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Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Edtech startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	EdTech Canada investments
Real Ventures	10
Inovia Capital	10
BDC Venture Capital	7
Amplify Capital	7
Ontario Centres of Excellence	7
Rhino Ventures	6
Business Development Bank of Canada	6
Capital Angel Network	5
Panache Ventures	5
Anges Quebec	5
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	5
Uncork Capital	4
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	4
HCS Capital	4
Westdale Properties	4
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	4
Brightspark Ventures	4
Fondaction	3
Relay Ventures	3
Good News Ventures	3
Calian	3
Roger Martin	3
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency	3
Maple Leaf Angels	3
Business Development Bank of Canada	3
Golden Ventures	3
Reach Capital	3
GrowthWorks Capital	3
Honeywell Ventures	3
Wesley Clover	3
Canada Media Fund	3
SiriusPoint	3
Desjardins Venture Capital	3
Garage Capital	3
Whitecap Venture Partners	3
Global Founders Capital	2
Mitacs	2
Yaletown Partners	2
Ideal Ventures	2
Emerson Collective	2
Azure Capital Partners	2
University Ventures	2
Birchmere Ventures	2
GSV Ventures	2
White Star Capital	2
N49P	2
Salesforce	2
Futurpreneur	2
Accel	2
Georgian Angel Network	2

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
Thentia Cloud — Thentia Cloud is a highly configurable, low-code government technology platform built for regulators, by regulators.
LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.

Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.
Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.

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.

There is more to choosing an investor than selecting the term sheet with the highest valuation. Strategic capital, in its true form, extends the founding team’s capacity. That’s what we do at Rhino. We invest in companies where we can add tangible value. We’ve been on the other side of the table and appreciate the importance of funder and founderalignment. From startup, growth to exit; it is entrepreneurial ambition that drives value, not venture capitalists. We invest in individuals; trust and values fit are a centerpiece in every investment.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, Isle of Man, United States

Portfolio highlights

Super Advisor — Super Advisor helps Advisors gain independence with the best advisor and client experience in the industry. Use our automations to streamline your business and give your top-tier service to every single client.
Twig Fertility — Every nest starts with a twig. We are the next generation of fertility care.
Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
Terravest Industries — TerraVest Capital Inc. is a publicly traded income trust with a portfolio of diversified businesses and whose stated objective.

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
Realize Medical — We're a medical virtual reality start up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform combines novel 3D visualization with the familiar and intuitive input of a hand held stylus. We're creating powerful VR tools to unlock new ways for healthcare professionals to view and interact with medicalimages so they can enhance patient care.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lotly — Lotly provides and offers housing financial support through partnering with investors. It is based in Toronto, Canada.
Reworkd — Extract web data at scale with AI Agents
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bridgr — All in one Platform to Automate Assessment and provide Action Plans with the only platform that respects your time and amplifies your abilities.
ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tali AI — You can use Tali AI to dictate your medical notes directly into your Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. Additionally, this extension will enable you to look up information from evidence-based medical databases at the point-of-care without needing to leave the EMR.
AmacaThera — Amacathera is developing an injectable hydrogel platform to provide localized, sustained drug delivery
Sibli — Institutional investors leverage our technology to secure an information advantage, reduce blind spots, and improve performance.

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

Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Pienso — Pienso is a machine learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end to end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their own machine learning models without the need for external support. Founded in 2016 by Birago Jones, CEO and Karthik Dinakar PH.D, CTO. Pienso is headquartered in the BrooklynNavy Yard’s New Lab in Brooklyn, New York. For more information visit: http://pienso.com/ and follow @Pienso_ML.

MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

PhenoTips — Create pedigrees with a digital pedigree maker, family medical history linked to patient records, deep phenotyping with Human Phenotype Ontology capture, rare disease diagnostic insights, a complete genomic information management system acting as a family history emr
Damona Pharmaceuticals — Damona Pharmaceuticals is a pre-clinical pharmaceutical company treats and prevents cognitive deficits in a variety of brain disorders and during aging.
Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody

We partner with individuals and corporations to invest in technology - driven companies across Latam, North America and Israel.

Investment focus

Insurance, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Chile, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
PolicyMe — Online, affordable term life insurance. Simple application. Backed by Canadian Premier Life Insurance. No obligation. Same-day coverage.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.

Westdale Properties is owns, manages and developes real estate across North America.

Investment focus

Finance, Education, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PolicyMe — Online, affordable term life insurance. Simple application. Backed by Canadian Premier Life Insurance. No obligation. Same-day coverage.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Felix Health — Felix offers on-demand treatment for common health issues such as erectile dysfunction, hair loss, HIV prevention, acne, birth control, and more.
Swift Medical — Swift Medical is the leader in Wound Care Management Technology for the healthcare enterprise.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deep Sky — Deep Sky is building infrastructure to scale CO2 removal. Deep Sky will remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground, back where it belongs. A new benchmark for Scope 3 Emissions: durable, scalable, and inherently measurable and verifiable.
Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
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

Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
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.

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
Coinchange — Turn your crypto into more crypto with Coinchange, an easy to use bridge into DeFi for everyone. Earn up to 20% returns on your crypto annually.
Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.

Welcome to Calian, where innovation and expertise converge to deliver Advanced Technologies, Health, Learning, and IT & Cyber Solutions.

Investment focus

SMS, Email, Hospital
Seed, Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cliniconex — Cliniconex believes that patient engagement is at the heart of a better healthcare system and that effective patient engagement must be personalized, autonomous, and manageable. Driven by your clinic’s preferred workflow, our light touch, automated communication, and reporting software not only streamlines pre and post-visit outreach but alsooffers an extremely customizable platform for preventive patient care and individualized patient health education.

Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where heserved as co-head of the firm for two years.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Borrowell — Get your credit report and credit score for free. No credit card, SIN number or bank account required. It will take less than 3 minutes to check your credit and free monthly tracking forever.
Taplytics — Taplytics provides zero bloat, cross-platform AB Testing solutions that power the experiences within today's leading apps and websites. Learn more.
Kira Talent — Make your admissions process more human. Kira transforms your admissions process with on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians,we are building a stronger economy.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
Dartmouth Ocean Technologies — Dartmouth Ocean Technologies is a sensor platform-based company offering sensor platforms for use in the oceans. It manufactures towed platforms, vertically profiling platforms, moored platforms, and a variety of lab-on-chip sensors.

Maple Leaf Angels are an experienced group of private investors looking for great entrepreneurs, great products and great companies. Bringing together investment, experience and knowledge, we help accelerate companies to become market leaders in their industry.We focus on four main investment areas as follows:- Information Technology- CleanTechnology- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials- Special Opportunities

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
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.
EmergConnect — Emergconnect is creating the first ever digital 'front door' for patients seeking same day care.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Canada, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
Clear Blue Technologies — Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly,less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
Basil Systems — Basil’s SaaS platform leverages machine-learning across product, market and regulatory data to provide analytics and insights for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Stepful — New York City, 100% Job Guarantee, Online, 4 months, Part-Time, $166 per month
Coral Care — Coral Care is a technology company for in-person specialized pediatric developmental healthcare. It aims to improve access to pediatric developmental health services from infancy to adolescence. The platform serves as a marketplace, offering a simplified path to care by matching families with Coral Care’s team of trusted, local, in-networkpediatric specialists available for in-person and in-home sessions.Coral Care’s platform provides pediatric specialists with the infrastructure needed to grow their private practices and deliver quality in-person care. The company offers administrative support and tools, content, credentialing services, and marketing services, which enable pediatric specialists to focus on care, not managing their businesses.
Legends — A confidence-training program for elementary schoolers, building legendary kids in 5 minutes a day.

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

Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
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.

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 129,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology ineverything we make and do.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

DarwinAI — DarwinAI helps manufacturers transform their visual quality inspection with leading artificial intelligence to improve product quality, operator efficiency, and production cost savings.
KORE Power — At KORE, we provide integrated renewable energy resources by bringing state-of-the-art commercial and industrial battery and ESS technology to North America.
Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.

Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
Validient — Digitally automated compliance and due diligence solutions. Empower your business with the ultimate advantage.
VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

With $2.9 billion total capital, we are a fast-moving, responsive partner, that combines disciplined underwriting and risk management with pioneering ideas. SiriusPoint Ltd.

Investment focus

Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Re — Re is a global transaction layer for insurable risks, enabling people and businesses to navigate an uncertain future while they work towards creating a better one
PolicyMe — Online, affordable term life insurance. Simple application. Backed by Canadian Premier Life Insurance. No obligation. Same-day coverage.
Joyn Insurance — Joyn Insurance is a Managing General Agency that underwrites commercial insurance in the Small and Middle Markets.

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cegerco — Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.

Whitecap Venture Partners is a Canadian-based Venture Capital fund investing in early stage technology companies. Whitecap is headquartered in Toronto and invests across Canada and the Northeastern US. Since Whitecap’s inception the early 1990s, Whitecap recognises the power of real collaboration between entrepreneurs and investors. This rapportenables them to provide significant value to companies along with strong returns across investment cycles.Whitecap specialises in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and Medical Technologies. Whitecap is continually searching for upcoming ventures to support as the next generation of exceptional enterprises.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.
Deep Sky — Deep Sky is building infrastructure to scale CO2 removal. Deep Sky will remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground, back where it belongs. A new benchmark for Scope 3 Emissions: durable, scalable, and inherently measurable and verifiable.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

Mitacs drives research through academic-industry collaborations, scholarships, and talent development. Explore transformative impact.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sentire — We augment robots, so they can quickly learn a new task, adapt or react to their environment.
FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.
Zucara Therapeutics — Zucara Therapeutics is developing the first once-daily therapeutic to prevent hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in patients with diabetes. This pre-clinical technology is directed at regulating a hormone in the pancreas called somatostatin which in Type 1 diabetes is not properly controlled. It has demonstrated potential to specifically blocksomatostatin type 2 receptors in the pancreas thereby preventing hypoglycemia and restoring natural glucose levels in the blood. Zucara’s method offers a clear advantage to patients as a preventative measure whereas current drug therapies can only rescue a patient already experiencing potentially dangerous low blood sugar.

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, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
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.

Ideal Ventures

Investment focus

Other, Software, Education
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Knowledgehook — Knowledgehook combines deep domain expertise with data science to create a technology platform that helps school boards and teachers assess gaps in math education, and apply predictive insights. Knowledgehook’s insights have led to major partnerships with leading universities, research institutes, and leading educational companies. Knowledgehook isutilizing its access into the classroom to enable at-home tutoring and additional support and insights for parents being the first in class to create this vertically integrated educational ecosystem. Knowledgehook has won several awards in the Tech community including the Google Game Changer award, and B.N.N. Knowledgehook has recently partnered with UCL Educate research and investment fund to be the first EdTech company to be backed by them globally.
Cognota (formerly Synapse) — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.

Emerson Collective is an organization dedicated to removing barriers to opportunity so people can live to their full potential. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, we center our work on education, immigration reform, the environment, and other social justice initiatives. We use a wide range of tools and strategies—partnering withentrepreneurs and experts, parents and policymakers, advocates and administrators—to develop and execute innovative solutions that will spur change and promote equality.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ReflexAI — ReflexAI provides organizations with tools that transform how they train, develop, and empower their frontline teams. It aims to bring machine learning and natural language processing to mission-driven and people-centric organizations.
ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
Infinite Canvas — Infinite Canvas is a publisher for user-generated, creator-led games.

Azure Capital Partners provides develops products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbents and that enables time to market advantage It seeks to invest in the internet and information technology sector with a focus on software, media, infrastructure technologies, mobile, communications services andequipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, and digital media.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, IT
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Better & Better — Premium toothpaste that's better for your health and better for the planet. Natural, clean ingredients, made even better with vitamins and packaged in 50% less plastic pouches.
Selector — Industry-leading AIOps platform for operational intelligence. Selector Analytics provides instant and actionable insights to IT operators.
Voilà! Technologies — Voilà! Technologies is a workforce optimization software startup.

University Ventures (UV) is the only investment firm focused exclusively on the global higher education sector. UV pursues a differentiated strategy of 'innovation from within'. UV has the deepest respect for the missions and traditions of colleges and universities around the world and is confident that through innovation, these sameinstitutions will be successful in fulfilling and expanding their missions. By partnering with top-tier universities and colleges and then strategically directing private capital to develop innovative programs of exceptional quality that address major economic and social needs, UV is setting new standards for student outcomes and advancing the development of the next generation of colleges and universities on a global scale.UV is a thought-leader on trends impacting global higher education and disseminates analyses on key issues to the higher education community. UV is viewed by many colleges and universities as a trusted <a href="https://www.dissertationcorp.co.uk/">dissertation help</a> counselor and partner in navigating the major changes underway.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Series B

Across five funds and two decades, we've helped build numerous successful companies such as Cvent (event management - IPO) , TenMarks (math tutoring - acquired by Amazon) CyOptics (optical chips - acquired by Avago), Neolinear (EDA - acquired by Cadence), and FreeMarkets (B2B marketplace - IPO).We believe great companies can start anywhere(but to scale quickly they may require a coastal presence), and the best engineers and scientists do not go to just a few schools on each coast. These core principles lead us to invest in companies from across the country overlooked by many other investors, uncovering hidden gems and helping them scale up.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Idelic — Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is basedin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
iRestify — iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants.
PAPER — Give every student an equal opportunity to excel academically. Paper delivers unlimited, 24/7, personalized learning help from expert tutors.

GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
Simplilearn — Simplilearn helps professionals across the globe realize their dream careers. As a destination for certification training courses, the company caters to professionals across industries and functions. Through a combination of proven training content, blended delivery model and next-gen customer experience, Simplilearn offers courses that helpprofessionals get the edge they want in their careers. With study centers across the globe, Simplilearn offers 200+ certification courses in Project Management, IT Service Management, Microsoft Certification, Quality Management, Financial Management and more. Rated by Deloitte as the 4th fastest growing technology firm in India and 11th in Asia, and by the IAMAI as the best educational website, the company has trained over 400,000+ professionals across 150+ countries. Simplilearn is the Global Registered Education Provider (REP) of PMI, USA, Accredited Training Organization (ATO) by APMG International, UK, Registered Education Provider (REP) of Scrum Alliance Inc., and Accredited Examination Center (AEC) by EXIN, TUV-SUD, EC Council and PEOPLECERT. In September 2013, Simplilearn raised $10-million in Series B funding from Helion Venture Partners and Kalaari Capital to diversify and expand its course catalog. Simplilearn’s mission is to consistently provide best-in-class training to working professionals through proven content, robust technology and a focus to achieve 100% customer delight. For more information, visit www.simplilearn.com
Dreamscape Learn — Dreamscape Learn is an edtech company focusing on cinematic story-telling, cutting-edge immersive technologies, and advanced pedagogy. They believe that the best educational designs combine multiple pedagogical modalities. Students study; they apply knowledge and concepts; they learn by doing and do in order to learn; they learn through text,lecture, visual and audio media, hands-on experience, and from one another. They create programs and products that connect all of these modes of engagement.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chord — Chord is the headless commerce and data platform for growing brands
Thala Labs — Building $MOD, a decentralized, yield-bearing stablecoin, and the liquidity provisioning layer on Aptos.
Fractal Homes — Own your dream second home at a fraction of its cost

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers and support.
Power Life Science — Discover cutting-edge therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Power helps patients everywhere take control of their care.

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It is a cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. They design and develop cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. They focused on sales, customer service,marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Non Profit
Grant, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands

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

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Child Care
Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Periculum — An Alternate Credit Assessment Solution for Underserved Markets
NONA Vegan — Italian plant-based sauces that bring everyone to the table!
HopKidz Technologies Inc. — B2B2C marketplace, real-time search & booking engine: parents locate a short notice childcare, book it, pay online and can either drop-off their child in as little as within 15 min or get a sitter over to their place within an hour. All caregivers are 100% screened. B2B application on EAP as back-up care, business-subsidized. First-to-market inCanada, competitors in US and Australia. World market = $200b+. Growth plan to dominate the market.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Agave — Use Agave to connect construction software in minutes - project management, ERP, CRM, precon, and more. Agave makes integration fast and easy with standardized data, docs, permissions, and auth.
Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
ProjectDiscovery — ProjectDiscovery is a remote-first open-source software company simplifying security operations for hackers and developers.

Connecting angel investors with entrepreneurs to commercialize their innovations. We are the catalysts for your investments or business. Learn more.

Investment focus

Health Care, B2B, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Neurovine — Connecting concussion patients with their own brain data so they can take control of their recovery. Click to learn more!
CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.

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