Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Canada
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
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
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
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- SPARK Microsystems — The leading supplier of ultra-wideband wireless technology. Enabling responsive, low latency and high volume data-transfer capabilities over short distances.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- 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.
- Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days
- ProNavigator — ProNavigator provides an AI-driven knowledge-sharing platform, used by some of the largest insurance organizations, to save time, provide superior service, and seize revenue opportunities. The platform leverages advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language understanding to instantly and automatically retrieve answers tocustomers' and employees' questions.
VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
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Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Israel
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bridgr — For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help
- AAVAA — About Us. AAVAA believes that you should be in control of your audio environment. Our technology lets you seamlessly choose what you hear simply by focusing on the sounds of interest. About Us. AAVAA believes that you should be in
- Goloot — Reward your everyday.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- Fabacus — Fabacus is a global technology business and creator of proprietary technology platform, Xelacore, designed to digitally-transform businesses within the licensing & retail industries. Driven by first-hand experience within retail, licensing and manufacturing, Fabacus are standardising product information, allowing businesses to create robust andretail standards-compliant product catalogues to sit at the core of all their business initiatives. Xelacore is a modular, cloud-based platform, built to meet bespoke business needs and integrate with existing systems, including multifaceted data validations and governance checks. It enables licensors, licensees and brands to improve business agility and ability - driving sales, combatting counterfeit, increasing efficiency and ultimately achieving full visibility of their consumer product licensing programs, with to-the-minute data authenticated by all stakeholders. Fabacus was founded in 2016 with headquarters in London. The company's mission is to transform brand licensing through the power of data, with their industry-wide solution.
- DarwinAI — DarwinAI helps manufacturers transform their visual quality inspection with leading artificial intelligence to improve product quality, operator efficiency, and production cost savings.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
- KeyOps — A revolutionary physician engagement platform that allows doctors to quickly share their expert opinions with healthcare stakeholders such as government institutions, hospitals, universities, and life science 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
- Kepler Communications — Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new businessopportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure.The company is currently developing technologies and delivering services that solved terrestrial connectivity needs, offering terrestrial wideband and soon-to-be narrowband connectivity services for IoT applications.With Kepler's first service, named Global Data ServiceTM, they have been able to pack more Mbps into a nanosatellite than anybody else ever before. This wideband service delivers a store-and-forward type of solution for companies needing to move large quantities of delay-tolerant data from regions where connectivity is limited or non-existent. It is designed to transfer 100s of GBs of data monthly between remote locations and company headquarters or the internet. This service is available today for trials.Kepler is also developing a satellite service for Internet of Things devices – called everywhereIoTTM. A low-power, low-cost, bi-directional narrowband satellite service that will allow to connect assets all around the globe (at sea, land and even in the poles). With two satellites already in orbit, and a third scheduled for launch later in 2019, the company is currently preparing the deployment of its first LEO constellation for 2020.
- Graphite Innovation & Technologies — GIT is focused on providing innovative and most sustainable smart coating solutions for the shipping industry - we use nanotechnology to make smart and environmentally friendly paints for constantly moving vessels to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The company has several ocean-going ships utilizing the technology and gettingready to ramp up production worldwide.GIT offers a full suite of marine coating systems for seafaring vessels. As a trusted partner in unlocking peak vessel efficiency, our innovative marine coatings help ship operators save money by reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions. Our products are designed to be the most sustainable marine coatings in the world. Unlike many marine coatings, we do not rely on leaching chemicals and other harmful substances to improve fuel efficiency. Our coatings are unique in that they are hydrophobic and extremely hard, which prevents marine life from adhering to the hull surface, thus reducing drag as the vessel cuts through the water. GIT competes in the global marine coatings market and has positioned itself as a disruptor in the industry. This is driven by our passion for innovation and change as we push towards a more sustainable future for the maritime industry.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, IT
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
- Barley — Barley makes it easy to structure, analyze, and manage compensation across your entire company - and keep a pulse on changing salary trends.
- Notch — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Mooncard — Mooncard was created with an ambition: to put the new payment technologies at the service of the day-to-day management of all companies to enable them to gain in simplicity, efficiency and therefore profitability. Currently, many purchasing and spending processes remain manual and complex, ranging from routine purchases and expenses to expenseclaims. Businesses of any size, and often the small ones, lose valuable time to make and manage these payments. Mooncard completely transforms this situation by proposing an innovative payment solution, piloted in real time, secure and deployable very easily. Thanks to the most modern technologies (web, big data, IA ...) the payment and management circuit is completely automated.Mooncard supports all companies to enable them to take full advantage of the revolution of means of payment.
- Franklin Payroll — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll
- Conquest Planning — Conquest Planning is a FinTech company that is developing an innovative solution for the financial services industry.
Ferst Capital Partners (FCP) is a private investment firm which invests in venture capital, private equity, public markets, sector-focused funds and crypto assets. We have an interest and expertise in consumer fintech, digital assets and search funds.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Other
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Internet
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Data and Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cerbos — Add secure, decoupled, extensible access controls to your product, while enabling collaborative management of user permissions.
- HelloSelf — The UK's Trusted Online Private Clinical Therapy Service
- Joyn Insurance — Joyn Insurance is a Managing General Agency that underwrites commercial insurance in the Small and Middle Markets.
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.
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Investment focus
- Sustainability, Energy, Hardware
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- SPARK Microsystems — The leading supplier of ultra-wideband wireless technology. Enabling responsive, low latency and high volume data-transfer capabilities over short distances.
- Airex Energy — Airex Energy provides solutions for a sustainable future. Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
- VueReal — VueReal is engineering the next electronic systems by mass integration of high-efficiency nano/micro-devices into large-area substrates (e.g., displays, sensors, system on panel, and more). They have started by making the true-life experience of micro-LED displays affordable for all applications (TV, laptop, smartphone,virtual/augmented reality, etc.). VueReal technology platform is based on the interplay of cutting-edge micro/nano-device processing, sophisticated integration technologies and advanced system design (hardware and software). VueReal technologies can enhance the experience of existing electronic systems and enable new applications by integrating millions of highly efficient micro-devices (micro-LED) into system substrate. As our Solid Printing (TM) technology works across all substrate sizes, it can develop displays ranging from super high ppi (>4000 ppi) to very large.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, IT
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cegerco — Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc.
- Groupe Canva — Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee companyserves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience.
- Voilà! Technologies — Evolia is an all-in-one platform to recruit, schedule and manage your hourly employees. Find the perfect candidates for your empty shifts.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Canada, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Royal Helium — Royal Helium Ltd. is publicly traded on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol RHC.
- Optel Group — We are leading global provider of traceability, track-and-trace and vision systems for a growing number of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical devices, food and beverage, agrochemicals, metals and minerals.
- Summit Nanotech — Summit Nanotech innovates direct lithium extraction (DLE) processes to economically and sustainably unlock lithium resources globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
- 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.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
Diagram is backed by a unique combination of entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Together they provide market insights and create opportunities to accelerate the success of our companies
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
- ClearEstate — ClearEstate is a one-stop-shop for all your estate planning and settlement needs. Our platform and experts will handle the entire settlement process.
- Conduit — Embed popular crypto-powered features into your product with a single API integration.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
- ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
- Soricimed — Soricimed is a privately-held, clinical stage company focused on the development and commercialization of applications originally derived from its unique and proprietary family of peptides found in the paralytic venom of the northern short-tailed shrew
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Other
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- Porter — Porter is the accounting platform for software companies from inception to IPO.
- Devyce — The easiest way to get a second UK mobile phone number. Get a new number or bring your own and port it for free. For teams and individuals.
Founded in Quebec City in 1859, the Bank has grown while striving to always earn the trust of its various stakeholders and contribute to the development of the communities it serves. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions over the course of its history, National Bank Financial Group has grown to become a powerful integrated financialgroup and Quebecâ€:tm:s leading bank. National Bank Financial Group is firmly committed to continuing deployment of its One client, one bank vision, which is aimed at giving clients access to the same exceptional service, whatever their point of entry to the Financial Group, and ensuring that our efforts are even more focused on client satisfaction.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Natural Resources
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Canada, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Hecate Grid — Hecate Grid is an independent power producer (IPP) that develops, owns, and operates standalone storage projects.
- eStruxture — eStruxture is the largest Canadian Data Center Colocation Provider. Colocation space Available in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver.
- Lycos Energy — Lycos is an exploration, development, and production firm run by a group of highly skilled experts who use a daring and innovative strategy to seize and profit from chances that others have passed over.
Early stage venture capital firm focused on Fintech
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- 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.
- Asa Technologies, Corporation — It's difficult for financial institutions to predict what tech and features their customer base is going to resonate with. ASA doesn't give you a one size fits all app, but rather links you to a marketplace of innovation and endless possibilities. ASA makes it possible for banks and credit unions to offer mobile tech solutions forbudgeting, saving, investing, managing a business, and so much more! Your banking customers will always have access to the most cutting edge technology, with new tools coming out as fast as the growing crowd of independent developers can make them. Every customer can choose the fintech they feel best fits their needs. More choice and control for your customers, less risk and expense of building out tech yourself. win-win.
- InsureLife — InsureLife provides an AI-powered Network Orchestration Platform for Insurers that digitally connects their financial services products with consumers and agents so they interact anytime, growing sales in a contactless world.
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Chord — Chord is the headless commerce and data platform for growing brands
- Fractal Homes — Own your dream second home at a fraction of its cost
- Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Hardware
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ventureLAB — ventureLAB’s innovative start-up support model connects their clients to create a supportive community of entrepreneurs focused on learning, sharing talent, and leveraging ideas. This collaborative model is central to the success of ventureLAB and it's entrepreneurs clients.
- RealSage — SoulRooms enables multifamily and student housing landlords to rent/manage properties efficiently, and create a better appeal for modern, digital native renters. We apply deep learning to simplify the regular tasks of online application review, acceptance and automate information flow for tenant requests. Our platform also provides aproprietary renting by the room feature that enables landlords to improve cashflows by over 30% and reduce vacancies across the portfolio.
- NURO — NURO is the manufacturer of NUOS, the Neural Operating System. NUOS allows today instant communication and full-scale computing by brain signals without surgery.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cookin — Cookin is the world's biggest food delivery marketplace. Find the best meals directly from chefs, cooks and food creators that you can't get anywhere else.
- Expeto — Welcome to Expeto NeXtworking: Enterprise Mobile Networking that knows no bounds. FOR MXOs For MXOs who want to expand their...
- Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days
Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Other, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
- Monad — Monad brings true performance as a new EVM L1 blockchain. Fast, powerful, efficient. Built for developers.
- t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Webvar — Making Commerce in the Cloud Simple
- PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.
- Xclaim — Recover what you are owed quicker with the easiest and world's largest bankruptcy claims marketplace. Discover how here.
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AssistIQ — Tracking medical supply usage with actionable insights for healthcare providers to increase efficiency, reduce costs and carbon footprint.
- Walnut Insurance — Insurance for everyone. Pick from transparent plans made for you.
- Halp — Get more acceptances and scholarships with 1-on-1 online admissions coaching, hands-on mentorship, and university support
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Planetary — Planetary Technology is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
- Axtion Independence — Axtion Independence is a mobility aid for fall prevention and recovery.
The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Other
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Thetanuts Finance — Thetanuts is a multi chain structured products protocol with automated strategies to generate income
- Berachain — Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on Proof-of-Liquidity consensus.
- Polyhedra Network — Polyhedra Network is constructing the infrastructure for Web3 interoperability through the use of advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols.
ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Other, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Ironblocks — Securing Web 3.0
- Elementus — Elementus is a data-first Web3 company empowering organizations to unify, explore, and operationalize the blockchain with the highest degree of confidence.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Hardware
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SWITCH Materials — SWITCH Materials develops revolutionary new materials based on proprietary organic molecules that "switch" optical properties on command.SWITCH’s molecular switches can be developed for a number of applications, especially in the areas of molecular electronics and health sciences, including optical filters, photochromic inks, paintsand fibers, high-density optical information storage systems, molecular sensors and biomarkers for labeling and tracking of live cells.SWITCH has assembled a team of cutting-edge materials scientists with combined expertise in synthetic chemistry, polymer processing, optics, and molecular & materials engineering. SWITCH conducts its research and development activities in our own laboratories and the state-of-the-art analytical and clean room facilities at 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University's new $40 million materials science research centre.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Data and Analytics
- 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.
- Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.
- Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies — Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) is a Toronto-based VFX studio focusing on premium TV series. We deliver feature-film quality on TV timelines.
Tom Williams | Heron Rock. Angel investments.
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- Software, IT, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- Fieldcraft — Fieldcraft is the ingredient marketplace for food and beverage companies. Search, sample and simplify bulk industrial ingredient sourcing.
- Guava — Launching soon. Join the waitlist and be one of the first to receive access.
- Preventia Technologies — Preventia Technologies makes doctors 10x more efficient. We solve the most significant problem in healthcare - the global doctor shortage.
Maple VC is an angel fund that focuses on founders with Canadian roots.
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- Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, South Korea
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- Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.
- Mash — The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.”Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet.We are unlocking this withfriction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized.It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.
- ChargeLab — ChargeLab is the Android of EV charging. We don’t build EV chargers, but our hardware-agnostic platform runs on the world’s most popular EV chargers. Once connected, our software makes any EV charger smarter and easier to use.
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.
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- Software, Science/Engineering, Manufacturing
- Grant, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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- FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.
- Pantheon Design — Pantheon Design develops 3D printing systems that allow industrial grade flexible manufacturing at a speed never seen before.
- Ekona Power — Ekona is using methane from feedstock to produce clean hydrogen and electrical power.
Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.
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- Software, IT, Hardware
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.
- Areto Labs — Areto Labs is a human-focused cyber security company that uses AI to protect people by detecting and counteracting online abuse.
- PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
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.
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- Software, IT, Science/Engineering
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- Canada, Argentina, United States
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- Royal Helium — Royal Helium Ltd. is publicly traded on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol RHC.
- Optel Group — We are leading global provider of traceability, track-and-trace and vision systems for a growing number of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical devices, food and beverage, agrochemicals, metals and minerals.
- Summit Nanotech — Summit Nanotech innovates direct lithium extraction (DLE) processes to economically and sustainably unlock lithium resources globally.
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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- Financial, Software, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.
- Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
- Risc Zero. — Zero-Knowledge powered VM based on the RISC-V instruction set.
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.
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- Other, Software, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
- Few and Far — Few and Far is the next-generation platform for experiences in Web3, including NFTs, DeFi, gaming, and more. They help NFT projects with launchpad services, minting tools, outbound marketing, and more. They offer creators the liquidity, ability to earn, and listings alongside the top collections on NEAR.
- Dynamic Labs — Dynamic is your multi-chain wallet-based authentication and authorization platform.
Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Food/Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Ronbow — Ronbow is a commercial company that distributes, designs, and manufactures a diverse selection of decorative bathing products, including sinks, vanities, medicine cabinets, and more. The company selects the highest-quality hardwood and puts them through a rigorous 10-step finishing process that is finalized with a comprehensive assembly process.Ronbow offers a dynamic and diverse design spectrum to fit any style home, from ultra contemporary to old world traditional. Their versatile designs allow for interchangeable sinks and countertops in wood, glass, stone & ceramic to match any home decor. The company provides options for interchangeable sizes and materials to inspire a truly unique customizable experience.Ronbow was founded by Jason Chen in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA, USA.
- Fincentify — Fincentify is building a fintech ecosystem to help people borrow, save, and protect themselves.
- GrubMarket — GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.
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.
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- Financial, Other, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- BHR — Real estate data is fragmented, difficult to access, and controlled by protectionist organizations. This costs companies billions of dollars every year and makes rapid innovation impossible. BHR is a B2B data marketplace that enables access to all information about any residential property, saving real estate businesses countless hours andsignificant costs.
- C3 Protocol — C3 is a self-custodial cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy, margin trade, and earn using any wallet from any blockchain.
- Onomy Protocol — Onomy is bridging Forex and Decentralized Finance through cross-chain liquidity aggregation and digital currencies.
GreenSky Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that manages venture capital and provides financial advisory services.It makes investments in early-stage technology companies through its affiliated venture capital funds, GreenSky Accelerator Fund I, II and III. Their principals bring a unique combination of experience in technology,law, and finance to high-growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs.GreenSky Capital was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010 by Geoff Simonett and Michael T. R. List.
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- Software, Science/Engineering, IT
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Direct-C — Direct-C is an Alberta based company that has created a breakthrough proprietary nanocomposite coating based on compounds specifically designed to only react to liquid hydrocarbons (typically C4-C20). The end result is a leak detection solution that provides unparalleled performance for the integrity monitoring of oil and gas infrastructure. Zerofalse positives, instant alerts, and precise locations – all which lead to enhanced response times to unexpected incidents. Originally developed at the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering, Direct-C’s head office is located in Edmonton with staff satellite offices also located in Calgary and Bath, England.
- Wisedocs — The Wisedocs platform makes it easy to sort, understand, and organize messy, unstructured medical, legal, and insurance documents.
- Funnelytics — Align your marketing strategy with data. Vizualise & create actionable insights to better understand your customer's drivers and bottlenecks.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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- Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cure Hydration — Cure is a premium, hydrating electrolyte drink mix made with organic coconut water, pink Himalayan salt and no added sugar. Based on the WHO's ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution.)
- Companion — Companion uses state of the art AI to provide thousands of hours of fun and engaging training to your dog.
- Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.
Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.
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- Other, Financial, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
- MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
- reNFT — Multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and rev-share. Start building!
PNYX Ventures is a digital asset management firm specialising in blockchain capital markets.
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- Financial, Other, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
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.
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- Financial, Software, Other
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- Thala Labs — Building $MOD, a decentralized, yield-bearing stablecoin, and the liquidity provisioning layer on Aptos.
- MetaStreet — Earn yield in the Metaverse with leverage.
- MPCH Labs — MPCH Labs was founded on the belief that Multi-Party Computation technology is the foundation for a new world of trade, technology, and commerce.
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