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Top 50 Fashion VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in February 2025

Investor	Fashion Canada investments
District Ventures Capital	4
Acton Capital	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
Panache Ventures	3
Anges Quebec	3
Bedrock	3
Backbone Angels	3
ClearAngel	2
Incite Ventures	2
Ontario Centres of Excellence	2
Yaletown Partners	2
Banana Capital	2
The 51 Ventures	2
Columbus Capital	1
ArcTern Ventures	1
Capital Angel Network	1
VTF Capital	1
Golden Ventures	1
Origin Ventures	1
SWAT Equity Partners	1
Chasella	1
Fondaction	1
Ferst Capital Partners - FCP	1
Madrona	1
Radical Ventures	1
Second Avenue Partners	1
CASSIUS Family	1
Bessemer Venture Partners	1
Flight Ventures	1
Path Ahead Ventures	1
Marcy Venture Partners	1
Roach Capital	1
Avonmore Developments	1
Novel TMT Ventures	1
Real Ventures	1
Tiny Capital	1
VA Angels	1
Ascend	1
Hyphen Capital	1
Maveron	1
Red Thread Ventures	1
Google	1
Zeno Partners	1
Montreal Start Up	1
Secure Trust Bank	1
Evolution VC Partners	1
Inovia Capital	1
U-Start	1
Serena Ventures	1
Oriza Ventures	1

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Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

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.
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Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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.
HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Banana Capital is a technology investment firm that invests globally across all sectors and from pre-seed to pre-IPO.

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.

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heylist — Heylist is an influencer marketing platform where brands connect with a community of content creators to create, track, and measure their marketing campaigns.
Retellio — AI Agents that distill thousands of hours of customer calls into 30 minute podcasts.
Ayrton Energy — H2 STORAGE & TRANSPORTATION SIMPLIFIED

Columbus Capital is a Bahamas-based private equity firm with investments in telecommunications, software development, digital health solutions, seafood harvesting and processing, real estate, space operations and defense, technology hardware, and financial services.

Investment focus

Software, Fashion, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.
Openscreen — Turn physical interactions into digital processes. Build loyalty, drive sales, and streamline operations with Openscreen's enterprise QR Code solutions.
Fingercheck — Discover Fingercheck, the ultimate payroll & HR co-pilot for small businesses. Unlock the power of not doing your payroll. Get started today!

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
SRTX — Discover Sheertex tights and stockings made with one of the strongest materials in the world. Sheers manufactured sustainably in Canada. No rips, runs or snags - Guaranteed.

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.

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.

We Invest In The Future of Commerce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ross & Snow — Alexia Fashion Clothing
The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations

Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth software, marketplace, and consumer businesses shaping the 'Digital Native Economy'. Founded in 1999, the firm has the unique distinction of having multiple funds in the top 5% on realized performance. Typical check size is $500K to $8M. Select exitsinclude Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), BacklotCars, Tock, Ahalogy, and Teem.To learn more, visit www.originventures.com.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TiLT — Tilt's leave management system makes navigating critical life moments easy with our tech, and more human with our hearts.
Voze — Have detailed, timely and valuable info from your team? Discover how Voze is an easy way for workers to capture critical details from their interactions in less than a minute.
H3X Technologies — Ultra high power density integrated motor drives for electric aircraft.

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
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

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.

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.
Équipement St-Germain — Équipement St-Germain offers rental of heavy equipment without operator mainly to general contractors in construction, excavation, and landscaping companies.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chexy — Let your rent elevate your lifestyle. Chexy is the new standard for paying rent. We believe that tenants should be able to pay rent digitally and flexibly while building credit and earning rewards.
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.

A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Cohesity — Eliminate mass data fragmentation with Cohesity's next-gen data management. Begin with backup, gain instant recovery. Learn more today.
Eclypsium — Eclypsium's platform enhances supply chain security by incorporating zero-trust in every device, fortifying hardware, firmware, and software.
Aizen Therapeutic — Medicines beyond Nature

Radical Ventures invests in the future of how we live, work and play, partnering with founders who understand the transformational power of AI.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
Bubblehouse — Bubblehouse is a full-suite loyalty provider delivering increased retention through unique brand-focused solutions
Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Elude — Unlock cheap flights with our flight subscription! Save $200+ per month with our travel membership program and exclusive deals.
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.

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

Investment focus

Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) was Co-Founded by Shawn Carter (JAY-Z), Jay Brown and Larry Marcus. MVP has a passion for building innovative businesses and mass-market brands. The firm invests in Consumer & Culture with an emphasis on positive impact including sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, empowerment and health & wellness.Our companies are led by exceptional management teams with clear vision, purpose and executional excellence. We lead or co-invest in companies that have meaningful brand values, high customer joy driven by an outstanding product, demonstrated growth and clear catalysts for the next level of scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Blockchain, Food and Beverage
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
Wukong Education — WuKong Education is dedicated to providing high-quality online educational solutions for global learners aged 3 to 18 and boasts two brands, "WuKong Chinese" and "WuKong Math".

Roach Capital invests in outlier founders building magical products.

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.

Avonmore Developments is the family office of Simon and Michael Blakey that focuses on investments into seed and early-stage businesses, primarily in the UK and Europe. Avonmore has been operating since 2000 and has invested in over 40 different businesses in over 80 funding rounds. Michael Blakey now runs Singapore-based seed fund Cocoon Capital(www.cocooncap.com) that invests in early stage businesses across SE Asia. Simon Blakey is a member of Cambridge Angels, Chairs the Investment Committee of Playfair Capital (www.playfaircapital.com) and is on the investment committee of the Angel CoFund (www.acfinvestors.com/angel-cofund/)Avonmore's approach to deals is hands-on: mobilising other angel investors, working actively with entrepreneurs post-deal, and coordinating further funding rounds.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
AeroCloud — AeroCloud is revolutionizing airport management delivering modular, scalable airport operations solutions based on leading-edge technology.

Novel TMT Ventures backs stellar teams building innovative products and services to improve consumer experiences and efficiencies in commerce, media and payment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bloom & Wild — Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about.Founded in 2013 by AronGelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.
Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.
Backbone PLM — Backbone is a digital workspace to help product creators create, collaborate and scale. Built for designers, by designers.

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

We give founders simple exits that protect their team and keep their businesses operating. Offers in 7 days, close in 30.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Frontly — Turn your Google Sheets into modern dashboards and internal business tools in minutes.
Vesto — Fintech
Yield Exchange — Find competitive rates quickly & efficiently with Yield Exchange, the all-in-one treasury management platform, transforming how businesses search, compare, and negotiate for GIC rates.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

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Oumi — Building truly open, reliable frontier AI.
KamiwazaAI — KamiwazaAI offers scalable AI solutions for cloud, core, and edge environments.
Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.

Investing in the Next Generation of Asian-American Founders

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Riley AI — Riley AI builds adaptive artificial intelligence to help organizations easily transform their data into better strategies and decisions.
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.

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
Sage — Sage is an app helps to improve care with better caregiver tools that ensures older adults receive individual care.
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.

Red Thread Ventures (RTV) is a global investment and advisory firm. We form long term partnerships with early stage companies led by incredible management teams across a variety of industries. Besides capital, Red Thread adds value by leveraging an extensive CFO and capital markets executive network to aid ventures as they scale from idea toPre-IPO and beyond. Red Thread Ventures currently manages two investment funds, a VCC (Venture Capital Corporation) fund focused on pre-seed/seed stage opportunities in British Columbia and a "Global Fund" for follow-on investments and opportunities across different geographies and asset classes.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Levr.ai — Levr.ai supercharges your team with easy to implement tools that increase conversion, save time and provide a better experience for everyone.
Walter — One platform for law firms and company builders. Stay on the same page while raising capital and managing shareholders and employee stock option programs.
Minutebook — Simplify corporate records management. The only equity platform you need for lawyers, company builders, employees and investors

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Terradot — The Earth Regeneration Company
Intersect Power — Intersect Power is a clean infrastructure company bringing efficient, innovative, and scalable low-carbon solutions to its customers in energy and commodity markets. Our expertise includes all phases of development, design, engineering, finance, and operations. Intersect Power has a pipeline of 3.2GWDC of late-stage solar and storage projects thatwill be in operation by 2023 and an emerging pipeline of other clean infrastructure assets. The company has also developed and sold more than 1.7 GWDC of contracted solar projects across California and Texas, which are owned and operated by third-party investors.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Atmanity — Bringing AI To Life Launching In 2025
Granza Bio — Advancing Therapeutic Delivery using Precision Shells
Baton Market — Small business owners & buyers, you're 10X more likely to close the deal with Baton Market than the competition. Get the modern, dedicated business brokerage experience you deserve.

Montreal Start Up provides seed-level financing to entrepreneurs aspiring to establish companies in Montreal, with the focus being on software based services in the internet, wireless and media space. The Fund invests in entrepreneurs with very early stage concepts and ideas that need a bit a financing and some strategic and operational inputin order to help them progress their idea towards being a successful company or at least a company that is fundable by other VCâ€™s.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

StatusNet — Anyone can download StatusNet and run their own microblogging service, much like they can with traditional blogging platforms suchas Wordpress or MoveableType. The company is pursuing a WordPress-like strategy by offering a cloud service for public and private microblogging sites.
GuestDriven — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
Beyond the Rack — Montreal-based Beyond the Rack is the largest free Canadian private shopping club specializing in exclusive deals for women, men and kids seeking the latest in apparel, accessories, fragrances, furniture, wall art, home goods, electronics and more.Some 15 million active members in Canada, the United States, and beyond use Beyond the Rack toaccess limited-quantity flash deals. Beyond the Rack partners with some of the biggest fashion brands to deliver discounts of up to 80% on designer and fast fashion merchandise with no retail middleman required. More than 3,000 brands have worked with Beyond the Rack, and the site is constantly seeking new partnership opportunities.Beyond the Rack runs 15-25 sales per day, depending on demand and availability. Members receive notification emails in advance of each sale, based on their stated (customizable) preferences. Each Beyond the Rack flash sale typically starts at 10am EST and lasts no more than 48 to 72 hours—or whenever featured merchandise sells out, whichever comes first. Once each event ends, the featured products are no longer available. Beyond the Rack merchandise reviews help buyers evaluate items and decide whether and how much to buy. There are three easy ways to join Beyond the Rack. First, prospective members can simply request membership on the website. The process takes only a few minutes and requires minimal personal information. Second, prospects can take advantage of special promotions offered by Beyond the Rack’s marketing partners.Third, prospects can sign up with referral links provided by current Beyond the Rack members. All three sign-up options are free, with no ongoing membership fees. Even better, all confer the same benefits and opportunities to save on Beyond the Rack’s exclusive flash sales. At times, Beyond the Rack delays new member admissions when application volumes swell. This is to ensure that all members have equal access to flash sale merchandise. Application holds are temporary and all membership requests are addressed as promptly as possible.Beyond the Rack is renowned for its responsive customer service, speedy shipping times, and deep discounts. Members count on the latest fashions delivered to their doors as quickly as possible. It’s no wonder Beyond the Rack was named the fastest-growing internet retailer by trade publication Industry Retailer in 2011 and has notched more than $150 million in sales as of 2013.

Secure Trust Bank provides simple, transparent savings accounts, mortgages and Business and Commercial Finance. They are a bank. They look after savings and they lend money to individuals and to businesses. They like to keep it simple. Their mission is to build the best bank in Britain.They’re proud of their West Midlands roots and today theyoperate from a number of locations in the UK. They’re a much bigger family now – there’s more than 700 of us. In October 2016 they successfully listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Furniture, Pet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
Henderson & Jones — H&J is a litigation investment company that purchases litigation and arbitration claims.
Butchers Pet Care — Butchers Pet Care is a Wet feeding producer in the UK. Butcher’s also make great tasting meals for cats too! Butcher’s Pet Care prides itself in making more natural dog food and cat food, which is delicious and 100% complete and balanced. They can do this because it’s all they do; make great-tasting pet foods that cats and dogs love and thrive on;it’s their passion!

Evolution VC Partners invest and partner with disruptive companies with a strong team, product, and market opportunity. They help entrepreneurs build great companies and consider themselves to be investment accelerators and will seek to be active creators of value for their portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
HUNGRY — HUNGRY connects hundreds of local companies to top chefs & restaurants to provide amazing office food programs in a reliable and efficient way.
Qnovia — Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine.Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance theprotection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.
nue.io — Finally, an easy-to-manage, omni-channel RevOps platform designed to meet the needs of the modern business.
Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.

U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.

Oriza Ventures is a venture capital fund focusing on early stage technology investments. Our partners are series entrepreneurs as well as experienced venture ca

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mila — Mila is all about providing access to progress. The world around us is moving fast. Technical and digital innovations appear daily. There’s no way they can all keep up with this development. Perhaps you don’t have time or you’re just not up to a technical challenge. Still, everyone should be able to benefit from technological progress. Mila enablespeople to find an expert partner in their neighborhood on demand. Conveniently and easily, at a fair price.
Unifimoney — Unifimoney is an investment and money management app built to simplify, diversify and unify your money management. Manage and grow your wealth effortlessly and in one place. Passive and Active investing, plus alternative assets like Crypto and Precious Metals, a credit card with rewards paid in Bitcoin, Gold, or Equities, and a full suite of banking services. Plus exclusive benefits and offers for customers including student loans with bonuses up to $2,500, mortgages, auto loans, insurance, HSA, and more.
Parade — Find and manage carriers, boost margins. Precise pricing, optimized bidding, shipper connectivity.

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