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Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Canada (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Canada Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
FACIT
VC Fund
9 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device $1.5M–$35M
StandUp Ventures
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $317k–$14M
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Spain Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $376k–$8.5M
Panache Ventures
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $713k–$20M
Amplitude Venture Capital
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Israel Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $3.2M–$142M
Real Ventures
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $592k–$47M
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $387k–$40M
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $13k–$8M
E-Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada, China, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $279k–$43M
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $500k–$83M
Golden Ventures
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$49M
Pallasite Ventures
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $750k–$115M
Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Software, Medical $7.3k–$3.2M
Radical Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $2M–$200M
Apjohn ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science $2.5M–$39M
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence $375k–$14M
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund
VC Fund
3 Canada Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.6M–$200M
Archangel Network of Funds
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical Device $10k–$19M
Graphite Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $729k–$31M
GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $708k–$12M
iGan Partners
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical $500k–$17M
Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Brazil Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy $73k–$145M
WUTIF
VC Fund
3 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $100k–$5.5M
OrganiGram
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Germany Convertible Note, Series B, Debt Financing Cannabis, Biotechnology, Medical $1M–$12M
MEDTEQ+
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $1.5M–$20M
Innovacorp
VC Fund
3 Canada, Australia, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $18k–$3.1M
Lumira Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.9M–$88M
Afore Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$25M
Inovia Capital
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1M–$65M
Ramen Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $120k–$3.2M
Coughdrop Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $125k–$9M
Charles River Laboratories International
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science $12M–$103M
Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Groupe Roski
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $1.5M–$20M
Breakwater Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Credit, FinTech $1.2M–$9M
Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $951k–$12M
Versant Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $4.7M–$108M
ScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)
VC Fund
2 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Wellness, Apps $37k–$8.7M
Killick Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Aerospace $525k–$10M
Two Small Fish Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $2M–$25M
OurCrowd
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, New Zealand Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $593k–$62M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $25k–$2M
Toyota Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics $1.4M–$126M
Page One Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$130M
Pfizer Venture Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $12M–$120M
Angel Forum
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $120k–$500k
Brigus Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Seed Mining, Mineral, Health Care $332k–$700k
Amplify Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Education $1.2M–$28M
Innovate Calgary
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $48k–$2.1M
BoxOne Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $281k–$115M
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FACIT
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 9 investments in Canada Life Science startups

We transform the most promising oncology innovations into highly competitive opportunities that benefit patients, researchers, investors, and Ontario's economy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $11M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Esphera SynBio — Creating modified exosomes that can be designed to have targeting moieties on their surface and a variety of protein or RNA payloads in their lumen.
  • Hyivy Health — Better care happens when the entire system is supported. Meet Hyivy's connected platform for pelvic care.
  • Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
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StandUp Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Life Science startups

StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in female-founded companies in the B2B software and digital health sector.The firm is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors, and other strategic mentors who willprovide high-touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from its network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $317k–$2M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $16M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Wygo — This is why you've gotta go outside.
  • GridBank — Enhance Your Social Media Engagement And Following With Stunning User-Generated Videos. Access A Wide Range Of Royalty-Free Stock Videos For Various Themes Including Travel, Productivity, Aesthetic Backgrounds, And More
  • Pluvo — Financial forecasts calling for dry, complicated spreadsheets? Reclaim your time - no broken formulas, no duplication, no problems. Pluvo centralizes your data for dynamic scenario planning and unlimited forecasting!
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $803k–$3.3M; Angel $376k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $915k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scopia Surgical — Revolutionizing the operating room with our real-time artificial intelligence image processing technology. Scopia Surgical is a co-pilot for the human body, guiding surgeons with unprecedented accuracy and confidence.
  • Galaxia — GALAXIA Mission Systems designs and develops intelligent satellites and edge computation platforms for space.
  • Elisa Interactive — Elisa Interactive operates an asset-light, prompt-to-environment software model designed to lower technical entry barriers in user-generated gaming ecosystems. Its core application platform, Me-Z-Scene, utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically arrange existing asset kits into complex 3D worlds based on natural language inputs. Thecompany's value proposition centers on empowering casual gamers and amateur builders to deploy custom virtual spaces without requiring coding or digital design expertise.
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $912k–$6M; Pre-Seed $713k–$2.5M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
  • Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers nuclear instrumentation, plasma diagnostics, and engineering services for fusion and small modular reactor projects.
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Amplitude Venture Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Amplitude Ventures is a full-stack venture capital firm focused on investing in precision medicine at the intersection of biology. and AI

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $7M–$18M; Series A $3.2M–$85M; Series B $35M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $193M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Thryv Therapeutics — LQT Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing SGK1 inhibition therapies for Long QT Syndrome and various cardiovascular diseases and cancers.
  • Mediar Therapeutics — Mediar Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody-based therapeutics to halt fibrosis in a variety of organ systems, including lung, liver, kidney, and skin.
  • Congruence Therapeutics — ABOUT US We are a drug discovery company that is uniquely harnessing the power of protein dynamics, biophysics, machine learning and computational chemistry. Our Science Traditional drug design is limited At Congruence,
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $592k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Axya — Optimize manufacturing procurement with Axya. Enhance visibility, streamline collaboration, and automate tasks. Say goodbye to spreadsheet chaos and email overload.
  • DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 571
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cytochroma — Cytochroma is a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company that designs, develops and commercializes prescription products to treat and prevent the clinical consequences of vitamin D insufficiency and secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The Company has an advanced portfolio of new therapiesdesigned to safely and effectively treat patients with vitamin D insufficiency and SHPT associated with Stage 3, 4 or 5 CKD. In addition, Cytochroma is developing novel therapies to treat elevated blood phosphorus levels (hyperphosphatemia) in order to improve the control of SHPT in CKD patients.
  • LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
  • Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
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Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$8M; Grant $13k–$100k; Pre-Seed $22k–$525k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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 — Empowering seniors to restore brain function through the unique power of focused ultrasound.
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E-Fund
VC Fund · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups

The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities.The E-Fund involvesspecific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $913k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qase — Qase helps law firms and legal referral organizations streamline referrals, automate intake and booking, and collect forwarding fees online.
  • ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
  • CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the therapeutic use of RNA nanomedicine to treat disorders of the central nervous system.
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$50M; Series B $7.5M–$83M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Namakor Holdings — We combine strategic investment and in-house operational expertise to untap the true potential of your industrial manufacturing businessNamakor Holdings is a private equity firm investing in mid-market manufacturing companies, driving growth, innovation, and global expansion.
  • Premier Tech — Premier Tech has been focusing on skills development and recognition to constantly innovate, improve its operational excellence and deploy products and services that create value for its customers.
  • KERIDIS BioÉnergie — KERIDIS BioÉnergie is engaged in the development of anaerobic digestation plants to produce renewable natural gas.
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.8M–$32M; Series B $10M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $103M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
  • Brodie Rec Leagues — Brodie Rec Leagues specializes in basketball tournaments, leagues, and training.
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Pallasite Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $14M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ionomr — Ionomr designs & manufactures advanced ion-exchange polymers & membranes that enable high performance and efficiency in applications like water & wastewater treatment, hydrogen production and advanced energy storage.
  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • Aspect Biosystems — Pioneering the development of bioprinted tissue therapeutics to transform how we treat some of the most elusive diseases.
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Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Ontario Centre of Innovation provides a preeminent research-to-commercialization vehicle in Ontario

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $366k–$3.2M; Grant $7.3k–$110k; Pre-Seed $151k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Synmedix — Synmedix's mission is to provide new therapies that avoid the pitfalls of the past by avoiding resistance, addressing clinical gaps, and delivering solid economics in an equitable manner. It is a biotechnology company. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.
  • mDETECT Inc — mDETECT Inc. is a third-generation liquid biopsy company aimed at improving the clinical management of solid tumour cancers. Our blood tests provide a rapid assessment of cancer progression and response to therapy. Home https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a41d6b_4f3b85e3670a4bc2bb97fad03b256715%7Emv2.jpg mdetect
  • blair health — Blair Health provides virtual menopause and midlife healthcare through assessments, treatment plans, clinician visits, and ongoing support.
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Radical Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Radical Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs applying deep technology to transform massive industries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$27M; Series A $7M–$83M; Series B $30M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $250M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Emerald AI — Intelligence to transform energy-intensive AI data centers into AI-powered grid allies
  • Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
  • Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world.
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Apjohn ventures
VC Fund · Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Apjohn Ventures Fund is a new venture capital firm based in Kalamazoo, Michigan established to invest primarily in early stage life sciences companies across the Midwest. The goal of the Fund is to provide investors with superior financial returns by making equity investments in innovative life sciences companies with sustainable and outstandinggrowth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$39M; Series C $3M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tetra Discovery — Tetra Discovery Partners provides consulting services in drug discovery and development. They partner with Universities to commercialize intellectual property and conduct proprietary research on diseases affecting the central nervous system.Their research focuses on developing new treatments for depression and schizophrenia. Severe forms ofdepression affect 2–5% of the US population, while mood disorders impact 7% of the world’s population and rank among the top ten causes of disability.
  • Tetra Therapeutics — Tetra Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a portfolio of therapeutic products that will bring clarity of thought to people suffering from Fragile X syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, and other brain disorders.
  • Sierra Oncology — Sierra Oncology is late-stage clinical drug development biopharmaceutical company on a mission to deliver targeted therapies that treat rare forms of cancer.
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$4M; Pre-Seed $409k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.5M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents to coordinate operational actions.
  • SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
  • Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers nuclear instrumentation, plasma diagnostics, and engineering services for fusion and small modular reactor projects.
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BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$83M; Series B $13M–$200M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
  • Swift Medical — Get advanced wound care powered by AI with Swift. 32M+ calibrated images enable 35% faster healing, 79% faster assessments, and 15% fewer hospitalizations.
  • Eigen Innovations — Eigen combines imaging and AI to detect issues traditional vision systems miss, revolutionizing quality inspection.
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Archangel Network of Funds
VC Fund · Kitchener, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $700k–$1.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • myStoria — Backed by fertility doctors. Built by patients, for patients. Track symptoms, manage diagnoses, get advice, and start moving forward.
  • Streamforge — Streamforge helps companies find the most relevant creators for their games and products using the most sophisticated platform and technology on the market.
  • TimeSmart.AI — A healthcare-focused solution for contract management, clinician timesheet review and approvals, payment tracking & contract compliance enforcement
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Graphite Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 7 in the past 12 months

We've helped 175 founders build enduring companies - and we're ready to take it to the next level.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $729k–$6M; Series A $7.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $92M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • myStoria — Backed by fertility doctors. Built by patients, for patients. Track symptoms, manage diagnoses, get advice, and start moving forward.
  • InsideDesk — Reduce AR days, boost collections, and streamline billing operations with InsideDesk's centralized revenue cycle management platform.
  • TimeSmart.AI — A healthcare-focused solution for contract management, clinician timesheet review and approvals, payment tracking & contract compliance enforcement
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GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

GreenSky Ventures is a Toronto-based firm that makes investments in early-stage Canadian technology companies.GreenSky Ventures seeks early-stage B2B technology companies in Canada, emphasizing protectable IP and experienced management. It makes investments in early-stage technology companies through its affiliated venture capital funds, GreenSkyAccelerator Fund I, II and III. Their principals bring a unique combination of experience in technology, law, and finance to high-growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs.GreenSky Capital was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010 by Geoff Simonett and Michael T. R. List.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $709k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $117k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Derapi — Derapi is a universal API for distributed energy resource (DER) devices, including solar, battery storage, EV chargers, smart thermostats, heat pumps, and other behind-the-meter loads. Derapi unlocks the full value of DERs by removing bottlenecks related to data integration, reducing data infrastructure costs and speeding time to market for DERsoftware developers, DER device manufacturers, and others in the DER ecosystem.
  • GridBank — Enhance Your Social Media Engagement And Following With Stunning User-Generated Videos. Access A Wide Range Of Royalty-Free Stock Videos For Various Themes Including Travel, Productivity, Aesthetic Backgrounds, And More
  • Trolley — Trolley is the best payouts platform for businesses needing to pay creators, musicians, artists, freelancers, or on-demand workers.
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iGan Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

iGan Partners is one of Canada's largest healthcare-focused venture capital firms, investing across North America. We provide capital and expertise to scale innovative healthcare solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.2M; Series A $3.9M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Docsi — DOCSI provides preference card optimization, surgeon engagement and supply chain cost reduction through novel digital solutions.
  • Exact Imaging — Exact Imaging is the developer of the ExactVu™ system, the first micro-ultrasound operating at 29 MHz that provides unmatched resolution. The system enables visualization and targeting of suspicious regions, in addition to performing systematic TRUS biopsies for prostate cancer imaging.
  • Adenocyte — Adenocyte. Early detection and prevention of pancreatic cancer.
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

At Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), they fund Canadian cleantech projects and coach the companies that lead them as they move their ground-breaking technologies to market.SDTC’s support of cleantech translates into jobs, growth, and export opportunities for Canadian companies, as well as economic, environmental and healthbenefits for all Canadians. They are independent but don’t work alone. A big part of their role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad. They operate at arm’s length and receive funding from the Government of Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$2.5M; Grant $825k–$7.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$145M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Niricson — Niricson develops an AI-based predictive analytics SaaS platform for infrastructure asset management. Its AUTOSPEX platform and DRONIC provide asset managers and civil engineers critical insights and multi-defect layer visualization for the current condition of their assets.
  • Solaires Entreprises Inc — Solaires Entreprises Inc is a Canadian cleantech company located in Victoria, BC, that consists of a team of 23 scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Solaires is focused on developing the next generation of solar cells by replacing silicon with perovskite through an innovative and sustainable manufacturing process resulting inaffordable solar photovoltaics with higher energy conversion efficiency.
  • Progressive Planet Solutions — Progressive Planet Solutions Inc is a metal/mineral based company that deals with the exploration & development of zeolite minerals.
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WUTIF
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
  • Carbonyx — Carbonyx transforms waste into carbon-negative advanced materials for industry.
  • CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the therapeutic use of RNA nanomedicine to treat disorders of the central nervous system.
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OrganiGram
VC Fund · Moncton, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

OrganiGram is a producer and distributor of medical and recreational cannabis. They are dedicated to consistently providing clients with the highest grade medicine and service. Organigram is focused on producing high-quality, indoor-grown cannabis for patients and adult recreational consumers in Canada, as well as developing international businesspartnerships to extend the Company’s global footprint.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cannabis, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Convertible Note, Series B, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Convertible Note $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sanity Group — Sanity Group is a holistic European Cannabis company focusing on health, wellbeing, and scientific research. To utilize the full potential of its health benefits, Sanity Group is investing in fundamental research of the cannabis plant and its active ingredients as well as in specific areas of application.It was founded in 2018 and headquarteredin Berlin, Germany.
  • Phylos — Revolutionary cannabis seed varieties with outstanding traits that have been bred to grow uniformly like clones.
  • Open Book Extracts — Premium wholesale cannabinoid supplier offering CBD, CBN, CBG, CBC, and THCV isolates. Water-soluble formulations for beverages. Custom formulation services. GMP-certified, research-backed cannabinoids.
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MEDTEQ+
VC Fund · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

MEDTEQ+ is a non-profit organization for industrial research and innovation in medical technology. The organization accelerates the development of innovative technological solutions to improve patients’ health and quality of life by mobilizing Canadian talents. They bringing together the key players in healthcare and innovation allows them andtheir partners, to offer Canadians access to novel solutions.MEDTEQ’s mission is, through collaborative, industry-led projects, to accelerate innovation and position, on a global scale, products and services developed by the Canadian medical technologies industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • AI4Eyes — AI4Eyes offers an end-to-end AI software & data collection platform for fast, precise, and consistent ocular diagnostics, enabling clinicians to detect and improve eye health.
  • NURA Medical — Discover NurEx's medication safety software and its novel weight estimation technology, designed for healthcare professionals. Experience easy-to-use pediatric dosing, accurate weight measurement, and streamlined formulary management to enhance patient safety and reduce medication errors. Book a demo today.
  • Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.
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Innovacorp
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
  • Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
  • CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Lumira Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Lumira Ventures, a later stage VC, partners & invests in best-in-class innovative biotherapeutic & medtech entrepreneurs building transformative companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$85M; Series B $12M–$75M; Series C $16M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Altis Labs — Altis Labs is the computational imaging company advancing precision medicine. We believe that medical imaging is the richest source of untapped information. Life sciences companies use our software platform, Nota, to accelerate all stages of clinical development. Trained on over 140 million longitudinal real-world images with associated clinicalinformation, our deep learning models predict clinically meaningful outcomes to quantify treatment effect more accurately.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
  • Cour Pharmaceuticals Development — Reprogramming the immune system. Restoring lives.At COUR, we are developing targeted therapies that re-establish calm within the immune system and help rest ...
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Afore Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as aninstitutional investor alongside high value angels.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $185M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CivilGrid — CivilGrid centralizes utility, environmental, geotechnical, and other site data in a SaaS platform where your teams can collaboratively scope and plan projects.
  • Hypercubic — Hypercubic is agentic AI for mainframe modernization, helping enterprises and governments preserve institutional knowledge and modernize COBOL.
  • Baselayer — The AI Platform for B2B Risk. Fastest growing fintech in 2025
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 420
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Modem — Your dev team's auto-triage Product Manager
  • TicketIQ — Buy authentic sports tickets, concert tickets, and theater tickets for your favorite live events at TicketIQ.
  • Branch Energy — A tech-powered, green energy provider focused on helping consumers reduce their energy bills and carbon footprints
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Ramen Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

We angel invest in founders who will improve the lives of millions. Based in Toronto, Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.2M; Angel $500k–$600k; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ALT TEX — ALT TEX is creating sustainable textiles regenerated from post-industrial waste.
  • Spare — Spare is your all-in-one mobility operations platform, designed to provide an end-to-end platform ecosystem for operating modern paratransit and microtransit systems.
  • Mayday — Time is your most valuable asset. Make sure you're spending it wisely.
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Coughdrop Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Purveyors of warm vibes and cold cash since 2015.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaaj AI — Unlock faster, profitable small business lending with Agentic AI
  • Ergo — Ergo turns conversations into automatic follow-ups, CRM updates, coaching, and forecasting. Reps spend less time on admin work, deals stop slipping.
  • Falconer — The self-driving knowledge base. Replace Confluence, Google Docs, and useless meetings.
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Charles River Laboratories International
VC Fund · Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Charles River provides products and services to help expedite the discovery, early-stage development and safe manufacture of novel drugs and therapeutics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $20M–$31M; Series B $12M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deciphex — Deciphex - Transforming Digital Pathology - we are focussed on the development of applications for clinical and veterinary pathology that improve productivity
  • Ability biologics — Ability develops innovative, targeted, immune modulating biotherapeutics to address unmet medical needs in patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases.
  • Vernal Biosciences — Vernal Biosciences is an mRNA manufacturing company that provides high purity mRNA, from concept to clinical trials, on a transactional basis.
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
  • FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
  • Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.
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Groupe Roski
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Groupe Roski is a private investment company that has been involved in venture capital since 2013 with companies that improve the quality of life and the environment for individuals.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.9M; Series A $14M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spiderwort — Spiderwort is an innovator in all-natural, plant-based biomaterials that have the potential to repair spinal cord injuries and promote healing.
  • Groupe Evex — Groupe Evex deals with the commercial real estate projects.
  • Marmax — Marmax deals with residential and commercial construction, renovation and roofing.
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Breakwater Ventures
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Pre-seed investment fund focused on the PNW, Western Canada, and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Credit, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gone — Gone is a goods redistribution platform that offers free pickup of gently used household products.
  • Scispot — Connect your research, inventory, & sample data. Automate your workflows with a no-code toolkit. Track & manage your projects. Collaborate & document with your team & partners. All in one spot. Go beyond old-school ELN and LIMS systems.
  • Confido Legal — Confido Legal provides a credit/debit card and ACH payment processing platform specifically designed for law firms and legal technology companies. The platform offers features such as automated payment plans, payment pages for firm websites, and integration with financial management tools like QuickBooks Online. Confido Legal aims to enhancefinancial flexibility for law firms, ensuring they never have to turn away clients due to payment issues.
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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Series A $951k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Dryrun — From lightening fast data imports and automated forecasts, through to unmatched control to model out scenarios, Dryrun is the choice for CFOs managing cash flow for multi-million dollar businesses. Dryrun integrates with Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Pipedrive.
  • Fairly Staffing — On demand shift filling platform for dental offices and dental professionals.
  • Chroma Technologies — Chroma Technologies provides financial technology and property solutions to enhance the rental experiences.
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Versant Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Versant partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and fund breakthrough biotechnology companies around the globe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Series A $4.7M–$84M; Series B $10M–$105M; Series C $12M–$108M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Graphite Bio — Graphite Bio is a next-generation gene editing company focused on therapies that harness targeted gene integration to treat or cure serious diseases
  • Lycia Therapeutics — Lycia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing technology that utilizes lysosome-targeting chimeras. The company was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi in 2019 and is based in San Diego, California, USA.
  • Nested Therapeutics — Nested Therapeutics is a Cambridge-based VC-backed stealth biotech company. The company's focus is on finding and creating new precision oncology small-molecule drugs targeted toward cancer genes. Nested Therapeutics was established in 2021 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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ScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Scale Good Fund is a Social Impact Venture Capital VC fund that invests in companies who have the promise of a strong financial return coupled with measurable social impact goals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $37k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
  • Ultimarii —
  • PulseMedica — PulseMedica is developing a medical device to treat eye diseases that affect over 500 million people worldwide. Our device consists of a state-of-the-art 3D imaging and surgical platform that allows for comprehensive patient treatment.
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Killick Capital
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Killick Capital is a leading Atlantic Canadian private equity firm, dedicated to partnering with Atlantic Canadian businesses and Aerospace businesses. Our team of professionals work closely with portfolio companies to maximize success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $525k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $750k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoLab Software — The only tool purpose-built to simplify design reviews for engineering teams building complex products.
  • Avalon Holographics — Avalon Holographics is designing next-generation holographic displays for commercial and consumer applications. The company is leading the next wave of display technology with light field displays that revolutionize the way people produce, view, and understand visual content. By replicating the experience of looking at real objects, Avalon’sdisplays produce realistic, comfortable, and accessory-free experiences.
  • Sparrow BioAcoustics — Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data.
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Two Small Fish Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $5.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Haply — Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance.
  • YScope — YScope is a software development company that provides log management and troubleshooting tools for automated failure prediction.
  • Qubic Technologies — Qubic Technologies is a manufacturer of quantum microwave transmitters and receivers for remote sensing and communication.
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OurCrowd
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $593k–$8M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $6.3M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $230k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Hemispheric — Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications.
  • MUV Interactive — MUV Interactive designs and develops innovative technology for active human sensing, providing a natural and fluent interactive experience with any type of digital application, from displayed content, and smart home appliances to IOT (Internet of Things) devices, drones and AR/VR applications. The company’s flagship product, Bird, is anintuitive device that is worn on the index finger, which transforms any space into a 3D Interactive Environment. Bird is the first device to integrate the entire spectrum of input and control methods – including touch, remote touch, gesture control and mouse functionality. This gives users the flexibility to interact with each type of digital content in the most intuitive way, whether up close or from a distance of up to 100 feet away.
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 96 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $36k–$2M; Debt Financing $141k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • QRA — QRA works with global organizations to automate the quality and consistency of engineering requirements. Their software tool QVscribe enables teams to identify risk, errors, and ambiguities before they manifest into late-stage rework, cost-overruns, and recalls.
  • Deep Cove Aqua Farms — Deep Cove Aqua Farms is a live lobster holding facility and seafood processing plant. The company acts as a wholesale business, seafood market, purchasing premium seafood directly from local fishermen, grading the catch by quality and size, and distributing it to domestic and international clients.
  • LED Roadway Lighting — 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.
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Toyota Ventures
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $800 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$17M; Series A $9.3M–$38M; Series B $15M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • River — Empowering people, improving lives.
  • Walden Robotics — Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics.
  • Supercritical — We partner with industry to move and think beyond fossil fuels with innovative clean technology solutions.
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Page One Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Next-generation venture capital. Write your story with us.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$23M; Pre-Seed $500k–$8.1M; Series B $24M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clario — Clario identifies and eliminates redundant, obsolete, and trivial unstructured data so organizations reduce waste, lower risk, and create cleaner foundations for AI.
  • Inner Logic — The development infrastructure for the next generation of procedural devices.
  • Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.
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Pfizer Venture Investments
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Pfizer Venture Investments is a corporate venture capital firm that invests in areas of current or future strategic interest to Pfizer. It aims to remain at the forefront of life science advances. It identifies and invests in emerging companies that are developing transformative medicines and technologies that have the potential to enhance Pfizer’spipeline and shape the future of its industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$100M; Series B $20M–$120M; Series C $15M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Flare Therapeutics — Flare Therapeutics is a biotechnology company opening up a new therapeutic space with a novel approach to decipher the biology of transcription factors to develop small molecule medicines. Based on insights from the seminal work of its scientific founders, Flare’s team has uncovered ‘switch sites,’ druggable regions that are key targets fortranscription factor regulation to address mutations that cause disease. Its drug discovery to target switch sites has rapidly advanced, resulting in an emerging pipeline of drug programs that address well-validated transcription factors, initially focused on precision oncology with future potential in neurology, rare genetic disorders, immunology, and inflammation.
  • Flexion Therapeutics — Flexion Therapeutics advances drug candidates through clinical proof of concept and beyond, in partnership with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. By providing expertise and sharing risk, Flexion effectively expands the portfolios of its partners.
  • TwoStep Therapeutics — TwoStep Therapeutics is developing novel tumor-targeting therapeutics for solid tumors.
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Angel Forum
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Founded 16 years ago in 1997, it is the only Angel Capital Forum ™ in Canada that introduces emerging companies to private equity Angel Investors. Presenting companies have raised over $35 million directly through the Forum. Read this third party blog comment and video overview. Since 1998, it has offered Investor Ready ™ workshops for companies& investors.As the oldest & largest angel network in Western Canada with 50+ investors (from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Victoria, Bellingham and Seattle), they are supported by leading organizations in BC and belong to Canada's National Angel Capital Organization and US's Angel Capital Association. Their private meetings are exclusive to only pre-registered Investors, selected Companies and Sponsors. Regretfully no observers except volunteers.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cuboh — Cuboh consolidates all your food delivery orders in one tablet and integrates them with your restaurant's POS system. Cuboh, online ordering on autopilot.
  • Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
  • Orbitless Drive — ORBITLESS, we are pioneering the future of gear systems with our groundbreaking drivetrain technology
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Brigus Capital
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Brigus Capital is a privately-owned investment company focused on investing in small-cap publicly traded companies and select privately owned companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mining, Mineral, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Post-IPO Equity $332k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Antler Gold — Antler Gold Inc. (TSXV: ANTL) is a Canadian gold exploration company, focused on projects in Namibia.
  • Coloursmith Labs Inc. — Coloursmith develops breakthrough optical filtering technologies in ophthalmic devices.
  • ReeXploration — E-Tech Resources is an exploring and development business with a focus on REE.
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Amplify Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.5M; Series A $7.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $22M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Fex Energy — FeX Energy is a pre-commercial startup focused on developing renewable energy storage solutions.
  • ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
  • Carbon Upcycling — Our cities, roads, energy, AI, and all critical infrastructure are built on a foundation of concrete. And cement is the glue that holds it all together. Securing our tomorrow means securing our critical cement materials. It means building manufacturing independence, localizing supply chains, and investing...
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Innovate Calgary
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Innovate Calgary is a central innovation hub at the University of Calgary. See our programs and fundings and learn more about our innovation hubs here.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $931k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $48k–$770k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
  • Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
  • Possibility Neurotechnologies — Connecting hearts and minds while fostering community through simple, accessible brain-controlled technology. #BCIs #assistivetech #inclusion
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BoxOne Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $281k–$2M; Series A $744k–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
  • Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
  • Thred — Thred is the first B2B Intent platform designed for AI. Act on accounts researching in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
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Life Science VC funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 311 deals from 375 investors.

375
investors
in Canada Life Science startups
311
deals
in Canada Life Science startups
$2.5M
median round
in Canada Life Science startups
43%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage

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