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Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Canada

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

Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Canada

Investor Community Canada investments
Panache Ventures 11
Inovia Capital 7
Yaletown Partners 7
N49P 7
Real Ventures 7
Ontario Centres of Excellence 6
Green Acre Capital 5
The 51 Ventures 5
Anges Quebec 5
Telegraph Hill Capital 4
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund 4
Garage Capital 4
2048 Ventures 4
Btomorrow Ventures 4
ff Venture Capital 4
Mantella Venture Partners 4
BDC Venture Capital 4
Bedrock Capital 3
ClearAngel 3
ScaleUP Ventures 3
MEDTEQ+ 3
VA Angels 3
Brightspark Ventures 3
Innovate Calgary 3
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund 3
Ryan Holmes 3
Futurpreneur 3
Golden Ventures 3
InnoStart Capital 3
Vectr 3
Conconi Growth Partners 3
Globalive Capital 3
Good News Ventures 3
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) 3
Grace Chou 2
KepalaBergetar TV 2
Lance Priebe 2
Innovacorp 2
Brian Wong 2
Ramen Ventures 2
Bessemer Venture Partners 2
Mo Larbi Bennis 2
Jon Oringer 2
TIMIA Capital 2
Haywood Securities Inc. 2
Victoria Treyger 2
Roham Gharegozlou 2
Relentless Pursuit Partners 2
CVP Management 2
Shannon Byrne Susko 2
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Panache Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Reworkd — Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.
  • ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
  • Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
Inovia Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 11 investments in the past 12 months
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Novisto — Novisto's sustainability management software enables companies to create value from their ESG initiatives. Request a demo today!
  • Plenty — Plenty makes it easy for modern partners to invest and plan for their future together. Effortlessly invest like the 1% and turn your goals and dreams into reality.
  • Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
Yaletown Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
  • ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
  • GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
N49P VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
  • 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.
  • Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
Real Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States
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.
Ontario Centres of Excellence VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
  • ventureLAB — At ventureLAB, we grow globally competitive tech titans that build-to-scale in Canada, for global markets.
  • RealSage — SoulRooms enables multifamily and student housing landlords to rent/manage properties efficiently, and create a better appeal for modern, digital native renters. We apply deep learning to simplify the regular tasks of online application review, acceptance and automate information flow for tenant requests. Our platform also provides aproprietary renting by the room feature that enables landlords to improve cashflows by over 30% and reduce vacancies across the portfolio.
Green Acre Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Claybourne — Claybourne is a cannabis breeder, cultivator, and retail brand that is known for its broad line of flower, pre-roll, and concentrate products.
The 51 Ventures VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Fashion
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kibbi: Job Search — Kibbi is a mobile app and online job board that provides job seekers with the best opportunities in their local area.
  • Wire Financial — Wire Financial is a mobile banking experience intended for the unbanked, the platform gives you the tools you need to reach your goals, while a supportive community helps you every step of the way.
  • Village Wellth — Village Wellth provides expert guidance in the field of business opportunities. Village Wellth was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Anges Quebec VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
  • ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
  • Bridgr — For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help
Telegraph Hill Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Voilà! Technologies — Learn how Evolia's employee scheduling app can save you time managing schedules and increase employee engagement.
  • Planned — The all-in-one sourcing, planning, & payment platform for all your corporate events.
  • Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
  • ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
  • Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
Garage Capital VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Quilt — Quilt's mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating, starting with the home. 20% of US global warming emissions come from homes (that’s more than cars!). The largest driver of home emissions is burning fossil fuels for heat. Quilt's first product is a next generation heating and cooling system that makes homes more comfortable,healthier and more efficient, based on all-electric heat pump technology.
  • Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
  • Finta — Finta lets founders and operators easily manage taxes, bookkeeping, and financial insights - all in one platform.
2048 Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
We back visionary founders who are building technologies of the future.2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven earliest stage venture capital firm. We are founders, experienced operators, nerds and dreamers obsessed with the future. We've backed over 200 startups and have the experience and conviction to lead your pre-seed.We are systemsthinkers, engineers, and product junkies. We think about the future non-stop and are ready to understand and back you before anyone else. When we decide to invest, we write you a check and then help you close the rest of the round. If you are a mission-driven team, with strong founder market-fit and a vision for what the future should look like, then we would love to meet you. We love serial founders, but we are also very excited about being the first to believe in underdogs, immigrants, and diverse founders who are going on their first founder journey.2048 Ventures is the earliest stage venture capital firm. They are a team of founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. They provide capital and hands-on help for founders at the earliest stage.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Peru
Portfolio highlights
  • H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
  • BioLM — BioLM is a bioinformatician, data scientist, laboratory scientist, researcher, and software developer. They offer biological algorithms, AIPs, and modeling. On amino acids and DNA, their platform enables the training and serving of SOTA models for secure tokenization, regression, classification, de novo generation, folding, and other applications.
  • FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.
Btomorrow Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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.
ff Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
  • Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.
  • Payscore — Payscore is an automated income verification tool that helps property managers and lenders make the best applicant approval decisions.
Mantella Venture Partners VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
  • Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
  • Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
BDC Venture Capital VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 32 investments in the past 12 months
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
  • Rhetorik — Rhetorik serves leading marketing and sales professionals with comprehensive intelligence on the deployment of information technology, communications and telecom (ICT) products and services. Founded in 1994, the UK-based company provides global vendors with online tools and research-verified data on enterprise users in the UK and Republic ofIreland. And as a key member of the European Market Intelligence Group (EMIG), Rhetorik tracks more than 1 million business and government contacts across Europe.
  • Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.
Bedrock Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.
  • Finch — Finch is the API to access payroll and HR systems. We allow admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications. Finch integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow. Our API powers use cases across lending, insurance,benefits, FP&A, and HR applications.
  • R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
ClearAngel VC Fund
Clearco is the fastest, most affordable way for founders to fund their business. Connect your sales and marketing accounts to get started.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Women's
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Mobobaby — The Mobobaby Nursing Cover + Hat is the only breastfeeding cover up worn by baby. The innovative, breathable nursing cover is a great hooter hider so you can enjoy covered goods. Recommended by lactation consultants, baby sleep consultants, and sleep trainers, it is one of the best, unique baby gifts.
  • Better Rhodes — Curated Collection of Alcohol-Free Beer, Wine, and Spirits. We host the best in non-alcoholic beers, wines, spirits, mocktail kits, gift boxes, and more.
  • Everlasting Adult Pleasure — Everlasting Adult Pleasure focuses on top-tier, personalized customer service.
ScaleUP Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ScaleUP Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports creative entrepreneurs and assists with investments. It is focused on early-stage venture capital with a preference for Business-to-Business opportunities. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
  • Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
  • Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.
MEDTEQ+ VC Fund · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
A voice in setting the standards, best practices and processes in health technologies ; a privileged access to 190+ members
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
  • LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
  • HALEO Clinic — HALEO is an online insomnia clinic that fits in your pocket
VA Angels VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
Brightspark Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
  • 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.
Innovate Calgary VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Innovate Calgary is a central innovation hub at the University of Calgary. See our programs and fundings and learn more about our innovation hubs here.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
  • Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
  • InventoRR MD — InventoRR MD focuses on commercializing groundbreaking trauma and general surgery devices that improve patient recovery outcomes, simplify procedures for doctors, and reduce costs for healthcare organizations.
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Felix Health — Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you.
  • Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
  • Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Ryan Holmes Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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
  • MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
Futurpreneur VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
If you want to start a business in Canada, Futurepreneur will give mentorship, financing, and resources. Learn about our impact across Canada.
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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.
Golden Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
  • Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
InnoStart Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
  • Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
  • Ludex — A web3 protocol that enables video games to operate on-chain.
Vectr VC Fund · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
  • MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.
  • Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
Conconi Growth Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
  • Oneinvest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
  • Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
Globalive Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Globalive Capital is an investment company based in Canada. The Firm makes investments primarily in the telecommunications and real estate with co-investment activities alongside venture capital funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Curv Health — Modern virtual Training, Physiotherapy, & Rehab Clinic. Computer Vision & Health Coaches for Strengthening & Recovery.
  • KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
  • 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.
Good News Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
We invest in founders who are driven to push the limits of what is possible
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
  • Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
  • 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.
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Diplo is an investor of Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Amongother jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source:
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
  • CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
Grace Chou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Grace Chou is a Partner at Maveron.
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Investment focus
  • Other, Health Care, Community/Lifestyle
  • Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Blume — Hi, we&#39;re Blume and we&#39;re all up in your bathroom with products that are good for you, and the environment. Skin care, period care and body care made clean, cruelty free &amp; vegan in North America.
KepalaBergetar TV Angel · New York, New York, United States
Malay website serving the people of Malaysia and all other nations with a need for live filem and Malay dramas that people love and react to with emotion, ready to push all boundaries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Basetwo AI — Building digital twins for manufacturing just got easier
  • Poolit — Poolit unlocks access to exclusive alternative investments with top private equity and venture capital funds. Invest for as little as $1 - a first for private markets.
  • Dassana — Introducing the industry's first consumption-based security data lake. Dirt cheap. SQL over JSON. Index-free.
Lance Priebe Angel
Lance Priebe
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Investment focus
  • eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
  • Two Hat Security — Our intelligent Content Moderation Platform and Profanity Filter help online communities scale and automate the moderation of all user-generated content.
Innovacorp
Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Science/Engineering
  • Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Brian Wong Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages "moments of achievement" in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by Relay Ventures,Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, True Ventures, Digital Garage and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date.Kiip has been named one of the world's 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List and included on the Dow Jones FasTech50 List. After skipping four K-12 grades, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, and shortly after became one of the youngest people to ever receive venture capital funding.He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: the Top 20 Under 20 awards for all of Canada; Business Insider's Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2011 and 2012; Mashable's Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; One of AdWeek's Seven Would-be Mobile Titans; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Local, Internet
  • Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
  • ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
Ramen Ventures
We angel invest in founders who will improve the lives of millions. Based in Toronto, Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Science/Engineering, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Bessemer Venture Partners
For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.
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Investment focus
  • Software, IT, Internet
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
Mo Larbi Bennis Angel
Mo Larbi Bennis
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 41 investments in the past 12 months
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, IT, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BRXS — Real Estate investing
  • Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
  • Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
TIMIA Capital VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
TIMIA Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing growth capital to B2B and SaaS companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lasso MD — Lasso MD is a martech platform for SMB healthcare practices. The platform offers first-rate marketing services such as website design, video production, SEO, Paid Ads, Social Media, and ROI Software. It transforms patient lead flow into effortless revenue. Through marketing services, communication software, and patient analytics, Lasso is aservice-based platform that enables simple and repeatable patient growth. Its suite of services develops a sustainable growth model for your practice by managing all stages of patient acquisition, from website design to ROI analysis.
  • 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.
Haywood Securities Inc. VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Haywood Securities is an investment firm that invests in the institutional and retail markets.
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Investment focus
  • Mining, Mineral, Mining Technology
  • Post-IPO Equity, Angel, Post-IPO Secondary
  • Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • K92 Mining — K92 Mining Inc is focused on advancing the Kainantu Gold Mine, located in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, towards production. The Kainantu property covers a total area of approx. 410 km2 and was previously mined by Highlands Pacific and Barrick Gold from 2006-2009. K92 Mining Inc. was purpose built for the acquisition of theKainantu Gold Mine. In addition to targeting a move towards production, K92 will focus on ‎both expanding known areas of mineralization and drilling high priority exploration targets.K92 is led by an experienced team of industry professionals with substantial international expertise in mining, production start ups, production re-starts, mineral exploration, and finance.
  • Nomad Royalty Company — Sandstorm is a gold royalty company with hundreds of royalty and streaming assets in a single investment. Since 2008, our leading growth profile has been an attractive opportunity for investors seeking exposure to gold.
  • Nomad — Nomad is a co-working space that also engages in investment and support for start-up companies.
Victoria Treyger Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Victoria Treyger is the General Partner and Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. Victoria is passionate about building great brands and scaling revenue through innovative sales and marketing. She joined Kabbage because she loved the opportunity to leverage technology and data to transform how financial services are delivered to customers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Privacy/Security, Health Care
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Blume — Hi, we&#39;re Blume and we&#39;re all up in your bathroom with products that are good for you, and the environment. Skin care, period care and body care made clean, cruelty free &amp; vegan in North America.
  • Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
  • DataGrail — DataGrail provides businesses with a simple platform to manage compliance with GDPR, CCPA and similar data privacy regulations.
Roham Gharegozlou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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Investment focus
  • Software, Other, Financial
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
  • Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.
  • Azra Games — Azra Games is a blockchain-based developer of collectable combat role-playing games for core gamers. Azra Games is led by Mark Otero, a world-renowned online strategy game developer whose most recent game generated over $1 billion in sales. Their crew has over 70 years of combined gaming industry expertise. They are now providing the core gamingexperience that core gamers desire to Web3. Azra Games is headquartered in Sacramento, United States.
Relentless Pursuit Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
  • Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
  • Orpyx Medical Technologies — Orpyx SI sensory insoles help manage and prevent diabetic foot ulcer recurrence for people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Orpyx SI sensory insoles are custom made for every individual and designed to effortlessly capture plantar pressure, temperature, and movement data throughout the day.
CVP Management VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
CVP Management is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early Series A, and early stage investments. It does not invest in life sciences, medical devices and energy production companies as well as businesses that require $5 million to $10 million of upfront capital before validating the concept. CVP Management seeks to invest inbeta, working prototype, and go-to-market stages. It prefers to invest in Information Technology infrastructure with focus on software application, internet, digital media, digital marketing, vertical SAAS, cloud, embedded software, mobile, financial service technologies, and cutting-edge information technology ventures. CVP Management invests in companies based in the Northeast corridor with a concentration on Boston, New York and Toronto. It typically invests between 0.1 million and $1 million and for Seed and Series A rounds it invests between $1 million and $3.5 million. CVP Management invests in companies with enterprise value of $5 million. It prefers to have a seat on the company’s board of directors in its portfolio companies. CVP Management prefers to invest in preferred stock. It began operation on June 1, 1998, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BlueConic — BlueConic, the leading pure-play customer data platform, liberates companies’ first-party data from disparate systems and makes it accessible wherever and whenever it is required to transform customer relationships and drive business growth. Over 300 companies worldwide, including Hearst Newspapers, Heineken, ING, T-Mobile, and VF Corp, useBlueConic to unify data into persistent, individual-profiles, and then activate it across customer touchpoints and systems in support of a wide range of growth-focused initiatives, including customer lifecycle orchestration, modeling and analytics, digital products and experiences, audience-based monetization, and more. BlueConic is a global company with offices in the US and Europe.
  • APDS — The US corrections system is broken, but evidence shows that inmate education, rehabilitation, and re-entry services can change this reality. APDS is transforming corrections through best-in-class education technology.
  • Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.
Shannon Byrne Susko Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Shannon Byrne Susko has been working with executives and leaders who want to grow, both personally and professionally, for over 10 years. Shannon has worked with companies like Intel Wearables, Shoes.com, Hot Head Games, SAAM SMIT and Silverchef – to name a few. In 2014, she released her first book, “The Metronome Effect: The Journey to PredictableProfit.”Shannon’s technical expertise is coupled with extensive sales, marketing and operations experience. Previously, Shannon has served as president of DST Subserveo, as well as co-founder, president and CEO of Subserveo Inc. Before her time at Subserveo, she led the sale of Paradata Systems Inc. to Payment Processing Inc., where she joined their team as Executive Vice-President of Product & Technology.Shannon holds Bachelor’s degrees in Commerce and Science and a Master’s degree in Computing Science. In 2012, she also received the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.Shannon has been married for 15 years and lives in Whistler with her 3 children.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Local, Internet
  • Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
  • ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
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