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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Canada (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Canada Food and Beverage startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Food and Beverage startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
District Ventures Capital
VC Fund
45 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
13 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $500k–$83M
Investeco Capital
VC Fund
11 Canada, United States, Portugal Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing $250k–$40M
Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $439k–$16M
Fondaction
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $276k–$145M
Export Development Canada
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Manufacturing, Energy $3.6M–$858M
Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, Nigeria Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Debt Financing Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $100k–$78M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
9 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $25k–$2M
Golden Ventures
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$49M
Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $620k–$228M
SOSV
VC Fund
7 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Government of Canada
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Kenya Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Non Profit, Manufacturing, Education $100k–$38M
Relay Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$40M
Btomorrow Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Spain Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $376k–$8.5M
WUTIF
VC Fund
6 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $100k–$5.5M
BrandProject
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
FedDev
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $24k–$5M
Builders VC
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$40M
Prairies Economic Development Canada
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, Spain Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software $176k–$3M
Natural Products Canada
VC Fund
5 Canada Grant, Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage $70k–$4M
Innovacorp
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, Australia Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $19k–$3.1M
Green Acre Capital
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing $118k–$11M
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $387k–$40M
E-Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada, China, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $279k–$43M
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $50k–$1.7M
Almanac Insights
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Agriculture $747k–$90M
Globalive
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $400k–$12M
Matchstick Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $120k–$19M
Renewal Funds
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Software, Organic Food $1M–$30M
SVG Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Australia Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed AgTech, Agriculture, Farming $16k–$4.7M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.2M–$65M
Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $360k–$13M
Farm Credit Canada
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Farming $1.4M–$400M
Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
AgFunder
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$28M
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $35k–$3.5M
Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $10k–$2.7M
Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing $3.4M–$21M
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund
4 Canada, France, Luxembourg Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction $100k–$3.7M
Real Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $592k–$47M
Avrio Capital
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Organic Food $2.3M–$20M
Government Of Quebec
VC Fund
4 Canada, Germany, Switzerland Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $111k–$45M
DSM Venturing
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $3.5M–$32M
Toyota Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics $1.4M–$126M
Rhapsody Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing $1.5M–$50M
Island Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Canada, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Film Production $205k–$3M
VA Angels
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, India Seed, Debt Financing Health Care, Software, Information Technology $110k–$1.5M
Congruent Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Energy, Robotics $2.1M–$90M
Rockies Venture Club
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Health Care, Medical Device $250k–$7M
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 45 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
  • Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
  • Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 13 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession,financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$50M; Series B $7.5M–$83M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Namakor Holdings — We combine strategic investment and in-house operational expertise to untap the true potential of your industrial manufacturing businessNamakor Holdings is a private equity firm investing in mid-market manufacturing companies, driving growth, innovation, and global expansion.
  • Premier Tech — Premier Tech has been focusing on skills development and recognition to constantly innovate, improve its operational excellence and deploy products and services that create value for its customers.
  • KERIDIS BioÉnergie — KERIDIS BioÉnergie is engaged in the development of anaerobic digestation plants to produce renewable natural gas.
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Investeco Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 11 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

InvestEco invests in innovative companies in the Food & Agriculture Sector. Learn More about our process, people, and companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Goparity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com
  • Chickapea — Buy your Chickapea Pasta and have it shipped to your door! Free shipping to most locations in the United States.
  • Little Sesame — Serving up smooth hummus & sunny vibes.
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Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund · Fremont, California, United States · 10 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $439k–$1.6M; Series A $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5.1M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • WearLinq — WearLinq is a provider of wearable health monitoring and diagnosis solutions. The company's device records a multi-lead ECG and transmits it in real-time with AI to detect typical irregular heart rhythms, including a normal heart rhythm, aFib, bradycardia, and tachycardia, allowing users to discover history and trends, set reminders, andconnect directly with physicians.
  • Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
  • Maple Supply Chain — Maple Supply Chain offers customized supply chain management solutions for brands and manufacturers.
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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Debt Financing $276k–$11M; Private Equity $750k–$125M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$145M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Icentia — Icentia provides a range of innovative medical tests for healthcare institutions. They are able to offer valuable solutions for major problems in the field of medical testing.
  • Solar Uniquartier —
  • Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace is more than just an immobilization brace, it's a dynamic and innovative solution.
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Energy
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 259
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $3.6M–$500M; Debt Financing $3.6M–$858M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revolve Renewable Power — We are an owner-operator and developer of utility-scale renewable energy generation projects in North America that focus on wind, hydro, solar & battery storage
  • CleanPlanet Chemical — Discover the most advanced solvent recycler available today. Whether you recycle your solvent on-site, off-site, or not at all, save money with CleanPlanet Chemical's solvent recycling system.
  • International Test Pilots School — International Test Pilots School (ITPS) offers EASA Approved Test Pilot & Flight Test Engineer courses for military and industry customers.
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 360
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Debt Financing $100k–$78M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Axya — Optimize manufacturing procurement with Axya. Enhance visibility, streamline collaboration, and automate tasks. Say goodbye to spreadsheet chaos and email overload.
  • Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
  • TickTrade Systems — smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider with multi-asset electronic trading platforms, helping buy-side & sell-side institutions
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 9 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 96 in the past 12 months

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians,we are building a stronger economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $36k–$2M; Debt Financing $141k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • QRA — QRA works with global organizations to automate the quality and consistency of engineering requirements. Their software tool QVscribe enables teams to identify risk, errors, and ambiguities before they manifest into late-stage rework, cost-overruns, and recalls.
  • Deep Cove Aqua Farms — Deep Cove Aqua Farms is a live lobster holding facility and seafood processing plant. The company acts as a wholesale business, seafood market, purchasing premium seafood directly from local fishermen, grading the catch by quality and size, and distributing it to domestic and international clients.
  • LED Roadway Lighting — Liveable Cities produces smart LED lighting manufactured in Canada. Intelligent LED street lighting systems are being used across Canada and throughout the world. Contact us to learn more about our smart street lighting and city sensor systems, available internationally.
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.8M–$32M; Series B $10M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $103M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
  • 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
  • Brodie Rec Leagues — Brodie Rec Leagues specializes in basketball tournaments, leagues, and training.
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Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund · Lévis, Quebec, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $620k–$228M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $120M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
  • Inscora — Inscora is the cyber-insurability platform for MSPs and MSSPs. Assess risk, accurately measure client insurability, and unlock new revenue - without adding operational burden.
  • Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 7 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Government of Canada
VC Fund · Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Education
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 533
  • Round size: Seed $293k–$4.7M; Grant $100k–$25M; Debt Financing $100k–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • CAMH — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. We believe that #MentalHealthIsHealth
  • Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
  • University of Manitoba — The University of Manitoba received its charter on February 28, 1877. Today, the UofM has three main locations: the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.The downtown Bannatyne campus of the university comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave andWilliam Ave in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the university. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the 95,000 sq ft (8,800 m2) Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008. The Brodie Center is known as the "flagship" which connects all three faculties as well as the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library and the Joe Doupe Fitness Centre. It is located on 727 McDermot Avenue.The main Fort Garry campus (located on the Red River in south Winnipeg) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on 233 hectares (580 acres) of land. In addition, Smartpark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development organizations involving university-industry partnerships. The address is 66 Chancellors Circle.The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.The university operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba. The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a 406 acres (164 ha) facility located 70 km (43 mi) from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately 1,000 acres (405 ha) and located 20 km (12 mi) from Winnipeg.
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $4.7M–$14M; Series B $5.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • PressBox — PressBox was founded by ex-Bleacher Report engineers who saw where AI could help media organizations scale the discovery, creation, and measurement of personalized content across a variety of platforms. Gen-Z is leading a shift in fandom, following sports through athletes, influencers, and cultural moments in contrast to the team and city-basedaffinity of previous generations. Sports organizations are looking to personalization to meet this rapidly growing portion of the fan base, but lack the end-to-end solution to deliver revenue-producing results. Our platform enables leagues to reach more fans by automating the creation and distribution of highly-personalized, sponsorable, multi-modal content that speaks to fans regardless of their connection to a sport.
  • ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
  • Leonardo Worldwide —
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Btomorrow Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
  • Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
  • PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $803k–$3.3M; Angel $376k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $915k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scopia Surgical — Revolutionizing the operating room with our real-time artificial intelligence image processing technology. Scopia Surgical is a co-pilot for the human body, guiding surgeons with unprecedented accuracy and confidence.
  • Galaxia — GALAXIA Mission Systems designs and develops intelligent satellites and edge computation platforms for space.
  • Elisa Interactive — Elisa Interactive operates an asset-light, prompt-to-environment software model designed to lower technical entry barriers in user-generated gaming ecosystems. Its core application platform, Me-Z-Scene, utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically arrange existing asset kits into complex 3D worlds based on natural language inputs. Thecompany's value proposition centers on empowering casual gamers and amateur builders to deploy custom virtual spaces without requiring coding or digital design expertise.
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WUTIF
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
  • Carbonyx — Carbonyx transforms waste into carbon-negative advanced materials for industry.
  • CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the therapeutic use of RNA nanomedicine to treat disorders of the central nervous system.
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BrandProject
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round.BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly,Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products..Find out more at www.brandproject.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
  • Great Many — Explore non-surgical PRP hair restoration and hair loss treatments at Great Many. Shop hair growth products or book a consultation at our NYC clinic.
  • The Gleamery — The Gleamery is a health and wellness startup that focuses on professional-grade, expeditious teeth whitening, and cleaning.
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FedDev
VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 45 in the past 12 months

FedDev Ontario aids the southern Ontario economy by supporting innovation, commercialization, business growth, productivity, and communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Seed $24k–$2.2M; Grant $98k–$5M; Debt Financing $500k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moyy — Moyy designs, prints and manufactures custom packaging and display solutions for brands in e-commerce and retail. The company focuses on corrugated packaging, including mailer boxes, shipping boxes, trays, product boxes and custom brown boxes. Moyy also produces retail-ready packaging, point-of-purchase displays and temporary signage for tradeshows, events and promotions. Its services span structural design, art, graphics and colour management, along with digital and flexographic printing using corrugated-focused technology. Moyy offers custom inserts to protect products and refine the unboxing experience. It serves a range of industries such as apparel and beauty, food and beverage, technology, health and wellness, pet care and manufacturing, tailoring packaging and display solutions to specific sector needs.
  • Nobellum Enterprise — Nobellum Enterprise is a social and technological enterprise that specializes in economic development services.
  • ADI Automation Design — ADI Automation Design is a private industrial engineering firm specializing in custom automation.
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Builders VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Builders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries including healthcare, agriculture, industrials and real-estate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$21M; Series B $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • SweetAg — SweetAg provides a cloud-based software platform for agricultural lenders, offering digital loan origination, servicing, and capital markets tools. The platform supports farm loan applications, AI-powered document and data collection, and bank-specific product matching based on eligibility criteria. It includes white-labeled borrower portals forloan management, renewals, and credit requests, as well as loan trading and syndication capabilities for financial institutions. Landjourney emphasizes regulatory compliance by incorporating automated reporting and controls aligned with frameworks such as Section 1071 and other financial regulations. Its products are used by banks, non-bank lenders, retailers, and investors focused on agricultural finance.
  • Astromech — Astromech develops artificial intelligence applications for biotechnology research and development. The company focuses on creating AI platforms that support genetic engineering and synthetic biology initiatives. Its work combines operational expertise in biotechnology ventures with scientific knowledge in genetics, enabling the development ofAI-driven tools for research environments. It operates in a confidential manner, concentrating on technology development without publicly disclosing specific products or applications. Leadership integrates experience in managing complex research projects with advanced scientific insight to guide the company's growth and AI platform development. The company maintains a corporate structure that supports institutional investment while continuing its focus on AI and biotechnology innovation.
  • Ichor Microbial Solutions — Ichor Microbial Solutions is a company that offers agricultural services.
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Prairies Economic Development Canada
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) is the department that diversifies the economy across the Canadian Prairies. PrairiesCan leads in building a strong, competitive Canadian economy by supporting business, innovation and community economic development unique to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Grant $176k–$3M; Debt Financing $220k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $384k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hawkstone Mining — Arizona Lithium provides strong chemical properties, water production target, mineral exploration, and development services. They also provide USA exploring lithium, the lone pine gold project, western desert project gold, and copper exploration projects.
  • Atom-Jet Industries — Atom-Jet Industries manufactures agriculture and industrial products to agricultural and industrial markets.
  • Energy Transition Centre foundation — The ETC Foundation is a vibrant center that brings together players from academia, industry, government, and the larger innovation ecosystem to create vital answers to climate concerns and spur innovation.
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Natural Products Canada
VC Fund · Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Maximizing growth in naturally-derived products, technologies and services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.3M; Grant $70k–$256k; Series A $911k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
  • Scotiaderm — Scotiaderm is a company that manufactures a natural skin barrier formulation that protects against skin damage caused by exposure to urine, feces, sweat, and chaffing.
  • BioNorth Solutions — BioNorth Solutions provides an innovative, natural solution for remediation of waste.
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Innovacorp
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$3.1M; Grant $25k–$94k; Pre-Seed $19k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Bright Breaks — Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.
  • Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
  • Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
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Green Acre Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Green Acre Capital is a private investment fund dedicated exclusively to the Canadian medical and recreational cannabis industry. The fund invests in sectors across the cannabis value chain including production, research, consumer products and retail.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $118k–$9.3M; Series A $10M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $61M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Claybourne — Claybourne is a cannabis breeder, cultivator, and retail brand that is known for its broad line of flower, pre-roll, and concentrate products.
  • humble+fume — humble+fume is Canada’s leading distributor of cannabis accessories. We offer the largest range of products and accessories to legal dispensaries, head shops and smoke shops of all sizes. We work with over 200 of the leading industry brands and offer more than 10,000 products and accessories. With distributions centres across North America, we arewell positioned to help grow your business. Our team believes pairing cannabis accessories is at the heart of contemporary enjoyment, we look forward to working with you and creating the perfect experience for your customers.
  • HC Solutions Holdings — HC Solutions Holdings operates as a distributor of cannabis. HC Solutions Holdings formed as a Joint Venture between Green Acre Capital Distribution Corp. and Humble & Fume.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 571
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cytochroma — Cytochroma is a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company that designs, develops and commercializes prescription products to treat and prevent the clinical consequences of vitamin D insufficiency and secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The Company has an advanced portfolio of new therapiesdesigned to safely and effectively treat patients with vitamin D insufficiency and SHPT associated with Stage 3, 4 or 5 CKD. In addition, Cytochroma is developing novel therapies to treat elevated blood phosphorus levels (hyperphosphatemia) in order to improve the control of SHPT in CKD patients.
  • LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
  • Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
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E-Fund
VC Fund · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities.The E-Fund involvesspecific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $913k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qase — Qase helps law firms and legal referral organizations streamline referrals, automate intake and booking, and collect forwarding fees online.
  • ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
  • CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the therapeutic use of RNA nanomedicine to treat disorders of the central nervous system.
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2067
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
  • TasksMind — Customer Reliability Platform
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Almanac Insights
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Committed to being a positive force in the broader food ecosystem, Almanac makes early-stage investments and serves as an operational partner for a limited number of next generation CPG, experiential retail, and agriculture and hospitality technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Agriculture
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $747k–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$28M; Series B $20M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BlueCart — BlueCart is an all-in-one platform for wholesale, B2B and B2C eCommerce, and subscription box businesses.
  • SCOUT — Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops.
  • Cambridge Electric Cement — Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production.
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Globalive
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

A startup studio and investment firm backing bold founders through capital, operational depth, and 25+ years of company-building experience. Discover what we build and invest in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.8M; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pibox — Pibox is an all-in-one platform, where music production professionals manage, share, and refine audio. Perfect for project management, audio collaboration, collecting feedback, and seamless communication.
  • Appello — Streamline workforce management, health & safety compliance, and resource allocation for construction businesses with Appello.
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
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Matchstick Ventures
VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Matchstick is an early stage venture fund in the North and Rockies. We invest where innovative ideas, huge markets and, most importantly, diverse founders strike. We are honored to support "underdog" founders who will stop at nothing to succeed. Matchstick exists to act as a catalyst for our founders, our partners, and our startup communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Round size: Seed $319k–$5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.2M; Series A $5.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $55M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Two Boxes — The future of optimized and sustainable ecommerce returns has arrived. Two Boxes powers the processing of returns and captures critical data from the returns process, no matter the SKU count or SOP.
  • Saile — Saile is an AI-enabled healthcare workforce platform that automates credentialing, staffing, and scheduling for healthcare providers and facilities. Built by physicians, Saile addresses inefficiencies in healthcare staffing by replacing fragmented, manual processes with a unified, intelligent marketplace.At the core of the platform is Saile’sCredentialing Passport, which allows providers to complete credentialing once and reuse it across multiple facilities, reducing onboarding time from months to days. Saile integrates credentialing, compliance, scheduling, and shift matching into a single system, enabling facilities to fill shifts faster while giving providers access to flexible, high-value work opportunities.Using AI-driven matching and workflow automation, Saile improves workforce utilization, reduces administrative burden, and helps healthcare organizations manage staffing shortages more efficiently. The platform is designed to scale across hospitals, outpatient centers, and other healthcare facilities, with a focus on compliance, speed, and operational reliability.Saile operates as a marketplace and infrastructure layer for healthcare labor, positioning itself as a next-generation alternative to traditional staffing agencies and disconnected credentialing vendors.
  • Tab Commerce — Tab Commerce helps restaurants of all sizes consolidate, analyze, and better manage every single expense they have.
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Renewal Funds
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Long-term impact venture capital for a more sustainable future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Software, Organic Food
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $109M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
  • Fresh Prep Foods — Get a high-quality, sustainable, and fresh ingredient meal kit conveniently delivered to 20 communities across BC and Alberta.
  • Rodatherm Energy — A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
  • Stage:Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 314
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k; Non-Equity Assistance $16k–$40k
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Robigo — Engineering the plant microbiome for a more sustainable food system
  • Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
  • Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1792
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
  • Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Series A $961k–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $360k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Helcim — Helcim is the easy and affordable solution for small and medium businesses accepting payments in-person or online.
  • Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
  • Fairly Staffing — The modern dental staffing platform. Connect your clinic with vetted dental hygienists and assistants, or find flexible temp dental jobs near you with Fairly.
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Farm Credit Canada
VC Fund · Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Proud to be 100% invested in Canadian agriculture and food.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Farming
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $13M–$400M; Debt Financing $1.4M–$58M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.1M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miraterra — A New Era of Measurement: Unlocking the Secrets of Soil, Plants, and Food. Our breakthrough technology, overcoming decades of limitations, provides fast, efficient and trustworthy digital measurements when and where you need them most.
  • Ö Hydration — Ö Hydration focuses on producing natural, sugar-free vitamin water designed to help people build healthy hydration habits.
  • Farm Lending Canada — Farm Lending Canada specializes in providing financial services tailored to the agricultural sector. The company offers a range of lending solutions to support Canadian farmers, including mortgages and other financing options. It collaborates with financial institutions to facilitate access to capital for agricultural operations. Farm LendingCanada is committed to assisting farmers in managing their financial needs and transitioning to conventional financing when necessary.
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $362k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
  • IIF — A farm in your pocket.
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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund · Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $35k–$779k; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
  • East Coast Innovation — Precision engineered, patent pending SmoothMove Smart Funnel - exciting new fish loading technology. Simple & low cost.
  • Elle, MD Biotechnologies — Your terms. Your body. Just Livv.
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$2.7M; Angel $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $188k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
  • RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
  • Afynia Laboratories — #FemTech startup developing fast, easy-to-use products to fill current gaps in #womenshealth-- starting with at-home testing for #endometriosis.
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Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Series A $3.4M–$14M; Series B $5.6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
  • Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
  • Raven Connected — Raven Connected offers vehicle tracking and driver monitoring system services, enhancing safety and efficiency in transportation operations.
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Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 56 in the past 12 months

Canada Economic Development for Quebec funding and support for SMEs and economic non-profit organizations (NPOs) in all regions of Quebec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, France, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$3.7M; Debt Financing $111k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 97% lead, 3% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • La Ruche — La Ruche is a non-profit organization that offers a crowdfunding platform that contributes in economic development of projects.
  • Gilbert — Gilbert offers sawmilling equipment, forestry attachments, utility track vehicles and snow groomers, and vibratory pile drivers and extractors
  • Hydrep Hydraulic Repair Center — Hydrep Hydraulic Repair Center designs and manufactures prototypes and series products for electro-hydraulic applications.
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $592k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Axya — Optimize manufacturing procurement with Axya. Enhance visibility, streamline collaboration, and automate tasks. Say goodbye to spreadsheet chaos and email overload.
  • DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
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Avrio Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Organic Food
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $110M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Hortau — Hortau provide to growers real time field and soil data to help them make decisions around irrigation and fertilizer applications.
  • SOL Cuisine — To make delicious and high-quality foods that are vegan, gluten-free and healthy, using local, environmentally sound ingredients. Taste and see!
  • Enterra Feed — Enterra is a Vancouver-based company commercializing a natural system that uses a common beneficial insect to rapidly recover nutrients from recycled food waste; sourced from grocery stores, markets, food distributors and food processors, to up-cycle the nutrients into sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture, animal feed and pet food, as wellas a concentrated natural fertilizer product for use in agriculture.
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Government Of Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Easily access government information and services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Grant $111k–$45M; Debt Financing $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChargeHub — ChargeHub EV solutions: Empower your EV business with ChargeHub solutions eMSP, CPO, Plug & Charge, E roaming, EV Charging Map, EV Charging App,EV Chargers
  • Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute — Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal), Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence which now rallies 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning, including professors, students, industrial partners and startups.
  • Université du Québec à Rimouski — Université du Québec à Rimouski is a public university that offers marine science, regional development and geographic program for students.
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DSM Venturing
VC Fund · Heerlen, Limburg, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty. Together, we bring progress to life by combining the essential, the desirable, and the sustainable.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $5.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Athian — Funding livestock sustainability via a connected carbon marketplace.
  • Octarine Bio — Octarine Bio is a world leading synthetic biology platform with a core mission to drive bio-based, sustainable solutions to address the most pressing planetary issues through innovation & exploration. Inspired by nature, to protect nature.
  • Meala Foodtech — Revolutionary texturized plant proteins that replace eggs and hydrocolloids. Clean-label, allergen-free solutions for baking, savory foods, and dressings.
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Toyota Ventures
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $800 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$17M; Series A $10M–$40M; Series B $15M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Efficient Computer — Efficient Computer is ushering in a new era of computing with our ultra-energy-efficient programmable processors.
  • Hertha Metals — At Hertha Metals, we are developing advanced steel solutions to accelerate the growth and global competitiveness of the U.S. steel industry.
  • Tangent Robotics — Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
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Rhapsody Venture Partners
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Rhapsody Venture Partners specializes in bringing to market breakthrough science innovation in industrial sciences (non-life science). The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$20M; Series A $3.3M–$16M; Series B $13M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuclear Turbine — Delivering advanced nuclear generation for markets where the cost of electricity is a growth constraint.
  • Relativity Networks — Relativity Networks stands as the foremost provider of Hollow Core Fiber at scale, significantly boosting the speed of light in fiber optics. The company has developed technology that enables data to travel nearly 50% faster and farther without unacceptable delays by substituting air for glass. This innovation tackles the significant powerchallenges of the present day, including the demand for data centers with superior performance in the AI era.
  • Polaris Electro-Optics — Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation.
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Island Capital Partners
VC Fund · 3 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Island Capital Partners is an early stage venture capital fund that is in the business of investing in high potential Prince Edward Island entrepreneurs and startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Film Production
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $205k–$3M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
  • Versos AI Inc — Intelligent Application Platform as a Service (IA- PaaS) Versos is a next-generation intelligent application development platform designed to empower developers to build personalized, conversational AI-powered applications with ease.Its unique GenAI-first architecture leverages advanced Natural Language Technology (NLT) to enable human-likecommunication between users and systems, replacing outdated keyword-based search with a conversational approach that synthesizes information into actionable answers. Unlike traditional search and retrieval tools that overwhelm users with long result lists, Versos delivers faster, more accurate insights through natural language interactions.With multi-data connectors, Versos integrates seamlessly with structured and unstructured data sources across your organization and your customers. Using proprietary Multimodal Search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Versos ensures responses are grounded in your specific data, providing unmatched relevance and precision.Whether you're streamlining search, improving customer support, or creating dynamic AI assistants, Versos transforms how you build conversational AI applications—delivering better results and deeper personalization.Versos makes it easy for developers less experienced with AI technologies to build AI applications on top of our API platform with all the “plumbing” figured out, specifically the ability to ingest many forms of unstructured data (documents, images, videos, 3D models) and access it with natural language queries. Almost all of the AI innovation ideas from companies now need to store, search and reference their existing data, and their data is their product.
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VA Angels
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
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Congruent Ventures
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in Mobility and Urbanization, Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production & Consumption sectors. We look for technology companies that will positively impact our energy and resource consumption. If we see an opportunity to partner with a like-minded teamfocused on scale across hardware, software, or services, we’re interested.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $6M–$28M; Series B $10M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Fluxco — Procurement, leasing, service and warranty for padmount, substation, and distribution transformers from 100+ global suppliers.
  • Hippo Harvest — Hippo Harvest grows food that is good for you and good for the planet.
  • Gritt Robotics — Gritt is an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to build the infrastructure that pulls society forward. Doing real work on real jobsites, today.
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Rockies Venture Club
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 3 investments in Canada Food and Beverage startups

Connecting Entrepreneurs and Investors Since 1985.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • MyUTI — Discover fast, reliable, easy at home testing with MyUTI. Our proven PCR testing for UTIs, BV and STIs delivers accurate results, test from the comfort of your home. Get care from home with our discreet and direct UTI lab test service.
  • Pure Blue Tech Inc. — Pure Blue Tech uses ultrasonic technology to reduce membrane fouling and can significantly lower the costs associated with membrane maintenance and replacement. The elements will allow industrial companies and municipalities to filter and purify more water, wastewater, seawater, milk, and other liquids with less money. They provide maintenance,chemicals, downtime, and waste disposal. They serving systems and plants treating.
  • Green Steel Environmental — Developer of sustainable clean products designed to clean hydrogen sulfide into renewable gas. The company uses clean tech upcycled materials to remove excess nutrients from wastewater and renewable natural gas, enabling returns of those nutrients to the earth as fertilizer.
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Food and Beverage Investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 763 deals from 633 investors.

633
investors
in Canada Food and Beverage startups
763
deals
in Canada Food and Beverage startups
$1.1M
median round
in Canada Food and Beverage startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Grant
most common funding stage
83/17
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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