Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in Canada (August 2026)

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Bright Breaks — Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.
• Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
• Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.

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• 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.
• 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.

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• HP Capital — HP Capital is a private credit manager that specializes in asset-based lending solutions across a number of industries.
• Pointbreak Resources — Pointbreak Resources develops prime conventional oil assets in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
• Complete Framing Solutions — Complete Framing Solutions specializes in designing, manufacturing, and supplying light steel framing systems.

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• 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.

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• Flete — Flete is a SaaS company that offers a fleet management solutions.
• Ollama — Ollama is a software firm that develops local inference platform designed to run large language models.
• Village — Village is nonprofit building compassionate community by providing nutritious meals and essential support.

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• Whizmo —
• 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.
• Vertical Harvest — Vertical Harvest will be a Wyoming based agri-business that will enhance the local economy by operating year round to sell, for profit, fresh, locally grown produce to the community through multiple venues at a competitive, consistent price.

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• 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.
• Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
• OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 is a global provider of cannabis and hemp processing equipment, offering end-to-end extraction, distillation, and post-processing solutions.

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• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
• Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

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• 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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• 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.

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• NerView — Revolutionizing intraoperative nerve visualization
• Neuropeutics — Cure or effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
• PragmaClin — PragmaClin Research Inc. is aiming to help patients monitor their symptoms faster with the use of our remote patient monitoring system, PRIMS (Parkinson's Remote Interactive Monitoring System).

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• 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.

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• Tilray — We are Tilray Brands, a global consumer products company, empowering communities with innovative products and enhancing wellbeing.
• Bioeureka — Bioeureka is a company that has developed image recognition technology powered by artificial intelligence to analyze, interpret and catalog images from a microscope.

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• 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.

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• Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is for the sophisticated and curious cannabis explorer, those who embrace high design and alternative states of mind.

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• Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
• Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
• Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.

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• 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 — Apply for Confirmation in Scotland, with a Will or without. Fixed-fee expert support to prepare and submit your application, with a money-back guarantee.

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• 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.

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• Appello — Streamline workforce management, health & safety compliance, and resource allocation for construction businesses with Appello.
• Factory Bucket — Factory Bucket focuses on cloud-based web apps that offer streamlining, implementation, and custom solutions for the manufacturing industry.
• StrongBó Agritech — Live Data at your Fingertips! - Boost the Performance of your Herd with StrongBo's Latest Beef Cattle Management Software.

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• Zentrela Inc. — AI-powered EEG technology to standardize and objectively quantify mental state changes.

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• Weed Me — Weed Me is a Canadian indoor cannabis grower with facilities in Ontario.

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• Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
• High 12 Brands — A brand is not simply a name. It is not just a logo or a website. A brand is an identifier of the larger community in which it resides. We build brands that bring people together, mark a common bond, and thread through the ties of shared social fabric.

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• New Maple Holdings — Private Canadian Cannabis Holdings

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• GrowerIQ — GrowerIQ is building the first cannabis seed-to-sale tracking platform to integrate all facility systems in one place. As the only platform designed from the perspective of a Master Grower, GrowerIQ is more intuitive and representative of real-world best practices than other non-cannabis ERPs. Their customers reduced their compliance risk by movingto entirely digital operations, and saved two weeks of Quality Assurance time every month by generating regulatory compliance reports of 2000+ columns with one click. GrowerIQ is now the business backbone for Licensed Producers across Canada and around the world.
• 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.

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• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
• Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.

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• Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.
• Guidehealth — Guidehealth offers healthcare solutions focusing on patient care, provider support, and technology integration.
• SynergySuite — SynergySuite is an international provider of award winning, cloud based enterprise back office software to leading global restaurant chains. SynergySuite offers a modular solution covering all critical business areas including inventory & procurement, recipe management, food safety, scheduling, cash management, human resources, and businessintelligence. After using SynergySuite our customers add between 4% to 6% per location to their bottom line. SynergySuite has been in the industry since 2011 and works with top restaurant chains like KFC, Macaroni Grill, BrewDog, Hawthorne Leisure and many more across the US, UK, and Ireland.

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• VeePIO — Identify, track, and monetize any object in mobile social video.
• Kajawood Studios — Film Production Services in Finland, Europe. Amazing locations, experienced professionals, advanced technology and a cash rebate. Book now.
• Laser Light Communications — Laser Light Communications provides a range of optical satellite services while serving the high-bandwidth data and next-generation service needs of carriers, enterprises, and government agencies around the world based entirely on optical wave technology. Laser Light Communications is based in Reston, Virginia.

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• Avify — Avify es el CRM para WhatsApp que centraliza tus conversaciones, organiza a tu equipo y convierte WhatsApp en un proceso comercial claro, medible y escalable.
• Ternadia — Ternadia ATS helps recruit efficiently with AI, automating processes and improving selection speed.
• Loto Latam — Loto Latam is a business management intelligent platform that allows controlling of expenses and employee benefits.

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• Sanity Group — Sanity Group is a holistic European Cannabis company focusing on health, wellbeing, and scientific research. To utilize the full potential of its health benefits, Sanity Group is investing in fundamental research of the cannabis plant and its active ingredients as well as in specific areas of application.It was founded in 2018 and headquarteredin Berlin, Germany.
• Phylos — Revolutionary cannabis seed varieties with outstanding traits that have been bred to grow uniformly like clones.
• Open Book Extracts — Premium wholesale cannabinoid supplier offering CBD, CBN, CBG, CBC, and THCV isolates. Water-soluble formulations for beverages. Custom formulation services. GMP-certified, research-backed cannabinoids.

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• SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
• TimeSmart.AI — A healthcare-focused solution for contract management, clinician timesheet review and approvals, payment tracking & contract compliance enforcement
• Authentic Web — Authentic Web is a Corporate Domain Name Management platform for the New TLD Era.We equip enterprise teams in Digital, Marketing & IT with domain and DNS automation, providing business intelligence to support digital optimization and innovation for digital brands.Our workflow, automation and security protocols address Security andCompliance requirements for Risk, Compliance and IT Security teams to lock down domain assets and support teams to manage DNS network exposures.

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• Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
• 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! Our patented system is the safe, easy, and effective way to start early allergen introduction with you baby. Allergist-mom developed with all organic ingredients and zero added sugar.

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• 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.

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

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• Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is for the sophisticated and curious cannabis explorer, those who embrace high design and alternative states of mind.

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• GrowerIQ — GrowerIQ is building the first cannabis seed-to-sale tracking platform to integrate all facility systems in one place. As the only platform designed from the perspective of a Master Grower, GrowerIQ is more intuitive and representative of real-world best practices than other non-cannabis ERPs. Their customers reduced their compliance risk by movingto entirely digital operations, and saved two weeks of Quality Assurance time every month by generating regulatory compliance reports of 2000+ columns with one click. GrowerIQ is now the business backbone for Licensed Producers across Canada and around the world.
• 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.

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• Allegrow — Allegrow is the #1 inbox placement platform, we're helping more of your emails land in the primary inbox, not spam or unfocused folders.
• Skribe.ai — Capture legal testimony with secure video, fast transcript access, and human-verified records. Skribe turns depositions into usable intelligence.
• Augment Markets — Buy and sell shares in private tech companies. Also private markets intelligence news: @TheAugmentPulse

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• New Found Gold Corp. — New Found Gold Corp. is actively exploring district size gold exploration projects in Newfoundland and Ontario.
• Newcore Gold — Newcore Gold (TSX-V: $NCAU.V | OTCQX: $NCAUF), backed by a top-tier leadership team, is advancing its Enchi Gold Project in Ghana.
• Arizona Sonoran Copper Company — Arizona Sonoran Copper Company, an emerging copper developer and producer in the USA, focused on responsible and respectful mining.

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• Dutchie — Dutchie creates technology that powers e-commerce and point of sale solutions for dispensaries. We also offer the dutchie marketplace, where consumers can order their favorite cannabis products online for pickup and delivery.
• Tumalo Industries — Tumalo Industries is a cannabis company that offers products including indoor-grown cannabis.
• The Parent Company — The Parent Company is on a mission to create the most impactful cannabis company in the world, by combining best-in-class operations with leading voices in popular culture and social impact.

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• 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 — Ludex is a casual esport platform where gamers can compete with friends and influencers on mobile video-games.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
• BioLumic — BioLumic develops light signals that activate plant growth and unlock the natural genetic potential of crops. The company's photogenics platform leverages innovation in plant science, light technology and genetic insights. Demonstrated results include higher yield, improved vigor, increased disease and pest resistance, and improvements incrops composition. These results have been across a variety of seeds and seedling: soybean, cannabis and vegetable and fruit crops. It is a clean technology that does not require the use of chemicals or amendments. BioLumic is a private company and was founded in 2013.
• High Beauty — High Beauty is a skincare brand that offers clean beauty skincare products made from hemp seed oil. High Beauty chooses organic ingredients to create the purest and cleanest ingredients for all of our formulations. High Beauty makes every effort to source all raw ingredients from organic farms and extraction processes.

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• SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
• DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
• Solving.AI — Solving.AI is an AI training platform that helps in solving business software adoption issues.

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• Semasio — The Fyllo Compliance Cloud is a suite of software and services that enable organizations to navigate today’s ever-changing regulatory landscape, streamline compliance, and scale with speed. Mainstream brands also use the Fyllo Data Marketplace to target previously inaccessible cannabis and CBD consumers.The company was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
• Semasio (formerly Fyllo) — Semasio is on a mission to power outperformance in a privacy-first world.
• MCQ Markets — Start Investing in Investment-Grade Collector Cars with just $100. MCQ gives you access to invest in the same high-performance assets collectors and institutions are competing for.

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• Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
• PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.
• Runway Health — Affordable, convenient travel health medications for motion sickness, sleeplessness, altitude sickness, malaria prevention and traveler's diarrhea.