Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Canada (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund
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45 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail | |
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
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8 | Canada, United States, France | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $25k–$2M |
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Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $805k–$22M |
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $366k–$3.1M |
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, Argentina | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $275k–$15M |
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Investeco Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, Portugal | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing | $250k–$14M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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7 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$47M |
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software | $2.2M–$83M |
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Btomorrow Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage | |
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $3.5M–$50M |
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BrandProject
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery | |
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Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $439k–$15M |
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Natural Products Canada
VC Fund
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5 | Canada | Seed, Grant, Series A | Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Nutrition | $242k–$4M |
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Government of Canada
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Germany | Grant, Debt Financing | Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care | $58k–$54M |
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WUTIF
VC Fund
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5 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $100k–$3.8M |
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Fondaction
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, France | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software | $273k–$125M |
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Innovacorp
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, Australia, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $18k–$3.1M |
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Apps | $1.3M–$35M |
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Renewal Funds
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada | Series A, Series B | Food and Beverage, Software, Organic Food | $2M–$30M |
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Matchstick Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $120k–$20M |
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Green Acre Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing | $118k–$3.1M |
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E-Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, China, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $256k–$4.2M |
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Globalive
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $700k–$15M |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Government Of Quebec
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, Germany | Grant, Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $98k–$44M |
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DSM Venturing
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $3.5M–$32M |
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Avrio Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Series B, Series C | Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Hospitality | |
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Napier Park Global Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada | Series C, Series E | SaaS, FinTech, Software | $12M–$113M |
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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $951k–$12M |
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $10k–$5M |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$16M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
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Accomplice
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Internet | $1.8M–$50M |
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Rockies Venture Club
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Health Care, Medical Device | $250k–$7M |
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Rhapsody Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering | $1.6M–$16M |
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Hedgewood
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, FinTech | $725k–$17M |
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AgFunder
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology | $100k–$40M |
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $717k–$20M |
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Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | $3.4M–$22M |
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VA Angels
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $110k–$1.5M |
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Builders VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Biotechnology | |
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Digital Technology Supercluster
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Corporate Round | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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RIV Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Italy | Seed, Series A | Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care | |
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Garage Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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BDC Capital's Growth & Transition Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, China | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Consulting | |
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Golden Opportunities Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Private Equity | Agriculture, Farming, Software | |
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Forage Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Series A, Series B | Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Water | |
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Conexus Credit Union
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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Tom Williams
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | |
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Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 206
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $30k–$2M; Debt Financing $138k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Greenii — Greenii provides recycling services for paper bags. They offer services that include newsprint paper bags, kraft paper bags, logo printing, crinkle paper shreds, and shredded cardboard.
- ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
- RFINE Biomass Solutions — RFINE Biomass Solutions is to make coffee waste sustainable and delightful.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $805k–$5M; Series A $5.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $120M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
- Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
- Moka — Moka helps you save effortlessly by automatically investing your spare change. Get started in just a few minutes and watch your money grow with every purchase you make. Save more, spend less and invest smarter with Moka.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Seed $805k–$3.1M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
- Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
- Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 257
- Round size: Seed $275k–$5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dozr — Construction equipment rentals available near you. From compact track loader to aerial work platform rentals, research prices and reserve heavy equipment rentals online.
- 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.
- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
InvestEco invests in innovative companies in the Food & Agriculture Sector. Learn More about our process, people, and companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Series A $4.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise 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
- Little Sesame — Serving up smooth hummus & sunny vibes.
- The Jackfruit Company — The Jackfruit Company (TJC) is the producing convenient, whole food, plant-based products.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $5.9M–$32M; Series B $14M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Wattpad — Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
- OMsignal — Discover our range of Hexoskin and Astroskin Smart Garments for health and fitness tracking. Find the perfect Shirts and Kits for your needs today!
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 196
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$62M; Series B $6M–$83M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Rail GD — Rail GD Inc. is a mechanical and refurbishing workshop of tourist trains, Colorado Railcar, passenger cars, freight cars and locomotives. Design, engineering and integration.
- Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.
- Namakor Holdings — Namakor Holdings is recognized for its deep operational experience. It is focused on acquiring mid-market companies in the industrial manufacturing sector in North America and in integrating top-tier management teams that drive profitability through operational efficiency, organic revenue growth, or growth from strategic acquisitions to createlong-term value. The Namakor partners believe in long-term commitments to generate optimal profitability in a sustainable way. As such, NAMAKOR Holdings is the right solution for SME owners and managers who want to ensure the continued success of their business over the long term. In addition to investing in promising businesses, NAMAKOR Holdings provides them with constant operational support and enables them to benefit from ready access to a comprehensive business network.
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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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 200
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$22M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SK ecoplant — SK ekoplant is a top-tiered global city developer and infrastructure builder. SK ekoplant is one of the leading subsidiaries of SK group.SK ekoplant is one of the world’s best companies in the engineering industry, undertaking plants on EPCC basis (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) in the fields of Refineries,Petrochemicals, Fertilizer, Industrial Plants and Environmental Plants, Plants to wireless mobile communication equipment worldwide. As a major player in high-tech engineering market of the 21st century, SK ekoplant is committed to becoming the top-tier company by acquiring the drive for the future growth through the expansion of overseas markets and the launching of new products and by successful establishing the developed enterprise structure through improvement of internal system and process as well as performance assessment system.SK ekoplant is currently carrying out huge projects in U.S, Saudi Arabia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Ecuador, Qatar, Algeria, Venezuela and CIS. This outstanding achievement is the culmination of SK ekoplant's extensive project experience, superior technology, and talents.
- Photonic — We are building a new world through scalable, fault-tolerant quantum technologies.
- Troilus Gold — Troilus Gold is a Canadian based development stage resource company focused on the potential restart and mineral expansion of the former producing Troilus gold and copper mine, located within the Frotêt-Evans Greenstone Belt in Quebec.
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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- 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.
Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $439k–$6M; Series A $8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ilant Health — We offer a comprehensive solution that take the stress and stigma out of obesity treatment. We increase access, improve quality, and drive reduction in total cost of care.
- Unione Food Group — Unione Food Group is a food tech supply chain platform that offers supply chain services and solutions.
- Maple Supply Chain —
Maximizing growth in naturally-derived products, technologies and services
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Nutrition
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.3M; Grant $242k–$250k; Series A $805k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Tersa Earth — Tersa's TersaClean platform recovers critical minerals from acid rock drainage and mine tailings using proprietary bio-electric technology. Western-based supply of Cu, Li, Co, Ni and 24+ critical minerals.
- Infusd Nutrition — Infusd: Ingredient Transformation Technology
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- Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Grant $58k–$54M; Debt Financing $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Confederation Centre — Confederation Center of the Arts is a visual and performing arts cultural center.
- Killam Apartment REIT — Killam Apartment REIT is a Canadian real estate investment trust developing apartments and manufactured home communities.
- The Alignment Project — The Alignment Project is dedicated to accelerating progress in AI alignment research. TAP aim is to promote the development of advanced AI systems that are safe, reliable, and beneficial to society.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $256k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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 is a biotechnology company that transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts while permanently storing carbon dioxide.
- Polar Beer Taps — Polar Beer Taps Permafrost V3 system is leading the way in the future of portable beverage serving. They can provide reliable, high-quality commercial draft systems to any location, which elevates any event.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Debt Financing $273k–$10M; Private Equity $750k–$125M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
- JLD - Laguë — The JLD-Laguë Group, authorized John Deere dealers, specializes in the sale of agricultural, commercial and construction equipment.
- BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3.1M; Grant $25k–$91k; Pre-Seed $18k–$878k
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
- Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
- CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 160
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4.4M–$13M; Series B $5.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Eirene — Find trusted answers about end-of-life planning, grief support, and more.
- FreshGrade — FreshGrade is a learning network that seamlessly integrates a digital portfolio, flexible gradebook, and real time communication platform.
- Bird Canada — Bird Canada holds the exclusive license from Bird Rides Inc to operate their micro-mobility platform in Canada
Renewal Funds is a mission venture capital firm investing in early growth stage companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Software, Organic Food
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Series A $2M–$23M; Series B $3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FoodLogiQ — FoodLogiQ offers Software as a Service solutions to connect the world's food supply chain, promoting food safety through traceability and sustainability.
- Station A — Station A helps real estate owners and long-term tenants rapidly identify and install solar, battery, and EV charging projects.
- Evive — Get more from life with Evive! Prepare a nutritious & delicious breakfast smoothie in less than 30 seconds without a blender! Certified Organic, GMO-Free, and Vegan.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Seed $323k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $5.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Freeplay — Freeplay builds AI features that do real work.
- Base — Base is a robust SaaS platform built specifically to streamline the day-to-day responsibilities of executive assistants. Key features include a Digest Builder that gives support professionals the ability to heavily automate executive updates, a Decision Stream that allows executives to communicate decisions with a single click, a Dossier thatsecurely stores executive data and preferences in one location, and Analyze which looks at calendar data to uncover insights into how an executive’s time is spent.
- Honest Jobs — Honest Jobs is the nation's largest fair-chance employment platform. We help people with criminal records find employment fast!
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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- Industry: Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $118k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise 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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $474k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $256k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
- Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
- VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
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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- 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.
Easily access government information and services.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Grant $98k–$44M; Debt Financing $2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ChargeHub — EV solutions: Empower your EV business with ChargeHub solutions eMSP, CPO, Plug & Charge, E roaming, EV Charging Map, EV Charging App, EV Chargers & Guides
- 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.
- McGill University — McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. McGill was founded in 1821 thanks to a generousbequest by James McGill, and since then, we've grown from a small college to a bustling university with two campuses, 11 faculties, some 300 programs of study, and more than 37,500 students. The University also partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals to graduate over 1,000 health care professionals each year.In addition to a stellar faculty, McGill is known for attracting the brightest students from across Canada, the United States, and around the world. McGill students have the highest average entering grades in Canada, and our commitment to fostering the very best has helped our students win more national and international awards on average than their peers at any other Canadian university. The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship has gone to a nation-leading 136 McGill students.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $4.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
- NutriLeads — NutriLeads is an innovative startup that develops nutritional ingredients with demonstrated health effects. NutriLeads aims to catalyze nutritional health innovation in the food industry by partnering with relevant companies to identify promising lead ingredients, develop sustainable and commercially viable production processes, and initiatescientific & clinical programs to substantiate the health effects of these ingredients. Together we will bring the benefits of the proprietary ingredients to patients and consumers.
- 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.
Avrio Capital is a venture capital and private equity investment firm specializing in commercialization to growth-stage companies with a focus on later-stage, early stage, mid venture, middle market, and emerging growth businesses. It also provides mezzanine financing. Avrio Capital prefers to invest in food technology, advanced agriculture,industrial bioproducts, and nutraceutical ingredients and innovative companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability. It invests in companies based in Canada and North America. Avrio Capital seeks to invest between CAD $1 million $0.77 million to CAD $10 million $7.70 million, with significant capital reserved for subsequent financing rounds over the life of the portfolio company. It seeks to invest in companies with sales value between CAD $1 million $0.77 million and CAD $20 million $15.40 million. Avrio Capital prefers to take an active role in each investment it makes. It began operation in 2006, with its headquarters in Alberta in Canada and additional offices in Ontario and Quebec therein.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Hospitality
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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.
Napier Park Global Capital is an independent alternative asset management firm with a core focus on alternative credit and structured equity investments that manages approximately $6.7 billion. The firm manages a diversified product mix including hedge funds, bespoke client separate accounts, private investments and CLOs for large, sophisticatedinstitutional investors.Financial Partners seeks to provide primary, secondary and special situations capital to financial services businesses and companies servicing financial institutions. The strategy provides equity, debt or hybrid capital for event, special situation, or growth, acquisition or recapitalization financings.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series C, Series E
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series C $12M–$38M; Series E $38M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 7shifts — Restaurant Employee Scheduling Software. Make scheduling, timesheets, team communication, task and tip management, and labor compliance easy. Get started for free.
- TouchBistro — TouchBistro is an all-in-one restaurant management system. Advanced features. Intuitive platform. Increase sales, delight guests, save time and money. Learn more!
- Q4 — Q4 is a SaaS platform that provides advanced communication and intelligence solutions to investor relations officers and the C-suite of public companies. With the goal of improving the effectiveness of investor relations through innovative, forward-thinking website solutions, the Q4 team designed an alternative approach to IR websites that putstorytelling first and emphasized intuitive corporate reporting.Q4 is a trusted partner to over 2,200 of the world’s largest brands. Q4’s comprehensive portfolio of IR communications, intelligence and corporate access solutions, supported by an industry-leading customer experience model, empower customers to build impactful and strategic IR programs
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Series A $951k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
- Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.
- Dryrun — From lightening fast data imports and automated forecasts, through to unmatched control to model out scenarios, Dryrun is the choice for CFOs managing cash flow for multi-million dollar businesses. Dryrun integrates with Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Pipedrive.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $183k–$5M; Angel $10k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
- Virica Biotech — Viral Sensitizers (VSE) for drug developers and manufacturers are small molecules that improve viral yields and effectiveness by reducing the antiviral defences on a cellular level.
- Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 401
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arteria AI — Arteria unlocks the power of your contracts by helping you to generate, negotiate and turn your executed contracts into data that allow you to diagnose problems, identify opportunities and drive value for your organization.
- Augmenta Inc. — Design sustainable, code compliant and fully constructible buildings in hours.
- CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 822
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
- Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.2M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $405M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Privy — Rated the #1 sales app in the Shopify App Store. Used by 600,000+ online brands around the world to grow sales NOW with email & SMS.
- Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
- PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.
Connecting Entrepreneurs and Investors Since 1985.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; 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 — Green Steel delivers innovative wastewater treatment solutions and plants designed for industrial sustainability, efficiency, and environmental compliance.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020
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- Wavelogix — Explore our concrete sensors with temperature & strength measurement, giving you optimized construction timelines & quality control. Get in touch today.
- Lasso — Lasso is a food tech company, focusing on innovative technology that transforms simple ingredients into premium food items.
- Adden Energy — Adden Energy is a developer of stable, lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. With demonstrated charge times as low as 3 minutes and capacity retention for over 10,000 cycles in a lab-scale cell, Adden Energy develops cutting-edge technologies to enable mass adoption of EVs around the world and contribute greatly to a cleaner future.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $725k–$4.3M; Series A $7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AgriFi — AgriFi is a digital credit Agri ecosystem that specializes in agriculture, platform, market linkage, and credit. It is located in Bangalore, Karnataka, and was founded in the year 2020.
- Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Kawa Project — A materials science company developing functional materials from food waste to mitigate climate change - starting with coffee waste
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.8M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.
- Qohash — Track and secure high-risk files to reduce oversharing and accelerate GenAI adoption with Qohash
- OnCall Health — Leading behavioral health EHR software and electronic healthcare record solutions built to modernize care, manage workflows and improve patient outcomes.
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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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Series A $3.4M–$14M; Series B $5.6M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvyyo — Tablo is your portal to free TV. Watch and record broadcast TV from your antenna and free streaming channels via the Tablo app on any device in your home including smartphones, tablets, streaming devices, and smart TVs.
- 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.
- Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- UbiQD — UbiQD pioneers quantum dot technology to enhance energy efficiency and sustainability. Discover our innovative solutions in solar energy, agriculture, and advanced materials.
- Puna Bio — By researching bacteria from 3.5 billion years ago, we were able to develop the first extremophile bioinoculant in the world. Our seed treatment can consistently improve yields 10-15% in fertile soils and grow crops in extreme environments and degraded soil
- Pathos — Pathos develops an AI-enabled drug discovery platform to reduce the medication development process. Its self-learning platform utilizes big data, technology, and artificial intelligence to identify targets, validate them, and establish their clinical efficacy. It also helps drug developers to explore novel concepts, and advance breakthroughtherapies. The company's OS platform is capable of managing the entire end-to-end process of designing and developing novel therapeutics.
DIGITAL fuels momentum for Canadian companies to grow in Canada, driving economic growth, creating jobs and building prosperity & wellbeing.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NaijaHacks — NaijaHacks organizes the largest tech competition/Hackathon in Africa
- Food-X Technologies — Food-X Technologies is a SaaS startup in the grocery space. Food-X Technologies offers a software that helps grocery retailers operate fulfillment centres and track food freshness.
- Unity Health Toronto — Unity Health Toronto, comprised of providence healthcare, st. joseph’s health centre and st. michael’s hospital works to advance the health of everyone in our urban communities and beyond, that provides a health network that serves patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care, spanning primary care, secondary community care,tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care while investing in world-class research and education.
RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.
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- Industry: Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
- Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
- TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
- enVgo — Discover ENVIGO, where cutting-edge hydrofoiling technology meets electric performance. Experience effortless, exhilarating, and sustainable boating with the exclusive NV1 design.
- veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.
Get customized financing with flexible repayment terms to raise capital for growth or business transition projects, without diluting ownership.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Consulting
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Layla — Layla is an online website which helps the clients to find the right therapy to control the mental health.
- HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
- Global Spatial Technology Solutions (GSTS) — GSTS designs and develops advanced global digital solutions that enhance safety, security, efficiency and environmental sustainability...
Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. is Saskatchewan's first Provincial Labour-sponsored Investment Fund which was launched in 1999 and is registered as a Labour-sponsored Investment Fund Corporation under The Labour-sponsored Venture Capital Corporations Act (Saskatchewan). Saskatchewan residents who purchase Shares of the Fund receive a 15%Federal tax credit and a 20% Provincial tax credit for a total of 35% in tax credits to a maximum contribution of $5,000 annually. Investments are also 100% RRSP eligible.With the capital raised, the Fund makes investments in Saskatchewan companies, or other entities that carry on business in Saskatchewan, that have less than 500 employees at the time of investment and that pay at least 25% of all their wages and salaries to Saskatchewan employees (as per current regulation which may be amended from time to time). The objective of the Fund is to realize long-term capital appreciation of its investments in eligible businesses. Potential investments are evaluated according to, among other things: stage of development; size; quality of management; the market potential of the products or services sold or distributed; the profit potential of eligible business; and the opportunity for realization by the Fund of its investments.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Mega Group — Mega Group offers billing, expert accounting, consumer finance, business basics, merchandising, marketing, integrated website, digital services, store design, and fundamentals services.
- Rivercity Innovations — Rivercity Innovations provides cold-chain monitoring technologies.
Forage Capital Partners is a growth equity fund for Ag & Food Business Solutions. Forage Capital is an investor in the agriculture and food industry, who invests in uncertain times to help Canadian companies grow profitably and compete on the world stage.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Water
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ostara — Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. helps protect precious water resources by changing the way cites around the world manage nutrients in water streams
- Vytelle — With Vytelle, cattle producers increase accuracy of feed intake and bodyweight measurement, improve certainty of genetic selection and accelerate progress.
- Croptimistic Technology Inc — SWAT MAPS are revolutionizing farming with cutting-edge variable rate technology, tailored tools, and expert agronomy knowledge.
Conexus is Saskatchewan's largest and Canada's sixth largest credit union. Conexus has $7.14 billion in total funds managed and more than 120,000 members being provided personalized service at 41 branches across the province.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
- Illuma Labs — Frictionless Voice Authentication and Fraud Prevention for Credit Union Call Centers
- Coconut Software — Put the right expert in the right channel at the right time, so no opportunity is lost.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
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