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Top 50 Impact VC Funds & Investors in Canada (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Canada Impact startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Impact startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund
17 Canada, United States, Brazil Grant, Seed Energy, Manufacturing, Software $73k–$6.5M
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
16 Canada, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $603k–$17M
Active Impact Investments
VC Fund
15 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, CleanTech $366k–$38M
Cycle Capital
VC Fund
14 Canada, United States, Germany Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics $55k–$27M
Export Development Canada
VC Fund
14 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $3.5M–$50M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
12 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $25k–$2M
BDC Capital Cleantech Practice
VC Fund
12 Canada, United States Series A, Series C Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $7M–$53M
SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund
12 Canada, United States Seed, Post-IPO Equity Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing $1.2M–$5.1M
Innovacorp
VC Fund
11 Canada, Australia, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $18k–$3.1M
Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
11 Canada, United States, Argentina Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $275k–$16M
WUTIF
VC Fund
11 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $100k–$3.8M
SOSV
VC Fund
9 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Fondaction
VC Fund
9 Canada, United States, France Private Equity, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $273k–$125M
Chrysalix Venture Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, The Netherlands Series B, Series A Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech $2M–$24M
SVG Ventures
VC Fund
9 Canada, United States, Australia Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed AgTech, Agriculture, Farming $50k–$4.7M
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund
8 Canada, United States Seed, Grant Software, Information Technology, Analytics $25k–$2.2M
GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund
8 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $731k–$4.5M
Investeco Capital
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States, Portugal Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing $250k–$14M
VA Angels
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States, India Seed, Debt Financing Health Care, Software, Information Technology $110k–$1.5M
Garage Capital
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $765k–$50M
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $368k–$14M
BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund
VC Fund
7 Canada Series A, Seed, Series B CleanTech, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology $1.5M–$50M
Natural Gas Innovation Fund
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States Grant, Series A Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Energy $91k–$58M
Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
6 Canada, Spain, United States Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $366k–$3.2M
Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $10k–$5M
Government of Canada
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, India Grant, Debt Financing Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care $100k–$30M
Ecofuel Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Telecommunications $1.4M–$5M
Evok Innovations
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Energy, Chemical, Oil and Gas $2.5M–$58M
1517 Fund
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $240k–$41M
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund
5 Canada, France Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction $100k–$3.4M
Golden Opportunities Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Agriculture, Software, Farming $500k–$20M
Startup TNT
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Medical Device $23k–$2M
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software $6.3M–$75M
Diagram Ventures
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $439k–$19M
Version One Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Blockchain $1.4M–$55M
ArcTern Ventures
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Seed Energy, Software, Renewable Energy $2.8M–$50M
Chevron Technology Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B Energy, Software, Manufacturing $4.6M–$42M
Pallasite Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $988k–$115M
Earth Foundry
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada Seed, Series B Energy, Software, Internet of Things
The 51 Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, Fashion $677k–$4.2M
Shell Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Series B Energy, Renewable Energy, Software $3M–$126M
Natural Resources Canada
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Norway Grant, Post-IPO Equity, Series A Energy, Renewable Energy, Non Profit $155k–$5M
NBIF’s Venture Capital Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $25k–$731k
Yaletown Partners
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing $603k–$54M
GrowthWorks Capital
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Alberta Innovates
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Singapore Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Energy, Oil and Gas, Software $36k–$10M
Teck
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Series D Mining, Precious Metals, Mining Technology $879k–$27M
Sprout Fund LP
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Marketing $75k–$2.4M
Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Machine Learning $1.8M–$28M
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 17 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 185
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$1.7M; Grant $878k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solaires Entreprises Inc — Solaires Entreprises Inc is a Canadian cleantech company located in Victoria, BC, that consists of a team of 23 scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Solaires is focused on developing the next generation of solar cells by replacing silicon with perovskite through an innovative and sustainable manufacturing process resulting inaffordable solar photovoltaics with higher energy conversion efficiency.
  • Prairie Robotics — Leading smart camera solutions for sustainable recycling and waste management.
  • Progressive Planet Solutions — Progressive Planet Solutions Inc is a metal/mineral based company that deals with the exploration & development of zeolite minerals.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 16 investments in Canada Impact startups

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 409
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sheertex — Sheertex - #1 Bestselling tights in the USA. Ultra-strong sheers engineered for durability and comfort, up to 10x more durable than others.
  • Xanadu — Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.
  • LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
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Active Impact Investments
VC Fund · North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 15 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $731k–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $366k–$2M; Series A $1.8M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $51M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • GlacierGrid — GlacierGrid: Energy Management Solutions for Businesses. Reduce Energy Costs by up to 20% and Improve Energy Efficiency. Explore our solutions now!
  • 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.
  • ChopValue Manufacturing — Creating beautiful, high-performance engineered products made entirely from recycled chopsticks. We offer green franchising opportunities so you can make a positive difference in your community. Let's work towards a circular economy, one chopstick at a time.
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Cycle Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 14 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$2.3M; Series B $5.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $145M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Airex Energy — Airex Energy provides solutions for a sustainable future. Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
  • Thymox Technology — A powerful, non-toxic botanical disinfectant that kills 99.9% of bacteria, fungi and molds as well as COVID-19. Thymox is safe for you and your family.
  • YWire technologies — Based in Montreal, YWire Technologies designs, manufactures and sells lighting control devices for the commercial buildings market. Founded by three building automation industry veterans in 2009, YWire designs products targeted specifically at lowering the installed cost of integrated systems across the market. The FiveSeries Lighting ControlSystem is the first building-level command and control system in the world to use Broadband over Power Line for device networks and integration into Building Automation Systems.
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 14 investments in Canada Impact startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 236
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$22M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ionik — PopReach operates as a multi-platform technology company. It focuses on acquiring, optimizing, and growing companies and assets that provide services, technology, or products within the digital media ecosystem. Its portfolio of assets includes PopReach Games, a free-to-play mobile game publisher with over 25 games enjoyed by millions of players;notifyAI, a push notification subscription and monetization platform; Q1Media, a digital media advertising services provider; and Contobox, an award-winning personalization, eCommerce and creative advertising technology platform.
  • Generation Mining — Generation Mining is a mineral development company that focuses on zinc and molybdenum projects in Canada. It completed a Preliminary Economic Assessment in early 2020 and plans to follow up with a Definitive Feasibility Study beginning in Q1, 2020.
  • Green Circuits — GC designs and manufactures electronics circuit boards for the aerospace, defense, and health tech industries.
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 12 investments in Canada Impact startups, 66 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $33k–$2M; Debt Financing $141k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IGNITE — Ignite assists entrepreneurs at all stages, whether they are beginning a firm, growing it, or maintaining long-term success.Ignite has been leading an innovative and knowledge-based strategy to help individuals thrive and businesses prosper.
  • PEI BioAlliance — PEI BioAlliance is a not-for-profit organization committed to the advancement of the bioscience industry. The BioAlliance has aided businesses, academic and research institutions, and federal and provincial government agencies in establishing the bioscience sector as a critical pillar in the province's and Atlantic Canada's economicfoundation. It facilitates the use of new technology through research and assists in the identification of new commercial opportunities. The PEI BioAlliance leads the Cluster of business, academic, research, and government organizations committed to increasing the economic impact of the bioscience sector in Prince Edward Island.
  • The Halifax Honey — The Halifax Honey is a manufacturing company that provides sweet and spicy condiments made from wildflower honey and real chili peppers.
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BDC Capital Cleantech Practice
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 12 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$31M; Series C $9.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • eLeapPower — Learn more about how our technology is revolutionizing eMobility.
  • FREDsense — Ensure accurate PFAS detection with Fredsense's advanced testing solutions for water quality and safety. Contact us today for more information!
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SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund · Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada · 12 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

  • Industry: Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.1M; Post-IPO Equity $3.7M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Innovacorp
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 11 investments in Canada Impact startups

Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$3.1M; Grant $25k–$91k; Pre-Seed $18k–$878k
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
  • Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
  • CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 11 investments in Canada Impact startups

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Argentina

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$5M; Series A $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
  • TickTrade Systems — smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider with multi-asset electronic trading platforms, helping buy-side & sell-side institutions
  • Renaissance Repair and Supply
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WUTIF
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 11 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $256k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
  • Carbonyx — Carbonyx is a biotechnology company that transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts while permanently storing carbon dioxide.
  • CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is developing novel RNA therapeutics for central nervous system disorders.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 9 investments in Canada Impact startups, 75 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 9 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Debt Financing $273k–$10M; Private Equity $750k–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
  • Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace designs and produces custom-fitted wrist, thumb, and hand braces using 3D scanning and additive manufacturing. Offerings address stabilization, pain reduction, and guided movement for sprains, tendinopathies, fractures, and post-operative recovery. The ordering process typically uses a mobile scan to capture anatomy, followed by digitalmodeling and fabrication of a ventilated orthosis with adjustable closures. Product lines include sport-focused variants for climbing and fitness, everyday support options, and clinician-informed configurations for specific protocols. Guidance covers sizing, donning and doffing, wear schedules, and care, with support available for fit refinements and component replacement. Accessories such as straps or padding kits complement the core devices and help extend service life.
  • BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.
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Chrysalix Venture Capital
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 9 investments in Canada Impact startups

Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$16M; Series B $5.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Geopyörä Oy — Geopyörä is the state of the art in rock breakage characterization testing and it was developed to allow mining companies to test several samples at low cost for geometallurgical, comminution design and control applications
  • General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
  • Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States · 9 investments in Canada Impact startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 247
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plasmaleap
  • Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
  • Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.
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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund · Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada · 8 investments in Canada Impact startups

Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.2M; Grant $25k–$436k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
  • Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
  • Lastwall — Lastwall exists to protect democratic institutions by strengthening the cybersecurity posture of defense and critical infrastructure partners.
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GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 8 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $731k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Derapi — Derapi is a universal API for distributed energy resource (DER) devices, including solar, battery storage, EV chargers, smart thermostats, heat pumps, and other behind-the-meter loads. Derapi unlocks the full value of DERs by removing bottlenecks related to data integration, reducing data infrastructure costs and speeding time to market for DERsoftware developers, DER device manufacturers, and others in the DER ecosystem.
  • GridBank — GridBank is a vertical video UGC library for brands that want ready-made social content without managing creators directly. It offers royalty-free, social-native videos you can search in natural language and download for use in organic and paid campaigns.
  • Trolley — Trolley is the best payouts platform for businesses needing to pay creators, musicians, artists, freelancers, or on-demand workers.
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Investeco Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Series A $4.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • GoParity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com
  • Chickapea — Buy your Chickapea Pasta and have it shipped to your door! Free shipping to most locations in the United States.
  • Little Sesame — Serving up smooth hummus & sunny vibes.
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VA Angels
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
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Garage Capital
VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Impact startups

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $765k–$3.6M; Series A $7.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
  • 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.
  • Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Impact startups

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$4M; Pre-Seed $368k–$1.5M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
  • TimeSmart.AI — TimeSmart.AI provides a comprehensive solution developed with the guidance of physicians and compliance professionals to help improve organizational efficiencies.TimeSmart.AI delivers a robust, all-in-one solution crafted with input from physicians and compliance experts. It streamlines organizational workflows to boost efficiencies acrosshealthcare operations. Designed for real-world reliability, it helps teams save time while upholding the highest standards of care and regulation.
  • Authentic Web — Authentic Web is a Corporate Domain Name Management platform for the New TLD Era.We equip enterprise teams in Digital, Marketing & IT with domain and DNS automation, providing business intelligence to support digital optimization and innovation for digital brands.Our workflow, automation and security protocols address Security andCompliance requirements for Risk, Compliance and IT Security teams to lock down domain assets and support teams to manage DNS network exposures.
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BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund
VC Fund · 7 investments in Canada Impact startups

BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund invests in Canadian climate technology firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CleanTech, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.1M; Series A $7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
  • Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
  • Freshr Technologies — Impactful Health R&D is a developer of compostable active packaging materials designed to prolong the shelf life of fresh foods, starting with fresh fish as an entry market. The company's active packaging materials are made of naturally-derived resources and helps in preserving the texture of a fish by maintaining its water content andtargeting bacteria, enabling fish processing companies to reduce wastage of fish.
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Natural Gas Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Impact startups

NGIF Capital offers an integrated hybrid model for financing cleantech companies with solutions for the energy sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Energy
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Grant $91k–$2.8M; Series A $10M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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,
  • Hydron Energy — Hydron Energy is a cleaner fuel company helping hard-to-decarbonize sectors of transportation and industry.
  • Galatea Technologies — Galatea offers cutting-edge technology to empower businesses with data-driven solutions, optimizing operational, financial, and environmental performance.
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Impact startups

The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
  • FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
  • Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Impact startups

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$3.2M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
  • DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
  • Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$5M; Angel $10k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
  • RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
  • Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.
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Government of Canada
VC Fund · Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 431
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$30M; Debt Financing $100k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
  • Big Mountain Foods
  • Creative Destruction Lab — Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 byProfessor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.
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Ecofuel Fund
VC Fund · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
  • Brilliant Matters — Brilliant Matters is a supplier of organic semiconductors and conductors for Organic solar cells and other printed electronics markets.
  • Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
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Evok Innovations
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Chemical, Oil and Gas
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $5M–$55M; Series B $2.8M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • SensorUp — SensorUp offers advanced software solutions for methane emissions management and reduction in the oil and gas industry, aligning with net zero goals and enhancing operational control through effective emissions reporting and measurement technology.
  • Disa — Stay sustainable and profitable with DISA's high-pressure slurry ablation technology for reclamation and mining
  • Moment Energy — Moment Energy empowers commercial and industrial clients across North America to reduce operational costs, increase energy resilience for business, and achieve sustainability goals.
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1517 Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

1517 Fund is an early stage venture capital fund that supports teams led by dropouts, deep-tech scientists & founders working outside of tracked institutions.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$7M; Pre-Seed $240k–$3M; Series A $7.6M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Xona — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
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Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups, 49 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$3.4M; Debt Financing $100k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 96% lead, 4% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Liberté — In 1936, Liberté began manufacturing cream and cottage cheeses near downtown Montréal on the corner of Saint-Urbain and Duluth streets, which today is home to Café Santropol.As the company grew, production maintained a traditional and artisanal character. After relocating to Brossard in 1964, Liberté continued to manufacture cream cheese andbegan producing yogurt. With the success of this new endeavour, the company then developed an increasing number of products, all the while upholding its standards of quality and purity. In 2008, Liberté acquired a plant in Saint-Hyacinthe to support its expansion.
  • Elysis — Elysis is a technology enterprise that provides an eco-friendly solution for the production and process of aluminium. It is a joint venture created by Rio Tinto and Alcoa.
  • JEFAGRO TECHNOLOGIES INC. — Jefo designs and manufactures non-medicated animal nutrition solutions and feed additives for livestock and companion animals. The company focuses on alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters and uses its Jefo Matrix Technology microencapsulation process to deliver targeted release of active ingredients in the digestive tract. Its portfolioincludes enzyme supplements, vitamin and mineral premixes, acidifiers, fermentation products, liquid supplements, and complementary feeds for dairy and beef cattle, swine, poultry, aquaculture species, pets, and rabbits. Jefo also provides precision intestinal nutrition programs organized around health and prevention, production and performance, and reproduction. In addition, it offers technical support, customized ingredient sourcing, private labeling, and packaging services to feed manufacturers, premix companies, and producers. Jefo bases product development on applied research conducted in dedicated facilities and through collaborations with commercial farms and research partners.
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Golden Opportunities Fund
VC Fund · Saskatoon, Manitoba, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. is Saskatchewan's first Provincial Labour-sponsored Investment Fund which was launched in 1999 and is registered as a Labour-sponsored Investment Fund Corporation under The Labour-sponsored Venture Capital Corporations Act (Saskatchewan). Saskatchewan residents who purchase Shares of the Fund receive a 15%Federal tax credit and a 20% Provincial tax credit for a total of 35% in tax credits to a maximum contribution of $5,000 annually. Investments are also 100% RRSP eligible.With the capital raised, the Fund makes investments in Saskatchewan companies, or other entities that carry on business in Saskatchewan, that have less than 500 employees at the time of investment and that pay at least 25% of all their wages and salaries to Saskatchewan employees (as per current regulation which may be amended from time to time). The objective of the Fund is to realize long-term capital appreciation of its investments in eligible businesses. Potential investments are evaluated according to, among other things: stage of development; size; quality of management; the market potential of the products or services sold or distributed; the profit potential of eligible business; and the opportunity for realization by the Fund of its investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Software, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Drake Meats
  • Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
  • LiORA — Environmental Material Science (EMS) provides soil and groundwater sensors along with bioremediation services to help lands achieve an optimal state.
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Startup TNT
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $51k–$2M; Pre-Seed $23k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
  • Simuhealth — Simuhealth is a platform that helps simulation centers run more efficiently. It brings together everything you need to schedule sessions, manage equipment, track learners, and report on outcomes - all in one place. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected tools, simulation teams can use Simuhealth to coordinate day-to-dayoperations from a single, modern system.
  • Northernmost — Northernmost is a company that develops machines that protect and transport donated kidneys for transplantation.
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Series A $6.3M–$46M; Series B $7.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Cook it — Cook it is a ready-to-cook meal company in Canada. Cook it's mission is to reduce food waste and to take away the inconvenience associated with weekly meal planning. The company delivers incredibly delicious and easily prepared meals that everyone can proudly cook.
  • Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
  • Flare — Flare equips your team to shut down cybercrime before it escalates. Detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats with automated Threat Exposure Management.
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Diagram Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Connecting ideas, founders, and capital to build companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nesto — LOW FROM THE GET GO. With nesto's exclusive mortgage solution, score the lowest rate on your first try! New mortgage - Mortgage Renewal / Refinance.
  • Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
  • JetScale AI — JetScale AI is a Montreal-based startup specializing in AI-driven cloud infrastructure optimization. It uses agentic AI to detect inefficiencies, provide remediation plans, and generate compliant Infrastructure-as-Code for cost savings and sustainability.
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Version One Ventures
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.8M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
  • Roost — Founded in early 2019 and based in Toronto, Roost is building the ultimate end-to-end rental platform to make long-term renting as streamlined as booking a hotel. Focused on Gen Z and Millennial renters, we're leveraging data and hyper-personalization to create innovative real estate and financial technology products to empower the moderntenant and landlord to rent better.We're backed by leading venture capital firms including Version One Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Union Capital, as well as several angel investors including the co-founder of Dayforce and a former executive at Uber.We’re passionate about technology and its impacts on the real world and envision a future where home is never more than a few clicks away. Let's help the world rent better - join us!
  • Arctus Aerospace
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ArcTern Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M; Series A $4M–$22M; Series B $5.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $335M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperlume — Credo delivers high-speed, energy-efficient connectivity solutions powering AI, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks up to 1.6T.
  • Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
  • Normal Computing — Normal Computing was founded by former members of the Google Brain Team, Palantir, and X who unlocked AI for some of the largest-scale and most mission-critical production systems, and the industry leading ML frameworks for Probabilistic and Quantum AI.
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Chevron Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Houston, Texas, United States · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Series A $4.6M–$34M; Series B $6.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Natron Energy — Natron Energy is safely changing how energy is stored and consumed with our sodium-ion battery technology. Learn more!
  • Aquanta Vision
  • Ardent Process Technologies — Proven, practical solutions for industrial point-source carbon capture and other challenging chemical separations.
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Pallasite Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Pallasite Ventures is an agile venture capital firm providing early-stage financing for high-growth companies across a variety of industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $988k–$5M; Series A $3.2M–$26M; Series B $14M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ionomr — Ionomr designs & manufactures advanced ion-exchange polymers & membranes that enable high performance and efficiency in applications like water & wastewater treatment, hydrogen production and advanced energy storage.
  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • Aspect Biosystems — Pioneering the development of bioprinted tissue therapeutics to transform how we treat some of the most elusive diseases.
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Earth Foundry
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 3E Nano — Transform your windows and other transparent barriers with NxLite's innovative coatings on glass and lightweight polymers.
  • 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 !
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The 51 Ventures
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $731k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $677k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
  • NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
  • Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
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Shell Ventures
VC Fund · Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$31M; Series B $3M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
  • Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
  • Statiq — Find electric vehicle charging station near you, book a slot, digitally pay for charging car.
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Natural Resources Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Natural Resources Canada is a company of resources and information about the protection of natural land and water.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Non Profit
  • Stage:Grant, Post-IPO Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 201
  • Round size: Grant $155k–$5M; Post-IPO Equity $589k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NB Power
  • Peak Power — Peak Power is making it profitable for commercial and industrial real estate customers to get to net zero. Visit our website to learn how.
  • Defense Metals — Defense Metals is a mineral exploration company that specializes in the acquisition of mineral deposits containing metals and elements. Defense Metals is committed to providing the world with resources necessary to provide reliable energy as well as defend and protect nations globally.
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NBIF’s Venture Capital Fund
VC Fund · Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$512k; Pre-Seed $37k–$731k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Secure cloud and enterprise privileged access with IAM solutions and identity security tools that protect users and data while helping teams deploy faster. Request a demo today.
  • 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.
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Yaletown Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5.2M; Series A $2.9M–$16M; Series B $2.1M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • GHGSat — GHGSat’s mission is to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse gas (GHG), air quality gas, and other trace gas emissions from any source in the world.In June 2016, GHGSat launched the world’s first high-resolution satellite capable of measuring greenhouse gas (CO2 & CH4) emissions from any industrial facility in theworld. GHGSat is using this unique satellite and its patented technology to provide greenhouse gas emissions monitoring data and services globally,with better accuracy and at at a fraction of the cost of comparable alternatives. Owners of industrial facilities are now able to monitor all of their facilities, local or remote, anywhere in the world, with a common technology, in near-real-time. Significantly improved emissions information is enabling industries to better measure, control, and ultimately reduce emissions of GHGs.Building on lessons learned from its demonstration satellite, GHGSat launched its second satellite in Sept 2020 and a third is scheduled for Q1'21. Three more satellites are under construction for launch in early 2022. GHGSat also uses the same instrument technology from its satellites on aircraft, to provide complementary resolution and performance for customers in shale plays. GHGSat’s technology can also be used to monitor air quality gases, as well as other trace gases, in the atmosphere. Business cases are being developed for key markets, such as measuring SOx from ships.
  • Oloid — Frictionless and secure passwordless authentication for frontline workers enabling modern cybersecurity and identity and access management for deskless workers and shared devices.
  • Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions
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GrowthWorks Capital
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Alberta Innovates
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Alberta Innovates is the province's innovation engine. From funding to commercialization, we have everything you need to put innovation into action.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Oil and Gas, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $512k–$10M; Grant $36k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $41k–$731k
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Serenity Power — Serenity Power is a developer of solid oxide fuel cell systems delivering low-emission, noise-free, multi-fuel clean energy for industries.
  • Marvel Biosciences — Marvel Biosciences is a biotech company that provides discovery and the development of a synthetic derivative compound of a known proven drug. Their development of compounds for cancer. They serve medical needs.
  • Energy Transition Centre foundation — The ETC Foundation is a vibrant center that brings together players from academia, industry, government, and the larger innovation ecosystem to create vital answers to climate concerns and spur innovation.
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Teck
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Teck is Canada's largest diversified mining company and is committed to responsible development. It has major business units focused on copper, metallurgical coal, zinc, gold and energy. Shares are listed on the TSX under the symbols TECK.A and TECK.B and on the NYSE under the symbol TECK.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mining, Precious Metals, Mining Technology
  • Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Post-IPO Equity $879k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intrepid — Intrepid is developing potential high-grade silver/lead/zinc projects in close proximity to producing mines and world-class deposits. The Company increased the offering size from the prior maximum of $3 million. The closing of the Offering is the final material condition for the completion of its Change of Business transaction (the"Transaction"). The Company can now apply for final approval from the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") to resume trading under its new trading symbol INTR.V. In addition, in preparation for the closing of the Transaction, the Company has changed its name from Voleo Trading Systems Inc. to Intrepid Metals Corp. Click here for more details about the Transaction.
  • American Eagle Gold — American Eagle Gold mission is to explore to discover a world-class copper and gold deposit.
  • Perseverance Metals — Perseverance Metals is a leading north american critical minerals exploration company with a carefully curated, growing portfolio of high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM projects
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Sprout Fund LP
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups

Sprout Fund invests in seed- and early-stage companies with Series-A funding potential. The fund leverages the collective experience of its Managing and Limited Partners to mentor and fund high-potential technology companies. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $951k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $75k–$787k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Glowtify — Manage everything you need to grow in one place: strategy, planning, content creation, campaign execution & more with our AI Marketing OS.
  • Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
  • Light Strike Array — Discover Light Strike Array, a crystalpunk VR tactics-brawler where martial-arts physicality meets deep teamplay.
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Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Impact startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.6M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $2.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $54M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
  • Pricepoint — Pricepoint is an AI-powered dynamic pricing engine built and designed for independent hoteliers that automatically optimizes room prices in true real-time after every booking change.
  • Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
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