Top 5 Celebrity Startup Investors in Canada (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, Software | $120k–$17M |
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Software, Manufacturing, Energy | $3.6M–$858M |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $375k–$14M |
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Stephen Tapp
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Celebrity, Social Media, Enterprise Software | |
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Slaight Communications
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Series B, Seed | Audio, Music, Retail | $15M–$31M |
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Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $6M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
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- GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
- NextGen Blockchain Technologies — Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Finance
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Energy
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $3.6M–$500M; Debt Financing $4M–$858M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- East Side Games Group — Leaders in free-to-play mobile games.
- Revolve Renewable Power — Transition to net zero emissions, Revolve is a developer of renewable energy projects in North America focusing on wind, solar and battery storage technologies
- International Test Pilots School — International Test Pilots School (ITPS) offers EASA Approved Test Pilot & Flight Test Engineer courses for military and industry customers.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $375k–$4M; Pre-Seed $409k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.5M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
- Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
- Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.
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- Industry: Celebrity, Social Media, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.
Slaight Communications, Inc. manages the internet radio portal Iceberg radio. The company has strategic alliances with Sirius Satellite Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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- Industry: Audio, Music, Retail
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series B $15M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SHOP.CA — SHOP.CA is the first multi-merchant marketplace built for Canadians, and managed by Canadians.In June of 2012 the site launched and now has millions of products, across 28 categories, and includes over 5000 brands.SHOP.CA provides Canadians with the brands, products and services they need and want from trusted retailers, manufacturers andservice providers, all through one universal shopping cart and one account. Through a cloud based Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform, SHOP.CA makes it easy for approved partners to list, price and sell their products and services they have online and/or offline to Canadians, through a single destination.By integrating social elements into the eCommerce platform and user experience, SHOP.CA engages and rewards Canadians for every purchase and for social activities that lead to purchases.
- LANDR — LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution.
- Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.
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