Top 50 Fashion Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024
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 December 2024
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.
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
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- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.
- 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.
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.
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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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, Textiles
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 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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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, Textiles
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
SWAT Equity Partners is a venture capital firm for emerging entrepreneurial consumer brands. It was started by Mark Hauser, Sarah Foley, and Richard Kirshenbaum in 2016 to focus on identifying and investing in early-stage breakthrough consumer companies. New York-based SWAT Equity Partners currently has one fund invested in by a group offamilies as limited partners, and focuses on seed and Series A investments. The fund has made 19 investments over the past four years, including Banza, Supergoop, Foodstirs and Knix.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Women's, Fashion
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Anna Sinclair is an award-winning entrepreneur, early-stage investor and CEO of Total Mom Inc. She produced Canada’s largest holistic festival for moms called “The Total Mom Show” in partnership with some of North America’s largest brands. Recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women In Canada, top 50 influential women leaders, and Womenof Influence, Anna has been featured in Forbes as a contributor and Business Council member.She grew a massive community network of moms juggling motherhood and business. This online e-learning education community platform helps women grow, start, and grow their businesses with a focus on growing social and financial capital through a profitable and sustainable business model.Today, Total Mom has an annual reach of 24M + in Canada & US. She supports ambitious founders through a community of 20k+ moms, making it known as one of the fastest-growing online professional networks of mom entrepreneurs. Her experience working with over 350+ brands gives her the knowledge and experience to touch any aspect of a project from top to bottom. She secured over 3 million in sponsorship dollars to date through her firm Sinclair Creative Agency Inc., where she advises both individuals and consumer lifestyle brands on branding and business strategy, content marketing, and asset development.
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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.
CHASELLA is a privately-held, multi-generational real estate private equity firm with more than 40 years of experience in all facets of real estate development. The principals at CHASELLA have developed upwards of 1700 custom residences throughout the tri-state area, and have generated sales in excess of $1B. Chasella founders and principals arealso responsible for numerous innovations within the real estate development space that have contributed to lasting and quantifiable impacts within various communities as well as the industry at large.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Sports
- Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
- ExactBuyer — ExactBuyer Search enables sales, recruiting, and marketing teams to find their perfect customers, ideal hires, partners, or acquisition targets by searching the way they speak.
- giveback — tech-enabled platform bringing guidance and efficiency to the philanthropic world
Matthew James "Matt" Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and principal songwriter of rock band Muse. He is often recognized for his eccentric stage persona, wide tenor vocal range, and piano and guitar abilities.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MindPortal — The future of personal computing.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Nobell Foods — Farm fresh animal-free cheese that melts, stretches, tastes, goozes, oozes, bubbles, pops, tingles, and everything else to make your brain explode.
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tough Commerce — White-label commerce solutions for merchants, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers in complex industries such as construction. Touch Commerce provide operation management, dispatch, e-commerce, customer portal, trucking, delivery and finance solutions to complex industries.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
- Moselle — Automated inventory forecasting, purchasing, and planning for fast growing multi-channel brands.
- Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Pump — Pump uses AI & group buying to automate cloud savings with zero engineering input. #GetPumped
- Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
- Finta — Finta replaces Quickbooks and expensive bookkeepers. Get bookkeeping, taxes, and tax credits setup in 10 minutes.
Roach Capital invests in outlier founders building magical products.
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Investment focus
- Software, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
- 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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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.
Allen Shim is a Board Member of MSD Acquisition Corp. He attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Scheduling
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Vartana — Close more deals and increase cash flow with Vartana
- 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.
- 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.
ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to cleantech companies.The privately-backed venture capital fund provides early-stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector. The Fund has developed a unique early-stage investment model through its partnership with MaRS, one of thelargest innovation centers in the world.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
- Cyclic Materials — Cyclic Materials has created the first circular supply chain for rare earth elements with the goal of helping the world transition to an environmentally responsible future.
- King Energy — King Energy enables commercial-scale solar at shopping centers and office buildings, bringing financial benefit to property owners
Deborah Liu is the CEO at Ancestry. She is also a board memebr of Intuit.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Learning, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- teachme.to — Discover the easiest way to learn something new with private lessons tailored for all ages and skills
- 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.
Jason Warner is the MD at Redpoint. Jason cares deeply about the future of technology, developer experience, and growing companies. He is a people-oriented product technologist, who is passionate about building both the technical and human systems needed for scale and growth. Prior to joining GitHub, Jason was Vice President of Engineering atHeroku, the world’s leading PaaS and one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world. Before Heroku, Jason worked to make Linux accessible to everyone by leading product engineering for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Phone at Canonical. Jason is also an active speaker, writer, and advisor on cloud computing, technology and leadership. His activities include formally and informally advising startup and established executives, as well as active coaching and mentoring future product and technology leaders.Jason graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Computer Science, and Rensselaer University with an MS in Computer Science. He lives with his family in Victoria, British Columbia, where he writes, sketches and enjoys the water as much as possible.
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- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Spain
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- slai — Slai is a self-serve machine learning platform. Instantly connect data sources, train models on GPUs, and deploy to APIs in minutes.
- Beam — Train and deploy AI and LLM applications securely on serverless GPUs, without managing infrastructure.
- Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Ferst Capital Partners (FCP) is a private investment firm which invests in venture capital, private equity, public markets, sector-focused funds and crypto assets. We have an interest and expertise in consumer fintech, digital assets and search funds.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- auticon — auticon is the first German company to exclusively employ autistic people as software testers and offer their services (Software-Tests) on the free market. This innovative approach gives the client the advantage of special high-quality workmanship.
- NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
- Moka — Moka helps you save effortlessly by automatically investing your spare change. Get started in just a few minutes and watch your money grow with every purchase you make. Save more, spend less and invest smarter with Moka.
Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer.
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- Fashion, News, Beauty
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- NUDESTIX — NUDESTIX provides cruelty-free, vegan makeup products that enhance natural beauty for a fresh-faced, nude look. Shop lip and cheek pencils, face highlighters and more.
- TheSkimm — theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Join the millions who wake up with us every morning.
- League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.
Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy.
Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.
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- Software, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
- Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
Second Avenue Partners provide management, strategy and capital for early stage companies. The following companies are in their portfolio...
-Rubicon Interactive
-Sports Technologies Inc.
-Ice Energy
-Newsvine
-Azaleos
-You Software
-Revenue Science
-Insitu Group
-Bocada
-HouseValues.com
-WaveMarket
-Terabeam
-Essention
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada
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- Seeq — Seeq Corporation develops software and services that accelerate industrial process analytics on industrial process data.
- FitOn — Lose weight, get fit and feel great anytime, anywhere with free on-demand fitness classes, personalized workout plans and guided meditations.
- IOTA Software — IOTA Software is a provider of data visualization that connects people, assets, and manufacturing processes. The company's team has extensive experience in the industrial process manufacturing sector.
Google is a multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. Their products address a wide range of use cases, including email, navigation, cloud computing, web browsing, video sharing,productivity, operating systems, cloud storage, language translation, photo storage, video calling, smart home, smartphones, wearable technology, music streaming, and more.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Propelle — Propelle focuses on empowering millions of women financially. Propelle is a female-focused financial investment platform focusing on community, Education, and Investment. Propelle was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
- Rockhead Games — Rockhead Games focuses on designing projects for PC and consoles and nextgen handheld devices. It delivers memorable moments, lead to imaginary worlds, present living characters, and challenge people by revisiting classic games. Rockhead Games was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
Path Ahead Ventures is a new initiative by REI Co-op that invests in founders of color to start and scale businesses in the outdoor industry. REI Co-op's Path Ahead Ventures offers full-spectrum support to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and AAPI-owned and -led startups
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- Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Varlo — Varlo is a performance focused sports apparel brand specializing in men's & women's triathlon suits, cycling shorts and tops, and running apparel.
- OROS Labs — OROS Labs is a material technology company provides thermal solutions.
- Spicewell — Spicewell develops and creates food seasoning products that includes various kinds of micronutrients. It uses modern science to infuse healthy and organic additions to food meals. Spicewell is based in California, USA.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Cake AI — Cake is the fastest way to drive AI initiatives to success. Cake manages the entire stack - compute infrastructure, open source platform elements, common integrations, and pre-built project components.
- 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.
- StoreCash — StoreCash is a digital bank built for teens and young adults. Unlock massive cashback rewards & learn financial literacy by signing up.
Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.
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- E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Series D
- United States, Canada, Colombia
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- 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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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Spain
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- Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
- 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.
Investing in the Next Generation of Asian-American Founders
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Australia
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- (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.
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.
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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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- 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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- 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.
Manny Bahia - CRO @ Daily Hive
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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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