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Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in Canada

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

Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	eSports Canada investments
Lance Priebe	3
VA Angels	3
Union Square Ventures	2
BITKRAFT Ventures	2
Deep Fork Capital	2
KB Partners	2
Position Ventures	1
Alumni Ventures	1
First Serve Partners	1
Business Development Bank of Canada	1
Roger Ehrenberg	1
Nolan Bushnell	1
Angel One Network	1
Archer Gray	1
August Capital	1
Alliance of Angels	1
Thirty Five Ventures	1
Antoine Martin	1
Secocha Ventures	1
NewBound Venture Capital	1
Business Development Bank of Canada	1
Omi Velasco	1
WME	1
Cherry Tree Investments	1
QueensBridge Venture Partners	1
Maple VC	1
Satish Kanwar	1
JDS Sports	1
Sprout Fund LP	1
Atrium Ventures	1
Everblue Management	1
6th Man Ventures	1
Dapper Labs	1
Golden Ventures	1
Jez San	1
Even Odds Investments	1
3GP Capital	1
Deep Space Ventures	1
Meta	1
Innovacorp	1
Government of Canada	1
Jarl Mohn	1
Bettor Capital	1
Deepak Jain	1
Jeff Chang	1
Breakout Capital	1
CASSIUS	1
305 Ventures	1
AAF Management Ltd.	1
Social Starts	1

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Lance Priebe

Investment focus

eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
Two Hat Security — Community Sift product page.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neynar — Developer Platform for Web3 Social
UNIGRID — At UNIGRID, we are dedicated to exploring sodium chemistries that are safe, sustainable, and affordable, for stationary energy storage and e-mobility applications.
Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GAIA — A collaborative multi-modality AI platform, GAIA is an ambitious movement to give human and AI agents superpowers, uncensored & equitable.
New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.

Deep Fork Capital (DFC) is a $30mm seed-focused venture capital fund in San Francisco focused on providing equity capital and convertible debt financing to companies in the consumer technology, digital media, and enterprise spaces. The firm's initial investment size typically ranges from $250k to $500k. Current DFC portfolio companies includeAlgorithmia, Dataminr, Educents, Transfix, StatMuse, Boxed, DealPath, and Canopy, among others.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

BigID — Reduce risk, accelerate time to insight, and get data visibility and control across all your data - everywhere.
SaltStack — Discover how VMware Cross-Cloud services give organizations freedom and control without trade-offs.
Origo — Origo is a fintech company.

We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OMORPHO — Weighted Training Gear from OMORPHO helps you burn more calories, build strength and boost your cardio. Lift your training to new heights!
Rypplzz — Through Interlife™, our mission is to advance humanity by spatially engineering the flow of the environment to create optimal efficiency. Interlife™ enables unique location-based experiences and transforms physical spaces into smart environments with precise geolocation and enhanced connectivity. The evolving use and omnipresence of connecteddevices and the increasing demand for experiential content, including mixed reality, are resulting in an exponentially increasing need for Interlife™ and its applications.Rypplzz partners with investors who like to back companies creating breakthrough proprietary tech and are on a mission to build a more sustainable world.
Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.

Your story is your strategy. At Position Ventures, we work alongside founders to help them position their business and tell their story.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States, Peru, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Oyster Technologies — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
Volley — Volley offers the most exciting Alexa games and Google Home games. Check out the available Google Home and Alexa trivia games to partake in the fun!

First Serve Partners is a venture capital firm investing in sports, media, entertainment, and consumer industries.The VC firm is an active, hands-on investor, using their unique perspective, strategic relationships, and experience in engaging emerging generations - millennials and Gen-Zers - to capitalize on what’s new and what’s next.FoundersWaylon Ian Chin and Joey Brander established the firm in Boca Raton, Florida.

Investment focus

eSports, Sales, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Sleek — Learn the benefits of WoW boosting for faster leveling and superior gameplay. Enhance your skills and strategy with professional boosting services!
Favik — Favik is an online platform that sets business for influencers. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.
OverActive Media Group — OverActive Media began operations in November 2017 to build an integrated company delivering esports and video game entertainment experiences to fans in Canada and around the world through franchise ownership, strategic partnerships, investments and acquisitions. They’re combining team ownership with audience engagement to better connect with theircurrent fans and to introduce these exciting competitions to new fans through our three core platforms

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

FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
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.

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

Investment focus

FinTech, Advertising, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
Gemini Sports Analytics — The first AI cloud for sports

Nolan Bushnell is the Founder and CEO of X2 Games. He previously worked at modalVR as a CoFounder and Chairman. Nolan attended the University of Utah.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Archer Gray is a media production, finance and venture investment company driven by for a passion for innovation, integrity, and results.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Crowdfunding, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Battlefy — Battlefy is the simplest way to start, manage, and find esports tournaments | Create. Compete. Conquer.
Inked Brands — The tools and expertise to fuel your big idea
Colony — Closer to the films you love

At August Capital we take Venture Capital personally

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!
PayNearMe — PayNearMe is a provider of web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments. The company's platform helps users to pay with cash for a range of goods and services from companies in e-commerce, property management, consumer finance, and transportation, enabling businesses, governmentagencies, and retail stores to digitize their cash collection process, reduce the headache of traditional cash and money order acceptance.PayNearMe's technology provides a simple way for lenders to collect payments through an intuitive, consistent experience for their customers. In addition, payment reminders and mobile wallet integration drive more on-time payments.PayNearMe was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.
Caresync.website — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
SafKan Health — OtoSet® by SafKan Health is the first FDA Cleared automated ear cleaning device for the 35 million Americans affected by impacted earwax - the leading cause of conductive hearing loss.

Thirty Five Ventures is a startup founded by basketball star Kevin Durant that invests in tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Sports, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Priori — Priori is a legal talent platform for corporate counsel to find, hire and manage top lawyers without the costly infrastructure of a firm. Fast-growing enterprises and F500 companies leverage Priori's data-driven RFP process, national and international curated network of boutique firms and temp attorneys, and seamless end-to-end technology platform to manage a full-suite of outside counsel needs and reduce spending.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.

Antoine Martin - Co-founder & CEO @ Zenly

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bleen — Building a new outdoor home brand, starting with lawn care. It’s simple, easy to use, and personalized to your home.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.

Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

10club — 10Club is an India-first brand that has something to add to every room of your home. From tableware to towels, baby nursery to bed linen, gardening shears to vases, and storage solutions of all sizes, we prioritise the little things you use every day. We ensure our products are always- useful, durable and beautiful.
CarePredict — CarePredict @Home detects changes in the daily activity pattern of a senior and alerts family members when things are different than usual.
Allocate — Allocate is platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds.

NewBound VC is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who challenge what's "possible".

Investment focus

Sports, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
Siprocal — Unparalleled reach across the Americas. Impact your target audiences with immersive experiences on their first screen of choice.
Explorer Cold Brew — With Explorer, you choose how you want your coffee, pick your caffeine level, what Flavor Elixir to add. Craft the perfect cup, conveniently in 30 seconds or less. No more trips to the coffee shop - it's the best way to make an (award-winning!) cold brew at home.

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.

Omi Velasco is the Co-founder & Partner at Aventrock Ventures. Omi Velasco attended University of Calgary.

Investment focus

Grocery, eSports, Software
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.

William Morris Endeavor (also known as WME) is one of the world's largest talent agencies, with offices in Beverly Hills, New York, Nashville, London, and Miami. The company was formed in 2009, following the merger of Endeavor and the William Morris Agency. WME also advises some of the world's most recognized consumer brands to createentertainment-based marketing solutions and invests in companies across the digital media landscape. WME is headquartered in Beverly Hills with offices in New York, London, Nashville and Miami.WME represents elite artists across every entertainment sector, specifically film, television, music, theatre, advertising, literature and digital media. It also advises top consumer brands and provides clients with unique marketing solutions across social media, mobile and gaming platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!
Influential — A Global Leader in Influencer Marketing

Invest in top tier VC funds as well as direct co-investment

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arraiy — Headquartered in Palo Alto, Arraiy is building the premier AI-driven production platform for the motion picture and television industry. Arraiy is collaborating with major studios, industry veterans, and award-winning artists to re-invent the filmmaking process with machine learning at its foundation. With its products, Arraiy seeks to enhance thecreative freedom of storytellers and unlock the next generation of visual storytelling.
Stackin' — Your gateway to side jobs and part-time gigs. SideHustles.com provides expert advice, diverse job ideas, and tips to maximize your earnings.
BABOON TO THE MOON — BABOON TO THE MOON is an adventure brand - we make versatile, technical and radical bags. All with a lifetime warranty and free shipping in the US.

QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angelinvestors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies.Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis.The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

Edyn — The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn Appdisplays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.
ALL DAY — All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, trackanalytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard.Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Blockus — Blockus enables game studios to build fast, reduce costs and laser focus on gameplay. Seamlessly integrated WaaS, first party NFT marketplace, and fiat + crypto payments.
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.
Inference.ai — Inference.ai is an IT company that provides artificial intelligence solutions and manufactures GPUs.

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

JDS Sports invests in early-stage, high-potential companies that are disrupting the status quo. They also help their portfolio brands realize synergy with each other.

Investment focus

Sports, Advertising, Video
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aglet — Aglet is the first location-based app connecting sneakerheads, creators, and brands with geo-location play to explore the world. Download for iOS and Android!
SuperNFT — SuperNFT is the developer of virtual event platform intended to organize decentralized music festivals and events.
StatusPro — StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products.

Sprout Fund invests in seed- and early-stage companies with Series-A funding potential. The fund leverages the collective experience of its Managing and Limited Partners to mentor and fund high-potential technology companies. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
Ideon Technologies — Unlock the power of subsurface imaging with groundbreaking muon tomography. Discover precise mineral detection for confident decision-making.

An Entrepreneur Led Investment Fund

Investment focus

eSports, Software, Marketing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!

Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
House of Blueberry — House of Blueberry is the leading digital fashion house in the metaverse. Since 2012, Blueberry has served hundreds of thousands of consumers and sold more than 20 million digital assets, making it the industry leader in this quickly expanding sector. Blueberry is actively bringing its community and brand to the biggest web 2.0 and 3.0 metaverseplatforms, where it is already present on a number of platforms.Blueberry was established in 2012 by Gizem Mishi McDuff in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Scallop — Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.
Cube Group — Cube is the world's fastest crypto exchange. Built by and for traders, Cube is the most liquid, secure and advanced cryptocurrency exchange.

Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
Spexi Geospatial Inc. — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
Halfbrick Studios — Creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and more mobile mega hits!

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.

Jez San - CEO & founder @ FunFair Technologies

Investment focus

eSports, Ethereum, Blockchain
Seed
Malta, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Award Pool — Award Pool is an integrated web3 platform that empowers brands, creators and collectors with amazing engagement tools and features to create, collect, and trade unique experiences, collectibles, and payments securely.
Virtue Poker — Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that's safe, honest, and fun.

Even Odds Investments is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 900k+ who read our entertaining sports newsletter.

3GP Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 900k+ who read our entertaining sports newsletter.

Deep Space Ventures is an early stage investor in great ideas and amazing leaders. The team has demonstrated a track record of engaging with talented leaders using innovative solutions to create value across a wide array of industries.The investment focus is primarily on markets where incredible innovation is taking place, the cost to operate abusiness is relatively low, and there is a lack of seed capital available relative to the early stage opportunities that exist. Some people call these markets "flyover cities" or "tier 2 and tier 3" startup ecosystems. We consider them to be the capital efficient markets where our capital and strategic value can go a long way to help a founding team achieve their goals.Current primary focus areas are B2B Software and Esports.

Investment focus

eSports, Software, Gaming
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

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Ateyo — TLDR; You've never gamed like this before. Technical apparel designed specifically for gaming and esports. Gear for esports, PC gaming, and all gamers
Eventador.io — Eventador.io is a fully managed, enterprise grade Stream Processing as a Service platform based in Austin, TX. It was founded by Erik Beebe and Kenny Gorman in 2016 to address a critical business problem - to alleviate the complexities and enable building applications that use real-time data at their core.
Quarterback — While esports continues to grow rapidly and more gaming influencers grab the spotlight, most of them struggle to monetize their fan-base and rely heavily on creating new content for their fans to consume. Founded by a team of experienced software industry veterans, Quarterback is the first fan-engagement platform that enables streamers andprofessional players to continuously engage with their audiences by creating their own fan-club gaming leagues. These leagues can host daily challenges, give away prizes, compete against other clubs worldwide, help fans compete with like-minded players and offer other perks.Quarterback is on a mission to evolve the way esports enthusiasts interact with each other. Quarterback creates a new language of engagement, where esports talents and streamers become an integral part of their fans gameplay.

Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Previously known as Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's rebrand to Meta on October 28, 2021, at the company's annual Connect Conference.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, California in 2004. Withmillions of more users, [Friendster] attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid-2004. Facebook turned down the offer and subsequently received $12.7 million in funding from [Accel Partners] at a valuation of around $100 million. Facebook continued to grow opening up to high school students in September 2005 and adding a photo-sharing feature the next month. The next spring, Facebook received $25 million in funding from [Greylock Partners] and [Meritech Capital] as well as previous investors [Accel Partners] and [Peter Thiel]. The pre-money valuation for this deal was about $525 million. Facebook subsequently opened up to work networks eventually amassing over 20,000 work networks. Finally, in September 2006, Facebook was opened to anyone with an email address.Facebook continued to receive funding most notably in January 2011 receiving $1.5 billion and valuing the company at $50 billion. A year later in February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for its long-anticipated initial public offering. The company went public on May 18, 2012 opening in [NASDAQ] with shares trading at $42.05.Facebook announced positive numbers in February 2012 upon filing for its IPO. As of July 2013, over 1.15 billion users have logged into Facebook every month and 669 million users daily. Mobile users now make up half of Facebook’s user base with 819 million monthly active. Facebook is one of the most trafficked sites in the United States. Additionally, Facebook is the top photo-sharing site with 250 million photos uploaded per day.The company has a strategic partnership with AXA Group to develop marketing and commercial collaboration in the digital, social, and mobile sphere.Meta is currently the owner of many applications and services such as Facebook App, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus VR, Pagemodo Pagebuilder, [RSS Graffiti], Huddle, and more. Facebook is the world’s largest social network with over 2.9 billion monthly active users.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

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AgSpeak — AgSpeak® is a web 3.0 based agritech company started with a vision to build end to end visibility of agricultural supply chains by leveraging powerful web 3.0 technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology.We are a cloud based supply chain management and visibility system for food businesses and brands which streamlines theiragricultural supply chain, while building traceability for their products and trust for their consumers. For enterprises, food businesses, brands and institutes working with farmers, AgSpeak® delivers: (i) Unparalleled supply chain visibility and analytics in all touch points. (ii) Dissemination of scientific farming practices to farmers in local languages. (iii) A trust bridge connecting consumers to the source of their food products.Since pilot launch in May 2021, AgSpeak has digitized over 10,000 acres of farmland and 5,000+ farmers, while gathering and analysing data on 15+ crops and livestock across India.
Scale AI — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).

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

Investment focus

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

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Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.

The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Germany

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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.
Exxel Polymers — Exxel Polymers takes post-industrial and post-consumer plastic waste from various sources and processes it using granulation, shredding, and extrusion. The company sells recycled materials through an established distribution network.
London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.

Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.

Investment focus

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

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Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
Lantern — From proactively planning your end-of-life wishes to navigating what to do after experiencing a loss, Lantern has got your back.
Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.

Bettor Capital is a venture capital firm and invests in companies that provide a platform for sports gambling.

Investment focus

Sports, Gaming, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

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Xpoint — Geolocation Compliance Software
MOGL — MOGL is created for athletes by athletes. The platform empowers all athletes to seek out opportunities to monetize their name, image, and likeness in a safe...
Bettormetrics — Bettormetrics is a data analytics infrastructure for your sports trading operation.

Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert

Investment focus

Art, Gaming, eSports
Pre-Seed
Canada

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Anime Universe — Anime Universe Corporate Site

Jeff Chang was the Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot. Jeff previously worked at Pastel Labs as a Founder. Attended University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Sports
Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

PopSQL — PopSQL is a developer of collaborative SQL query editing software designed to share queries and visualize data. The company's software stores SQL queries and runs regularly, grouping them into folders that can be kept private or shared among the team, track changes so it can be reverted if or when something breaks, enabling users to workcollaboratively on queries and then distribute among the team.
Skio — Skio helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out. Easily migrate from ReCharge. Increase conversions by 72% with 1-click checkout (Shop Pay). Reduce customer tickets by 25% with passwordless login.
Offsight — Factory ready project management software for the modular and offsite construction industry. We solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular, offsite and project based manufacturing.

Breakout Capital is a fintech company that provides simple and straightforward working capital solutions to small businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Insurance, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Series E
United States, Canada

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Beam — Smarter employee benefits including dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health. Our plans are easy to understand, implement, and use.
Koffie Financial — At Koffie, we believe trucking insurance should be a smooth ride for everyone. Our priority is delivering trusted insurance backed by cutting-edge tools, so that businesses can grow safely and profitably for generations.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

Early stage VC focused on the consumer internet and brands that will shape tomorrow's culture.

Investment focus

Gaming, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Canada

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Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
Bubblehouse — Bubblehouse is a platform for creators to express content in new and attractive ways.
Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.

305 Ventures is an early stage VC fund run by active founders investing in other founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

Leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

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Caden — Caden is the world's first Zero-Party Data platform. We allow users to own and control their own personal data, make money off it, and share it with trusted consumer brands, while maintaining their privacy.
AnthologyAI — AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale.
Vero Technologies — Powering Wholesale Financing