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Top 50 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 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 December 2024

Investor	Digital Media Canada investments
Inovia Capital	5
BDC Venture Capital	4
Yaletown Partners	3
Mantella Venture Partners	3
Compound	2
OMERS Ventures	2
VA Angels	2
PHI Group	2
Angel One Network	2
Uncork Capital	2
Canada Media Fund	2
Ontario Centres of Excellence	2
Floodgate	2
Upfront Ventures	2
BDMI	2
Bluesky Equities	2
Knight Enterprise Fund	1
GrowthWorks Capital	1
Golden Triangle Angel Network	1
Warner Media	1
Youku Global Media Fund	1
Northern Ontario Angels	1
Stata Venture Partners (SVP)	1
Ontario Centre of Innovation	1
SoftTech	1
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital	1
Eastward Capital Partners	1
NorthSpring Capital Partners	1
SV Angel	1
Bridge Investments	1
Purple Angel	1
reinmkr capital	1
BEST Funds	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
BMO Capital Markets	1
701 Angel Fund	1
Real Ventures	1
CRCM	1
Knight Foundation	1
Flow Capital	1
Inspirit Foundation	1
eLab Technology Fund	1
Fondaction	1
Hedgewood	1
Startup TNT	1
iGan Partners	1
Vimac Ventures	1
Rho Canada Ventures	1
BDC Capital Corporation	1
Beedie Capital	1

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Scribenote — Effortless documentation for veterinary professionals.

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

KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
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.

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Medal — Gamers live here. Medal is the best way to record, clip, edit, and share your gaming clips and videos. Clip, Edit, Share, and Relive your gaming moments.
Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.
Brightwave — Brightwave is a revolutionary AI research assistant that generates trustworthy, insightful financial analysis on demand.

VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

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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
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

Coder — The #1 self-hosted cloud development environment with over 50M open source downloads. Discover faster build times & reduce cloud costs with Coder today.
c/side — Third-party scripts are a key part of the supply chain, giving 3rd party access to sensitive data or allowing malicious actions in the browser of your user. c/side helps you regain control over your website.
Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.

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

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.

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.
Bounti.ai — Bounti streamlines prospecting, quickly elevating response rates and conversion, delivering results in seconds instead of hours.
Counsel Health — Counsel Health helps patients to get access to medical advice virtually.

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

BrightAI — BrightAI is on a mission to disrupt the future by transforming anything in the physical world into digital, infusing intelligence and control where there was none, and unlocking unimagined potential for business growth and social good.
Feno — Feno provides oral health insights that could signal systemic issues. Its headquarters is located in Culver City, California.
GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.

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.
Hark — Video feedback that tells a story. Deliver best-in-class customer experience. Agents receive "the perfect ticket" every time. Customers feel heard.
tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.

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.

Knight Enterprise Fund is a venture capital firm based in Florida that finances early stage investments of media and technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Digital Media, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CODE2040 — Code2040 is a nonprofit activating, connecting, and mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent Black and Latinx technologists from fully participating in the tech industry.
NewsGuard — Transparent Tools to Counter Misinformation on Behalf of Readers, Brands, and Democracies.
WhereBy.Us — WhereBy.Us builds tools for content creators and media to grow and connect with engaged communities.

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.

Time Warner Investments is an investor of an early to midstage companies that can generate strategic value for the Time Warner's businesses.

Investment focus

Advertising, Media and Entertainment, Software
Series B, Series C, Series D
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Caavo — Caavo is an entertainment obsessed hardware and software company. Our mission is to bring the art of TV viewing up to the level of today’s sophisticated audiences by uniting all of their entertainment into a single, elegant, voice controlled experience. Our products allow audiences to seamlessly move between linear TV, streaming services and webcontent, using voice or a single remote – to control it all.
You.i TV — Grow your video enterprise with beautiful, custom streaming apps that reach more screens and more viewers in less time than native.
Amino Apps — Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions. Founded in 2011, Amino Apps offer a network of communities allowing its users explore and obsess over the things they're into.

A joint early stage venture fund between CRCM and Youku focused on frontier technologies - Media, VR, AR, AI, Drones, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, eSports. Please contact us at vc@crcm.com

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arraiy — Headquartered in Palo Alto, Arraiy is building the premier AI-driven production platform for the motion picture and television industry. Arraiy is collaborating with major studios, industry veterans, and award-winning artists to re-invent the filmmaking process with machine learning at its foundation. With its products, Arraiy seeks to enhance thecreative freedom of storytellers and unlock the next generation of visual storytelling.
Sturfee — VPS Cloud is a cross-platform SDK that enables city-scale AR for mobile apps and wearables
Vivid Vision — At-home and in-clinic vision training. For amblyopia, strabismus, and convergence insufficiency. Find the best eye doctor near you to prescribe VR eye exercises.

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.

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.

SoftTech operates as an IT consultancy business with a focus on the energy sector to capitalise on the need for specialist IT technical services particularly in the Oil and Gas sector.

Investment focus

Apps, Education, Marketing Automation
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
Chariot — Chariot is focused on creating the world's first self-sustainable mass-transit system that relieves congestion while offering a comfortable, personalized commuting experience.The core of their mission is universal access to better transportation. They envision cities where every commuter takes Chariot to work and home — regardless of incomeor location — which is why they prioritize affordability and flexibility as they expand. When the world runs on smarter routes, lower costs, and better ride experiences, we'll collectively take cars off the road and transform their twice-daily frustration into a part of your day you actually look forward to.Chariot has expanded and they are now operating in Austin, Seattle, New York, Columbus, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles and London, in addition to their first market, San Francisco.
ClassDojo — Build wonderful classroom communities with parents and students

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 helps companies reimagine how they connect with customers. Our unique platform enables restaurants and retailers to achieve mobility with their existing systems to increase sales and digitize the guest experience.Top clients include Ralph Lauren, Meijer, Ulta, Aramark, Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse Belk, Brooks Brothers, UrbanOutfitters, Estee Lauder, MAC Cosmetics, Anthropologie, McKesson, Talbots, Burlington, Guess, Books-A-Million, The North Face, Vans, Timberland, Free People, Sysco Foods, and Helzberg Diamonds. Over 5,800 customers in 18,000+ locations globally.Offices in Tampa, Houston, San Mateo, Seattle, Bueno Aires, Colombo, SL
cPacket Networks — Explore cPacket Networks for unmatched network packet data solutions. Discover our state-of-the-art network observability and security services for zero downtime enterprises.

Eastward venture debt firm works with entrepreneurs and equity sponsors to provide companies with compelling solutions to their lending needs.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Augmedix — Augmedix harnesses the power of AI to provide industry-leading medical documentation & data services, giving physicians more time to focus on patient care.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Coding Dojo — Interested in starting your new career in tech? Learn to code at one of the top coding bootcamps. Build your first website and app in a matter of weeks. We teach Python, Java, .NET, iOS, Javascript and more. Online learning options and scholarships available. Learn more today!

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.

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

Kalshi — Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. Kalshi’s markets cover a wide range of topics including economics, international affairs, media and entertainment, climate/weather, and public health. Because Kalshi’s market topics can be more specific thanother instruments like stocks or bonds, investors can get direct exposure to the events and trends that they are interested in. For example, a Kalshi market on whether a certain free trade agreement will be signed can help retail investors get exposure to emerging markets and fluctuations in international trade.Website: https://kalshi.com
New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

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.

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.

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

xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
HappyRobot — Happyrobot is the AI that extracts quantitative data from geospatial imagery with English queries
Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.

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

Software, Precious Metals, Energy
Post-IPO Equity, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
Sound Agriculture — Sound Agriculture develops nature-based solutions for a more agile and resilient agricultural system.
Trident Royalties plc — Deterra manages a portfolio of resource royalties, including MAC. Our investment offers a lower risk exposure to the resources sector.

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.

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.

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.

Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies operating in high-growth markets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of 2021, we have deployed over $120M in growth capital to 56+ companies. Investment sizes range anywhere from $1-7 million for companies generating at least $4 million in annualrevenues. We work closely with companies to come up with a financing structure that fits their unique company needs, often creating a hybrid between our two financing structures: Revenue-Based Financing and Venture Debt.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Echobox — Echobox is the leading content automation platform. Businesses around the world automate the distribution of over 40 million stories each year with Echobox.
PROLIFIQ — Prolifiq is a Salesforce native account planning platform designed to help sellers close large complex accounts.
Ask.Vet — Vet24seven, Inc. introduces Ask.Vet, the online community where veterinarians engage and interact with animal owners to provide trusted, expert advice, information, & resources that help them with the care, health, and well-being of their animals. Ask.Vet was designed as the ‘go-to’ destination for the two hundred million households withanimals around the world. Questions are routed to a licensed veterinarian who is trained to educate, direct, and refer the client to a veterinarian, veterinary hospital, or other service providers nearby for diagnosis, treatment, and care. Veterinarians, clinics, and product/service providers will pay a referral free to Ask.Vet for qualified leads.

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!

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.
Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.

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 — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
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.

Startup TNT is a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building of investors, entrepreneurs and cheerleaders, who gather every week and build friendships before companies. Previously generated more than $3 Million capital for local startups, TNT aims to transform Alberta into Canada's be

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Scription — Scription offers maintenance companies the only end-to-end solution for pricing, selling, and managing personalized maintenance contracts.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
Rivercity Innovations — Automated cold chain temperature monitoring to prevent food loss and digitize compliance data. No Wifi, No Bluetooth, and no cheap sensors. We do it right.

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.

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.

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

Avidbots Corp. — Avidbots vision is to bring robots to everyday life to expand human potential. Avidbots first product is NEO - the world's smartest autonomous scrubbing robot. NEO is trusted by some of the best managed airports, retail malls, hospitals, colleges, industrial sites, museums, warehouses, etc in 7 countries and counting.
General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.

A Multi-Strategy Direct Investment Platform

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mining
Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LifeSpeak — LifeSpeak is an employee mental health and wellness education startup.
VIQ Solutions — Cutting-edge speech-to-text transcription and recording technology, enhancing efficiency and accuracy for courts, law enforcement, and more.
Enthusiast Gaming — Building the world's largest network of communities for gamers through multi-channel media, original content, and events.

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