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Top 50 Community VC Funds in Canada

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 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 VC Funds in Canada

Investor	Community Canada investments
Panache Ventures	11
N49P	7
Inovia Capital	7
Real Ventures	7
Yaletown Partners	7
Ontario Centres of Excellence	6
Green Acre Capital	5
Anges Quebec	5
The 51 Ventures	5
BDC Venture Capital	4
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	4
Btomorrow Ventures	4
2048 Ventures	4
ff Venture Capital	4
Garage Capital	4
Mantella Venture Partners	4
Telegraph Hill Capital	4
VA Angels	3
Globalive Capital	3
Good News Ventures	3
ScaleUP Ventures	3
ClearAngel	3
Conconi Growth Partners	3
InnoStart Capital	3
Futurpreneur	3
Innovate Calgary	3
Brightspark Ventures	3
Bedrock Capital	3
Golden Ventures	3
MEDTEQ+	3
Vectr	3
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	3
Red Thread Ventures	2
Haywood Securities Inc.	2
White Star Capital	2
CVP Management	2
Sandpiper Ventures	2
Hardy Capital Partners	2
Illuminate Ventures	2
Bessemer Venture Partners	2
Alate Partners	2
Business Development Bank of Canada	2
Relentless Pursuit Partners	2
Tribune Capital	2
TELUS Ventures	2
Round13 Capital	2
Victress Capital	2
Canada media fund	2
Cake Ventures	2
Innovacorp	2

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Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

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!
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 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

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.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

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.

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, 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%.

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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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

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.

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
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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Clearco is the fastest, most affordable way for founders to fund their business. Connect your sales and marketing accounts to get started.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

If you want to start a business in Canada, Futurepreneur will give mentorship, financing, and resources. Learn about our impact across Canada.

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.

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.
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.

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

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.

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

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.

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

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.

A voice in setting the standards, best practices and processes in health technologies ; a privileged access to 190+ members

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

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, 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.

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

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.

Red Thread Ventures (RTV) is a global investment and advisory firm. We form long term partnerships with early stage companies led by incredible management teams across a variety of industries. Besides capital, Red Thread adds value by leveraging an extensive CFO and capital markets executive network to aid ventures as they scale from idea toPre-IPO and beyond. Red Thread Ventures currently manages two investment funds, a VCC (Venture Capital Corporation) fund focused on pre-seed/seed stage opportunities in British Columbia and a "Global Fund" for follow-on investments and opportunities across different geographies and asset classes.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Minutebook — Simplify corporate records management. The only equity platform you need for lawyers, company builders, employees and investors
Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
ManagingLife — Lowering the human and financial cost of chronic pain with its digital solution, Manage My Pain.

Haywood Securities is an investment firm that invests in the institutional and retail markets.

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.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

Software, Financial, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chord — Chord is the headless commerce and data platform for growing brands
Fractal Homes — Own your dream second home at a fraction of its cost
Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad

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.
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.

We provide a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Productivity Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.
QuickFacts — QuickFacts is an application that offers training, customized workflows, SaaS, insurance, digital, and software solutions.
SiftMed — SiftMed is an AI-first company that uses AI to help law firms, insurance companies, and Independent Medical Examiners efficiently organizse and review complex medical files.

Hardy Capital invest in high growth companies with the potential to out execute the competition.Hardy Capital is a Canadian merchant bank established to foster the growth of young businesses. With a history of international transactions including; acquisitions throughout Northern Europe ( Sweden, Holland, Germany and the UK ) the United Statesand Asia ( Japan, Singapore ). Public company listings on the OMX: Europe, TSX: Canada and the NASDAQ: Usa. Along with both public and private financings throughout Europe, Asia and North America.With dedicated assets of over $100M, Their mission is to help build and grow businesses that have the potential to achieve market leading positions primarily in the consumer space. They are especially interested in businesses that are disruptive to large very profitable incumbent monopolies and use new technology to improve customer experiences. With acute interest in transactions focused around Optical, Fin-tech, Real estate and Insurance disruption. They understand and can support businesses by helping them navigate the complex nature of growth in the global marketplace and fast track the company to the right investor or mentor groups.

Investment focus

Community/Lifestyle, Sports, 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.

Enterprise Cloud and Mobile startup venture capital investor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
TAZI AI — TAZI's Automated Machine Learning is understandable continuous machine learning from data and humans, enables business domain experts to use machine learning to ...

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
Luxury Presence — Luxury Presence helps realtors thrive online with beautiful, award winning real estate agent websites and marketing. Trusted by 20+ of the WSJ Top 100 agents.
GlossGenius — GlossGenius is the all-in-one booking, payments and POS solution that helps beauty and wellness professionals drive bookings and grow your business.

We empower entrepreneurs who are rethinking real estate.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Communities
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Doormat — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
Branch — Branch sells premium office furniture for teams of all sizes. Standing desks, workstations, ergonomic chairs and filing cabinets, sold direct to save you money. Space planning, delivery and assembly come standard.

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, Series A, Seed
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
Flojoy — Flojoy is the leading open-source platform for AI-enhanced test, measurement, and control and the leading Python-based alternative to LabVIEW. Download Flojoy Studio today to connect to over 700 supported benchtop instruments, sensors, motors, cameras, DAQ boards, and DMMs.
Northstar Clean Technologies — Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver-based clean technology and recycling company focused on the recovery of components from asphalt shingles.

Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Immigrate Software — Immigration can be complicated. Our unique software and expert consultants make it simple.
Reach — Reach is the premier ecommerce payments partner connecting you to global consumers. Unlock the true power of in-country payment without the complexities.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.

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.

Round13 Capital are different than a typical Venture Capital fund. Round13 are more than just capital, and are a thought partner for management with deep experience in building businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kivera — Enforce preventive controls and secure every interaction with your cloud at build and run time -regardless of how you use it.
SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
System-3 — System-3 is a SaaS-based predictive Leadership Simulation that minimizes bias, and measures whether experienced and emerging leaders deploy the core Leadership Competencies required in today’s complex, business environment.

Victress Capital invests in technology-enabled consumer startups led by diverse leadership. It provides visionary and diverse founding teams in the consumer space with capital and resources for growth by leveraging its 40+ years of consumer operating and investing experience. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston,Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Recurate — Recurate is tech-enabled resale service empowering brands & retailers to launch an integrated resale channel.
Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
Droplette — Finally, a tool to deeply infuse skin with your favorite actives. Let that sink in. Droplette makes ingredients tiny and fast to get under your skin.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Augmented Reality
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
Cyberspline Games — Cyberspline Games is home to passionate game developers and artists who work together in a non-traditional and stimulating environment.
ImpressView — ImpressView provides personal branding video for staffing firms.

Cake Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies. We're investing in where we're going, not where we came from.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Family
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
McMullen — McMullen provides a singular shopping experience that allows women to feel confident and beautiful. Founded in 2007 by Sherri McMullen in Oakland, McMullen is an all-inclusive concept shop for luxury fashion featuring emerging and established designers from around the world.
Guaranteed — Guaranteed reimagines hospice care with at-home treatment, cutting-edge technology, and a clinical team that puts the dying and grieving first.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
Axtion Independence — Axtion Independence is a mobility aid for fall prevention and recovery.

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