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Top 50 Fashion Startup Investors in Canada in November 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 November 2024

Investor Fashion Canada investments
District Ventures Capital 4
Anges Quebec 3
Acton Capital 3
Backbone Angels 3
BDC Venture Capital 3
Panache Ventures 3
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) 3
Bedrock 3
Ontario Centres of Excellence 2
The 51 Ventures 2
Incite Ventures 2
Banana Capital 2
Jay Deen 2
Gemini Waghmare 2
Roham Gharegozlou 2
Jeff B. Smith 2
Ted Rheingold 2
Harley Finkelstein 2
ClearAngel 2
Yaletown Partners 2
Ascend 1
Maple VC 1
U-Start 1
SWAT Equity Partners 1
VA Angels 1
Inovia Capital 1
Felix Capital 1
Madrona 1
Anna Sinclair 1
Chasella 1
Matt Bellamy 1
Capital Angel Network 1
Paul Kedrosky 1
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund 1
Zeno Partners 1
Roach Capital 1
Dejana Dua 1
Reetu Gupta 1
Allen Shim 1
Rajiv Khaneja 1
Consumer Ventures 1
Fondaction 1
ArcTern Ventures 1
Deborah Liu 1
Daniel Patricio 1
Anthony Clark 1
Jeremy Lai 1
Jason Warner 1
Ferst Capital Partners - FCP 1
Chelsea Handler 1
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District Ventures Capital VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Anges Quebec VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
  • ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
  • HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Acton Capital VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany
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.
Backbone Angels VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Kahi — Kahi's Automated Asset Intelligence offers near real-time tracking. See your assets in transit and on your job sites. Mobile App.
  • 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!
  • Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com
Panache Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • 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 ...
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
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.
Bedrock VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
Ontario Centres of Excellence VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
The 51 Ventures VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Incite Ventures VC Fund · Boise, Idaho, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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 is a precision oncology and translational science company. Our product is Oncology Intelligence®—highly predictive therapeutic response data derived from advanced models of cancer. Certis partners with oncology therapeutics developers to help close the problematic translation gap between preclinical studies and clinical trials. UsingCertisAI™, our proprietary artificial intelligence/machine learning platform, and more clinically relevant, patient-derived tumor models, we bring certainty to lead candidate selection and help secure clear and compelling evidence of drug efficacy. Certis is ALAAAC-accredited and CLIA-certified for high-complexity testing.
Banana Capital VC Fund · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Jay Deen Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Gemini Waghmare Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Roham Gharegozlou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
Jeff B. Smith Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Ted Rheingold Angel
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 Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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.
ClearAngel VC Fund
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.
Yaletown Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
Ascend VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Maple VC VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
U-Start VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
SWAT Equity Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
VA Angels VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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
Inovia Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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
Felix Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • re:cap — re:cap enables companies in the subscription economy to trade future revenues for on-demand, non-dilutive capital. Fast, transparent and easy.
  • 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.
  • Wordsmith AI — Wordsmith offers the best AI tools for legal teams, including AI-powered contract review, document generation, and legal chatbots. Trusted by top companies, Wordsmith helps lawyers streamline workflows, speed up legal processes, and increase productivity.
Madrona VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 21 investments in the past 12 months
A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • 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.
Anna Sinclair Angel
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 VC Fund · Massapequa Park, New York, United States
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
Matt Bellamy Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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.
Capital Angel Network VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Paul Kedrosky Angel · San Diego, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Events, Product Search
  • Seed, Series C
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ecomtent — Ecomtent enables brands to create eCommerce content with Generative AI. Using Ecomtent's self-service tools, customers can generate their entire optimized Amazon listing, using our AI product photo generator, AI Generate infographics at scale, a+ content, and generate optimised copy.
  • 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
  • ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
Zeno Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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 VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Dejana Dua Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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.
Reetu Gupta Angel · Markham, Ontario, Canada
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 Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
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.
Rajiv Khaneja Angel · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Travel
  • Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Consumer Ventures is a venture capital and advisory firm based in Chicago focused on building great consumer brands and companies.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Women's, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Fondaction VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada
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
  • Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
  • Rcm Modulaire — Rcm Modulaire is engaged in the designs and manufactures quality modular buildings.
  • Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.
ArcTern Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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 Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Daniel Patricio Angel
Daniel Patricio
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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 Angel
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.
Jeremy Lai Angel
Jeremy Lai, CEO of Italic.
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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.
Jason Warner Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 Handler Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, News, Beauty
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
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