antidepressant Zoloft based on studies in yeast cells.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Cannabis, Biopharma
Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Epinoma — Epinoma is a diagnostics company that focuses on the multi-omics approach to cancer monitoring. It engineers proteins that control the operating system of biology. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
BluumBio — BluumBio develops next-generation remediation technologies that clean up pollution and restore degraded ecosystems
Promakhos Therapeutics — A Boston-based biotech startup developing therapeutics.

W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service.

KarpReilly, LLC is a private investment firm, founded by Allan Karp and Chris Reilly, whose primary mission is to partner with premier growth companies and help them achieve their long-term vision. KarpReilly currently manages funds and affiliates with capital commitments in excess of $500 million. Over the past 15 years, the principals ofKarpReilly have invested in, sat on the boards of and nurtured over 25 growth companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail
Series A, Seed, Private Equity
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Strands Hair Care — Strands Hair Care delivers custom shampoo & conditioner with full ingredient customization based on accurate, quantified biological data for each customer.
Wilde Brands — Thin and crispy, flavorful, and 7x the protein of a potato chip. Wilde Chips are grain & gluten free, Paleo certified, Keto friendly, non-GMO & allergen-free.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

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.

LAGO Innovation Fund invests in companies that are engaged in disrupting the status quo in their native industries or creating de novo markets through the offering of innovative products, services, or technologies, or by creating novel technology-enabled business models aimed at enhancing efficiency, customer experience, and/or speed tomarket.

Investment focus

Software, Sports, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

GrowerIQ — Compliance, Cultivation, Manufacturing, Quality Management System, and CRM all in one easy-to-use platform for cannabis operators globally.
Safely — Let Safely help protect you with short term rental insurance & comprehensive guest screening for all your properties.
Season Share — There are 3.2M season tickets holders in the U.S. and 70% of season ticket holders share their tickets with other fans. We are the only mobile app that enables fans to buy, group, split and share season tickets to live sporting events. Season Share was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports and ticketing. Ourtechnology is ready to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team and league revenue while making the fan experience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. Let’s change the game together.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) — Hexoskin is the leader in Smart Clothing, Software & AI Data Analytics. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are clinically validated for continuous ECG, HRV, Respiratory, Activity, Sleep & Stress monitoring. The Hexoskin Smart Garments are used by sports scientists, healthcare, defense, aerospace & research professionals.
Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.

Investment focus

Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in

A leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
Trait Biosciences — Trait Biosciences is an emerging cannabis biotechnology company harnessing the best-in-class research scientists in biotechnology and cannabis R&D to change the face of the industry. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
Engin Sciences — Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited.Saving time and reducing churn, Engin saves companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.

Dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka of Weed,’ Chuck is a true pioneer of the North American cannabis industry having founded Canopy Growth (formerly Tweed Marijuana) in an dilapidated old Hershey factory and building it into 500,000 square feet of thriving marijuana grow capacity. Today Canopy Growth is worth over $US 200 million and recognized as a worldclass cannabis producer. The talent he recruited now guides the entire Canadian cannabis industry.As CEO of Nesta, Chuck communicates the Company’s vision and purpose, devising practical strategies for sustainable growth and attracting top entrepreneurial talent to the firm.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Let us help you go from 0 to IPO. We're investing $10 million per year into early-stage companies (pre-Series A), specializing in B2B SaaS.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gaiia — With an all-in-one solution for billing, operations, automation and everything in between. gaiia is the simplest platform to run your ISP.
Avarra — Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations.
Opus Clip — Opus Clip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips for you to share on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels to increase social media reach.

Aman Chatha

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

Golden Section is a founders studio and venture capital fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bevz — Bevz is a software and services (SaaS) platform for local, independently operated liquor/convenience stores. Our vision is to transform the 100,000+ independent liquor stores across the nation with the technology, data, and support
RealSage — Leni is an AI-powered platform for multifamily owners and operators. Helping them improve their bottom lines with better multifamily business intelligence, reporting and AI-driven actionable Insights. Integrate directly with Yardi!
Lynx — Lynx is pioneering a better way to approach venture funding. Get started with the SWEAT equity toolkit today!

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.

Kathia Cambron

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

Tomas Lestrup

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

Ken Miyoshi

Investment focus

FinTech, Video, Enterprise Software
Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nimia — Buy Cinematic Stock Footage from Award Winning Filmmakers. Find the perfect royalty-free and rights-managed stock footage for your next project from the world's best filmmakers. Shop creative stock footage, archival stock footage, and editorial stock fooage.
Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Root Sciences — Root Sciences provides premium cannabis distillation & extraction equipment and training services. Turnkey and scale-able solution for CBD distillation.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Pibox — Pibox is an all-in-one platform, where music production professionals manage, share, and refine audio. Perfect for project management, audio collaboration, collecting feedback, and seamless communication.
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.
Appello — Streamline workforce management, health & safety compliance, and resource allocation for construction businesses with Appello.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
Quiet — Quiet powers app success through expert publishing, strategic acquisitions, and innovative development. Join us in creating the next generation of market-leading mobile applications.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

James Pardieck

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

Monroe Asami

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

The Ontario Brain Institute works to establish Ontario as a world leader in brain research, commercialization and care.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Panaxium — We imagine a future where permanent disability from brain injury no longer exists.
RetiSpec — RetiSpec is a medical imaging company using advanced AI for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases through hyperspectral imaging of the eye.
Roga — Fast, effective relief from stress whenever you need it

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Moselle — Automated inventory forecasting, purchasing, and planning for fast growing multi-channel brands.
Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners

John Nemanic

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

FedDev Ontario aids the southern Ontario economy by supporting innovation, commercialization, business growth, productivity, and communities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aethon Aerial — Aethon Aerial is a gloabl provider of innovative data-driven services that enables 21st century utility asset management by providing clients with critical asset health information and analysis through remotely captured data.
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.
Microbix Biosystems — We offer cutting-edge biological and technical infectious disease diagnostic solutions and vial filling solutions for the global diagnostics industry.

WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies.

Investment focus

Cannabis, Software, Business Intelligence
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
Katalys — Katalys is a partnership marketing technology platform that provides Brands and Publishers with a better way to generate revenue in the performance marketing channel. Formed out of the recent merger between RevOffers, a ‘cookieless’ graph attribution technology, and the embedded commerce innovation of 1o.io, Katalys is set on a course to disruptthe digital marketing landscape.Katalys' disruptive innovation in the performance marketing space is an embedded commerce technology that allows consumers to transact at any point of product discovery. This includes the ability to complete an eCommerce transaction inside a display advertisement, in-app, in-video, blog post, social media platforms, and even inside a VR/AR environment.
Birchmount Network — Birchmount Network is a gift card and marketing services company that provides comprehensive revenue and brand solutions.

Kevin Liles, CEO, and Co-Founder at 300 Entertainment. He attended Morgan State University.

Investment focus

Music, Retail, Fashion
Series A, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Burb — Burb is a cannabis culture brand with retail stores serving the Greater Vancouver Area. Shop Burb's latest ready-to-wear and accessories online. Secure & Easy Checkout with fast worldwide shipping.
Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business

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