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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Canada

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

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Canada

Investor Hardware Canada investments
BDC Venture Capital 39
Real Ventures 30
Business Development Bank of Canada 26
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund 25
Ontario Centres of Excellence 23
Anges Quebec 20
Business Development Bank of Canada 17
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation 16
Inovia Capital 15
Capital Angel Network 15
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 14
Angel One Network 14
Right Side Capital Management 13
GrowthWorks Capital 12
WUTIF 12
Innovacorp 12
Panache Ventures 11
Sustainable Development Technology Canada 11
Desjardins Venture Capital 11
VA Angels 11
Golden Ventures 11
Export Development Canada 10
Fonds de solidarité FTQ 10
Celtic House Venture Partners 10
Mistral Venture Partners 9
Brightspark Ventures 9
Cycle Capital 9
FundersClub 9
Fondaction 8
Fonds Innovexport 8
Hedgewood 8
Golden Triangle Angel Network 8
Round13 Capital 8
Yaletown Partners 7
Killick Capital 7
Vanedge Capital 7
Good News Ventures 7
Relay Ventures 7
GreenSky Ventures 7
Maple Leaf Angels 7
ScaleUP Ventures 7
Somel Investments 7
Bluesky Equities 6
Ventures West 6
Intel Capital 6
OMERS Ventures 6
Wesley Clover 6
National Research Council Canada 6
Espresso Capital 6
Globalive Capital 6
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BDC Venture Capital VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 36 investments in the past 12 months
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Japan
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.
  • Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
  • Miovision — Miovision Technologies provides software and hardware that significantly improves its clients' cost-structure and accuracy.Backed by the world’s most advanced traffic AI, our innovations in traffic signal planning and operations have made it possible for cities to improve the transportation experience for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrianssince 2005.Miovision develops intelligent technology solutions to address the challenges facing today's global transportation network and to minimize the environmental impacts of inefficient transportation flow. With offices in Kitchener, Canada and Cologne, Germany, Miovision serves over 17,000 municipalities worldwide.
Real Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
  • HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
  • BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
Business Development Bank of Canada VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 22 investments in the past 12 months
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
  • medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
  • Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
  • Terravest Industries — TerraVest Capital Inc. is a publicly traded income trust with a portfolio of diversified businesses and whose stated objective.
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
  • Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
  • InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
Ontario Centres of Excellence VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
  • FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
  • Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology operates as a biotechnology company and develops innovative solutions for plasmid DNA production.
Anges Quebec VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bridgr — For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help
  • ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
  • Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
Business Development Bank of Canada VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 18 investments in the past 12 months
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Canada, Argentina, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
  • Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
  • Clear Blue Technologies — Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly,less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation VC Fund · Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Analytics
  • Seed, Funding Round, Grant
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
  • Soricimed — Soricimed is a privately-held, clinical stage company focused on the development and commercialization of applications originally derived from its unique and proprietary family of peptides found in the paralytic venom of the northern short-tailed shrew
  • ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
Inovia Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 18 investments in the past 12 months
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Clearco — Clearco is the fastest, most affordable way for founders to fund their business. Connect your sales and marketing accounts to get started.
  • Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
  • Nano Corp — Deep network analysis for everyone
Capital Angel Network VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
  • LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
  • Realize Medical — We're a medical virtual reality start up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform combines novel 3D visualization with the familiar and intuitive input of a hand held stylus. We're creating powerful VR tools to unlock new ways for healthcare professionals to view and interact with medicalimages so they can enhance patient care.
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 17 investments in the past 12 months
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians,we are building a stronger economy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
  • ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
  • ABCO Industries — ABCO Industries manufactures metal products for the food, marine, industrial, and environmental industries. They are expanding and improving our manufacturing process, incorporating automated and advanced manufacturing techniques, and supporting our people through training and education.
Angel One Network VC Fund · Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
  • Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
  • fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
Right Side Capital Management VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.
  • Offsite — Offsite operates a platform that provides retreat planning for remote and hybrid teams. The company helps in the planning, management, and follow-up of team retreats, client-facing events, and other transformational, in-person experiences.
  • ZippedScript — ZippedScript is an application programming interface system developer that specializes in automatically verifying educational details. ZippedScript is located in Toronto, Ontario.
GrowthWorks Capital VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
  • HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.
  • SWITCH Materials — SWITCH Materials develops revolutionary new materials based on proprietary organic molecules that "switch" optical properties on command.SWITCH’s molecular switches can be developed for a number of applications, especially in the areas of molecular electronics and health sciences, including optical filters, photochromic inks, paintsand fibers, high-density optical information storage systems, molecular sensors and biomarkers for labeling and tracking of live cells.SWITCH has assembled a team of cutting-edge materials scientists with combined expertise in synthetic chemistry, polymer processing, optics, and molecular & materials engineering. SWITCH conducts its research and development activities in our own laboratories and the state-of-the-art analytical and clean room facilities at 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University's new $40 million materials science research centre.
WUTIF VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Frontly — Turn your Google Sheets into modern dashboards and internal business tools in minutes.
  • 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.
Innovacorp VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • Canada, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
  • Gaia Refinery — Gaia is developing wind-driven methane-capture technology to produce rocket-grade natural gas.
  • Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
Panache Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
  • ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
  • Reworkd — Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.
Sustainable Development Technology Canada VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months
At Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), they fund Canadian cleantech projects and coach the companies that lead them as they move their ground-breaking technologies to market.SDTC’s support of cleantech translates into jobs, growth, and export opportunities for Canadian companies, as well as economic, environmental and healthbenefits for all Canadians. They are independent but don’t work alone. A big part of their role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad. They operate at arm’s length and receive funding from the Government of Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Manufacturing, Software
  • Grant, Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
  • ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
  • Cyclic Materials — Cyclic Materials has created the first circular supply chain for rare earth elements with the goal of helping the world transition to an environmentally responsible future.
Desjardins Venture Capital VC Fund · Lévis, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cegerco — Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc.
  • Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
  • Groupe Canva — Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee companyserves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience.
VA Angels VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, India
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
Golden Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
  • Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
  • Basil Systems — Basil’s SaaS platform leverages machine-learning across product, market and regulatory data to provide analytics and insights for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Export Development Canada VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 17 investments in the past 12 months
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
  • Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
  • Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Fonds de solidarité FTQ VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession,financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • UgoWork — Lithium-ion batteries are significantly superior for your lift trucks, in addition to taking advantage of our efficient energy management. Learn more.
  • Diffuse — Diffuse offers turnkey content production and distribution services.
  • Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.
Celtic House Venture Partners VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
  • FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
  • Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
Mistral Venture Partners VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Expeto — Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solutionpurpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.
  • Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
  • Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days
Brightspark Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
  • Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
  • Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
Cycle Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Cycle Capital is a pioneer in Canadian Cleantech venture capital fund management investing in companies at the development and commercialization stages in North America. Founded in 2009 by Andrée-Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital’s Platform has become an important venture capital investor of the Cleantech industry with its 3funds totaling $230M Assets Under Management (AUM). Cycle Capital is looking to invests in promising ventures that are not capital intensive and/or that can benefit from the leverage brought by Cycle Capital extensive network of investors, strategic partners and advisors.In addition to its core investments, Cycle Capital targets companies with high growth potential – especially those with strong intellectual property, leading edge technologies and with exceptional management talent that would benefit from the firm’s network of strategic industrial partners and expert advisors. With its core investment and business expertise, Cycle Capital plays an active role adding meaningful and tangible value to its portfolio companies at all stages of their life.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • VueReal — VueReal is engineering the next electronic systems by mass integration of high-efficiency nano/micro-devices into large-area substrates (e.g., displays, sensors, system on panel, and more). They have started by making the true-life experience of micro-LED displays affordable for all applications (TV, laptop, smartphone,virtual/augmented reality, etc.). VueReal technology platform is based on the interplay of cutting-edge micro/nano-device processing, sophisticated integration technologies and advanced system design (hardware and software). VueReal technologies can enhance the experience of existing electronic systems and enable new applications by integrating millions of highly efficient micro-devices (micro-LED) into system substrate. As our Solid Printing (TM) technology works across all substrate sizes, it can develop displays ranging from super high ppi (>4000 ppi) to very large.
  • Airex Energy — Airex Energy provides solutions for a sustainable future. Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
  • SPARK Microsystems — Discover SPARK Ultra-wideband: Revolutionizing AR, VR, audio, gaming, and IoT with responsive low-latency, high-speed wireless transceivers.
FundersClub VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Govly — Govly is building a market network for government contracting, like AngelList for government procurement.
  • Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
  • Shaktimaan — Empowering UPSC aspirants with Kalam's potential to answer, evaluate & personalise your preparation for World's Toughest Exam.
Fondaction VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Libro — Elevate Your Guest Experience Our guest experience platform does more than fill tables. Start building a highly personalized and profitable dining experience with Libro. Pricing Features How we help your restaurant thrive Reservations Accept online reservation requests in real-time 24/7/365. Access reservations from anywhere so your entire team is prepared to serve guests. Reputation Management
  • Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
  • Omy Laboratoires — Omy Laboratoires develops and manufactures personalized cosmetic skin-care products using its AI based skin analysis system.
Fonds Innovexport VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Fonds Innovexport is an Investing Service that provides in targeting international markets to forge the Quebec of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • C2RO — C2RO is a leading provider of cutting-edge privacy-aware, biometric-free AI video-analytics solutions for physical spaces. C2RO PERCEIVE is enabling data-driven decision-making, optimization of operations, and transformation of physical facilities into safe, engaging, and immersive environments for visitors.
  • Botpress — Botpress is a modern developer stack to build enterprise and open-source chatbots. Learn about our conversational AI platform built for developers.
  • CONTXTFUL Technologies — Contxtful is a patent pending AI-driven technology leverages sensors from mobile smart devices such as phones, tablets & smart watches to identify user intent and context. It's designed with privacy in mind to be compliant with GDPR so we don't need to request permission from users. No need for GPS, camera or microphone. CONTXTFULprovide attention, viewability and predictive marketing analysis, performance improvement and business intelligence on the environment context of any digital audience. Our technologies generates different strategic activities like audience engagement, segmentation, online marketing security and real-time marketing data insights and can be used in many industry, including Adtech, Martech, Insurance/Banking, Fintech, Video Streaming and Game Engines providers to gather better context aware intel about their audience and customers.Our solution is respect privacy, it’s real-time and always-on.
Hedgewood VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
  • 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.
Golden Triangle Angel Network VC Fund · Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Angel, Grant
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Justo — Call Toronto real estate brokerage, agents and MLS listings provider - Justo to sell or buy houses or condos in Greater Toronto Area.
  • LabsCubed — LabsCubed manufactures automated multi-sample tensile testing robots that manufacturers use to increase lab efficiency and reduce labor by up to 85%.
  • Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.
Round13 Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Round13 Capital are different than a typical Venture Capital fund. Round13 are more than just capital, and are a thought partner for management with deep experience in building businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kivera — Enforce preventive controls and secure every interaction with your cloud at build and run time -regardless of how you use it.
  • System-3 — System-3 is a SaaS-based predictive Leadership Simulation that minimizes bias, and measures whether experienced and emerging leaders deploy the core Leadership Competencies required in today’s complex, business environment.
  • SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
Yaletown Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
  • GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
  • InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
Killick Capital VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Killick Capital is a leading Atlantic Canadian private equity firm, dedicated to partnering with Atlantic Canadian businesses and Aerospace businesses. Our team of professionals work closely with portfolio companies to maximize success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mysa — Control your electric heating and cooling with Mysa Smart Thermostats. Use the mobile app to control remotely - Save energy and money with smart home features.
  • Frenter — Helping equipment rental businesses manage their day-to-day operations so they can focus on growing their business in-person and online. Request a Demo today
  • Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.
Vanedge Capital VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States
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 — Bonsai Micro operates as a fabless semiconductor company that develops essential network infrastructure for future wireless networks.
Good News Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
We invest in founders who are driven to push the limits of what is possible
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
  • Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
  • Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
Relay Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • FCTRY LAb — Fctry lab combine traditional manufacturing methods with modern technology, allowing us to redefine techniques and invent new construction methods
  • Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
  • Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
GreenSky Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
GreenSky Ventures is a Toronto-based firm that makes investments in early-stage Canadian technology companies.GreenSky Ventures seeks early-stage B2B technology companies in Canada, emphasizing protectable IP and experienced management. It makes investments in early-stage technology companies through its affiliated venture capital funds, GreenSkyAccelerator Fund I, II and III. Their principals bring a unique combination of experience in technology, law, and finance to high-growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs.GreenSky Capital was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010 by Geoff Simonett and Michael T. R. List.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Captain AI — Captain is the leading delivery management software for restaurant chains. Gain true visibility into your delivery operations while automating dispatch decisions and optimizing delivery times.
  • Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
  • Mission Control Space Services Inc. — Mission Control is a space exploration and robotics company specializing in spacecraft operations, onboard autonomy and artificial intelligence. We are developing a full-stack robotic control solution. Our technology is designed to control and automate robotic assets operating in harsh and remote environments and increase the safety, efficiency andscientific or financial return of missions.
Maple Leaf Angels VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maple Leaf Angels are an experienced group of private investors looking for great entrepreneurs, great products and great companies. Bringing together investment, experience and knowledge, we help accelerate companies to become market leaders in their industry.We focus on four main investment areas as follows:- Information Technology- CleanTechnology- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials- Special Opportunities
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
  • Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
  • EmergConnect — Emergconnect is creating the first ever digital 'front door' for patients seeking same day care.
ScaleUP Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ScaleUP Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports creative entrepreneurs and assists with investments. It is focused on early-stage venture capital with a preference for Business-to-Business opportunities. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
  • Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
  • Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.
Somel Investments VC Fund
Somel Investments
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Data Center
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaloom — Kaloom is an emerging company developing a fully automated, programmable data center networking software solution that will disrupt how cloud and data center networks are built, managed and operated for enterprises, cloud providers, gaming companies, data center operators and 5G wireless providers. Kaloom comprises technology veterans with proventrack records of delivering large-scale networking, analytics and AI-based solutions for the world’s largest networks. The company is backed by leading investors including Fonds FTQ and Somel Investments. Kaloom has research and development offices located in the heart of the Quartier de l'innovation in Montreal, Quebec and a sales and marketing office in the Silicon Valley.
  • Deeplite — Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller, energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing.
  • Noviflow — Programmable Network Solutions
Bluesky Equities VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Bluesky is one of the most active seed-stage investors in B2B SaaS companies in Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ownly — Ownly buyer verification, digital selling tools, and online deposits remove doubt from the homebuying process for both real estate teams and homebuyers.
  • Reach — Reach is the premier ecommerce payments partner connecting you to global consumers. Unlock the true power of in-country payment without the complexities.
  • Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
Ventures West VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ventures West is one of Canada's largest privately owned venture capital companies. In addition to providing capital, they contribute a wealth of resources to each investment.With 10 professional technology investment managers, and one of the most productive Entrepreneur-In-Residence programs in Canada, the Ventures West team has over 120years of technology venture investing and hands-on operating experience.Ventures West has a unique set of capabilities - a long and successful track record in venture capital investing, management depth, extensive contacts in North American technology, financial, and venture capital industries, and the ability to form investor syndicates.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Epic Games — Welcome to Epic Games Store! Download and play PC Games of every genre. We have mods, DLC and Free Games too! Games for everyone.
  • Spectra7 Microsystems — Spectra7 Microsystems is a semiconductor company delivering unprecedented bandwidth, speed, and resolution to enable disruptive industrial design for leading consumer electronics manufacturers in virtual reality, augmented reality, data centers, and other connectivity markets. It specializes in the fields of wireless infrastructure and data centeractive cables.
  • Aquinox Pharmaceuticals — Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc., a pharmaceutical company, engages in discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory disease. It offers AQX-MN100, a drug used to treat cancer and inflammatory disease, as well as SH2-containing inositol 5'-phosphatase inhibition program forblood cell recovery. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
Intel Capital VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Intel Capital is uniquely positioned to help build the companies of tomorrow. Our investment team is backed with deep domain knowledge and the resources of Intel to assist companies in their paths to success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • TileDB — All data, code, and compute in a single product. The modern data stack, streamlined.
  • zenity — Everyone is now a Developer. What does that mean for Security?
  • wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using
OMERS Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Solink — Find what you're looking for in seconds Take a self-guided tour and see how effortlessly you can pinpoint what you're searching for in seconds using
  • OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
  • Redwood Materials — Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.
Wesley Clover VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
  • VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
  • Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
National Research Council Canada VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
NRC is the Government of Canada's leading resource for research, development and technology-based innovation. NRC comprises some 20 institutes and national programs, spanning a wide variety of disciplines and offering a broad array of services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Ekona Power — Ekona is using methane from feedstock to produce clean hydrogen and electrical power.
  • Pantheon Design — Pantheon Design develops 3D printing systems that allow industrial grade flexible manufacturing at a speed never seen before.
  • FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.
Espresso Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Espresso Capital empowers companies in technology, healthcare, and other high-growth verticals with innovative venture debt and growth financing solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Teampay — Empower employees with software that requests, approves, and tracks company spending in real-time. Integrations with QBO, Intacct, Netsuite, Xero & Slack.
  • Innovapptive — Innovapptive connects frontline maintenance workers and warehouse operations with back office data from SAP and IBM Maximo EAM with easy to use mobile apps
  • App Orchid — Get instant answers from all your data, get AI-generated insights, and simplify business decisions with Decision Intelligence powered by Easy Answers.
Globalive Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Globalive Capital is an investment company based in Canada. The Firm makes investments primarily in the telecommunications and real estate with co-investment activities alongside venture capital funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Curv Health — Modern virtual Training, Physiotherapy, & Rehab Clinic. Computer Vision & Health Coaches for Strengthening & Recovery.
  • KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
  • 3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.
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