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Top 40 Legal VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 40 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 40 Legal VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2026

Investor	Legal Canada investments
Mistral Venture Partners	4
Bluesky Equities	3
Ontario Centres of Excellence	3
BCF Ventures	3
2048 Ventures	2
InterGen Capital	2
Thin Air Labs	2
Round13 Capital	2
Arthur Ventures	2
Angel One Network	2
Panache Ventures	2
Viewpoint Investment Partners	2
Disruption Ventures	1
Archangel Network of Funds	1
Threshold Impact	1
Bryker	1
Bryce Catalyst	1
Conconi Growth Partners	1
Anges Quebec	1
ViewPoint Capital Partners	1
NorthSpring Capital Partners	1
Canada Media Fund	1
Draper Cygnus	1
Women's Equity Lab	1
Klass Capital	1
Relay Ventures	1
Castle Financial	1
VU Venture Partners	1
Draper Associates	1
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency	1
Golden Triangle Angel Network	1
Click Ventures	1
Spring Impact Capital	1
Cerity Partners Ventures	1
CIBC Innovation Banking	1
Innovacorp	1
LDV Partners	1
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	1
Harvey Partners	1
Toronto Innovation Acceleration 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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!

Archangel is the overarching early stage investment fund based in Waterloo Region, the North Silicon Valley of North America.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Monark — Monark is an on-demand leadership development platform that offers self-led and expert-facilitated programs to help you transform your career.
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.
Noa Therapeutics — Defying the convention of traditional drug development to revolutionize treatment options for complex inflammatory skin diseases.

Sustainable, Profitable Impact Investing

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
Variational AI — We are a team of AI/machine learning and business specialists using advanced generative AI for drug discovery. We collaborate closely with biopharmaceutical partners to develop new therapeutics across disease areas, aiming to positively impact lives.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Noa Therapeutics — Defying the convention of traditional drug development to revolutionize treatment options for complex inflammatory skin diseases.
Able Innovations — Able Innovations is developing advanced medical devices to tackle the pressing problem of patient transfer in healthcare.

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

Draper Cygnus shapes the future with deep-tech investments, fueling innovation and supporting global Latino founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

One — One is a payments platform that provides the infrastructure that enables companies to accept multiple payment methods for sales.
Calice — ounded in 2022, Calice is at the forefront of agricultural innovation. We specialize in computationally modeling biological and agronomic data of crops to predict and enhance their yield, quality, and adaptability across diverse environmental scenarios.Our flagship software, NODES™, leverages advanced artificial intelligence, data science, andbioinformatics to transform vast amounts of crop data into actionable insights. This enables agricultural companies to optimize their R&D programs, reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and minimizing environmental impact.At Calice, we believe that the future of agriculture lies in harnessing the power of science and technology to create sustainable and resilient farming practices. Our mission is to contribute to a more sustainable world by helping our clients develop better crops and products, ensuring that natural and productive resources are universally accessible.Join us as we lead the next revolution in agriculture, fostering growth and resilience for a more prosperous and environmentally conscious future.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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.

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 — Manifest Climate uncover the insights needed to respond to climate pressure and find climate confidence.

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

Ownright — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
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.
ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
JumpStart Fertility — Jumpstart Fertility is investigating novel techniques to aid patients in starting or continuing to increase their families, including approaches that address the effects of biological aging on assisted reproduction. We want to increase IVF success rates so that patients need fewer cycles to get a healthy pregnancy. Our research focuses onenhancing egg quality and embryo development in IVF cycles in later age groups, where IVF success rates tend to drop, necessitating repeated rounds under existing standards of care.

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 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, France

Portfolio highlights

Liveable Cities — Liveable Cities produces smart LED lighting manufactured in Canada. Intelligent LED street lighting systems are being used across Canada and throughout the world. Contact us to learn more about our smart street lighting and city sensor systems, available internationally.
Oberland Agriscience — We deliver premium feed ingredients for poultry, pets and plants, making the BSFL a natural and sustainable solution to a resilient feed-secure future.
EcoMarine Technologies — EcoMarine Technologies prevents invasive species and offers an efficient and effective in-water cleaning solution.

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.

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 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.

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

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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

CIBC Innovation Banking provides strategic, scalable funding, growth capital and recurring revenue financing to all stages of a startup company, worldwide.

Investment focus

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

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Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
Clariti — Clariti is your mission control for efficient permit and license management - from application to review to inspection to issuance.
The Learning Internet — Explore Learning.com's digital literacy & coding curriculum for K-12 students. Learn more, try EasyTech for free, or talk to a specialist today.

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

Investment focus

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

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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.

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.

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