Top 50 eSports Startup Investors in Canada (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Lance Priebe
Angel
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | eSports, SaaS, Gaming | $75k–$538k |
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Government of Canada
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, India | Grant, Debt Financing | Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care | $100k–$30M |
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VA Angels
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $108k–$1.5M |
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Ark Canada Investment Group
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Sensor, eSports | |
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Aventrock Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Colombia | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $583k–$42M |
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Atrium Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, Canada | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, B2B, FinTech | $456k–$3.3M |
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Concrete Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $250k–$9.4M |
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Broad Street Bulls
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Isle of Man, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $250k–$2.6M |
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Deepak Jain
Angel
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2 | Canada | Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, Gaming, eSports | |
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Union Square Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $2M–$40M |
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain | $2M–$28M |
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KB Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Sports, Software, Information Technology | $1.1M–$12M |
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Valhalla Private Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Marketing, E-Commerce | $825k–$7M |
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Archer Gray
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment | $1.4M–$9M |
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Equivesto
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | eSports, Software, Cryptocurrency | |
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Innovacorp
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Australia | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $19k–$3.1M |
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August Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Internet, SaaS | $2.6M–$50M |
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $100k–$11M |
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Alliance of Angels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Mobile | $750k–$6.8M |
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Meta
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $5k–$7.2M |
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Even Odds Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Sports, eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Dennis Phelps
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series D, Series C | Software, Mobile, Internet | $500k–$500M |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $68k–$7M |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$14M |
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Jez San
Angel
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1 | Malta, Canada | Seed | eSports, Ethereum, Software | $2.3M–$5M |
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CASSIUS
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Gaming | $1.3M–$18M |
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WME
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Video | $1.3M–$26M |
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $350k–$130M |
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Omi Velasco
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Grocery, eSports | |
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AAF Management Ltd.
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$19M |
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JDS Sports
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Sports, Software, Advertising | $1M–$4.5M |
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Deep Space Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | eSports, Gaming, Software | $675k–$9M |
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Jarl Mohn
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $655k–$12M |
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Randolph Retterath
Angel
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1 | Canada | Angel | Art, Gaming, eSports | |
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FunFair Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $100k–$22M |
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Bettor Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Gaming, Casino, Sports | $1M–$16M |
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Everblue Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series C | Gaming, Video Games, eSports | $2M–$72M |
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Deep Fork Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$16M |
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Cherry Tree Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Mobile Apps, Software, E-Commerce | $350k–$55M |
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First Serve Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Colombia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Gaming, eSports, Sales | $1.2M–$1.5M |
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NewBound Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Portugal | Series A, Seed | Food and Beverage, Gaming, Sports | $498k–$20M |
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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Italy | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $470k–$27M |
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3GP Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Sports, eSports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Nolan Bushnell
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Mobile, eSports, Video Games | |
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Breakout Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series E | E-Commerce, Insurance, Chemical | |
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QueensBridge Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, China | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$47M |
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Secocha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Internet, FinTech | $1M–$35M |
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Maple VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.3M–$33M |
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Dapper Labs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $800k–$60M |
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Lance Priebe is the Founder of Hyper Hippo Entertainment.
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- Industry: eSports, SaaS, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $183k–$538k; Angel $75k–$423k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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!
- Nurture — Nurture transforms screen time into interactive stories that build curiosity, resilience, creativity, and empathy.
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.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 525
- Round size: Grant $100k–$25M; Debt Financing $100k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- CAMH — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. We believe that #MentalHealthIsHealth
- Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
- University of Manitoba — The University of Manitoba received its charter on February 28, 1877. Today, the UofM has three main locations: the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.The downtown Bannatyne campus of the university comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave andWilliam Ave in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the university. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the 95,000 sq ft (8,800 m2) Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008. The Brodie Center is known as the "flagship" which connects all three faculties as well as the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library and the Joe Doupe Fitness Centre. It is located on 727 McDermot Avenue.The main Fort Garry campus (located on the Red River in south Winnipeg) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on 233 hectares (580 acres) of land. In addition, Smartpark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development organizations involving university-industry partnerships. The address is 66 Chancellors Circle.The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.The university operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba. The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a 406 acres (164 ha) facility located 70 km (43 mi) from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately 1,000 acres (405 ha) and located 20 km (12 mi) from Winnipeg.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $108k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
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
Ark Canada Investment Group provides investment and equity support in real estate and entrepreneurial ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Sensor, eSports
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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!
- Butlr — Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning.
Aventrock is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Calgary, Canada. We are passionate strategists who believe in supporting entrepreneurialism as that is the driving force to improve the world around us. We provide resources and network to help businesses reach their full potential.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $583k–$3.3M; Series A $4.7M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Symend — Enterprise debt collection software built on behavioral science. +10% recovery, -50% OpEx, 10x ROI. $50B+ recovered. Trusted by Fortune 500 telecoms and banks.
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- NanoTess Inc. — NanoTess Inc - Medical
An Entrepreneur Led Investment Fund
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- Industry: Information Technology, B2B, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $456k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UGX.ai — Connect, process, and optimise industrial operations across manufacturing, OEM, and clean energy with UGX.AI.
- Gully Labs — Gully Labs is a homegrown sneaker design house, specializing in hand-lasted sneakers that blend Indian cultural motifs with contemporary design. The brand releases new collections every 60 days, often drawing inspiration from Indian traditions, festivals, and regional art forms. Gully Labs positions itself as a response to both the lack ofauthentic Indian representation in mainstream sneaker culture and the prevalence of imitation products in the market, aiming to celebrate original Indian stories and craftsmanship
- SwishX — Indias First Employee Savings Platform
Concrete Ventures finds great ideas and founders in Atlantic Canada that are ready to build massively scalable businesses and work with them to grow their businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $250k–$878k; Venture - Series Unknown $750k–$9.4M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Verna — Verna is a business using geospatial data science to address the climate and nature crises.We help landowners, investors, and policymakers to use land in ways that draw down carbon, enhance biodiversity and generate sustainable returns – e.g. through woodland creation, habitat creation and enhancement, and regenerative agriculture.Verna wasestablished in Borehamwood, Hertford.
- VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
- 3D BioFibR — 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications.
Broad Street Bulls VC invests in companies, ideas, and founders in Saskatchewan and the prairies at the pre-seed and seed stage. It offers capital, mentorship, and support to founders of early-stage technology and high growth start-ups in industries ready for disruption.The company is driven by a vision to become a valuable partner forearly-stage tech companies and support them as they scale up beyond the prairies. It hopes to create an outsized impact on the ecosystem and economy.Broad Street Bulls was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, Isle of Man, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.
- Virtuo — The Complete Platform for Modern Homeownership
- Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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- Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 414
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $5.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
- Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
- Mundi — Mundi provides financial, trade development, strategy, freight and reinventing international trade services.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- StockGro — StockGro is a stock market advisory & research app trusted by 35M+ users. Get daily trade ideas with entry, exit & stop-loss from 150+ SEBI-registered analysts.
- Hulp — Hulp provides a personal assistant service that helps manage household tasks, bookings, family coordination, and daily activities.
- welevel — Building games with attitude
We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $127M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Kenshō Health — Pharmacy Mall is a trusted online drugstore designed to make high-quality medications accessible and affordable for everyone.
- StreamLayer — StreamLayer transforms live stream viewer engagement though its revolutionary key-moment advertising and branded interactive features to drive higher revenue from your streaming rights.
- Workforce Athletics — Stress free and easy shopping experience. Simple and speedy service.
Valhalla Private Capital offers investor and startup, angel investing, private equity and debt funds, and global accelerator programs to meet the lifecycle needs of both businesses and investors. In 2017, Danny Way established the firm in Calgary, Alberta.
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- Industry: Software, Marketing, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $825k–$7M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Callia — Callia elevates the experience of sending flowers and sets out to add more special moments in everyday lives. Flowers have the ability to share love, kindness, and hope – Callia makes sending great quality bouquets simple and fast, so you can focus on making those moments happen.
- Wyvern — Discover hyperspectral imaging and Earth observation data from Wyvern. Access research-grade satellite imagery that reveals the hidden reality of our planet.
- DYNE — Growing restaurants and local economies while connecting communities over food. We are in the foodie community business, ready to Dyne with us?
Archer Gray is a media production, finance and venture investment company driven by for a passion for innovation, integrity, and results.
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- Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Series A $6M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Battlefy — Battlefy is the simplest way to start, manage, and find esports tournaments | Create. Compete. Conquer.
- Emoticast — Buy the domain name Emoticast.com and launch your business with a premium domain and a high quality logo.
- Inked Brands — They enable influencer commerce™ by empowering influencers to leverage their following to create a lasting revenue stream.
We are a private investment portal and licensed Exempt Market Dealer (EMD) across Canada. Join us in democratizing private investment and access to growth capital.
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- Industry: eSports, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3.1M; Grant $25k–$94k; Pre-Seed $19k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Bright Breaks — Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.
- Reno Sub Systems — Reno Sub-Systems, to our longtime semiconductor friends, colleagues and customers around the world. The founding of Reno has been a very gratifying challenge which has brought together many of the best and brightest minds in the field of Semiconductor Process Equipment Instrumentation. At a time when industry consolidation and the tightening ofventure capital poses a serious threat to new business formation, the founders of Reno have demonstrated the incredible power of inventing world-class technologies to enable next generation processes. With three brand new and highly disruptive technologies, we are creating a paradigm shift in the industry. At Reno, we believe there is unlimited potential for new discoveries and innovative thinking. As we move forward into the 450mm era, Reno stands at the summit of semiconductor process control equipment technology, ready to set the standards for product performance, worldwide customer support and customer satisfaction.
- Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
At August Capital we take Venture Capital personally
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 212
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$16M; Series B $7.5M–$39M; Series C $12M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- UpGuard — UpGuard is a cybersecurity platform that helps organizations monitor, assess, and manage cybersecurity risk across internal systems and third-party vendors. Its platform evaluates digital assets to identify security gaps, misconfigurations, and exposure points that may impact data protection and operational integrity. The company offers tools forvendor risk management, enabling teams to review and track the security posture of external partners. Its solutions also include attack surface monitoring, which maps internet-facing assets to detect vulnerabilities and unauthorized changes. UpGuard supports security teams with reporting and workflow features that assist in risk assessment, remediation tracking, and compliance alignment.
- PatientIQ — Our outcomes, research & patient engagement platform automates the collection of patient-reported outcomes with real-time, predictive analytics on the data.
- Tegile Systems — Experience the difference that Tintri data center solutions can offer your business. Get ready for a smarter future. Yours.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento is bringing FX onchain. We provide institutions with access to onchain FX at real-world rates.
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.3M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Glidance — Glidance develops a self-driving mobility aid for people with sight loss. It leverages advancements in robotics, AI, and autonomous systems to guide people with sight loss where they want to go. With the aid of its advanced technology, users may navigate through crowds of people and around objects with ease and safety, getting to a door, stairwell,or park seat in the area.
- 3D BioFibR — 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications.
- Hest Outdoors — We're on a mission to maximize days outside through a better night's sleep under the stars. Explore our revolutionary camping mattresses, sleeping pads and pillows. Sleep well. Play more.
Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented realitydevices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5.7M; Grant $5k–$500k; Pre-Seed $35k–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scale — 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.
- gett.me — AI outplacement software
- 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).
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- Industry: Sports, eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 1 million who read our entertaining sports newsletter.
Dennis Phelps is the General Partner of IVP.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series D, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series C $30M–$500M; Series D $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PlayVS — PlayVS is an operator of an eSports platform used to organize competitions in eSports on behalf of high school. Its platform offers to organize online tournaments and wagers for cash and prizes and helps to play and stay up-to-date on high school e-sports programs that enable teen gamers to form teams at their high schools to compete with playersfrom other schools and the battle for titles at state championships.
- Leo — LEO is the AI-powered augmented reality camera and creative platform. Capture, transform, and share stunning AR photos and videos.
- Cambrian Asset Management — A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.3M; Angel $68k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
- Coldblock — Coldblock delivers short-wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy, and safety. They offer services that include mining assays, environmental testing, food testing, metal assays, laboratory technology, and sample digestion.
- fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 401
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $3.3M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $626k–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8.9M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
- Bark Technologies — Bark's parental controls help you monitor social media, manage screen time, and track location to keep your family safer online.
Jez San is based out of London, England, and is the Founder of FunFair Technologies. Jez previously worked at PKR.com as a Founder.
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- Industry: eSports, Ethereum, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Malta, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
We are early-stage technology investors across North America and Europe.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
- Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
- Paage — Share your links. Sell your products. Showcase your best work. All in one stunning place, for free.
WME is the original talent agency, enabling generations of artists and creators to achieve success, impact culture, and shape a better world.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.1M; Series A $3.2M–$23M; Series B $12M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BERO — Premium Non-Alcoholic Beer Created by Tom Holland.
- Hello Products — To create safe, effective and delicious oral care products that are highly natural, vegan, never tested on animals, and made in the USA. wow, that was a mouthful.A small company trying hard to do big, friendly things for mouths everywhere.
- Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M; Debt Financing $350k–$130M; Venture - Series Unknown $453k–$40M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
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 provides financial planning software that integrates AI-driven analytics, real-time collaboration, and open APIs to support advisory workflows. The platform offers digital self‑service, collaborative hybrid, and traditional advisor‑led modes tailored to varied client needs. Its Strategic Advice Manager dynamically generatespersonalized strategies and adjusts plans using client data and tax‑aware modeling. The system centralizes data integration, scenario testing, and reporting to streamline advisor efficiency and client engagement. Multiple financial institutions deploy the platform to automate plan creation and foster goal‑based conversations without replacing human expertise.
- Highwood Asset Management — Highwood Asset Management is an asset management company that manages oil production and oil midstream spaces.
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- Industry: Software, Grocery, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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!
- WaitWell — Improve operational efficiency and reputation at busy service locations with queue management, appointment booking, workflow automation, and much more.
- 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.
Leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.4M; Series A $5.5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $55M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Okahu — AI Observability to help enterprises building LLM-based apps in the cloud move to production quickly, easily & safely without having to deal with DIY observability stack.
- Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
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Browse database — It's Free!Fueling the future of sports & entertainment while giving back to the game
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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 — Completely rewrite the rules of the game and leave your legacy in the latest NFL and NFLPA-licensed VR experience, NFL PRO ERA 25
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.
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- Industry: eSports, Gaming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $675k–$2.6M; Series A $5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Jarl Mohn is based out of Washington,District of Columbia and is the President Emeritus of NPR. Jarl worked at E! Entertainment Television as a President/CEO. Jarl Mohn attended the Temple University.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $655k–$2.2M; Series A $800k–$7M; Series B $6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dack — Operto's comprehensive hospitality management software streamlines operations, enhances guest experiences, and drives growth.
- Lantern — Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. It offers free, custom roadmaps to make sure you or a loved one have everything in order. Whether you're pre-planning or have recently lost someone, Lantern has all of the tools, resources, and services you need toconfidently manage the process while coping with the loss of a loved one.
- Abstract — Abstract provides an AI-driven policy intelligence platform that analyzes legislative, regulatory, and media data to help organizations identify risks and opportunities. The platform uses large language models and retrieval-augmented generation to process complex information and present it in a structured format. Abstract enables businesses tomonitor regulatory developments, assess potential impacts, and integrate insights into decision-making workflows.
Member of Senior Executive Leadership Team with high visibility in strategically developing and implementing scalable solutions to address business opportunities. Supports domestic and global functions, e.g. Actuarial, Agency Distribution, Billing, Corporate Internet/Intranet Communications, Financial, Human Resources, Legal, Reinsurance,Risk, IT applications, US Agencies, and onshore/offshore operations.Leader of large-scale transformations that drive business growth and optimization through consolidation, organization and technological redesign, process improvement, and staff development. Visionary and corporate influencer of new & future technology trends. Actively identifies, analyses, and champions value-based system modernization while positioning enterprise for future growth.
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- Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
FunFair Ventures is a venture capital business .Funfair Ventures funds early stage blockchain projects with a focus on both equity and tokens.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $280k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $3.3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rhuna — One white-label stack for payments, ticketing, access, and data across live entertainment.
- Entravel — Market leading hotel distribution API & room mapping. Agentic interface for AI agents. Turnkey hotel booking white labels for businesses.
- Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).
Bettor Capital is a venture capital firm and invests in companies that provide a platform for sports gambling.
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- Industry: Gaming, Casino, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $5M–$15M; Series B $13M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BR-DGE — BR-DGE offers innovative payment orchestration solutions, empowering merchants, payment providers, and platforms.
- Xpoint — Geolocation Compliance Software
- Hey Seven — Hey Seven provides an AI-native premium player development platform for casino and gaming operators. The platform unifies gaming, behavioral, and conversational data into a single player profile and uses autonomous AI agents to manage premium and emerging premium player relationships. Hey Seven automates workflows such as host outreach, upsell andcross-sell offers, reinvestment decisions, and responsible gaming safeguards. It is designed for land-based, online, and omnichannel operators and integrates with existing systems like player tracking, CRM, and property management tools. Operators use Hey Seven to identify high-value players earlier, personalize engagement across channels, and generate structured operational insights from guest interactions.
Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $2M–$21M; Series A $4M–$17M; Series C $52M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VAULT — Flick is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of software development, android, iOS, and mobile applications. Flick draws an audience of sports fans who want to engage on a deeper level with their favorite sports influencers, teams, and leagues. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3M; Series A $3.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- BigID — BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte-scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy andprotection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores.BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy.BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.
- Rebel — Rebel transforms email into a powerful and interactive marketing tool. While email remains a key revenue driver, it reimagines its potential by delivering actionable experiences directly to the inbox. By making the email an extension of the user's app or website, they enhance engagement, boost conversions, and drive more actions fromrecipients.
- Origo — Origo is a fintech company.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $350k–$2.8M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $13M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2017
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' — Side Hustles provides a part-time & remote job board and thousands of ideas and gig app reviews to help you start earning side hustle income.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Sales
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loot Squad — Loot Squad is a platform for blockchain gaming community that offers NFTs, crypto, and play-to-earn mechanics
- Sleek — Expand your collection and unlock elusive achievements with step-by-step discovery guides and event walkthroughs across World of Warcraft.
- Favik — Favik is an online platform that sets business for influencers. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Browse database — It's Free!NewBound VC is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who challenge what's "possible".
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Gaming, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $498k–$6.2M; Series A $4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Siprocal — Unparalleled reach across the Americas. Impact your target audiences with immersive experiences on their first screen of choice.
- Alice Mushrooms — Our chocolates are made w/ high-quality, organic ingredients & no artificial flavors or preservatives. Try Alice Mushrooms today and feel the difference! Alice Mushroom
- Greyson Clothiers — Greyson Official: fashionable and functional men's, women's and youth's performance golf, lifestyle, and activewear. Free US ground shipping on orders $250+
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $470k–$19M; Series A $3.2M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
- Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
3GP Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, eSports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 1 million who read our entertaining sports newsletter.
Nolan Bushnell is the Board Member of Gravity Jack. He previously worked at BrainRush Inc. as a Founder. Nolan attended the University of Utah.
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- Industry: Mobile, eSports, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oomba — Oomba serves the rapidly expanding eSports market by providing large-scale venues and a complete set of cloud-based tournament management and live-streaming solutions for the millions of players, tournament organizers, and gaming leagues worldwide. With its acquisition of GameWorks Oomba is building out eSports stadiums across the US.Oomba ispositioned to revolutionize the eSports and gaming industry by “eloquently organizing how people play” in leagues and tournaments while recording their results, stats, and rankings in the Cloud. Their multi-sided platform incorporates teams, leagues, live tournaments, governing bodies, game publishers, sponsorships, as well as, driving value for B2B solutions and consumers alike. Based in Irvine, CA, the Company was founded by Michael Williams, CEO, founder of Planetwide Games, and Tremor Entertainment. Aiding Williams in the creative development of Oomba is co-founder and visionary, Nolan Bushnell, famed video game developer and founder of both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese restaurants.Oomba officially launched its mobile app and website at Gen Con 2014, showcasing the innovative tournament organization, webcasting, and social networking functions by breaking the Guinness World Record for largest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament of all time.
- 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.
Breakout Capital is a fintech company that provides simple and straightforward working capital solutions to small businesses.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Insurance, Chemical
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series E
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Beam — Smarter employee benefits including dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health. Our plans are easy to understand, implement, and use.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $5.9M–$32M; Series B $14M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cybrid — The Cybrid software development kit & cloud-based platform can enable you to launch crypto trading within weeks, for minimal fees. Save millions in headcount, legal, and operational costs, compared to building your own platform from scratch.
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.6M; Series A $9.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 10club — 10club acquires small brands that sell their products on e-commerce platforms and scales those businesses.Great businesses are growing on the backs of e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, and more. They get their foundational years right but find it difficult to scale, and understand that competition is hard to curb. That's where10club steps in, allowing entrepreneurs to enjoy an exit and benefit from years of hard work
- 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 the operating system for private market alternatives investing
Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4.5M; Series A $10M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $17M in 2021
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.
- TMRW — Tomorrow is a social payments app for bitcoiners and their global friends. Enjoy instant, fee-free Bitcoin and USD transactions powered by the Lightning Network. Join the waitlist and unlock the power of seamless, borderless money transfers.
- FINNY — Take the guess work out of prospecting
Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$13M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2.5M; Series A $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $725M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
- Halfbrick Studios — Creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and more mobile mega hits!
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