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Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	FinTech Canada investments
Real Ventures	18
Panache Ventures	18
Hedgewood	17
Inovia Capital	17
Luge Capital	16
Impression Ventures	16
Anges Quebec	15
BDC Venture Capital	13
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	13
Global Founders Capital	13
Golden Ventures	12
Portage Ventures	11
Business Development Bank of Canada	10
OMERS Ventures	10
Diagram Ventures	10
Ferst Capital Partners - FCP	10
Conconi Growth Partners	10
N49P	9
Cycle Capital	9
Desjardins Venture Capital	8
Tom Williams	8
NAventures	8
Mistral Venture Partners	7
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	7
FJ Labs	7
Ontario Centres of Excellence	7
Garage Capital	7
CFV Ventures	7
National Bank of Canada	7
Mechanism Capital	7
White Star Capital	7
CoinFund	6
The 51 Ventures	6
Lemniscap	6
ParaFi Capital	6
Ventures Platform	6
Rhino Ventures	6
Business Development Bank of Canada	6
GrowthWorks Capital	6
Innovacorp	6
CMS Holdings	6
Lerer Hippeau	6
Maple VC	6
Hypersphere Ventures	6
Canaccord Genuity Group	5
Alameda Research	5
Susa Ventures	5
National Research Council Canada	5
Shima Capital	5
LedgerPrime	5

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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.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

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

Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
Not Diamond — Not Diamond is the world's most powerful AI model router.
Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.

Luge Capital is a fintech focused venture capital fund, investing in early-stage teams shaping the way the world experiences financial services. We are an experienced team with value added investors and a deep industry network to help founders build successful companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Plooto — Powerful accounts payable and receivable software from Plooto helps your business automate these processes. Click here to learn more.
Westhill — Westhill is an insurance company that specializes in claims, technology, property and casualty, homeowners, and property. It helps insurance companies delight property owners in their “moment of truth” blending a proprietary digital experience. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.

VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

401GO — 401GO provides a comprehensive 401k solution for small businesses of all sizes, from a single to thousands of employees. Ongoing administration is automated with payroll integrations while compliance, government filings, notifications, and all other responsibilities are handled by the company.
Symend — Symend helps top enterprises deliver digital experiences that are hyper-personalized based on the science behind consumer behaviour.
Goose Insurance Services — Mobile First B2C Insurance Platform

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Propulso — Break the barrier between digital and physical world: target your competitors, target events, measure physical visits and generate results!
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.

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

Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation — Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issuesthat arise from creating human-like machines.

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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.
ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

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

Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
Basil Systems — Basil’s SaaS platform leverages machine-learning across product, market and regulatory data to provide analytics and insights for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Benepass — Give your employees flexible benefits.
Agio Ratings — Agio enables firms that trade and invest in digital assets to protect capital, underwrite credit, and secure long-term success
Ansel Health — Give your employees peace of mind with supplemental health insurance from Brella. Our plan offers more coverage, less hassle, and a faster, simpler claims experience.

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
Cardinal Energy — Cardinal Energy is an oil production company that offers low decline light, medium, and heavy quality oil in Western Canada.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.
Deep Sky — Deep Sky is building infrastructure to scale CO2 removal. Deep Sky will remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground, back where it belongs. A new benchmark for Scope 3 Emissions: durable, scalable, and inherently measurable and verifiable.
Redwood Materials — Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.

Connecting ideas, founders, and capital to build companies

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Katara — Katara is an advanced agentic workflow automation platform that allows you to manage a fleet of AI workers and expand your team's bandwidth.
ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
Axle Automation — Axle provides a valuable solution for compliance operations teams. Axle AI agents could be instrumental in streamlining workflows, reducing manual effort, and enhancing accuracy in compliance-related tasks.

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

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.

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
Oneinvest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Power Life Science — Discover cutting-edge therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Power helps patients everywhere take control of their care.

Cycle Capital is a pioneer in Canadian Cleantech venture capital fund management investing in companies at the development and commercialization stages in North America. Founded in 2009 by Andrée-Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital’s Platform has become an important venture capital investor of the Cleantech industry with its 3funds totaling $230M Assets Under Management (AUM). Cycle Capital is looking to invests in promising ventures that are not capital intensive and/or that can benefit from the leverage brought by Cycle Capital extensive network of investors, strategic partners and advisors.In addition to its core investments, Cycle Capital targets companies with high growth potential – especially those with strong intellectual property, leading edge technologies and with exceptional management talent that would benefit from the firm’s network of strategic industrial partners and expert advisors. With its core investment and business expertise, Cycle Capital plays an active role adding meaningful and tangible value to its portfolio companies at all stages of their life.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fibracast — Fibracast is the innovator of FibrePlate™, the next generation in MBR technology. This unique hybrid ultrafilter integrates the best attributes of hollow-fiber and flat-plate membranes into a compact, strong and energy efficient immersed membrane.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
Cycle Momentum — Cycle Momentum is a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to the cleantech startups. Founded by Cycle Capital, the accelerator works with entrepreneurs that develop and commercialize clean technologies to help build globally competitive companies. Cycle Momentum offers entrepreneurs a specialized and personalized program of trainingworkshops, networking sessions, experienced mentors and gives access to the investors to some of the most promising Canadian cleantech ventures.

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

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Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
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.

We invest in startups and developing compagnies and support them every step of the way to ensure their success.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sardine — Solve risk, compliance, and payments with one powerful API.
Synctera — Making it easier for community banks and FinTechs to find their perfect match and work together. Welcome to the new FinTech frontier.
Ownly — Ownly helps home builders enhance new construction home sales by streamlining online reservations & verification through interactive software.

Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Armilla AI — Discover how Armilla AI is revolutionizing AI governance with cutting-edge warranty and insurance solutions. We provide 2-week AI assessments that guarantee performance, transparency, and fairness for enterprises and AI vendors alike. Partner with us to innovate with confidence and trust.
Cookin — Cookin is the all-in-one platform to build a site to sell food with delivery, pick up, order processing and more. We help creators by providing easy to use tools and apps to run and market their business online.
Axle Automation — Axle provides a valuable solution for compliance operations teams. Axle AI agents could be instrumental in streamlining workflows, reducing manual effort, and enhancing accuracy in compliance-related tasks.

Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Comun — The Neo Bank for Latino families
Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta

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.

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.

Early stage venture capital firm focused on Fintech

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

PTO Exchange — PTO Exchange is the first benefits platform that allows employees to self-direct the value of their unused paid time off (PTO) for other needs and causes.
AleFi — Empowering Finance Content Creators
VoiceScript, Inc. — VoiceScript, Inc. is a leading supplier of legal technology and SaaS solutions designed to modernize the court reporting and legal industries. VoiceScript products and services allow court reporting agencies to deliver the industry's best and most efficient court reporting services while also significantly reducing production costs anddelivery times for certified legal transcripts. By partnering with VoiceScript, court reporting agencies can quickly scale their digital court reporting business, while dramatically improving their overall profitability.

Simplify your finances with our services including bank accounts, mortgages, credit cards, savings and insurance. Access accounts with 24/7 online banking.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
Canada, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Aypa Power — Aypa is a pioneering developer, owner, and operator of energy storage and renewable hybrid projects.
TFI International — TFI International Inc is a freight company specializing in the transportation and logistics industry that operates across Canada through 4 business segments, and in the United States. The company creates value for shareholders by identifying strategic acquisitions and managing a growing network of wholly-owned, operating subsidiaries. Under theTransForce umbrella, companies benefit from financial and operational resources to build their businesses and increase their efficiency.TFI International operates a fixed route courier business servicing in excess of 35,000 accounts in the insurance, optical, financial, travel, dental and legal business sectors across Canada. It also provides transborder services through interline agreements with third party regional and national carriers.TFI International was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Saint Laurent, Quebec, Canada.
Terravest Industries — TerraVest Capital Inc. is a publicly traded income trust with a portfolio of diversified businesses and whose stated objective.

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Gudchain — Gudchain operates a game creation firm that specializes in web-3 games. The company's platform incorporates blockchain technology into its games, allowing gamers to play and earn simultaneously.
Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Nectar AI — Nectar AI is a virtual AI companion platform that offers users the ability to create and interact with the digital customized personalities and companions.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
Blueberry Protocol — Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market.

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
Raad Labs — We're building the sensory network which the world's authorities have overlooked: unlocking Billions through crowdsourced weather data.
XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.

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.
Monark — Monark is an on-demand leadership development platform that offers self-led and expert-facilitated programs to help you transform your career.
Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.

Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Sort — Easily integrate Ethereum data into your app!
Gateway.fm — Unbreakable Web3 Infrastructure that seamlessly scales with you.
Webb Protocol — Webb builds infrastructure for connecting zero-knowledge applications empowering developers to unlock user privacy in the Web3 ecosystem.

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

There is more to choosing an investor than selecting the term sheet with the highest valuation. Strategic capital, in its true form, extends the founding team’s capacity. That’s what we do at Rhino. We invest in companies where we can add tangible value. We’ve been on the other side of the table and appreciate the importance of funder and founderalignment. From startup, growth to exit; it is entrepreneurial ambition that drives value, not venture capitalists. We invest in individuals; trust and values fit are a centerpiece in every investment.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, Isle of Man, United States

Portfolio highlights

Super Advisor — Super Advisor helps Advisors gain independence with the best advisor and client experience in the industry. Use our automations to streamline your business and give your top-tier service to every single client.
Twig Fertility — Every nest starts with a twig. We are the next generation of fertility care.
Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Canada, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
Cardinal Energy — Cardinal Energy is an oil production company that offers low decline light, medium, and heavy quality oil in Western Canada.

Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

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Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.

Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.

Investment focus

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

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Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.

CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

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Kuru — Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

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

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Aerflo — Aerflo a transportable method of carbonating sparkling water.
Daylight Energy — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need

Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, South Korea

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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.

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Canada

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Irys — Irys is the first L1 programmable datachain, bringing together data storage and execution for a simpler and more efficient development process. Built for scalability, Irys supports both temporary and permanent data, ensuring reliable and flexible data management. With a clear pricing model and EVM compatibility, Irys offers a solid and affordable platform for creating dynamic, data-driven applications. Irys bridges the gap between temporary and permanent data, ensuring efficient and verifiable onchain interactions. Our mission is to lead the transition to a fully onchain, data-driven future, setting a new standard for web services and empowering innovation at every step.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Sentient — Community-built open AGI

Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. is a leading independent, full-service financial services firm, with operations in two principal segments of the securities industry: wealth management and capital markets.

Investment focus

Mining, Precious Metals, Software
Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Li-FT Power — Li-FT Power is a cutting-edge company that focuses on identifying, exploring, discovering, and advancing early-stage lithium pegmatite projects in Canada. The company currently holds an interest in the Rupert Project, which is a 155,000-hectare greenfield lithium pegmatite exploration project.
enCore Energy — enCore Energy is a U.S. domestic uranium developer focused on becoming a leading In-Situ Recovery (ISR) uranium producer.
UGE — Cleaner, cheaper energy for everyone is our goal. Earn and save while you transition to renewable energy with community solar.

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

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3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

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Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
Plenful — Plenful increases efficiency, ROI, and data accuracy around manual, administrative healthcare operational workflows.
Portex — Portex makes freight procurement more efficient by eliminating emails, spreadsheets and pdfs, while instantly unlocking insights to lower freight spend.

NRC is the Government of Canada's leading resource for research, development and technology-based innovation. NRC comprises some 20 institutes and national programs, spanning a wide variety of disciplines and offering a broad array of services.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ekona Power — Ekona is using methane from feedstock to produce clean hydrogen and electrical power.
Pantheon Design — Pantheon Design develops 3D printing systems that allow industrial grade flexible manufacturing at a speed never seen before.
FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.

LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic investment firm in the Digital Asset space. With a data centric approach and a commitment to rapid innovation and technology, LedgerPrime seeks to become a global leader in generating sustained and superior risk-adjusted returns.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wixpool — Wixpool is a liquidity mining mechanism that is based on the Wixpool Rate Stabiliser (WRS) algorithm. Wixpool, led by WRS, allows anybody to invest in high-yield liquidity pools with a steady interest rate by pooling the assets of private users into an automated ecosystem.
Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.

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