Top 50 Impact VC Funds in Canada
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Impact startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Impact VC Funds in Canada
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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- Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- Fibracast — Fibracast is the innovator of FibrePlate™, the next generation in MBR technology. This unique hybrid ultrafilter integrates the best attributes of hollow-fiber and flat-plate membranes into a compact, strong and energy efficient immersed membrane.
- Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
- Cycle Momentum — Cycle Momentum is a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to the cleantech startups. Founded by Cycle Capital, the accelerator works with entrepreneurs that develop and commercialize clean technologies to help build globally competitive companies. Cycle Momentum offers entrepreneurs a specialized and personalized program of trainingworkshops, networking sessions, experienced mentors and gives access to the investors to some of the most promising Canadian cleantech ventures.
We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Canada, United States
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- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- Silfab Solar — Silfab solar panels are designed and engineered specifically for the North American environment and manufactured utilizing advanced robotics.
- Andion Global — Andion Global is a technology provider that offers a fully integrated, comprehensive solution for Wastewater Treatment (“WWT”) and Waste to Energy (“WTE”) plants through Engineering, Procurement and Construction (“EPC”) and Operation and Maintenance (“OM”) contracts combined with efficiency guarantees. The technology is valuable to WWT and WTEdevelopers that want to improve the water cycle of industrial processes and treat, for example, municipal, slaughterhouse and organic waste while producing energy, pellets, fertilizer and protein (under development) out of the feedstock.
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, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
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- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
- Renewable Power Capital — Renewable Power Capital invest in the development, construction and long-term ownership of solar, onshore wind and battery storage projects.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation — Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issuesthat arise from creating human-like machines.
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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- Manufacturing, Energy, Software
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Brazil
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- 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.
- Carbonova — Carbonova takes carbon dioxide plus methane that combined with waste heat produces carbon nanofiber. Carbonova sees waste and pollution as a new untapped resource creating a true circular economy. It has applications in a wide variety of industries including replacing carbon black, tires, batteries,
- 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.
SaskWorks Venture Fund is a Saskatchewan-based retail mutual fund that invests in privately-held small and medium-sized businesses owned or primarily operated in Saskatchewan. As a labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC), investments in SaskWorks are eligible to receive a tax credit equal to 35% in addition to their RRSP tax deferral.Since its inception, the Fund has provided a unique opportunity for Saskatchewan residents to keep their investment dollars at home, helping to grow local companies and creating jobs in their province.
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Investment focus
- Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Canada, United States
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- Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
- 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
- Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
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
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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.
- OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
- 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.
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
- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
- Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
- VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
We support environmental resiliency through profitable investment. We provide capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures catalyzing the transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water & products.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, CleanTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- SWTCH — SWTCH provides electric vehicle charging & energy management solutions for businesses and individuals.
- Optiwatt — Optiwatt integrates your exact electricity rates so you can save on EV charging and HVAC. Automatically use electricity off-peak and earn rebates in utility programs.
- ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
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
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- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
- Cardinal Energy — Cardinal Energy is an oil production company that offers low decline light, medium, and heavy quality oil in Western Canada.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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
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- 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
- Dartmouth Ocean Technologies — Dartmouth Ocean Technologies is a sensor platform-based company offering sensor platforms for use in the oceans. It manufactures towed platforms, vertically profiling platforms, moored platforms, and a variety of lab-on-chip sensors.
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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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, France
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- Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
- Rcm Modulaire — Rcm Modulaire is engaged in the designs and manufactures quality modular buildings.
- Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.
Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
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- HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
- Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.
- Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
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
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- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.
- Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.
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
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- 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
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
- Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
InvestEco invests in innovative companies in the Food & Agriculture Sector. Learn More about our process, people, and companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- LesserEvil — From source to snack, LesserEvil is dedicated to creating clean, healthy snacks that are as tasty as they are guilt-free. Start your journey to better snacking!
- M2 Ingredients — Founded in 2010, M2 Ingredients is a leading producer of certified 100% organic, whole food mushroom powders with the full spectrum of bioactive compounds to support daily health, sports performance, recovery and cognition.
- Om Mushroom Superfood — Our powerful single species and mushroom superfood blends are designed to promote immunity, vitality, cognitive health and energy. Shop now!
ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to cleantech companies.The privately-backed venture capital fund provides early-stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector. The Fund has developed a unique early-stage investment model through its partnership with MaRS, one of thelargest innovation centers in the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Soly — Binnen tien jaar kunnen we de zon als energiebronweer op 1 hebben. Doe je mee? Sluit je aan bij enie.nl. Zonnepanelen, laadpalen en meer.
- Trove — We do the hard work behind Circular Shopping. Get access to a new consumer behavior. See the Cycle of Circular Shopping and our Partnerships.
- Recurrent — Eliminate range anxiety with EV battery reports for used electric cars. Recurrent reports replace the odometer for drivers, buyers and dealers.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
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- Propulso — Break the barrier between digital and physical world: target your competitors, target events, measure physical visits and generate results!
- Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
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
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- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
- Cardinal Energy — Cardinal Energy is an oil production company that offers low decline light, medium, and heavy quality oil in Western Canada.
NGIF Capital offers an integrated hybrid model for financing cleantech companies with solutions for the energy sector.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Advanced Materials, Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Carbonova — Carbonova takes carbon dioxide plus methane that combined with waste heat produces carbon nanofiber. Carbonova sees waste and pollution as a new untapped resource creating a true circular economy. It has applications in a wide variety of industries including replacing carbon black, tires, batteries,
- ARIX Technologies — ARIX Technologies is a robotics and data analytics start-up that manufactures pipe crawling robots for oil and gas pipe inspection. The company's technology integrates robots with advanced data analytics to reinvent the way corrosion is detected and analyzed in manufacturing plants and provide improvements in safety and sustainability,enabling manufacturing companies to save billions of dollars in the cost of manufacturing.It was founded in 2017 and is based in Jackson, Louisiana, USA.
- Galatea Technologies — Galatea offers cutting-edge technology to empower businesses with data-driven solutions, optimizing operational, financial, and environmental performance.
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
- Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
- Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.
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
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- Captain AI — Captain AI is an on-demand delivery software that enables restaurants to automate in-house delivery. The end-to-end software solution utilizes artificial intelligence to fully automate delivery operations.
- Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
- Ethica Channel Enablement Inc. — Accessible Network Intelligence for service providers
EnerTech Capital works hand-in-hand with pioneers and innovators daring to change the world. For 25 years EnerTech’s fundamental focus has been investing and partnering with innovative companies driving informational impact across the energy landscape; with a focus on Mobility, Industry 4.0, and Connected Customer. Since its founding in 1996,EnerTech has made 74 investments and has managed over $500 million in capital commitments. EnerTech works with investors and stakeholders from corporates with growing innovation programs to seasoned investors seeking differentiated opportunities for strategic capital deployment or tailored solutions. EnerTech partners with companies across all stages of enterprise value creation from late development and seed through commercialization and growth. While investment activities are predominantly focused in North America, EnerTech partners with teams globally on an opportunistic basis.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- SHAED — SHAED offers a mobility platform. It focuses on Shared, Hydrogen, Autonomous, Electric, and Distribution technologies. It speeds up the shift from traditional engines to electric and sustainable vehicles in the commercial sector.
- Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
- Aperia Technologies — The Halo automatic tire inflation system for semi-truck tractors and trailers installs in minutes to increase fuel efficiency and tire life.
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
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- Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
- 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.
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Ecomtent — Ecomtent enables brands to create eCommerce content with Generative AI. Using Ecomtent's self-service tools, customers can generate their entire optimized Amazon listing, using our AI product photo generator, AI Generate infographics at scale, a+ content, and generate optimised copy.
- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
- Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.
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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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- MONDATA — Mondata develop MD.ECO, a scalable cloud-based platform that provides a full cybersecurity ecosystem for companies of all sizes
- Finalta Capital — Finalta Capital is a financial advisory firm that specializes in providing tax credit solutions.
- InnovMetric Software — About InnovMetric Software Inc.Founded in 1994, in Quebec City, Canada, InnovMetric Software Inc. is the leading provider of universal 3D metrology software solutions.InnovMetric develops PolyWorks:registered: and, together with its business partners, markets PolyWorks to industrial manufacturing organizations. InnovMetric and its businesspartners also offer a broad range of technical services to deploy customized PolyWorks-based solutions across the manufacturing cycle, from the product engineering phase up to production.Based in Quebec, QC, Canada, and with subsidiaries in the USA, China, and India, InnovMetric has approximately 125 employees, including 30 application specialists. InnovMetric has also built its own network of dedicated PolyWorks software support partners in the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Turkey, and Thailand that employ more than 30 additional application specialists. For more information, visit www.innovmetric.com
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Founded in 2016, Evok Innovations is a fund that focuses on early-stage companies in the areas of Clean Energy, CleanTech, ClimateTech and CarbonTech.
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- Oil and Gas, Energy, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- Disa — Stay sustainable and profitable with DISA's high-pressure slurry ablation technology for reclamation and mining
- ZwitterCo — ZwitterCo is revolutionizing water & wastewater treatment with cutting-edge membrane technology, along with providing sustainable, high-efficiency solutions.
Natural Resources Canada is a company of resources and information about the protection of natural land and water.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas
- Grant, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, Norway, United States
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- Ekona Power — Ekona is using methane from feedstock to produce clean hydrogen and electrical power.
- Intelligent City — Intelligent City delivers turn-key, prefabricated, mass timber urban housing that is sustainable, affordable and livable.
- Shell Canada — Learn more about Shell Canada, find the nearest gas station or car wash, get air miles with a BMO MasterCard or start a job search.
NGEN Partners is an active venture investor committed to backing world class entrepreneurs seeking to change industries through innovation, creativity and the promotion of environmentally sustainable products and services.Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners invests in companies that positively improve the environment and human wellness. We seekentrepreneurs with unique business models and differentiated products and services, capable of rapid growth and sustained profitability. We invest in and alongside these entrepreneurs, helping them grow and sustain category leaders. We invest throughout North America, and have offices in California and New York.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- BrightFarms — BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.
- Choose Energy — We are committed to making energy choice simple and easy. When we started back in 2008, we had a vision to simplify shopping for the best electricity and natural gas rates, plan terms and renewable energy options. Today, using data and energy expertise, we now manage over a billion dollars in energy bills while delivering the highest qualityservice and saving millions of dollars for people and businesses across America. We take comfort in knowing you and your neighbors are getting the energy plan that’s right for you.
- Renew Financial — Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for EnergyEfficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors.Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE.
Startup TNT is a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building of investors, entrepreneurs and cheerleaders, who gather every week and build friendships before companies. Previously generated more than $3 Million capital for local startups, TNT aims to transform Alberta into Canada's be
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- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- Scription — Scription offers maintenance companies the only end-to-end solution for pricing, selling, and managing personalized maintenance contracts.
- Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
- Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
Our Venture Capital Fund provides New Brunswick start-ups with the seed investment they need to rapidly grow and delivery their products to customers.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- CareerBeacon — Find new job opportunities across Canada on CareerBeacon. Browse through thousands of job openings from leading employers. Find your ideal fit today.
- Sonrai Security — Sonrai Security delivers an enterprise security platform for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. The Sonrai Dig platform is built on a sophisticated graph that identifies and monitors every possible relationship between identities and data that exists inside an organization’s public cloud. Dig’s Governance Automation Engine automatesworkflow, remediation, and prevention capabilities across cloud and security teams to ensure end-to-end security.
- Drinkable — At Drinkable we're passionate about water autonomy. We believe everyone has the right to know what's in their water, so they have the agency to manage their own risks. We've harnessed that passion into the worlds first effortless, affordable, and accurate handheld testing device, that detects drinking water contamination with thepress of a button. With a simple thumbs up/down display you'll know within seconds if your water requires further attention. You can pair our device with your smart phone to receive an expanded contamination report, risk profile, and a treatment plan that's tailored just for you.
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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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Belgium
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- ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
- Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
- 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.
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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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
- 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.
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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- Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
- Exxel Polymers — Exxel Polymers takes post-industrial and post-consumer plastic waste from various sources and processes it using granulation, shredding, and extrusion. The company sells recycled materials through an established distribution network.
- London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.
We back today's most promising energy & cleantech innovators, and engage the world's leading companies to help build and scale. Our approach merges venture capital and an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help you quickly achieve success.
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- Energy, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
- Recurve — We're connecting the dots between efficiency, electrification, renewable energy, and DERs to enable demand flexibility to become a market-based procurable resource.
- Polystyvert — Notre technologie permet de collecter facilement le polystyrène et de le recycler pour le remettre sous sa forme originale. Du polystyrène recyclé d'aussi bonne qualité que du neuf !
Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Cartken — Launch your robot fleet with us. The AI powering our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today.
- Sunswap — Sunswap is developing zero-emission transport refrigeration products to reduce noise and air pollution in our cities. Our mission is to replace the dirty diesel engines currently in use in the cold chain with our electric Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU).
- FreshBus — Spread the Green
Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in the next generation of mission-driven founders who are early in new areas.
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- Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Dinari — Discover Equity Boundless - Simplify everything from equity management and options grant to payroll so that you no longer have to worry about compliance, taxes, or vesting schedules no matter where your employees are.
- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- Bedrock Materials — Bedrock Materials pioneers affordable sodium-ion batteries with revolutionary materials and production techniques, changing energy storage for a more sustainable future.
VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management and invests in the cleantech, healthcare, and IT sectors.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- Pica8 — Companies rely on Pica8 enterprise networking software for campus and data center switching and management automation.
- Ostara — Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. helps protect precious water resources by changing the way cites around the world manage nutrients in water streams
- 1366 Technologies — 1366 Technologies is a manufacturer of silicon wafers used to deliver solar modules. The company's silicon wafers leverage existing billion-dollar cell and module investments, enabling businesses to get a long-term, differentiated product roadmap. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
- Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
Island Capital Partners is an early stage venture capital fund that is in the business of investing in high potential Prince Edward Island entrepreneurs and startups.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Ireland
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- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Dear Life — Dear Life is for someone grieving a loss who wants to keep their loved one’s memory alive with a beautiful tribute, but lacks technical and creative know-how. We easily preserve their legacy with photos, videos, and written stories of life-defining moments. Unlike competitors, Dear Life generates a cinematic experience of your loved one’s lifestory, created in a guided step-by-step process, and in collaboration with friends and family.
- SalesRight — Close deals faster with Interactive Quotes: designed to clearly show SaaS pricing and give the analytics you need to close deals faster.
Ecofuel is a venture capital fund specialized in cleantech startups. Ecofuel Fund invests smart money in startups that develop and commercializes clean technologies.
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- Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Semiconductor
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada
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- HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
- POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
- TENGIVA — All-inclusive digital solutions for textiles: B2B distribution, sourcing, and data management.
CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- VoltServer — VoltServer develops innovative power distribution products based on the company's patented Digital Electricity technology. It is a venture-backed technology leader reinventing how electrical energy is distributed. VoltServer's patented Digital Electricity solutions deliver touch-safe electricity where, when, and how it is needed. DigitalElectricity can be delivered using an off-the-shelf data cable, at a significantly reduced cost, and with greater speed, power, distance, efficiency, intelligence, and flexibility, when compared to competing for electrical installations. VoltServer began shipping in early 2015 and is installed today powering 4G/LTE mobile services in many large sports stadiums, office towers, hotels, condominium, and medical buildings.
- Cala Systems — Discover Cala, the innovative heat pump water heater that customizes heating to your lifestyle. Save money, reduce your carbon footprint, and enjoy easy installation with Cala. Reserve yours today and experience efficient, eco-friendly hot water tailored to your needs.
- Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
- Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
- Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Software
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Strohm — Strohm is a private supply chain company, focused on the offshore wind-to-hydrogen sector.
- PQShield — Formed as a spinout of the University of Oxford by cryptography researchers and specialists, PQShield has unrivalled domain expertise in the design and implementation of quantum-resistant cryptography for software and hardware applications. PQShield is a major contributing participant to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Post-Quantum Standardisation Process. At PQShield, we help customers transition their product lines from legacy RSA and Elliptic Curve cryptography to quantum-secure standards by offering ready-made and tailored IP for secure elements, IoT firmware, PKI and server technologies, and end-user applications."
- Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- Divert — Divert provides resource recovery services for the retail industry's food and associated waste. The company provides tools for food tracking, donating, and recycling that integrate with retail operations' existing workflow, allowing clients to meet diversion goals, report on individual store performance, and save money while having apositive, long-term environmental impact.Divert was established on January 1, 2007 in Concord, Massachusetts by Nick Whitman.
- Flyscan — Flyscan develops automated, airborne, leak and threat detection services for oil and gas pipeline operators.
- Smart Pipe — Smart Pipe Company, Inc. designs and develops pipeline rehabilitation systems. It offers Smart Pipe, a monitored reinforced thermoplastic pipe used for the rehabilitation of an existing pipeline, or as a stand alone replacement. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Katy, Texas.
The Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC) was established by the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation Act, 2008 and was launched on February 27, 2009. The principal business of the OCGC is to manage the interest of the Government of Ontario in the limited partnership known as the Ontario Venture Capital Fund LP (OVCF) and to manage and operatethe Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF).
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- Energy, Software, Video
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada
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- Verold (zyenti) — Verold is an online visual editor that allows users to integrate 3D models into their presentations. The platform provides a studio that enables users to customize the lighting and environment setup of their project. They can also add animations, audio, and video assets and share their output in the web through Verold’s embeddable player.In2015, Verold was acquired by Box.
- 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.
- Smart Energy Instruments — Electronic Tools and Instrumentation
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