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Top 50 Legal Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Legal startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Legal companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Legal Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

Investor	Legal Canada investments
Mistral Venture Partners	4
Ontario Centres of Excellence	3
BCF Ventures	3
Bluesky Equities	3
InterGen Capital	2
Panache Ventures	2
Arthur Ventures	2
Round13 Capital	2
2048 Ventures	2
Angel One Network	2
Viewpoint Investment Partners	2
Sergio A. Escobar	2
Thin Air Labs	2
Hanif Joshaghani	1
Neil Grunberg	1
Click Ventures	1
Klass Capital	1
Vinny Lingham	1
Rochelle Grayson	1
Cerity Partners Ventures	1
David Naiman	1
Bryce Catalyst	1
Daniel Klass	1
Josh Kivenko	1
Ignacio Plaza	1
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	1
J. Taylor Crandall	1
LDV Partners	1
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	1
Matt Mastracci	1
Women's Equity Lab	1
Brian Cartmell	1
Draper Associates	1
Canada Media Fund	1
Jack Newton	1
Gary Kivenko	1
Anges Quebec	1
Bryker	1
Todd Bissett	1
Relay Ventures	1
Golden Triangle Angel Network	1
Threshold Impact	1
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency	1
Castle Financial	1
Conconi Growth Partners	1
Niccolo Masi	1
Michael Bluestein	1
Harvey Partners	1
Lorne Abony	1
NorthSpring Capital Partners	1

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Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
Trusty Estate — Trusty helps you create a digital Letter of Wishes, so the things you love end up with the people you love. Securely add assets, documents, and more.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

BCF Ventures is Quebec's very first Super Angel Fund inspired by the best practices from Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

FightCamp — FightCamp delivers the most exhilarating and effective form of home fitness through interactive boxing workouts, streamed to your device on demand.
Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
FleetOps — We power a network of load boards embedded inside leading ELD solutions. When you work with FleetOps, you can access 126K drivers, and automate your coverage in the spot market.

Bluesky is one of the most active seed-stage investors in B2B SaaS companies in Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ownly — Ownlyi specializes in big data, data analysis, customer experience, data analytics, sales, and lead generation.
Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
Provision Analytics — Provision Analytics creates practical and precise software for food processors and manufacturers. Its software package automates food safety processes, greatly reducing time spent on data input and recall procedures; this data links granular process data with production results, generating analytics that reduces food loss and quality deviations.

InterGen Capital deploys capital into post-seed, pre-Series A companies led by extraordinary teams with proven solutions and big markets. The firm has a strong network of retired and transitioning executives looking to engage with innovative companies emerging from start-up to scale-up.InterGen Capital was founded in 2018 and is located inCalgary, Alberta.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Data Visualization
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
StellarAlgo — Drive fan engagement and revenue across the entire fan journey. For Major Leagues, Emerging Leagues, Live Events, Media & Gaming, and Corporate Partnerships.
Virtuo — The Complete Platform for Modern Homeownership

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
Ranger AI — Discover how Ranger RFX simplifies proposals with innovative tools designed for manufacturers. Improve accuracy, reduce downtime, and achieve cost savings today.
Featherless.ai — Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system.

Venture capital for founders Beyond Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RFX Solutions — Automated document management solutions specifically designed for medical facilities.
SlicedHealth — SlicedHealth delivers AI-driven solutions that transform community hospitals & group practices into on-demand, data-driven organizations. From contract management to reporting and more, improve your brand and bottom line with SlicedHealth.
Perry Weather — Perry Weather | Real-time Weather Monitoring and Warnings

Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada. The firm invests in high-potential companies across a range of sectors, with a focus on supporting their growth and development over the long term. Round13's team of experienced investors and operators bring a wealth ofexpertise and insight to every investment, helping portfolio companies to realize their full potential. With a commitment to building an enduring 100-year firm, Round13 is dedicated to creating long-term value for its investors and the companies it supports. For more information, please visit www.round13.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Puerto Rico

Portfolio highlights

Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
TITAN — Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token.
Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.

We back visionary founders who are building technologies of the future.2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven earliest stage venture capital firm. We are founders, experienced operators, nerds and dreamers obsessed with the future. We've backed over 200 startups and have the experience and conviction to lead your pre-seed or seed round.We getyou and your vision before others.We are systems thinkers, engineers, and product junkies. We think about the future non-stop and are ready to understand and back you before anyone else. When we decide to invest, we write you a check and then help you close the rest of the round. We lead rounds with high conviction, and write $500K - $2M checks.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pageport — Effortlessly convert more leads by automatically sending unique, personalized video pages to everyone.
Julumuqi Games — AR/AI powered copilot for tabletop games.
Romix Biosciences — Accelerating drug development with an AI-enabled full body molecular scan of inflammation

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

Viewpoint Investment Partners

Investment focus

Information Technology, Legal, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
Kibbi: Job Search — Mobile App

Sergio has a diversified investment portfolio of companies across the United States and Canada ranging from B2B Cloud & SaaS startups (leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics and Security) to B2C Consumer startups (leveraging Mobile Apps, IoT/Wearables and eCommerce). Sergio has +15 years of experience as a multiple timestech entrepreneur with startups in Aerospace, eCommerce, Manufacturing, AgTech and Financial Technologies. Over the last 8 years, he has been deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene (incubators and accelerators) through his involvement in Founder Institute, Techstars Startup Programs, McGill X-1, Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MsB Tunisia, Flat6Labs Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean', Krypto Labs in the Middle East and Creative Destruction Lab in Artificial Intelligence. He has been pioneering the Canadian investment scene by launching one of Canada's very first super angel funds: BCFventures.vc

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FightCamp — FightCamp delivers the most exhilarating and effective form of home fitness through interactive boxing workouts, streamed to your device on demand.
JITbase — JITbase helps to improve workforce efficiency and increase production capacity by collecting data from machines that no one else can access.
Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.

Thin Air Labs is the leading investment firm in Canada focused on the growth asset class in innovation and technology. We currently have 24 companies in our portfolio. We believe in igniting venture growth for greater human impact.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Clinify Inc — Medical records are barely digitized in Africa. The lack of digitally centralized health records has led to a large number of preventable deaths as a result of wrong and self diagnosis by patients due to poor to no medical histories, paper record mismatch, long wait times and missed revenue opportunities. There is also a shortage of healthcarepractitioners and a lack of stable healthcare infrastructure.We are building a health information management system that leverages the capabilities of Artificial intelligence. Our solution cuts wait time in half, enables users to easily access, populate, own and centralize their health records. This allows them to control and better understand their encounters, book appointments via a web portal and mobile app, have virtual consultation with healthcare professionals and providers while running it on a low cost infrastructure without affecting system performance.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
Quickly — The trusted platform to provide valuable discounts on payables, offer trade credit extensions and manage the entirety of your transaction process.

Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Helcim — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
Littlebird — Littlebird's Toddler CareTracker tells you where your child is, who they are with, and how they are doing. Littlebird has an expanding suite of features including cellular connection, GPS, heart rate, temperature, activity and mode trends and dynamic activity feed connecting you with your little one's caregivers.

Neil Grunberg serves as Co-Founder and Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at AlayaCare Inc. Mr. Grunberg has spent more than 17 years focused on workforce management, mobility, and operational software. His breadth of expertise ranges from consulting and project management to pre-sales and then eventually onto managing sales andmarketing for a successful startup before joining the Vortex Connect team and then onto AlayaCare.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Lawbrokr — Lawbrokr™ is the on-demand legal marketplace for your transactional legal needs. Lawbrokr allows you to search, connect, and communicate with verified lawyers throughout North America, removing the friction of finding a lawyer that is right for you!At lawbrokr, we believe that the consumer experience of getting access to verified lawyers shouldbe simple, fast, and effortless. For Solo Practitioners, lawbrokr’s end-to-end platform puts each lawyer in control of their own demand by driving practitioners to be quick, and responsive to support the growth of their practice.Our goal is to help Solo Practitioners reduce monthly ad spend through traditional channels, and leverage lawbrokr’s technology to drive new business opportunities that are right for them. No lawyer should be sitting on page 25 of a directory waiting to be found. Through lawbrokr, lawyers can review, and accept prospective engagements when they want, reducing cost per acquisition, overhead, and billable hours.
Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.

Click Ventures is a Seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in highly scalable technology startups across promising sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
Bite Investments — Access alternative investments in a seamless, end-to-end investment process. Bite's financial technology platform expands access to alternative investments.

We acquire high quality and mission-critical software businesses with great people.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Workwize — Provide and maintain any kind of remote equipment for your workforce, no matter where they are
Coconut Software — Put the right expert in the right channel at the right time, so no opportunity is lost.
Manifest Climate — Rapidly extract key datapoints from disclosures to uncover ESG insights, comply with reporting requirements, and effectively manage risk.

Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free

Rochelle Grayson

Investment focus

Legal, Health Care, Real Estate
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ginger Desk — Revolutionize your healthcare experience with virtual medical assistants from Ginger Desk. Get the help you need anytime, anywhere.

Cerity Partners Ventures is a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm that partners with corporations to invest in early and growth-stage companies across a variety of industries, including information technology, media, consumer, health, and industrial.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AmpUp — Commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging network solutions made simple for everyone. Easily manage and analyze EV charging data from a single dashboard.
Syntis Bio — Syntis Bio operates as a late-stage preclinical company intended to develop a new class of therapy. The company's drug uses novel formulations for oral therapies that target specific tissues, enabling users to increase bioavailability.
Atropos Health — We create high-quality, personalized, real-world evidence in minutes and at scale, creating the trusted currency of value in healthcare

Founder at Wherewithal Partners Inc.

Investment focus

Apps, Legal, Mobile
Seed, Private Equity
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Coreio —
Capture.it — Great domain names provide SEO, branding, and a memorable experience for your users. Get a premium domain today.

Bryce Catalyst is a unique investment company. Bryce Catalyst is managed by highly recognized software operators with a proven track record of growing software & technology companies.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

K4Connect — K4Connect provides innovative technology solutions to enhance life for residents, staff, and leaders in Senior Living Communities.
dealcloser Inc. — modernize your transactions. It's time to wave goodbye to the old way of handling corporate transactions, don't you think? Say goodbye to
Reynen Court — We make it easy for law firms and legal departments to adopt and manage cloud-based software applications.

Daniel Klass is an experienced private equity investor with a BSC in Mathematics, MBA in Finance / Accounting, and a CPA. Daniel practiced accounting for a few years and then spent 10 years at TD Capital and EdgeStone Capital Partners (two of Canadaâ€™s largest merchant banks) before raising his own fund. As a result of his true passionfor the lower end of the mid market, Daniel created Klass Capital. He thrives on working closely with his portfolio partners and helping them to build successful, sustainable and scalable businesses. Klass Capital Fund I, LP, founded by Daniel in 2010, is driven by integrity, imagination, partnership and entrepreneurial spirit.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Legal
Series B, Pre-Seed
Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Lawbrokr — Lawbrokr™ is the on-demand legal marketplace for your transactional legal needs. Lawbrokr allows you to search, connect, and communicate with verified lawyers throughout North America, removing the friction of finding a lawyer that is right for you!At lawbrokr, we believe that the consumer experience of getting access to verified lawyers shouldbe simple, fast, and effortless. For Solo Practitioners, lawbrokr’s end-to-end platform puts each lawyer in control of their own demand by driving practitioners to be quick, and responsive to support the growth of their practice.Our goal is to help Solo Practitioners reduce monthly ad spend through traditional channels, and leverage lawbrokr’s technology to drive new business opportunities that are right for them. No lawyer should be sitting on page 25 of a directory waiting to be found. Through lawbrokr, lawyers can review, and accept prospective engagements when they want, reducing cost per acquisition, overhead, and billable hours.
Wonderflow — Wonderflow is a platform that turns the Voice of the Customer into winning decisions. Millions of product reviews are written every day. Wonderflow is the simplest AI-based solution to analyze them and turn this extremely vast stream of customer feedback into winning decisions.Wonderflow's unified VoC analytics help B2C companies extractvalue from consumer feedback like online reviews, support center records, and NPS. Its AI analyzes the Voice of Customers from all over the world, both from your buyers and your competitors'. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology then provides you with easy-to-digest insights, not complicated procedures, so that everyone in your company can access the best information in seconds.
Coconut Software — Put the right expert in the right channel at the right time, so no opportunity is lost.

Josh Kivenko - Interim Principal @ Sweet Farm Capital

Investment focus

Apps, Legal, Mobile
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Capture.it — Great domain names provide SEO, branding, and a memorable experience for your users. Get a premium domain today.

Ignacio Plaza is a partner at Draper Cygnus.

Investment focus

Legal, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

iComply Investor Services Inc. — Empowering Trust, Ensuring Compliance, Elevating Digital Experiences.

MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
Grey Matter Neurosciences — Grey Matter Neurosciences is a neurotechnology firm developing new medical devices and drug-device combinations to treat age-related brain illnesses like dementia.

J. Taylor Crandall is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and has been part of the firm since 1986. Mr. Crandall has senior responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments for the firm's Media and Telecom and Technology industry groups. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Mr. Crandall was a Vice President withthe First National Bank of Boston, where he managed a leveraged buyout group and the bank's Dallas energy office. Mr. Crandall earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Bowdoin College, where he has served on the Board of Overseers.

Investment focus

Legal, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wine By Design, Inc. — theFactor - Revolutionizing the alcoholic beverage industry with innovative consulting. Specializing in content creation, strategy, and partnerships in New York, LA, and Napa.
iComply Investor Services Inc. — End-to-end KYB Onboarding - AML Transaction Monitoring Software - Automated KYC Verification Software - Start Your Free Trial Today!

LDVP support entrepreneurs by leveraging the LDVP networks to increase founders value and drive sustainable growth.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Corvic AI — Corvic AI is pioneering a new era of Data-Centric AI Cognitive Infrastructure by transforming raw enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence.
CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
Ryght AI — Discover the revolutionary solution in generative AI for Biopharma that empowers clinical and commercial teams with actionable knowledge in real time.

Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trust & Will — Trust & Will is an online service providing legal forms and information that makes creating estate planning easy, fast, and secure. It is not a law firm and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s advice about complex estate planning. The company is backed by some venture capital firms including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Western TechnologyInvestments, Luma Launch, Halogen Ventures, and Techstars, as well as angel investors.Trust & Will was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
NextGen Blockchain Technologies — Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Finance

Matt lives to pursue challenging technical problems and push the envelope of computing. He served as CTO of DotSpots, and previously worked on building scalable and fast solutions for energy companies, both as desktop and web applications. Along with Ryan Perry, he worked with StumbleUpon to build a newest generation of IE Toolbar prior totheir acquisition by EBay.Matt has a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Calgary

Investment focus

Legal, Software, Child Care
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

NOBAL Technologies — Adaptable to any environment, anywhere in the world, our interactive intelligent mirror solutions are designed to easily integrate with your physical space.
Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.

Invest. Impact. Profit. WEL-COME TO VENTURE INVESTING Women's Equity Lab (WEL) is comprised of groups of diverse, successful women from regions across North America who share expertise, insights and perspectives to make smart investments in new businesses. Learn More Our Locations Vancouver Canada Now Investing Learn More Victoria Canada Now Investing Learn More Manitoba Canada

Investment focus

Service Industry, Financial Services, Information Services
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Retellio — AI Agents that distill thousands of hours of customer calls into 30 minute podcasts.
PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Hyivy Health — Hyivy Health is working on the first smart pelvic health rehabilitation system for patients and the clinicians who treat them.

Brian Cartmell has over 20 years of experience in information technology systems, working as a programmer to CEO of eNIC, the second largest domain registry company in the United States before it was acquired by Verisign in 2001. Cartmell was invited to testify before the United States senate in regards to Internet Governance by ICANN, is theinventor of five issued U.S. patents, led the successful battle against Hormel for the right to include the word "Spam" in trademarks that relate to email services, and is a major shareholder and board member of companies ranging from identity authentication services to all-natural zero calorie sodas.

Investment focus

Art, B2B, Legal
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Binded — Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create uniquefingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.
Approve.com — Simple, Customizable Procurement Processes For Your Organization.
Vimba —

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas
MIDL — MIDL is a digital finance company that offers EVM compatibility, functionality of Ethereum dApps to Bitcoin users.
Decile Group — Discover how to launch a VC fund instantly with top managers. Join us to fund great companies changing the world. Start your journey now!

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR

An experienced business leader, software developer and entrepreneur, Jack provides the strategic vision that has made Clio a leader in legal cloud computing.

Investment focus

Legal, Legal Tech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tangibly — The Modern IP Company. Discover, protect and leverage your trade secrets.
Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
Hello Divorce — Hello Divorce makes divorce easier and more affordable. Learn about our affordable online divorce plans with as little or as much help as you need, and read our free divorce resources.

Gary Kivenko is an experienced management professional with specialties in both operations and marketing strategy. Gary has worked in both large enterprise organizations, as well as emerging businesses. As Cyclica’s Vice President, Operations, he oversees business planning and execution, ensuring that the business is scaled and delivers tocustomers.Gary Kivenko has worked in emerging businesses as well as corporate enterprise, providing management, strategy, leadership, and solutions to problems for nearly 20 years. As Cyclica’s Vice President, Operations, he oversees operations planning and management, client in-take and engagements, project management, and lights-on activities. Prior to joining Cyclica, Gary spent considerable time undertaking independent management consulting projects mainly for start-up clients, as well as developing early stage investments in new ideas. His experience includes strategic planning and execution in IT, marketing and business development, and operations. Prior to this, Gary worked in wireless telecom as well as with consumer prepaid products in various marketing, operations, and planning roles. Gary’s well developed sense of planning, derived from years of cross-functional project success, and a just-do-it mentality, has been honed to help emerging companies find their footing and execute well. Gary is a graduate of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management where he obtained an MBA, as well as Carleton University’s School of Computer Science where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.

Investment focus

Apps, Legal, Mobile
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Capture.it — Great domain names provide SEO, branding, and a memorable experience for your users. Get a premium domain today.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Paperplane Therapeutics — Harnessing the transformative power of immersive virtual reality to reduce pain perception during medical procedures.

Seed Stage Funding for Fintech Startups

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Legal
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lawbrokr — Lawbrokr™ is the on-demand legal marketplace for your transactional legal needs. Lawbrokr allows you to search, connect, and communicate with verified lawyers throughout North America, removing the friction of finding a lawyer that is right for you!At lawbrokr, we believe that the consumer experience of getting access to verified lawyers shouldbe simple, fast, and effortless. For Solo Practitioners, lawbrokr’s end-to-end platform puts each lawyer in control of their own demand by driving practitioners to be quick, and responsive to support the growth of their practice.Our goal is to help Solo Practitioners reduce monthly ad spend through traditional channels, and leverage lawbrokr’s technology to drive new business opportunities that are right for them. No lawyer should be sitting on page 25 of a directory waiting to be found. Through lawbrokr, lawyers can review, and accept prospective engagements when they want, reducing cost per acquisition, overhead, and billable hours.
ManagingLife — Lowering the human and financial cost of chronic pain with its digital solution, Manage My Pain.
Manifest Climate — Rapidly extract key datapoints from disclosures to uncover ESG insights, comply with reporting requirements, and effectively manage risk.

Todd Bissett is a corporate and commercial lawyer and partner in the Waterloo office of Miller Thomson. Todd practices primarily in the areas of private equity and venture capital, equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and business law. Todd co-heads Miller Thomson's Emerging Growth & Venture Capitalpractice group.Licensed in California as well as Ontario, Todd has previously practiced in Silicon Valley, California and for several years in Greater China, and frequently advises on complex, cross-border transactions and business arrangements. He represents both issuers and investors in investments, and sellers and buyers in M&A transactions, having worked extensively with major institutional and strategic investors, venture capital and hedge funds, and with companies and issuers from early stage start-ups to multinational public and private organizations. Todd has broad industry experience including software, telecommunications and value-added services, manufacturing, gaming, financial services, education, biotech and medical products and services.

Investment focus

Legal, Legal Tech, Information Services
Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Alexi — Alexsei provides high quality comprehensive answers to legal questions, at a fraction of the cost and an unprecedented turnaround time - enabled by cutting edge scientific research, artificial intelligence and NLP technologies. Alexsei’s advanced artificial intelligence platform delivers affordable and high-quality answers to legal questions inmemo format.
Skout Deals —

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.

The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Justo — Cashback. Lower listing fees. Experienced local agents. Advanced technology. Free services. Justo is a new real estate brokerage based on a radical idea: Consumers are paying too much to buy or sell a home. That's why we offer a new model, based on fairness and transparency. Looking to buy a home? We'll split our commission with you50/50. Plus, our all-inclusive model covers home inspections and lawyer fees. Selling a home? Save half the listing fee of traditional brokerages, and thousands more with free staging, 3D virtual tours, professional photography and online marketing. Our experienced agents work closely with you to help find the home of your dreams, or sell your home for best the possible price. It just makes sense to use Justo.
MesoMat — Boost fleet safety, fuel consumption, and operating costs real-time data from your tires.
Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.

Sustainable, Profitable Impact Investing

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
ABCO Industries — ABCO Industries manufactures metal products for the food, marine, industrial, and environmental industries. They are expanding and improving our manufacturing process, incorporating automated and advanced manufacturing techniques, and supporting our people through training and education.

They believe wealth management involves a variety of strategies that are most effective when tailored to a client’s individual needs, goals and aspirations. With this in mind, in addition to their services, they can also refer other professionals — CPAs, Attorneys, Actuaries, Pension Strategists, Risk Transfer Consultants, Family BusinessPsychologists and other advisers — who work closely with clients to build a customized financial plan designed to help them meet their goals in a tax efficient manner.At Castle Financial, they seek first to understand their client’s objectives and then to develop a plan to help them achieve their financial and lifetime goals. They will conduct an in-depth review and analysis of each client’s situation, and then apply the collective knowledge of their financial planning team who can understand the multiple financial issues unique to each client.

Investment focus

Legal, Software, Cloud Management
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
Loop — Bank on Loop to save time, save money and grow globally. Join thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across Canada to spend, send and grow without fees.
Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.

President and CEO at Glu Mobile.

Investment focus

Apps, Legal, Gaming
Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Capture.it — Great domain names provide SEO, branding, and a memorable experience for your users. Get a premium domain today.
Astrocade — Astrocade is the ultimate social gaming universe where anyone can create, share, and play casual games. Creation is AI-powered and instant, so there are always fresh, fun, community-made experiences waiting for you.
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.

Michael Bluestein is a senior corporate and securities lawyer with about 10 years of experience; his strengths include driving for results, strategic thinking and superior client service. His goal is to provide clients with practical solutions to problems while being cognizant of turn-around time and budget. He attended the University of Torontoand Schulich School of Business - York University.Michael Bluestein have a strong background in M&A (purchase and sale of businesses) and corporate finance deals including helping companies incorporate, complete angel/vc financings, complete secured financings and achieve their IPOs. Michael Bluestein have advised public issuers and helped to create two new stock exchanges from the ground up. Michael Bluestein also have extensive tech company experience from his counsel roles as well as from founding a tech start-up. Corporate Counsel seeks to provide Bay Street expertise and service without the Bay Street price. We feel that clients should pay for great advice and not fancy overhead. We take a fixed-fee approach to most matters to ensure that you have a handle on legal fees.

Investment focus

Apps, Legal, Mobile
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Capture.it — Great domain names provide SEO, branding, and a memorable experience for your users. Get a premium domain today.

Harvey Partners are a global investment firm, focused on early stage business innovation.

Investment focus

Legal, Retail, Fashion
Angel, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fitcode — Fitcode is a fashion data company that enhances and personalizes the denim shopping experience by focusing on fit, not size. We believe that there’s a better way to shop for great-fitting jeans. We help everyone—regardless of shape or size—find jeans that fit, while helping retailers and brands convert browsers into confident buyers—drivingsales, engagement, and inventory efficiency. Now available for men’s and women’s denim, we’re helping some of the leading denim brands and retailers—including JOE’S Jeans, Silver Jeans, AG, and Hudson Jeans—use an innovative technology to redefine the customer experience.
Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.

Lorne Abony is the Chairman of the Board at EMMAC Life Sciences. he was a former CEO and Chairman at Vested Finance.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Legal
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Socati — At Socati we produce customizable cannabinoid ingredients in a food-grade facility. Quality, with unrivalled consistency.
Schoold — Looking for an app that will make your college life tenfold easier? Here are the seven educational apps for students that deserve to be on your smartphone.
Voxia — Amy collects and analyzes information from all over the web and provides actionable insights about your leads, prospects and clients, all in one click.

NorthSpring Capital Partners provides risk capital to small and medium sized companies with the goal of creating value. Investments range between $250,000 and $1 million in the form of subordinated debt and/or equity across a variety of traditional industries located in Southern Ontario. NorthSpring takes a flexible approach when reviewinginvestment opportunities and tailors its investment structure to fit the unique aspects of the business.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Rehabtronics — Rehabtronics devices are proven to help people recover movement after central or peripheral nervous system injury or disease.
Able Innovations — Able Innovations is developing advanced medical devices to tackle the pressing problem of patient transfer in healthcare.

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