Top 50 Fashion Startup Investors in Canada in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fashion startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fashion companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Fashion Startup Investors in Canada in January 2025
Investor | Fashion Canada investments |
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District Ventures Capital | 4 |
Panache Ventures | 3 |
Backbone Angels | 3 |
BDC Venture Capital | 3 |
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) | 3 |
Anges Quebec | 3 |
Bedrock | 3 |
Acton Capital | 3 |
Ted Rheingold | 2 |
Jeff B. Smith | 2 |
Roham Gharegozlou | 2 |
ClearAngel | 2 |
Gemini Waghmare | 2 |
Ontario Centres of Excellence | 2 |
The 51 Ventures | 2 |
Incite Ventures | 2 |
Banana Capital | 2 |
Harley Finkelstein | 2 |
Yaletown Partners | 2 |
Jay Deen | 2 |
Alumni Ventures | 1 |
Lev Ekster | 1 |
Serena Ventures | 1 |
Hyphen Capital | 1 |
Flight Ventures | 1 |
Mona Patel | 1 |
Manny Bahia | 1 |
Maple VC | 1 |
U-Start | 1 |
VA Angels | 1 |
Inovia Capital | 1 |
Felix Capital | 1 |
Dejana Dua | 1 |
Highland Capital Partners | 1 |
Canada Media Fund | 1 |
Suraj Gupta | 1 |
Carla Matheson | 1 |
Stormbreaker Ventures | 1 |
Ascend | 1 |
Madrona | 1 |
Paul Kedrosky | 1 |
Rajiv Khaneja | 1 |
Consumer Ventures | 1 |
Fondaction | 1 |
Daniel Patricio | 1 |
Anthony Clark | 1 |
Jeremy Lai | 1 |
Reetu Gupta | 1 |
Basem Hanna | 1 |
SWAT Equity Partners | 1 |
Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
- Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
- Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
- Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
- Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...
We are a collective of angel investors. We are coming together to invest in women and non-binary founders with a focus on investments in Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour-led companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Bahamas
Portfolio highlights
- Ceremonia — Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall.
- Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
- Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
- Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
- Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com
Diplo is an investor of Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Amongother jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source:
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Investment focus
- Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
- Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) — Hexoskin is the leader in Smart Clothing, Software & AI Data Analytics. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are clinically validated for continuous ECG, HRV, Respiratory, Activity, Sleep & Stress monitoring. The Hexoskin Smart Garments are used by sports scientists, healthcare, defense, aerospace & research professionals.
- Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
- HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
- Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
- Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
Since 1999, Acton Capital invests in tech-enabled business models to create value for the long run. We support world-class teams on their way to market leadership.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Klaus — Klaus is a conversation review tool that improves customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. It also integrates with your help desk, good for improving the quality of answers and on-boarding new agents. They also connect to your favorite help desk solution and saves time on fumbling around with spreadsheets and comingup with the review system.Klaus is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
- Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
- ECO Group — Eco is a supplier of consumer products. They create structures for increased growth and profitability within the group companies.
Ted Rheingold was an experienced owner/operator that realigned his Internet, startup and business experience to grow cause-oriented for-profit businesses. He was Strategic Advisor for delivering services traditionally provided by non-profit. He recently wrote about his InVenture provides financial identity and credit scoring services to the previously unbanked in South Asia and Africa. It offers free SMS, Voice and Android money-management tools for small business owners and head of households and licenses it's credit scoring services and algorithms to finance institutions, NGOs, governments, and credit providers. Ted is perhaps best know for founding and serving as CEO of Dogster, Inc. makers of Ted sold Dogster & Catster to Ted's first business Previously Ted served as Engineering Production Leads at Voquette and Preview TravelHe has served as a Mentor with 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. And has Investor and Advised at Lumatic, Colingo, Visually, TastemakerX, Petsana, DogVacay, StoryPanda, Reclip.it, Colloquy, Ad Hoc Labs & Cir.caTed Rheingold died from kidney cancer on September 4, 2017.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Colingo — Colingo was founded in 2011 to break down barriers to personal, social, and economic opportunities by teaching people around the world to speak English.Colingo offers a live, online English school with teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized skills-training and private tutoring.Through its live video classes, Colingo provides apersonalized path to English fluency for global professionals who have a basic understanding of English, but lack the confidence and skills to speak in conversational settings. Offered 24 hours a day, Colingo's classes blend authentic conversation about contemporary topics with structured skills training and assessment of over 70 core grammar and pronunciation skills. An average class size of three to five provides an intimate, low-pressure environment where students can gain comfort and confidence while improving core skills and receive feedback.
- Digit — Get the all-in-one money app that budgets, saves, and invests for you. Try Digit free for 30 days.
- Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
Jeff B. Smith is the Co-founder and Partner at Ignite Growth Brands.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
- Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Clearco funds direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands. Clearco is the best funding alternative to ecommerce loans to fund inventory, marketing bills, and logistics for your ecommerce business.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Women's
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mobobaby — The Mobobaby Nursing Cover + Hat is the only breastfeeding cover up worn by baby. The innovative, breathable nursing cover is a great hooter hider so you can enjoy covered goods. Recommended by lactation consultants, baby sleep consultants, and sleep trainers, it is one of the best, unique baby gifts.
- Better Rhodes — Curated Collection of Alcohol-Free Beer, Wine, and Spirits. We host the best in non-alcoholic beers, wines, spirits, mocktail kits, gift boxes, and more.
- Everlasting Adult Pleasure — Everlasting Adult Pleasure focuses on top-tier, personalized customer service.
Gemini Waghmare is the Co-Founder at Openscreen, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
- FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
- Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.
Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Heylist — Heylist is an influencer marketing platform where brands connect with a community of content creators to create, track, and measure their marketing campaigns.
- Retellio — AI Agents that distill thousands of hours of customer calls into 30 minute podcasts.
- Ayrton Energy — H2 STORAGE & TRANSPORTATION SIMPLIFIED
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Investment focus
- Sustainability, Biotechnology, Delivery
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Quilt — Quilt is the best home climate system available. Our electric, energy efficient heat pump uses smart technology to save homeowners money and cut emissions.
- Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials leverages AI to design and deploy advanced materials & climate technologies for the long-term habitability of our planet.
- Certis Oncology Solutions — Certis Oncology Intelligence: predictive AI + advanced cancer models for more insightful data. Translational science, done differently.
Banana Capital is a technology investment firm that invests globally across all sectors and from pre-seed to pre-IPO.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- BinStar — BinStar is New England's newest bargain store. Discover deals on overstock and returned merchandise from your favorite brands and retailers.
- Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
- Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
- Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
- Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
Jay brings more than 20 years of experience in software development to organizations he works, most recently focusing on social networking services in Mobility & Telco markets. Jay was a founding employee and CTO of UXP Systems that was acquired by Amdocs in 2018. He is currently the CTO of Amdocs Media and is directly responsible for R&Dfor the Identity and Commerce division. He was a technical advisor to Social Deck (acquired by Google), Rubikloud (acquired by Kinaxis) and is an advisor to Deveron a public Agricultural Data Science company.Jay maintained roles in development at Delrina, Symantec, Solect Technology Group, AudienceView Ticketing and was Vice President of Technology and founding employee at Casero Inc (acquired by Radialpoint)
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Spintly — Integrate the Spintly Smart Access control system with your apps and software, without having to toggle between multiple devices & software.
- Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
- Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.
Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Series D
- United States, Canada, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.
- Elroy Air — Expanding the reach of express logistics via aerial cargo systems - safely, efficiently and autonomously.
- cadence — The next generation of refillable travel containers for your personal care and toiletries. Patent-pending, leakproof and highly durable capsules made from recycled ocean-bound plastic. Sustainable and easy to use.
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
- KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
- Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.
Investing in the Next Generation of Asian-American Founders
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- (Re)vive — Hemster is an on-demand tailoring service that empowers customers to create their own size no matter where they shop. It offers and provides alteration and tailoring services to brand name retailers across the country. Hemster eliminates the most frustrating part of shopping: finding that perfect size. Instead of making shoppers look for theirperfect size, retailers can now create a tailored size from off-the-rack inventory using Hemster’s Perfect Fit Platform.It was founded in 2015 and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.
- Rosie AI — Rosie is ChatGPT for Excel—your on-call expert business analyst. She integrates seamlessly with your spreadsheets to build, update, and explain complex Excel models. Whether you're aiming to streamline data analysis or automate repetitive tasks, Rosie is designed to boost productivity and sharpen decision-making. With Rosie, Excel becomes lessabout wrestling with formulas and more about driving strategic insights.
- AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
Flight Ventures is the first fund that was built by leveraging AngelList syndicates. They operate some of the top syndicates on AngelList, as well as the Flight Ventures Expansion fund (offline). Flight Ventures includes 25 partners with exceptional operational and entrepreneurial accolades, all whom actively engage with our portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Elude — Get amazing cheap flight deals delivered right to your inbox. We find the lowest prices to the best destinations so you never overpay for flights again.
- Feel Therapeutics — Feel develops Biomarkers and Digital Therapeutics to bring objective data and measurement in the way we diagnose, manage and care for Mental Health.
Mona Patel, Founder, Vasant Cosmetics.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
Manny Bahia - CRO @ Daily Hive
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots
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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.
- 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 — Double down on your niche. Cut out the noise. Grow organically, effortlessly
U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
- Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
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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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
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Scribenote — Effortless documentation for veterinary professionals.
- Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
- Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
- Agave Games — Agave Games is a mobile games publishing company and provides unique experiences
- Manual — Manual is a men’s health and well-being startup offering a suite of diagnostic tools and blood tests to offer data-driven health solutions. The company provides men with easy access to advice, free medical support, and the treatment choices they need to help them make proactive decisions about their wellbeing.Manual was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in London, UK.
Partner
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Shopping
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Apricotton — Comfy bras made for tween, pre-teen, and teen girls that are adjustable to a girl's body as she goes through puberty. The best bras, sports bras, bralettes, and scrunchies for girls in middle school and high school. Designed in Canada.
Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprisetechnology.Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay.Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- Podimo — Podimoa is an open podcast platform that offers a subscription service for creators. Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a share of revenue via premium subscriptions. Co-founded by Morten Strunge, Nikolaj Koppel, Andreas Sachse, EvaLægdsgaard, and Sverre Dueholm, Podimo is hoping to capitalize on the rise in consumption in podcasts.
- Transcend — Transcend offers data governance solutions that help companies achieve privacy compliance through powerful data mapping and data discovery, automated data subject requests, and simple cookie consent, all with industry leading security.
- Eko Health — At Eko every digital stethoscope from Eko comes with smart disease detection capabilities to help healthcare professionals confidently identify and diagnose heart and lung disease during physical exams.
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
- Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
Suraj K. Gupta is the Co-Founder, President & CEO at Rogue Insight Capital Ltd. Suraj attended Columbia Business School.
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- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Seed
- Canada
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- THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
Carla Matheson
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- Fashion, Manufacturing, Product Design
- Seed
- Canada
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- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
Stormbreaker Ventures partners with the high-velocity, high-conviction companies that stand out from their peers because they are driven to build efficiently.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Denmark
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- Aervivo — Aervivo's platform enables our partners to rapidly provide fiber-grade connectivity experiences at a fraction of the cost of fiber.
- Plotify — Plotify is a real estate company that specializes in Buying, owning, managing, and selling an investment property. Its plot structure aims to help its users, to keep the perks of property ownership, without the hassle. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, England.
- Global Telecom — WE ENGINEER CONNECTIVITY - Build, secure and deploy solutions that seamlessly connect your global enterprise.
We invest wherever the Seattle Mariners play on TV.
When I say “we”, I mean me and Jen, our mighty Chief of Staff.
Marketplace, Consumer Brands, Ecommerce, B2B Software are my sweet spots.
Preferred stage is pre-seed, preferred check $250-$750K.
Ascend’s Limited Partners are a diverse group of technology leaders, financiers, and entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
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- Finpilot — AI Copilot for Finance
- Panda AI — PANDA works by integrating with popular applications and applying breakthrough Natural Language Processing AI in ridiculously practical ways to help teams win more and work less.
- Foundation — Evolve from PDFs and Spreadsheets to Digital Commerce with Foundation Wholesale Commerce Platform.
A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, Spain
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- Cohesity — Eliminate mass data fragmentation with Cohesity's next-gen data management. Begin with backup, gain instant recovery. Learn more today.
- Aizen Therapeutic — Medicines beyond Nature
- Archon Biosciences — Archon is a biotechnology firm that creates computationally engineered proteins to unleash potent therapeutic targets beyond the grasp of current methods and improve disease management.
Dr. Kedrosky is a co-founder and managing partner at SK Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. He has more than two dozen investments in drones, mobile, software as a service, and other areas. He has sold companies to Cisco, Twitter, and many others.He is currently a contributing editor at Bloomberg, where he comments regularly on early-stagetechnology & startups. He has been an advisor to the Kauffman Foundation, and remains an advisor to OMERS Ventures, a large Canadian venture investor. He was previously a venture partner with Venture West, a $500m venture capital firm. Dr Kedrosky began his career in technology sales & marketing, before becoming a technology equity research analyst at various major investment banks. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering, a master's in finance, and PhD in information technology.
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- Software, Events, Product Search
- Seed, Series C
- United States, Canada
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- Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
- Wealthfront — Diversify your investing with an automated portfolio that can help maximize your returns and minimize your taxes. Control your risk, investments, and allocations by customizing your portfolio with the things you care about most.
- ONtheGO Platforms — ONtheGO Platforms is a developer of software applications for smart glasses. It offers a gesture recognition software that turns any mobile device with a standard camera into a gesture interface, for runners, and endurance athletes. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler
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- SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Seed
- Canada
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- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Checkfront — With over 4000 customers in 120 countries, Checkfront is an Built on the _Saas_ model, Checkfront is a fully managed solution. It includes automated updates, backups, and industry-leading security on a high speed, highavailability network.
Consumer Ventures is a venture capital and advisory firm based in Chicago focused on building great consumer brands and companies.
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- Fashion, Women's, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Canada, United States
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- alder — alder apparel is the outdoor recreation apparel company that women have been waiting for. shop alder today.
- Adgile Media Group — Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, France
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- Manulift — Manulift EMI specializes in telescopic.
- Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
- Équipement St-Germain — Équipement St-Germain offers rental of heavy equipment without operator mainly to general contractors in construction, excavation, and landscaping companies.
Daniel Patricio
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- Fashion, Software, Textiles
- Seed
- Canada
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- Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.
Anthony Clark is the Development Manager at Shopify.
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- Fashion, Software, Textiles
- Seed
- Canada
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- Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.
Jeremy Lai, CEO of Italic.
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- Fashion, Software, Textiles
- Seed
- Canada
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- Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.
Reetu Gupta is the Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Rogue Insight Capital Ltd. Reetu attended the Schulich School of Business.
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- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Seed
- Canada
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- THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
Basem Hanna is the Founder, Chairman, President & CEO. He previously worked at Ledn Inc. as an Advisor. Basem Hanna attended Ivey Business School at Western University.
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- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Seed
- Canada
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- THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
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- E-Commerce, Women's, Fashion
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- Aerflo — Aerflo a transportable method of carbonating sparkling water.
- Dipsea — Spicy audiobooks and more, featuring your favorite tropes and irresistible characters. Crafted by our team of professional writers and top-tier narrators.
- Stix — Stix is the female-founded, no-judgment health brand with the products and space you need to make confident decisions about your body. Fertility, pregnancy, UTI, and yeast infection products, all discreetly delivered.
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