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Top 50 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in February 2025

Investor	Digital Media Canada investments
Inovia Capital	5
BDC Venture Capital	4
Yaletown Partners	3
Mantella Venture Partners	3
BDMI	2
Bluesky Equities	2
Angel One Network	2
Uncork Capital	2
Canada Media Fund	2
VA Angels	2
PHI Group	2
OMERS Ventures	2
Floodgate	2
Ontario Centres of Excellence	2
Upfront Ventures	2
Compound	2
Northern Ontario Angels	1
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital	1
SV Angel	1
Bridge Investments	1
Purple Angel	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
701 Angel Fund	1
CRCM	1
Knight Foundation	1
Inspirit Foundation	1
eLab Technology Fund	1
Hedgewood	1
Vimac Ventures	1
Rho Canada Ventures	1
RevenueWire	1
DTCP	1
Runway Growth Capital	1
East Valley Ventures	1
Framework Venture Partners	1
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments	1
2EnablePartners	1
North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity	1
Dundee Venture Capital	1
GrowthWorks Capital	1
Golden Triangle Angel Network	1
Stata Venture Partners (SVP)	1
Ontario Centre of Innovation	1
NorthSpring Capital Partners	1
reinmkr capital	1
BEST Funds	1
BMO Capital Markets	1
BDC Capital Corporation	1
Fondaction	1
iGan Partners	1

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.
nue.io — Finally, an easy-to-manage, omni-channel RevOps platform designed to meet the needs of the modern business.
Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.

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

Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
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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

ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
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.
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.

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.

Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
Spikerz — Manage social media security threats in one platform. Real-time protection detects and alerts on threats, letting you focus on growth.
Hark — Video feedback that tells a story. Deliver best-in-class customer experience. Agents receive "the perfect ticket" every time. Customers feel heard.

Bluesky is one of the most active seed-stage investors in B2B SaaS companies in Canada.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ownly — Ownlyi specializes in big data, data analysis, customer experience, data analytics, sales, and lead generation.
Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
Provision Analytics — Provision is software that uses simple digital forms to automate food safety and advance quality control.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ivo — Ivo reduces the time, effort, and cost of negotiating agreements.
Pseudolithic — PseudolithIC is designing and manufacturing RFIC chips for RF and mm-wave telecommunication applications, using a proprietary heterogeneous integration process.
Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR

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!
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Investment focus

Video, Software, Digital Media
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Félix & Paul Studios — Felix & Paul Studios is dedicated to storytelling through the medium of immersive entertainment. The studio combines technological innovation with a unique, pioneering and in-depth approach to the new art of virtual reality storytelling - creating high-end original cinematic experiences (Nomads and Strangers) and collaborating with existing franchises (Jurassic World, Cirque du Soleil and Wild) and world-renowned personalities (President Bill Clinton, LeBron James, President Barack Obama). The studio was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for their Cirque du Soleil co-production Inside the Box of Kurios (2016) and an Emmy<sup>%reg;</sup> Award for The People's House: Inside the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama (2017).

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.
Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
Brightwave — Brightwave is a revolutionary AI research assistant that generates trustworthy, insightful financial analysis on demand.

Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

ZITADEL — Zitadel provides everything developers need to incorporate identity management. It's as easy as pie. Because serverless, you'll be ready when you're ready. Because open-source, at your place or ours.
Lume — Automated data integrations using AI. Transform any data schema automatically using no code.
Counsel Health — Counsel Health helps patients to get access to medical advice virtually.

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.

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
Grove — Grove is a leading AI company for clinical trial recruitment and engagement developing AI agents to automate enrollment & connect patients with the best studies. Try a free demo!

A thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SuppCo — SuppCo helps people find health supplements, manage supplement routines, and track their health.
Briefly Bio — The tool to make your lab work reproducible. Capture and share your lab work, clearly and consistently.
Aifleet — aifleet is a tech-powered trucking company based in Austin, TX. The company is using proprietary technology to rebuild and humanize trucking for hard-working drivers.

Northern Ontario Angels specializes in structuring various customized car leases and car loans. They offer car financing with simple and affordable payment schedules that are tailored to your preferences. You can either opt to pay variable interest rates or fixed rates on the financial arrangement of your choosing. Along with personalizedamortization period, they offer spreads that are one of the lowest in the industry. They don't incorporate high credit risk premiums even if your credit score is bad. On the other hand, if your credit is good, you can enjoy a ride with negligible risk premiums in their financing arrangement.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Content
Angel, Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Viafoura — We partnered with 800+ media brands to engage, convert & monetize their digital audiences. Check out our community engagement solutions!
Rna Diagnostics — Rna Diagnostics is a clinical-stage molecular diagnostics company improving cancer care with the Veridapt DX predictive biomarker.
Flosonics — Flosonics Medical is improving patient care through technology-enabled solutions and services that clinicians, and patients, love.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensivegrowth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series D
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Openprise — Learn more about the Openprise RevOps Data Automation Cloud.
Mad Mobile — Mad Mobile elevates the experience of both your retail and restaurant guests with award-winning technology and hardware.
Octagos Health — Discover Octagos' comprehensive cardiac remote monitoring software and services designed to enhance patient care and streamline clinic operations.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

And AI — And AI is a platform for managing patents, helping attorneys and inventors streamline searches and claim drafting
ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

We invest in early-stage consumer brands and SaaS companies. Working in the spirit of partnership, we support and champion you and your team.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Legal
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Automotus — Curb management for cities, airports and fleets. Real-time data. Automated payments. Smart loading zones. Zero emissions delivery zones.
Prado — Prado allows for a customizable digital experience for local meal prep delivery companies to market, sell, fulfill, and ship their perishable products. By providing entrepreneurs an economical and reliable technology solution, Prado keeps chefs in the kitchen and health-conscious consumers free to spend their time doing what brings them joy.
Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.

Purple Angel is a venture capital firm focused on investments in the communications and infrastructure sectors. It was formed in early 2001 by several retired alumni of Bell Northern Research (BNR). To date, Purple Angel has invested in 29 companies, all but two in the National Capital Region.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spoonity — Discover the future of customer loyalty with Spoonity. Boost your quick-serve restaurant's growth through tailored rewards programs.
Rarelogic — Rare.io provides online retailers with an automated predictive email marketing solution that’s proven to increase email click-through rates and drive repeat business. We are a SaaS based ecommerce marketing automation platform that uses your customer data to provide insights and opportunities to build deeper customer relationships.
The Better Software Company — Franchising software solutions for small business, including crm, invoicing, scheduling, text messaging, reporting, tons of customization, and much more.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
Echo Neurotechnologies — Echo Neurotechnologies specializes in brain-machine interfaces, which provide patients control over external devices. The company creates neuroscience products that aim to improve people's lives.

701 Angel Fund is a North Dakota-based venture capital group that invests in early stage opportunities that are high-risk, high-reward. Of the 15 investments to-date, two have exited, two have failed, and 11 remain active.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Marketing
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WalkWise — WalkWise is dedicated to developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It offers a smart walker attachment that helps seniors maintain their independence by monitoring wellness, health, and safety.
Realvision — Realvision is an immersive media technology company that builds 3D media solutions for the real estate industry. Realvision is a technology platform built to support real estate agents, created for professional photographers.
Devii — Devii is an instant API engine and database hosting platform for software developers to configure, test, and deploy APIs in the cloud.

CRCM is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Venteur — Venteur is a digital benefits marketplace for independent workers. We make health insurance more transparent and give you back control over your benefits.
Inso Biosciences — Inso Bio (formerly Tico Bio) is an early-stage biotechnology startup out of Cornell University developing platform technologies for biological sample preparation.
ClearBlue Markets — ClearBlue Markets helps companies use compliance and voluntary carbon markets worldwide to achieve decarbonization goals with maximum financial benefit.

Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.

Investment focus

Education, Non Profit, News
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Indiegraf — Indiegraf provides technology and services purpose-built for small and startup news publications. Get everything you need to grow your audience and multiple revenue streams - all in one place.
INIT — INIT is a non-profit organization empowering under-represented communities to launch successful careers in technology.
Signal Akron — Signal Akron operates as a new non-profit news source. Signal Akron will have a 9-person editorial team producing high-quality journalism in numerous formats and across multiple platforms, and will be free to access.

Inspirit Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports communities and organizations that build narrative power and tackle challenging issues.

Investment focus

News, Journalism, Digital Media
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Indiegraf — Indiegraf provides technology and services purpose-built for small and startup news publications. Get everything you need to grow your audience and multiple revenue streams - all in one place.

eLab Technology Fund is a leading Canadian early stage e-commerce venture fund. They excel at identifying and forming best of breed partnerships to globally launch innovative businesses, for maximum investment return.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Advertising
Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Megawheels — Buy Electric Transport online in our site megawheels.com. High-quality E Transport at affordable prices with fast delivery for your comfort. Make your order right now!

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

VIMAC's investing model is founded on two core principlesâ€”respect for the entrepreneur, and humble acceptance that nobody has seen the future. New business creation is essentially a collaborative enterprise where success requires continuous learning and broad-based sharing of innovative ideas.Based in Boston, they deploy capital inearly-stage companies located in the eastern U.S. and Canada. Today, they have two separate investment teamsâ€”one focused on early stage ventures in IT/Adv.Materials technologies and the other focused on life sciences.To date, VIMAC investments have led to the creation of over 20 successful companies that continue to generate business innovations in IT, communications, and Internet technologies. These investments today account for over $2 billion in market value. The fund seeks to make about five new investments each year. A new investment typically goes into a Series A or Series B round with adequate reserves to support subsequent funding until the company exits via a trade sale or an IPO. Over its lifetime, a company is likely to receive $5 million to $15 million from the fund. The life sciences team makes investments from the VIMAC Milestone Medica in early stage biotechnology and medical device companies.They lead or co-lead most investments and their managers play a very active role on portfolio companiesâ€™ Boards of Directors. Often, they invest in a company's first institutional round of funding and maintain support throughout the companyâ€™s lifecycle. Along the way, they maintain a close working relationship with the management team, helping them refine business plan, build go-to-market strategies, enhance capital efficiency, find early customers and partners, and grow the business.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Information Services
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

AeroSafe Global — AeroSafe Global delivers cold chain solutions to the biopharma industry with zero temperature excursions for every patient, every product, every time.
NeoEdge Networks — NeoEdge Networks is an in game advertising firm.
Combinent Biomedical Systems — Combinent Biomedical Systems, Inc., a women's healthcare company, offers multi-segmented vaginal rings that allow the delivery of hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecules, proteins, and other large molecules. It focuses on transvaginal delivery of drugs targeting women's reproductive endocrinology disorders, as well as diabetes, obesity, andinfectious diseases. Combinent Biomedical Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Rho Canada Ventures is a division of Rho Capital Partners focusing on early-stage investing in Canada’s most innovative technology companies.The Rho Canada Ventures team comprises a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operational, and venture investment experience in the United States and Canada. With a combined 80 years of experience, RhoCanada Ventures offers entrepreneurs the expertise to turn Canadian innovators into global leaders. Rho Canada Ventures' portfolio companies are a diverse group of investments that span new media, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and materials, and software.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Sportlogiq — Sportlogiq is a venture-backed startup that develops sports statistics solutions. Using feeds from current broadcast cameras, the company uses player tracking and activity recognition to analyze player movement and provide context to game analysis. Sportlogiq was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
Auvik Networks — Auvik’s cloud-based network management software keeps IT networks around the world running optimally. By automating and simplifying network management, Auvik helps rocket an IT team’s efficiency and capacity, while protecting the business from network risk. Auvik is one of the fastest growing North American technology companies, and is winner ofthe Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Deloitte Fast 500, and recognized as the #1 ranked Canadian company in the FT Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2020. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.
Resson — Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agriculturaloperator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area.Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

RevenueWire is a global ecommerce platform for small and medium sized companies, with a focus on digital products. RevenueWire empowers companies to grow their business online by optimizing every phase of the transaction lifecycle through the SafeCart ecommerce platform and its performance marketing channels, AffiliateWire and CallStream.Thecompany consistently ranks as a top performing company in North America and worldwide, having received awards and accolades from the PROFIT 500, Branham 300, mThink Blue Book Survey and the CODiE Awards.

Investment focus

Video, Publishing, Advertising
Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

STN Video — STN Video is an award-winning online video platform that solves digital video for publishers, content creators, and advertisers. STN Video supplies digital publishers with premium content, advanced player technology, and reliable revenue. With a library of up to 5,000 new videos every day, the STN Video online video platform serves over 1,800publishers and hundreds of premium content providers at zero cost. STN Video’s partners include publishers like the NY Post, NY Daily News, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and premium content providers like MLB, NBA, Bloomberg, AP and Rolling Stone. Using the STN Video online video platform, publishers easily serve official video to keep readers engaged and on-site longer. From “sports to news”, STN Video offers publishers all the content they need to cover their sites. The combination of official, premium content, and top publishers provides a brand-safe environment for advertisers and connects content providers with a broader incremental audience. STN Video’s advanced technology sets it apart, offering the best contextually relevant content via Smart Match, an AI-powered video player. Smart Match matches articles with content from an extensive library of over 1 million videos, allowing publishers to embed relevant videos on every page automatically in seconds. The STN Video online video platform improves user experience, publisher workflow, and both its partners’ top and bottom lines. STN Video shares the revenue it generates with publishing partners and content creators while also accommodating their own advertising sales.

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series C, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zenity — Zenity empowers enterprises to enable AI Agents securely. Our platform ensures adaptive security and governance from buildtime to runtime.
Dexory — BotsAndUs is a London-based startup that develops robotics and AI solutions. They combine social sciences with human-centered design and cutting edge engineering and make sure robots seamlessly integrate into day to day life.
GreenScale — GreenScale is a healthy hosting system designed to support the sophisticated digital systems of large scales, AI, and cloud clients.

The Other Growth Capital. Minimally-Dilutive Venture Debt Learn More Venture Debt Financing For Late And Growth-Stage Companies We partner with passionate and driven management teams who use our capital to grow - whether that's market share, revenue, profitability, production, or capacity. Unlike equity financing, venture debt is minimally dilutive, allowing founders and

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Private Equity
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CarNow — Transforming the way dealers communicate and transact with customers
Onward — Working to restore movement, independence, and health in people with spinal cord injury.
Elevate — Elevate is an Alternative Legal Services Provider (ALSP) providing consulting, legal software, and services to law departments and law firms.

East Valley is a startup accelerator and angel investor group in Atlantic Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
CIRCLES — You spend 1 hour a month with us on Zoom. We guide your content creation, build your LinkedIn funnel and bring in leads with 10x performing daily video campaigns.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

Framework is a top-performing venture fund that discovers, develops and scales the next generation of world-class technologies, through a unique founder-centric approach to active capital.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
Maxa AI — Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions.
Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.

2EnablePartners investment group

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HaikuJAM — HaikuJAM is a free collaborative haiku-writing mobile application through which people write haiku poetry together, line by line by line. Haiku are 3-line syllable based poems that originate in Japan. The final line of a haiku should include a twist.We aim to provide smart-phone users with a collaborative tool for creative expression andstress-relief. HaikuJAM is a stimulating, interactive and creatively nourishing experience.
Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
HelloSelf — The UK's Trusted Online Private Clinical Therapy Service

North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure, digital media, healthcare, and material production.North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way they live and work. They provide seed-to-growthfinancing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CubicPV — CubicPV is a solar industry that relies on legacy technologies with inherent limitations. Conventional solar modules convert sunlight to electricity using a single light-absorbing material and are nearing an efficiency threshold.
SmartAsset — SmartAsset's free and interactive tools help you make smarter decisions on home buying, refinance, retirement, life insurance, taxes, investing, personal loans, and more
Lyra Therapeutics — We are pioneering a new therapeutic approach to treat debilitating ear, nose and throat (ENT) diseases that impact the lives of millions of people.

Dundee Venture Capital invests $250,000-$1M in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. DVC invests across industries in founding teams they believe in. Most of DVC's investments are in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or consumer networks.Dundee VC formally began in 2010. The root of the idea started much earlier when Mark Hasebroock, DundeeVC’s founding, and managing partner, was raising money for his two e-commerce companies, giftcertificates.com and Hayneedle.com, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blanka — Create your own branded cosmetics line with Blanka in under 5 minutes. 100s of high quality vegan cruelty-free cosmetic, skincare and beauty products.
Autobound — Autobound generates highly personalized sales emails and email openers in a single click, based on news events, job changes, shared experiences, and more. We've trained our machine learning model on millions of high quality sales emails to pinpoint what works best. Sign up for free and see for yourself!
Echo Labs — Echo Labs is developing the first artificial intelligence capable of human-level transcribing.

Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.
SWITCH Materials — SWITCH Materials develops revolutionary new materials based on proprietary organic molecules that "switch" optical properties on command.SWITCHâ€™s molecular switches can be developed for a number of applications, especially in the areas of molecular electronics and health sciences, including optical filters, photochromic inks, paintsand fibers, high-density optical information storage systems, molecular sensors and biomarkers for labeling and tracking of live cells.SWITCH has assembled a team of cutting-edge materials scientists with combined expertise in synthetic chemistry, polymer processing, optics, and molecular & materials engineering. SWITCH conducts its research and development activities in our own laboratories and the state-of-the-art analytical and clean room facilities at 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University's new $40 million materials science research centre.

The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Justo — Cashback. Lower listing fees. Experienced local agents. Advanced technology. Free services. Justo is a new real estate brokerage based on a radical idea: Consumers are paying too much to buy or sell a home. That's why we offer a new model, based on fairness and transparency. Looking to buy a home? We'll split our commission with you50/50. Plus, our all-inclusive model covers home inspections and lawyer fees. Selling a home? Save half the listing fee of traditional brokerages, and thousands more with free staging, 3D virtual tours, professional photography and online marketing. Our experienced agents work closely with you to help find the home of your dreams, or sell your home for best the possible price. It just makes sense to use Justo.
LabsCubed — LabsCubed manufactures automated multi-sample tensile testing robots that manufacturers use to increase lab efficiency and reduce labor by up to 85%.
Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.

Stata Venture Partners is a private equity fund that invests in early stage new business opportunities . They have strategic investments in a wide array of technologies. Stata Ventures specializes in helping companies build the internal infrastructure and long term strategic plan needed to be successful in today's dynamic marketplace. StataVenture Partners was founded by Ray Stata, founder and Chairman of Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI), a leading semiconductor corporation.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Wireless
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Yottaa — The engine behind eCommerce performance, Yottaa optimizes, monitors, and automates site performance to deliver faster, more shoppable sites that drive conversion rates and sustainable revenue growth.
VulcanForms — Partner with VulcanForms to produce your advanced metal parts. Streamline production and simplify your supply chain. Get in touch.
Movellus — Movellus develops process portable and ultra-low power analog IPs. Its roducts include PLLs, DLLs, and LDOs, that are optimized per design.

Ontario Centre of Innovation provides a preeminent research-to-commercialization vehicle in Ontario

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Talin — Supercharge your recruting process with Talin's AI powered tools.
Mesosil — Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

NorthSpring Capital Partners provides risk capital to small and medium sized companies with the goal of creating value. Investments range between $250,000 and $1 million in the form of subordinated debt and/or equity across a variety of traditional industries located in Southern Ontario. NorthSpring takes a flexible approach when reviewinginvestment opportunities and tailors its investment structure to fit the unique aspects of the business.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
Rehabtronics — Rehabtronics devices are proven to help people recover movement after central or peripheral nervous system injury or disease.
Able Innovations — Able Innovations is developing advanced medical devices to tackle the pressing problem of patient transfer in healthcare.

Reinmkr Satsang invests in and accelerates the growth of high frequency companies and products.

Investment focus

Social Media, Marketing Automation, Analytics
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ridejoy — Ridejoy is a community-driven marketplace for sharing rides. Ridejoy making it easy to share rides with friendly people. If you're going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car, and if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride, using their service.
Talkable — Talkable (formerly Curebit) helps online stores increase revenue through referrals by turning existing customers into marketers.When customers check out from a Talkable-enabled store, they are presented personalized deals that they can gift to their friends by posting to Facebook or forwarding a link. The deals give both the the originalcustomer and their referred friends a rebate on their purchase at this store.
Betterment — Betterment can help grow your money by making saving and investing easy. Invest in a tailored portfolio, set buckets for your goals, and earn rewards.

Since 1996, BEST Funds has been a leading Canadian venture capital firm, managing Retail VC Funds as well as Private Funds.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zone·tv — Zone·tv is redefining the TV viewing environment by delivering a personalized entertainment experience filled with expertly curated, exciting new content discoveries.
Perch — Buy the right property sooner, find your best mortgage and build wealth.
Perch — Buy the right property sooner, find your best mortgage and build wealth.

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service financial services provider. We offer corporate and investment banking, treasury management, as well as rese

Investment focus

Mining, Precious Metals, Software
Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt, Series C
Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Sound Agriculture — Sound Agriculture develops nature-based solutions for a more agile and resilient agricultural system.
Lifecore Biomedical — Lifecore is a CDMO & Sodium Hyaluronate producer that manufactures clinical & commercial sterile injectable drug products. Learn more about our capabilities here.
United Way of Greater Milwaukee — United Way of Greater Milwaukee is a company that helps set up donations and volunteer work.

BDC Capital can customize a financing plan to meet the needs of you and your business, whether your need is $100,000 or $5 million.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
Mangrove Lithium — Mangrove Lithium is a ground-breaking refining platform that redefines the industry standard for battery grade lithium refining
Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.

Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Manulift — Manulift EMI specializes in telescopic.
Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
Équipement St-Germain — Équipement St-Germain offers rental of heavy equipment without operator mainly to general contractors in construction, excavation, and landscaping companies.

iGan Partners is one of Canada's largest healthcare-focused venture capital firms, investing across North America. We provide capital and expertise to scale innovative healthcare solutions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Okadoc — The quickest way to book from thousands of doctors, manage your appointments and attend video consultations. All online: healthcare in your hands.
Segmed — At Segmed, our platform Insight democratizes healthcare data. We work with data partners to ensure secured, anonymized medical data for AI developers.
RetiSpec — RetiSpec is a medical imaging company using advanced AI for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases through hyperspectral imaging of the eye.

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