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Top 50 Legal Startup Investors in Canada in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Legal Canada investments
Mistral Venture Partners	4
BCF Ventures	3
Bluesky Equities	3
Ontario Centres of Excellence	3
Round13 Capital	2
Sergio A. Escobar	2
Panache Ventures	2
2048 Ventures	2
Viewpoint Investment Partners	2
Thin Air Labs	2
Angel One Network	2
Arthur Ventures	2
InterGen Capital	2
Ignacio Plaza	1
J. Taylor Crandall	1
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	1
Women's Equity Lab	1
Anges Quebec	1
Bryker	1
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency	1
Conconi Growth Partners	1
Niccolo Masi	1
Michael Bluestein	1
NorthSpring Capital Partners	1
Andrew Chau	1
ViewPoint Capital Partners	1
Conrad Whelan	1
Innovacorp	1
CIBC Innovation Banking	1
James Lochrie	1
Disruption Ventures	1
VU Venture Partners	1
Spring Impact Capital	1
Draper Cygnus	1
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	1
LDV Partners	1
Matt Mastracci	1
Brian Cartmell	1
Draper Associates	1
Canada Media Fund	1
Jack Newton	1
Gary Kivenko	1
Todd Bissett	1
Relay Ventures	1
Golden Triangle Angel Network	1
Threshold Impact	1
Castle Financial	1
Harvey Partners	1
Lorne Abony	1
First Angel Network	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

Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
Ready Plan Go — Automate your tax preparation workflow with AI-powered document handling and data integration.
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.

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 Equities is a Calgary based private investment firm.

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.

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.

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 — Smart Thermostats for Central HVAC, Baseboard, Mini-Split & In-Floor
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.

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.

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

Flinks — Allow your users to easily connect their bank accounts to collect data, turn data into actionable insights, seamlessly process payments, and deliver a winning open banking program.
Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.

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

Cobalt ID — Cobalt ID's business identity platform helps US companies verify commercial customers to prevent fraud
Impilo — Vertically integrated logistics and data solutions for digital health and remote patient monitoring. Start scaling your program today with Impilo.
KiraGen Bio — KiraGen Bio pioneers advanced CAR-T cell therapies for solid tumors, employing AI and gene editing to navigate the tumor microenvironment. Our innovative 'TME Fingerprints' guide the design of precise, durable cancer treatments. Leading the charge in biotech, we're transforming cancer care with next-gen immunotherapy.

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

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.

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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.

Venture capital for founders Beyond Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Formations — Formations helps self-employed individuals save thousands of dollars on taxes, make better financial decisions, and get access to corporate-level benefits.
Nucleus Security — The Nucleus vulnerability and exposure management platform enables organizations to prioritize and mitigate critical exposures, at scale.
Payroll Integrations — Discover Payroll Integrations: Streamlining payroll and benefits management with our innovative, secure API integration platform

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

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.

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!

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

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.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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 — Manifest Climate uncover the insights needed to respond to climate pressure and find climate confidence.

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.

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 — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Astrocade — Astrocade is the ultimate social gaming universe where anyone can create, share, and play casual games. There are always trendy, fun, community-made experiences waiting for you - no coding, no downloads required.
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 — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Andrew Chau is the co-founder of Neo Financial He used to be the co-founder of SkipTheDishes. He handles business development and strategy for this company.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Art
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.

Founded in 2000, ViewPoint Capital Partners was the first private equity firm in Europe specializing exclusively on mature software technology companies in the growth capital segment. ViewPoint raised two funds, namely ViewPoint Ventures I in 2000/01 and ViewPoint Growth II in 2007/08 with total assets under management of €160m.ViewPoint Ventures I invested into IMPRESS (today Trinovis), Interactive Objects, RedDot (acquired by Hummingbird in 2005, today Opentext), FERNBACH (sold back to founder in 2015), mental images (acquired by Nvidia in 2007), ASDIS (today Auconet), arcplan (acquired by LongView Solutions in 2015) and Aquin (acquired by State Street/PFS in 2008).ViewPoint Growth II invested into Crytek, acrolinx (acquired by Genui in 2017), Textbroker, BrandMaker (sold to Pinova in 2014), HYPE, QuantHouse (acquired by S&P CapitalIQ in 2012), adnologies (today TradeDoubler), Dovetail Systems (acquired by Fiserv in 2017) and Tricentis (acquired by Insight Venture Partners in 2016).In 2015, the firm stopped making new investments and ceased operations in 2016.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Germany, 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.
Tricentis — Accelerate software testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps - with the industry's most innovative automated software testing tools.
Arbor — See your real-time sustainability dashboard to evaluate practices and processes over time, providing instant feedback for making data-driven decisions.

Conrad Whelan

Investment focus

Marketplace, Internet, Information Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping & storage containers easy - get it delivered right to your door. Shop today!
Nana Academy — Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities.
Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
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.

CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by the strength of CIBC, Innovation Banking can provide financial capital, rich network of connections, and insightful service that give our clients an edge in the innovation economy.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bidgely — Bidgely (which means "electricity" in Hindi) is a highly energetic and innovative startup working on something that has never been done before. They have developed ground-breaking analytics that can itemize home energy usage data to the appliance level without using any plug-level monitors. Now, they are setting out to deliver thistechnology to millions of households across the world and help save energy on a massive scale.
VEDA GmbH — VEDA GmbH is an agency offering flexible HR software and services for over 40 years that effectively support companies in HR management.
Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.

James Lochrie is an entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and volunteer. He is the Co-founder of the global fintech company Wave. He is a Partner at Thin Air Labs, overseeing Thin Air Fund 1 and the Capital team. He has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs to help them scale their companies and #BuildWhatsNext.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

SomaDetect — SomaDetect measures every critical indicator of dairy quality (fat, protein, somatic cell counts, progesterone) from every cow at every milking. It uses no consumables (no chemicals, no cartridges, no lost milk), is extremely quick (results in seconds, not minutes), and accurate.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
StellarAlgo — Drive fan engagement and revenue across the entire fan journey. For Major Leagues, Emerging Leagues, Live Events, Media & Gaming, and Corporate Partnerships.

Disruption Ventures invest in companies that are North American based, high growth at the Seed & Seed + stage.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, B2B
Seed, Series A
Canada, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Blanka — Create your own branded cosmetics line with Blanka in under 5 minutes. 100s of high quality vegan cruelty-free cosmetic, skincare and beauty products.
Ginger Desk — Revolutionize your healthcare experience with virtual medical assistants from Ginger Desk. Get the help you need anytime, anywhere.
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, India

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

We are built on Spring Activator's national impact investing platform. Spring Activator was founded in 2014 with a simple but bold mission to change the world through innovation. We act globally, leveraging our know-how to provide the tools, knowledge, network, and mentorship needed to change the world.Spring Impact Capital is an naturalextension of Spring Activator. We bring together a deep network of Canadian impact companies, talented start-ups advisors, extensive accelerator programing, investment capital and expertise.Spring Impact Capital has a unique ability to source deals, support diverse founders and connect them to our wider community. We leverage our deal flow from both activator programs (such as the Impact Investor Challenge programs) and from the wider ecosystem.

Investment focus

Legal, Health Care, Real Estate
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

BioAlert Solutions — Innovative real-time Legionella detection system for industrial facilities. Lower operational costs and meet regulatory compliance.
MIMOSA Diagnostics — MIMOSA Diagnostics is an m-health tech startup with a novel handheld device and integrated smartphone app for image visualization of skin health. MIMOSA is bringing medical grade technology out of hospitals and into the hands of patient consumers. The value proposition for MIMOSA’s AI diagnostic data warehouse will provide metadata insightsintegrated with patient EMR/EHR systems. Our first commercial entry launch is in the Diabetes sector, with future expansion to follow into other therapeutic areas.MIMOSA diagnostics puts the future of skin health into your hands. The MIMOSA is one of the few handheld multispectral skin imaging devices in the healthcare industry. Our proprietary algorithms risk profile the skin in various clinical settings. Our technology will allow healthcare to be equitable, efficient, and more personalized for all.
Open Ocean Robotics — Open Ocean Robotics is an early-stage company developing offshore-capable autonomous unmanned energy-harvesting boats.

We invest in supporting extraordinary entrepreneurs who have developed technology and business models that can positively transform our society. Our focus is on –Fintech, Food & Agtech, Bio & Nanotech and Cleantech– in Series A and Seed rounds of the most enabling Argentina-founded companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Internet, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Argentina, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TravelX — TravelX is a company that provides online travel services. TravelXchange develops the new blockchain-based infrastructure for secure, decentralized, frictionless, efficient, transparent, and profitable travel industry. E-mail contact used for inquiries.
Codiga — Customizable Real-Time Static Code Analysis engine. Works anywhere you write code.
Stämm Biotech — Stämm Biotech specializes in life sciences. During the past two years, Stämm has designed a novel bioproduction system that leverages microfluidics, electroporation and robotics to solve the main constraint of the biotech industry: scaling up. Solving this problem could unlock a $700B market in the next 10 years. Today, after integrating thesestate-of-the-art technologies, the company is unveiling the future of biomanufacturing. Stämm downsized a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, plug-n-play desktop unit: the Bioprocessor, which has proven to be at least 70x more productive than traditional bioreactors.

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.

LDV Partners they provide services for securitization of data and algorithms, robotics and artificial intelligence, precision health, and more.

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.

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.

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, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.

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 — Protect your trade secrets and enforce your rights when theft occurs with Tangibly.
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 — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Canada's leading early-stage investor community in Waterloo, funding innovative startups across tech sectors with a strong focus on impact and diversity.

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.

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.

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.

First Angel Network Association (FAN) is a not-for-profit organization formed to bridge the capital gap for companies with extraordinary potential in Atlantic Canada. Created by angel investors for angel investors, FAN provides entrepreneurs and investors with a confidential, disciplined, high-quality private equity investment experience. FAN alsodelivers education and networking opportunities in the areas of investment readiness, angel investing and commercialization.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WellTrack — WellTrack provides on-demand online therapy for stress, anxiety, and depression.
Covina Biomedical — Covina Biomedical is a minimally invasive orthopaedics company producing injectable biomaterials that enhance quality of life. The company is developing its first platform product, a glass-based bone cement to enhance the longevity of orthopaedic implants. Using collaborative research approaches, and in partnership with end users, Covina Biomedicalhas created the first technology of its kind in the industry.
Beauceron Security — The best software for MSSPs & MSPs to deliver anti-fraud, anti-phishing, e-mail analysis and security awareness training that motivates behavior change.

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