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Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in September 2025

Investor	Community Canada investments
Panache Ventures	11
N49P	10
Inovia Capital	8
Real Ventures	8
Yaletown Partners	7
Ontario Centres of Excellence	6
The 51 Ventures	6
Anges Quebec	5
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	5
Garage Capital	5
BDC Venture Capital	5
Mantella Venture Partners	4
Golden Ventures	4
Btomorrow Ventures	4
ff Venture Capital	4
2048 Ventures	4
Telegraph Hill Capital	4
Green Acre Capital	4
Innovacorp	4
Business Development Bank of Canada	4
Good News Ventures	3
Bedrock	3
MEDTEQ+	3
InnoStart Capital	3
Ryan Holmes	3
Conconi Growth Partners	3
SOSV	3
VA Angels	3
Diplo (Thomas Pentz)	3
Futurpreneur	3
Brightspark Ventures	3
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	3
Vectr	3
Round13 Capital	3
Innovate Calgary	3
ClearAngel	3
Bessemer Venture Partners	3
Backbone Angels	3
Globalive	3
ScaleUP Ventures	3
7 Gate Ventures	2
Path Ventures	2
Pique Ventures	2
Illuminate Ventures	2
Ramen Ventures	2
District Ventures Capital	2
Mo Larbi Bennis	2
CVP Management	2
Byye group	2
TELUS Ventures	2

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Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
Ranger AI — Discover how Ranger RFX simplifies proposals with innovative tools designed for manufacturers. Improve accuracy, reduce downtime, and achieve cost savings today.
Featherless.ai — Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system.

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
Nomic — The world's fastest & most seamless protein profiling service, with as fast as 1-week turnaround. Multiplexing without compromise.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Oloid — Frictionless and secure passwordless authentication for frontline workers enabling modern cybersecurity and identity and access management for deskless workers and shared devices.
Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions

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

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!
FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Retellio — AI Agents that distill thousands of hours of customer calls into 30 minute podcasts.
Coral — Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause and menopause.
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.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Paperplane Therapeutics — Harnessing the transformative power of immersive virtual reality to reduce pain perception during medical procedures.

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
enVgo — Discover ENVIGO, where cutting-edge hydrofoiling technology meets electric performance. Experience effortless, exhilarating, and sustainable boating with the exclusive NV1 design.
veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
Blumind — Blumind provides analog machine learning inferencing engines for edge smart sensors and smart devices.
4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.

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.

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
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.
Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
Vessel — One platform for all your investor relations needs.
Pillar Security — One platform to identify, assess and mitigate security risks across your entire AI lifecycle.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Poland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Civ Robotics — Unmanned systems with precise marking capabilites for the construction industry. Laying out points with sub-inch accuracy with a press of a button.
Microamp — Microamp is a leading tech innovator designing and delivering multi-gigabit and ultra-low latency 5G mmWave wireless networks based on purpose-built radios. The company merges deep tech know-how and a broad portfolio of technology partners, empowering industries, system integrators, MNOs, DSPs, governments, and research institutions with newdimensions of wireless connectivity. Microamp's cutting-edge networks enable the implementation of the most bandwidth-hungry and technologically advanced use cases across verticals such as energy, mining, logistics, production, entertainment, and public service.

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 or seed round.We getyou and your vision before others.We are systems thinkers, 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. We lead rounds with high conviction, and write $500K - $2M checks.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pageport — Effortlessly convert more leads by automatically sending unique, personalized video pages to everyone.
Julumuqi Games — AR/AI powered copilot for tabletop games.
Romix Biosciences — Accelerating drug development with an AI-enabled full body molecular scan of inflammation

Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vessel — One platform for all your investor relations needs.
Artemis — Artemis monitors your data stack, finds issues, and automatically fixes them before they impact you.
FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Canada, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

LSL Pharma Group — LSL Pharma Group is a manufacturing company that innovates and manufactures life sciences products. Formed to integrate the operations of its Canadian subsidiaries, each boasting over two decades of expertise, LSL Pharma Group excels as a niche manufacturer in the life science industry. The company offers turnkey formulation, development andmanufacturing services.
Conquest Planning — Conquest Planning is a FinTech company that is developing an innovative solution for the financial services industry.
Highwood Asset Management — Highwood Asset Management is an asset management company that manages oil production and oil midstream spaces.

We invest in founders who are driven to push the limits of what is possible

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Reddio — The fastest Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 with GPU-powered Parallel EVM and ZK Proofs for AI, gaming, and real-time applications.
Pipeshift — Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably.
Quanto — Quanto is an AI-powered bookkeeping and tax preparation platform designed to automate financial management for small businesses. By streamlining bookkeeping, tax compliance, and financial reporting, Quanto helps business owners save time, reduce errors, and gain real-time financial insights. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs with seamless,automated financial solutions so they can focus on growing their businesses.

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Durin — Mining technology company developing next-generation exploration drilling hardware and software.
TensorZero — TensorZero builds open-source tools for production-grade LLM applications: LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluations, and experimentation.
Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

MEDTEQ is a non-profit organization for industrial research and innovation in medical technology. The organization accelerates the development of innovative technological solutions to improve patients’ health and quality of life by mobilizing Canadian talents. They bringing together the key players in healthcare and innovation allows them and theirpartners, to offer Canadians access to novel solutions.MEDTEQ’s mission is, through collaborative, industry-led projects, to accelerate innovation and position, on a global scale, products and services developed by the Canadian medical technologies industry.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

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.
Loop — Bank on Loop to save time, save money and grow globally. Join thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across Canada to spend, send and grow without fees.
Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
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!
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

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:

Investment focus

Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.

Futurpreneur supports diverse young entrepreneurs ages 18-39 across Canada, offering accessible start-up loan financing, mentorship, experiences and resources.

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. — Domain Name: HopKidz.com HopKidz.com is a lively and energetic domain name that evokes images of active and playful children. With only 7 letters and 2 syllables, it is short, catchy, and easy to remember, making it perfect for startups in

Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jozu — Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments.
Brio — Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features
Coral — Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause and menopause.

BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
Swift Medical — Swift Medical is a digital wound care technology to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. From Capture to Claim: The world's most advanced and comprehensive wound care management software for the healthcare enterprise. Precise, consistent measurement, instant documentation and wound progression images with a smartphone.
Eigen Innovations — Eigen combines imaging and AI to detect issues traditional vision systems miss, revolutionizing quality inspection.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
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.

Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada. The firm invests in high-potential companies across a range of sectors, with a focus on supporting their growth and development over the long term. Round13's team of experienced investors and operators bring a wealth ofexpertise and insight to every investment, helping portfolio companies to realize their full potential. With a commitment to building an enduring 100-year firm, Round13 is dedicated to creating long-term value for its investors and the companies it supports. For more information, please visit www.round13.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Puerto Rico

Portfolio highlights

Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
TITAN — Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token.
Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.

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.

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.
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.
Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.

Clearco funds direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands. Clearco is the best funding alternative to ecommerce loans to fund inventory, marketing bills, and logistics for your ecommerce business.

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.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
Sphinx — Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own.
Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.

We are a collective of angel investors. We are coming together to invest in women and non-binary founders with a focus on investments in Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour-led companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Bahamas

Portfolio highlights

Ceremonia — Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall.
Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.

A startup studio and investment firm backing bold founders through capital, operational depth, and 25+ years of company-building experience. Discover what we build and invest in.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pibox — Pibox is an all-in-one platform, where music production professionals manage, share, and refine audio. Perfect for project management, audio collaboration, collecting feedback, and seamless communication.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.

7 Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups from Seed to pre-Series A in the technology industry, with a sector focus on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps and solutions, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech, and HealthTech. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneursspecializing in tech, operational expertise, and venture capital. 7 Gate Ventures brings key industry connections, decades of international venture-building experience and foresight to effectively strategize, mentor, and scale new businesses. 7 Gate Ventures was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hengam — Hengam is a one-stop Shopify solution that develops apps for Shopify stores and helps them reduce their churn, increase revenue and save time and money.
Roomvu — Helping Real Estate Agents, Loan Officers, Realtors, and Mortgage Brokerages to establish trust through tailored real estate websites, personalized videos, and advanced lead capturing tools. Convert real estate audience to leads with roomvu profile.
Ulab Systems — Take back control of your treatment plan with uLab - the treatment planning software and aligner system designed for orthodontists. Learn more now.

Path Ventures is a pre-seed Venture Capital firm investing in technology companies at the earliest stages of their journeys.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Corca — Corca is a collaborative math editor for manipulating equations and exporting to LaTeX or Python.
Birdwatch — Birdwatch helps busy homeowners save time, money and energy by taking care of the issues that arise in and around your home. From repairs and installations, to preventative maintenance and renovation advising, we bring the convenience of renting to owning. Our team of mission-driven entrepreneurs are passionate about helping you feel safe, cozyand cared for. Birdwatch is a public benefit corporation that promotes equal access to safe, dignified homeownership and the benefits of building intergenerational wealth.
Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?

Pique Ventures is an impact investment and management company, enabling a diverse community of investors to pursue integrated investing. We manage Pique Fund, an inclusive angel fund focusing on leadership diversity and women-led ventures in BC.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
Beanworks — Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs. Accounts payable (AP) is consistently ranked as the most frustrating and time-consuming part of accounting by finance professionals. As a company built by accountants for accountants, they empower accounting teams tosucceed by automating AP - making it both simple and delightful. Beanworks is modernizing the entire AP process, from the purchase decision to invoice approval with electronic payments included in the experience.
ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.

Enterprise Cloud and Mobile startup venture capital investor.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
Provarity — PreSales Operations Management
Contentstack — Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) – allows organizations to manage content across all digital channels and create amazing digital experiences. Contentstack pioneered the headless CMS category and effortlessly handles large-scale, complex, and mission-critical deployments, whilesupporting real-world enterprise business processes and team collaboration. Contentstack's customer satisfaction is the highest in the industry and it is the preferred API-first CMS for SAP Cloud. Visit www.contentstack.com to see why marquee brands – including Best Buy, Chase, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Morningstar, Express, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart – across the globe choose Contentstack.

We angel invest in founders who will improve the lives of millions. Based in Toronto, Canada.

Investment focus

Health Care, Science/Engineering, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel

Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.

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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.

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.

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.
Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.
Orijin, PBC — 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.

Their founders, David Martin and Nancy Knowlton, have done it before when they started SMART Technologies Inc. Over 25 years, they grew a two-person start-up into a global market leader with annual revenues just under $800 million. They created products like the SMART Board interactive whiteboard that transformed the way millions of people aroundthe world worked and learned. They are determined to do it again and have assembled a team to begin the task.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Database
Funding Round, Seed
Canada, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Epact — Op zoek naar een end-to-end partner die jou kan helpen met IT ondersteuning of managed IT services? Neem contact met ons op!
ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.

TELUS Ventures strives to seamlessly connect millions of people, companies, and communities by strategically investing in the most advanced and innovative solutions that have the potential to drive significant growth, impact and scale and are strategically aligned to the broader TELUS mandate.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, IT
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
Swift Navigation — Swift Navigation was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of theprice of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.
Yerba Buena Virtual Reality — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.

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