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Top 50 EdTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in July 2025

Investor	EdTech Canada investments
Real Ventures	10
BDC Venture Capital	9
Inovia Capital	9
Amplify Capital	7
Ontario Centres of Excellence	7
Rhino Ventures	6
Panache Ventures	6
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	6
Anges Quebec	6
Business Development Bank of Canada	6
Relay Ventures	5
Capital Angel Network	5
Westdale Properties	4
HCS Capital	4
Uncork Capital	4
Golden Ventures	4
Brightspark Ventures	4
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	4
Honeywell Ventures	3
Garage Capital	3
Whitecap Venture Partners	3
N49P	3
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency	3
Fondaction	3
Ripple Ventures	3
Calian	3
IDEA Fund Partners	3
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	3
Desjardins Venture Capital	3
Maple Leaf Angels	3
GrowthWorks Capital	3
Good News Ventures	3
Differential Ventures	3
Canada Media Fund	3
SiriusPoint	3
Wesley Clover	3
Reach Capital	3
Business Development Bank of Canada	3
CEAS Investments	3
New Enterprise Associates	2
TIA Ventures	2
WUTIF	2
Grotech Ventures	2
Azure Capital Partners	2
Liyuan Venture Capital	2
Accel	2
GoAhead Ventures	2
Resolve Growth Partners	2
Globalive Capital	2
Mitacs	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

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
VEERUM — VEERUM is a global SaaS provider who brings reality to the digital world. We are the world's platform to see itself.
Blumind — Blumind provides analog machine learning inferencing engines for edge smart sensors and smart devices.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Botpress — Botpress is a modern developer stack to build enterprise and open-source chatbots. Learn about our conversational AI platform built for developers.
Delos — Delos is a generative AI platform for organizational and business development for companies.
Vessel — One platform for all your investor relations needs.

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

Lyteflo — Lyteflo provides electric vehicle (EV) sales tools.
Cerula Care — Cerula Care specializes in behavioral health services for people with chronic conditions.
Carbon Upcycling — Our cities, roads, energy, AI, and all critical infrastructure are built on a foundation of concrete. And cement is the glue that holds it all together. Securing our tomorrow means securing our critical cement materials. It means building manufacturing independence, localizing supply chains, and investing...

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, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

MyFO — Leverage AI for effective wealth management with MyFO, making family office services attainable for all.
Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Aspect Biosystems — Pioneering the development of bioprinted tissue therapeutics to transform how we treat some of the most elusive diseases.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) — Hexoskin is the leader in Smart Clothing, Software & AI Data Analytics. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are clinically validated for continuous ECG, HRV, Respiratory, Activity, Sleep & Stress monitoring. The Hexoskin Smart Garments are used by sports scientists, healthcare, defense, aerospace & research professionals.
HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We 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

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Ownright — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
Virica Biotech — Viral Sensitizers (VSE) for drug developers and manufacturers are small molecules that improve viral yields and effectiveness by reducing the antiviral defences on a cellular level.
Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.

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.

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

Investment focus

Insurance, Information Technology, InsurTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Chile, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

DeNexus — DeNexus revolutionizes the way infosec leaders measure and manage OT Cyber-Risk. The company's DeRISK SaaS platform quantifies real-time network and cyberthreat information into financial impact for the business and removes communication gaps between the tech team and the business team.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
LISA Insurtech — LISA Insurtech streamlines insurance processes with high technology that uses blockchain and artificial intelligence. We collaborate with traditional insurance companies to streamline technological processes of value chain. Some of their services are automating the payment management process, suppliers, and claims, processing claims automaticallyfrom insurance companies, and orchestrating the communication process with all the actors involved in the aftermarket value chain. LISA Insurtech is dedicated to solving problems in the insurance industry.

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

Koobz — Koobz is revolutionizing footwear with fully automated, on-demand production. Discover sustainable, high-quality shoes made faster and more efficiently in the USA. Join us in shaping the future of footwear manufacturing.
Wander — Book luxury vacation home rentals with inspiring views, hotel-grade amenities, modern workstations, top-tier cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
Amperos Health — AI coworkers for healthcare billing teams that help collect on claims.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Optable — Data Collaboration - Data Clean Room Platform
Brio — Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features
Coral — Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause and menopause.

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

HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
Grey Matter Neurosciences — Grey Matter Neurosciences is a neurotechnology firm developing new medical devices and drug-device combinations to treat age-related brain illnesses like dementia.

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

infiniDome — We bring end-to-end GPS jamming protection solutions for drone, fleet and critical infrastructure assets.
DarwinAI — DarwinAI helps manufacturers transform their visual quality inspection with leading artificial intelligence to improve product quality, operator efficiency, and production cost savings.
Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Lyteflo — Lyteflo provides electric vehicle (EV) sales tools.
Frate — First-of-its-kind automated peer-to-peer returns solution. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability while also saving money on every return.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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, France

Portfolio highlights

Eosense — Eosense (formerly Forerunner Research Inc., ) is a product company that designs and builds weatherproof gas monitoring devices for soil gas flux research. They are dedicated to equipping research and industry with accurate, go-anywhere tools. Their products capture concentration and flux data for greenhouses gases such as carbon dioxide andmethane, and perform exceptionally well in soil, mud, shallow water, and snow.
Liveable Cities — Liveable Cities manufactures wireless streetlight controllers, micro-sensors, and LED streetlights.
Oberland Agriscience — Oberland Agriscience delivers carbon-footprint protein ingredient to the feed market.

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

RegenEAU — RegenEAU manufactures systems that recover heat from wastewater to reduce hot water energy use in multi-unit and commercial buildings.
Can-Explore inc — Founded in 2014, Can-Explore analyzes and disseminates urban, roadway and building infrastructure data. The company is committed to innovation and cutting-edge technology including artificial intelligence to excel in geomatics and structural and infrastructure inspection services. The Québec City-based company employs close to 70.
BioAlert Solutions — Innovative real-time Legionella detection system for industrial facilities. Lower operational costs and meet regulatory compliance.

Ripple Ventures is a venture fund that focuses on investing in pre-seed companies building B2B software across North America. The firm's goal is to support entrepreneurs who revolutionize competitive global industries by solving difficult problems with unique solutions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Theo Ai — THEO AI operates as a legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal dispute.
Page — Page, an AI-powered external relations platform that provides real-time insights to help enterprises navigate government policies, media, and regulations.
Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.

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 — Enhance patient care with automated patient communication systems. Efficiently manage appointments, deliver timely reminders, and improve patient satisfaction.

As one of the oldest and most active early-stage investment firms in the Southeast, IDEA Fund Partners' investment philosophy has been honed from years of experience. We fund entrepreneurs who are applying technology and business model innovations to industries in the earliest stages of digital disruption with an emphasis on underservedpeople, places and stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Keep Company — Keep Company is a coaching community for parents & caregivers.
Cognota — 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.
Lucid Bots — Lucid Drone Technologies is a robotics company that specializes in exterior spray drones. We are committed to safety, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
Vosker — Outdoor surveillance camera that works anywhere, no need for wi-fi or electricity! Solar powered and weather-resistant, Vosker cellular camera
Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.

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.

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, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Early-stage venture capital fund founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs for data-focused entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
Retrocausal — Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that help manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, train better, and improve the processes they drive. Our RetroActivity "Virtual Supervisor" platform uses an AI-enabled camera to analyze the tasks performed on your assembly line in real-time, offering audibleand visual alerts when mistakes happen to ensure the operator completes the build correctly before the next step in the process. Our platform also continuously performs time studies on assembly processes to help your business accelerate Kaizen events.
Plastic Labs — Radically Decentralizing Alignment

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

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 operates as a fully-collateralized reinsurer subject to regulatory oversight and approval that connects alternative capital providers.
Joyn Insurance — Joyn Insurance is a Managing General Agency that underwrites commercial insurance in the Small and Middle Markets.
Player’s Health — With a mission to create the safest environments for sports players, Players Health provides digital risk management tools and insurance solutions to sports organizations.

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 — Validient is a digital client onboarding system for law firms, real estate agents, and other regulated businesses.
VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.

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

FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
WorkWhile — Hire event staff and warehouse talent near you, fast. WorkWhile connects businesses with reliable, flexible professionals for logistics, production, and events.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Single family office investing in early stage private tech companies. Capital of a top venture firm, complete flexibility on stage and check size, and a very aggressive risk appetite.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Brij — With one-touch, BRIJ allows consumers to gain product info, care instructions and discounts while you gain a deeper understanding of your consumer. Apps, paper manuals and hassles not required.
Pathlit — The AI Implementation Gap:AI is everywhere - ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Azure AI, Deepseek - yet most enterprises are still bogged down with manual processes and inefficiencies. Why? These tools lack the orchestration layer needed to embed AI seamlessly into business operations. Without workflow automation, real-time data connectivity, and intuitiveinterfaces, companies are forced to stitch together incomplete solutions. The result? Fragmented systems, costly delays, and AI initiatives that fail to move the needle.Pathlit - The AI Command Hub:Pathlit isn’t just another AI tool - it’s the infrastructure that makes AI work for your business. Imagine an intelligent network of AI-powered assistants: one for financial modeling, another for operational automation, another for data analysis - all connected through a single, unified platform. Pathlit integrates 100+ enterprise tools (Slack, Google Drive, HubSpot) with additional integrations delivered in 48 hours. Trusted by a Big 4 firm, top PE and VC firms, and leading enterprises, Pathlit transforms AI from an experiment into a competitive advantage.What Sets Pathlit Apart?● AI Agents That Work - Automate repetitive tasks, adapt to complex workflows, and enhance team efficiency.● Seamless Ecosystem - Connect every tool your business relies on into a fully integrated, frustration-free system.● Data-Driven Insights - Extract actionable intelligence from unstructured data, no special code required.● Enterprise-Grade Security & Scalability - SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with on-premise options for high-trust environments.Beyond Tools - Modern Assembly Lines for the Dynamic Enterprise:OpenAI is a model provider. Azure is a cloud infrastructure provider. Pathlit is the automation backbone provider that transforms manual workflows into fast, automated assembly lines - requiring minimal oversight. We replace complexity with seamless AI integration, turning manual processes into intelligent, scalable systems. With rapid workflow automation and real-time data insights, AI isn’t just an add-on - it’s the foundation of a more efficient enterprise.Turn AI Into Your Competitive Advantage:Pathlit eliminates the guesswork of AI adoption. We provide strategy, integration, and execution in one platform - so your team can focus on growth, not tech troubleshooting.Ready to move beyond AI experimentation and start driving real impact? Let’s get started.
MonitorApp — Monitor App®, the first industrial IoT platform in Latin America that integrates a simple cloud solution with non-invasive technology for industrial digitization for the production floor. This platform allows digitizing more than 20 performance indicators such as OEE, compliance with the plan, as well as being able to digitize more than 60 processvariables to ensure operational excellence. Currently its 5 brand promises: non-invasive philosophy, super friendly tools, open architecture, inclusive and accessible, and focused on solving the most common problems of the productive floor, which guarantee total satisfaction and a Return on Investment of less than 3 months. The current platform is used by more than 600 operators, 80 engineers and 50 managers in America, Europe and Asia, which guarantees the success of the digital transformation of any manufacturing company.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
Vori Health — Meet Vori Health, the new virtual and in-person musculoskeletal healthcare company that will help you get that spring back into your step.
Ceramic — Next generation AI training systems for better models with less compute, less time, and lower costs.

Seed-stage venture capital fund, based in NYC, Investing in extraordinary companies led by high-execution teams. We deploy in-depth customer research to assess product/market fit. The entrepreneurs we partner with are dedicated to creating powerful, customer-relevant solutions to problems worth solv

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rally UXR — User Research CRM: automate outreach, scheduling, incentives, and participant management. Empower UX Research, Product, and Design teams to talk to users.
Ovation — Find out how your drive thru, third-party delivery, pickups, and in-store customers are feeling, fix anything in seconds, get more 5-star reviews, and have an easy-button for insight and retention.
Soil Connect — Soil Connect is a platform created for excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers and other building professionals who work with soil on a regular basis. Our platform connects those who have soil, with those who need soil.

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Levr.ai — Levr.ai supercharges your team with easy to implement tools that increase conversion, save time and provide a better experience for everyone.
A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Polar Beer Taps — Polar Beer Taps Permafrost V3 system is leading the way in the future of portable beverage serving. They can provide reliable, high-quality commercial draft systems to any location, which elevates any event.

We partner with innovative entrepreneurial talent. Our mission is to partner with young companies outside of Silicon Valley that transform markets, create jobs and produce extraordinary, sustainable growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

pgEdge — pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability.
Caju AI — Caju AI revolutionizes customer engagement with Generative AI, boosting your workforce's productivity and providing invaluable business insights. Elevate your customer experience with the power of AI.
Krista Software — Krista is an intelligent automation platform that combines iPaaS and Conversational AI to automate complete business processes across your teams and apps.

Azure Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth capital investments. It also invests in post-seed and Series A stage, startups with differentiated products and defensible technologies. These startups develop products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbentsand 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 and equipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, digital media, and related web properties. It invests in North America, Silicon Valley, the United States and Canada with a focus on Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Azure Capital Partners seeks to acquire a board seat in its portfolio companies. Michael Kwantinetz, Paul Ferris, and Paul Weinstein founded it on April 7, 2000, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California additional offices in Calgary in Canada and Menlo Park in California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, IT
Seed, Series A, Series B

Liyuan Venture Capital Shares Co,Ltd was established by Liyuan Group in 2006. It is one of the first Chinese venture companies operating freely in the market. Liyuan Venture Capital Shares Co,Ltd focuses on VC/Angel investment, PE, and fund management. The team is composed with the most qualified private equity fund managers specializing inportfolio management and risk control.

Investment focus

Other, Mobile, Education
Series A

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, Internet, IT
Series B, Series A, Series C

GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley. As a startup ourselves, we are always looking to innovate and break the Venture Capital mold. We are a people-first fund and as such we like to cover a lot of ground and meet talented founders from across the globe. Check out our website to submit your pitch to ourmanaging partners, this is the first step for all founders that we meet. All 3 of our managing partners review every submission, and from there we give founders a NEXT DAY decision after a partner pitch! We have begun deploying from our new fund and we lead ~40 deals per year.

Investment focus

Software, Other, Data and Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round

Enabling passionate, committed SaaS entrepreneurs to accelerate growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ACTO — ACTO is an omnichannel education platform for life sciences companies. ACTO is an AI-powered SaaS platform built for life sciences that uses mobile experiences and agency partnerships to give learners all the tools they need in one intuitive cross-platform app, and give leaders powerful admin tools with engagement data in one command center.
Kahuna Workforce — Skills management software that helps you assess and manage frontline and technical workers, ensure safety and compliance, and make more strategic decisions.
Cecilian Partners — Best-in-Class Proptech Solutions: Real estate management, mapping, and development software to support property developers, home builders & realtors.

Globalive Capital is an investment company based in Canada. The Firm makes investments primarily in the telecommunications and real estate with co-investment activities alongside venture capital funds.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Data and Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Curv Health — Modern virtual Training, Physiotherapy, & Rehab Clinic. Computer Vision & Health Coaches for Strengthening & Recovery.
KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.

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.
Ostia Sciences Inc — Ostia Sciences, is a premier microbiome solutions company that specializes in discovering novel bacterial metabolites with antibacterial, antibiofilm, and immunomodulation activities. Our goal is to isolate beneficial microbes from the human oral microbiome, human breast milk, and fermented food, which are known to be rich sources of ribosomallysynthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and natural products with a range of biological activities.
FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.

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