Top 50 Gaming 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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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | Canada, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$47M |
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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11 | Canada, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $366k–$3.1M |
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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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Relay Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Apps | $1.4M–$35M |
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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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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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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $3.5M–$50M |
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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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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$16M |
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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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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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Peter Wilson
Angel
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6 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Fantasy Sports | $1.2M–$3M |
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Hedgewood
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, FinTech | $725k–$17M |
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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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Globalive
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $700k–$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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CMT Digital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$50M |
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$79M |
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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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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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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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VA Angels
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $110k–$1.5M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $650k–$50M |
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Initialized Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$67M |
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E-Fund
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, China, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $256k–$4.2M |
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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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Polychain
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $1.5M–$30M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $510k–$48M |
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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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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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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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Golden Opportunities Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Private Equity | Agriculture, Farming, Software | $500k–$20M |
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Vanedge Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$30M |
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Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Machine Learning | $1.8M–$28M |
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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $25k–$1.9M |
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Jeffrey Howe
Angel
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4 | Canada | Seed | Fantasy Sports | $950k–$3M |
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Dan Plashkes
Angel
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4 | Canada | Seed | Fantasy Sports | $950k–$3M |
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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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Whitecap Venture Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, Spain | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software | $717k–$54M |
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, Australia | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain | $2M–$40M |
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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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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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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $951k–$12M |
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InnoStart Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Video Games, Financial Services | $168k–$1.9M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.3M–$70M |
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Ledger Capital
VC Fund
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3 | China, Canada, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment | |
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Mike Fata
Angel
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Snack Food | |
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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.
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
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.
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.
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: 161
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$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.
- Luma — Luma was created by Dr. Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse. Paul and Mike have worked together for 15 years solving complex networking and security problems for the largest companies in the world.With the rise of the connected home, people are using more devices than ever. Home WiFi networks now need to be able to keep every one of them runningand fully secure. Mike, Paul, and the team decided to use their expertise to create the perfect, personalized WiFi network for everyone.On that day, Luma was born. Since then, the mission has been the same: To create the fastest, simplest, most secure, and most reliable home network that’s equipped for the technology of today, and tomorrow.
- Veecle — Veecle is a modern software development platform for vehicle function development. Our carmaker customers use to to design, program, simulate and update all vehicle software. It makes car development dramatically faster and cheaper. It's a clean-slate approach focused on ease of use and scalability. Car functions can be programmed like asmartphone app - with security and safety by design.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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.
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.
Pete Wilson is the Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners.
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
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.
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.
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.
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
An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
- Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
- Coinflow Labs — Tech-driven payments solutions for your business
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 335
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2M–$18M; Series B $5M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
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
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- 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.
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 —
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
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $2.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017
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- Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 357
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $6M–$40M; Series B $16M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- eqtble — Understand your employees with instantly curated insights across your people tools.
- Clockwork — Check out the World's First Manicure Robot! Learn about our tech, colors and locations across the USA. Book an appointment today!
- Bristle — Improve your oral health through personalized insights. Bristle gives you a comprehensive breakdown of all the bacteria in your saliva (100-200 species) and risk factors for cavities, gum disease, and bad breath. Plus personalized insights to optimize and maintain your oral health.
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.
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.
The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
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- Nava labs — Nava labs is the developer of AI control infrastructure designed to verify and secure the execution of AI agents in financial environments.
- Rio Network — Rio Network is an operator of a public proof-of-stake blockchain platform intended for the issuance, investment, and life-cycle management of digital securities and crypto assets.
- Canton Strategic Holdings — Hillstream BioPharma is a development-stage company advancing improved therapies for patients with cancer via a unique QUATRAMERTM nanoparticle platform. This unique technology enables intranuclear and intracellular delivery of small molecules, peptides, genes, other macromolecules and biologics to the tumor cello, while significantly minimizingexposure to normal tissues.
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Browse database — It's Free!We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 281
- Round size: Seed $510k–$7.7M; Series A $3M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
- Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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!
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.
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.
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: 39
- Round size: Seed $500k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Headversity — Standards-aligned mental health training solutions for workplaces and sport organizations with Headversity Work & Headversity Sport.
- 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.
Vanedge Capital is a venture capital firm which invests in the enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, security, digital media and cloud computing sectors. The firm targets companies that are post-revenue with a fast-growing user base and have demonstrated product market fit.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Olyns — Integrated hardware and software enabling a new paradigm for funding and collections of recycled plastic.
- Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
- Bonsai Micro — Harnessing AI & ML To Improve Performance of High Data Rate Communication Systems Our Edge AI/ML technology supports multivariate optimization of complex parameters to improve Power Added Efficiency and Linearity of sophisticated communication systems. Product Overview Key Benefits: Increased Battery Life Increased Spectral Efficiency Increased tolerance to Environmental Changes Significant Cost Savings Solutions PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.6M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $2.5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $54M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Enurgen — Accuracy you can trust and returns you can prove. A 3D, physics-based model to validate bankable, scalable, and reliable solar energy yields.
- Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
- Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $25k–$421k
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
- ClinicGlide — ClinicGlide uses AI to automate patient calls, messages, and bookings across phone, SMS, and web. Respond instantly, reduce front desk workload, and improve patient access without adding staff.
- Smart Skin Technologies — SmartSkin helps pharma and beverage manufacturers reduce breakage, optimize line efficiency, and achieve zero-defect operations.
Jeffrey Howe
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $950k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Dan Plashkes
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $950k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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- Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
- 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.
Whitecap Venture Partners is a Canadian-based Venture Capital fund investing in early stage technology companies. Whitecap is headquartered in Toronto and invests across Canada and the Northeastern US. Since Whitecap’s inception the early 1990s, Whitecap recognises the power of real collaboration between entrepreneurs and investors. This rapportenables them to provide significant value to companies along with strong returns across investment cycles.Whitecap specialises in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and Medical Technologies. Whitecap is continually searching for upcoming ventures to support as the next generation of exceptional enterprises.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $717k–$6M; Series A $4.1M–$20M; Series B $8.3M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- LocusX — LocusX is a gaming technology startup focused on accelerating and automating the bug resolution cycle in game development using an AI-powered issue resolution engine.
- Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
- Future Fertility — OUR AI-POWERED ASSESSMENTS GUIDE PERSONALIZED FERTILITY TREATMENT DECISIONS IN OVER 180 CLINICS ACROSS 32 COUNTRIES
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $4.2M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Studio 369 — METALCORE is a free-to-play, first-person/third-person multiplayer mechanized combat game powered by towering War Machines fighting for dominance in large-scale battles.
- Laguna Games — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
- Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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.
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.
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.
InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Video Games, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $168k–$717k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
- Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
- Ludex — Ludex is a casual esport platform where gamers can compete with friends and influencers on mobile video-games.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 814
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $11M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
- POC Pharma — POC Pharma is a SaaS company helping the stakeholders in the Pharmacy Channel to digitally manage their go to market strategy.
- Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Ledger Capital is a financial services and investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: China, Canada, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
- Zulu Network — Zulu Network is the first DePin-focused Bitcoin Layer 2 to achieve the tokenization of computing power, allowing anyone to power DePIN innovation and earn Bitcoin.
Mike Fata is the Founder at Manitoba Harvest. He attended Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Snack Food
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
- Mid-Day Squares — Mid-Day Squares: Perfectly designed to stop your hunger or cravings in between meals. Each Square is packed with Clean Plant Protein, Real Chocolate & Superfoods.
- Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.
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