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Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Canada (August 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 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device $1.5M–$8M
Real Ventures
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $650k–$50M
Panache Ventures
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $717k–$20M
Amplitude Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, Israel Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $2.9M–$142M
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
5 Canada, Spain, United States Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $366k–$3.4M
E-Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada, China, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $279k–$4.2M
StandUp Ventures
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $317k–$14M
Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Medical, Software $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
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $13k–$8M
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $368k–$14M
Apjohn ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science $2.5M–$39M
iGan Partners
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical $1.9M–$17M
MEDTEQ+
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $1.5M–$20M
Archangel Network of Funds
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Medical Device $10k–$19M
Golden Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$49M
GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $731k–$4.5M
Afore Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$25M
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
Graphite Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $729k–$31M
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software $6M–$75M
Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Brazil Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Manufacturing, Energy, Software $70k–$6.2M
Innovacorp
VC Fund
3 Canada, Australia, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $18k–$3.1M
Theodorus III
VC Fund
2 Belgium, Canada, France Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science $2.2M–$41M
Innovate Calgary
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $48k–$2.1M
Inovia Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$65M
BoxOne Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $274k–$115M
Charles River Laboratories International
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science $12M–$103M
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $600k–$20M
Resolve Growth Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $7M–$21M
Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $805k–$24M
LVL1 Group
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Apps $577k–$39M
Groupe Roski
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $1.5M–$20M
Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Angel Forum
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $20k–$500k
Toyota Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics $1.4M–$126M
Island Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Film Production $205k–$3M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$65M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $25k–$2M
WUTIF
VC Fund
2 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $100k–$3.8M
Bee Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $500k–$25M
Builders VC
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Biotechnology $1.8M–$39M
Breakwater Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Credit, FinTech $1.2M–$9M
Two Small Fish Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Trinidad and Tobago Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $2M–$25M
Alexandria Venture Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $2M–$150M
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
Coughdrop Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $125k–$9M
Yaletown Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $603k–$60M
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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
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

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 — Hyivy Health is working on the first smart pelvic health rehabilitation system for patients and the clinicians who treat them.
  • Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
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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, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$20M; Series B $7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • 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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Panache Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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: 155
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.5M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Communo — Communities of compatible marketing pros collaborating on the work they love, with the people the love, for the brands they love.
  • 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.
  • OnCall Health — Leading behavioral health EHR software and electronic healthcare record solutions built to modernize care, manage workflows and improve patient outcomes.
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Amplitude Venture Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 5 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: 36
  • Round size: Seed $7M–$18M; Series A $2.9M–$85M; Series B $35M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $146M in 2019

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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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$3.4M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
  • 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.
  • Solving.AI — Solving.AI is an AI training platform that helps in solving business software adoption issues.
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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
  • Geography: Canada, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qase — Qase is a B2B SaaS platform that reinvents how law firms and legal organizations manage legal referrals.
  • 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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StandUp Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 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: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $317k–$2M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M 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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Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 16 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, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $366k–$3.2M; Grant $7.3k–$110k; Pre-Seed $146k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Synakis — Own synakis.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
  • Script Runner — Script Runner provides AI-powered prescription delivery and logistics software for pharmacies and healthcare providers. The platform enables pharmacies and hospitals to manage last-mile prescription delivery using in-house drivers, Script Runner’s driver network, or integrated services such as Uber Direct. It supports route planning, ordertracking, and drone-based recurring deliveries for medications within defined distances. The software includes tools for secure payment collection at the door or online, along with data security and storage aligned with industry compliance standards. Script Runner also offers virtual care and virtual prescribing capabilities for minor ailments bundled with delivery, helping providers coordinate clinical services with logistics in a single system.
  • Kare Chemical Technologies — Kare specializes in the research, development, and commercialization of catalysts, precursors, and industrial processes to produce pure cannabinoids (for example, CBD, THC, CBN, and rare cannabinoids) that are chemically identical to plant‑derived versions but made via synthetic routes.
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Radical Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Radical Ventures invests in the future of how we live, work and play, partnering with founders who understand the transformational power of AI.

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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: 130
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$27M; Series A $7M–$60M; Series B $30M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Emerald AI — Intelligence to transform energy-intensive AI data centers into AI-powered grid allies
  • Discovery Loop — Discovery Loop is a pioneer in autonomous artificial intelligence, dedicated to deeply automating machine learning, science, and engineering.
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Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 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:Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • 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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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Pre-Seed $368k–$1.5M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
  • TimeSmart.AI — A healthcare-focused solution for contract management, clinician timesheet review and approvals, payment tracking & contract compliance enforcement
  • Authentic Web — Authentic Web is a Corporate Domain Name Management platform for the New TLD Era.We equip enterprise teams in Digital, Marketing & IT with domain and DNS automation, providing business intelligence to support digital optimization and innovation for digital brands.Our workflow, automation and security protocols address Security andCompliance requirements for Risk, Compliance and IT Security teams to lock down domain assets and support teams to manage DNS network exposures.
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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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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: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5M; Series A $4M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised 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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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
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M; Series A $2.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M 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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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: 68
  • 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 — last raise 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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Golden Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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: 189
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.7M–$32M; Series B $14M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
  • Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is building the interoperable command layer for the Arctic
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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, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Derapi — Derapi is a universal API for distributed energy resource (DER) devices, including solar, battery storage, EV chargers, smart thermostats, heat pumps, and other behind-the-meter loads. Derapi unlocks the full value of DERs by removing bottlenecks related to data integration, reducing data infrastructure costs and speeding time to market for DERsoftware developers, DER device manufacturers, and others in the DER ecosystem.
  • GridBank — 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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Afore Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups

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: 237
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
  • Tideshiftai — TideShiftAI leverages AI to provide personalized insights and forecasts for businesses, helping them optimize operations and enhance decision-making.
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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: 34
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$83M; Series B $13M–$200M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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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Graphite Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 8 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

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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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 3 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, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $7.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • AV&R — AV&R designs user-centric, reliable robotic systems for aerospace & medical manufacturers, automating surface finishing & inspection.
  • 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.
  • PG Hardwood Flooring — PG Hardwood is a company which provides Prefinished hardwood, Varnished hardwood, Gymnasium wood & Solid hardwood flooring.
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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, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$2.9M; Grant $600k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $475k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% 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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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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Theodorus III
VC Fund · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Theodorus is the spin-off fund of Université Libre de Bruxelles that invests ininvest in early stage projects based on proprietary disruptive technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Belgium, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$18M; Series A $2.2M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Simmunome AI — We use AI to create accurate, comprehensive disease models using multi-omic data to determine the probability of success of a drug. Our clinical trial simulations allow you to gain insights, make go/no-go decisions, and de-risk your pipeline, getting you to market faster and reducing your R&D co
  • Flare — Flare equips your team to shut down cybercrime before it escalates. Detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats with automated Threat Exposure Management.
  • Ability biologics — Ability develops innovative, targeted, immune modulating biotherapeutics to address unmet medical needs in patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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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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Inovia Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 385
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Modem — Your dev team's auto-triage Product Manager
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
  • Routehappy — ATPCO | The foundation of modern airline retailing
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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: 67
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $274k–$2M; Series A $717k–$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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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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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 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:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 440
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WhatsNexx — Sujintoto adalah situs slot online yang memberikan pelayanan deposit yang sat set dan withdraw cepet selama 24 jam
  • Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
  • D-Wave Quantum — D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services.
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Resolve Growth Partners
VC Fund · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Enabling passionate, committed SaaS entrepreneurs to accelerate growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $7.5M–$21M; Series B $17M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • AppWork — We are on a mission to modernize multifamily maintenance by giving you the data you need to make informed business decisions.
  • Help Lightning — Help Lightning offers remote visual guidance software for enterprises that delivers a next generation video collaboration solution for field service.
  • Cecilian Partners — Best-in-Class Proptech Solutions: Real estate management, mapping, and development software to support property developers, home builders & realtors.
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Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund · Lévis, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$5.2M; Series A $5.9M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $120M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
  • Inscora — Inscora is the cyber-insurability platform for MSPs and MSSPs. Assess risk, accurately measure client insurability, and unlock new revenue - without adding operational burden.
  • Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
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LVL1 Group
VC Fund · Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

LVL1 Group is a private investment management firm, operating across different asset classes and geographies. We were founded with entrepreneurial spirit at our core, with a natural passion for venture investing, working closely with founders to forge meaningful strategic relationships and helping them to succeed. We are not bound by mandates andinvestment periods, which allows us to be flexible and opportunistic. We look for companies that aim to make a strong global impact, particularly in Online Travel, Gaming, eSports, Content and Community Platforms.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $577k–$10M; Series A $2M–$39M; Series B $3.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GRACIA.AI — Volumetric video production powered by 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS). From multi-camera capture to delivery in any engine, browser, or headset.
  • Native Commerce — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
  • Native Commerce — A unified e-commerce platform combining CMS, OMS, WMS, Delivery & Logistics to help modern retailers operate, scale & deliver great e-commerce experiences.
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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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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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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, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$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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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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Island Capital Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Island Capital Partners is an early stage venture capital fund that is in the business of investing in high potential Prince Edward Island entrepreneurs and startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Film Production
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $205k–$3M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
  • Versos AI Inc — Create at the speed of imagination. A new way to create 3D content inside Unreal Engine and other platforms.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 259
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $2.5M–$22M; Series B $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta — At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.
  • RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.
  • Prosper Medical — Prosper Medical is a telemedicine platform that connects members with physicians for personalized healthcare services.
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 65 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $33k–$2M; Debt Financing $141k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Site 20/20 — Site 20/20 is a leading smart traffic control company providing advanced traffic management services. Enhance road safety with innovative traffic solutions.
  • IGNITE — Ignite is the leading economic development agency for the Capital Region of New Brunswick. From start-up to succession, Ignite offers tailored mentoring, skills development opportunities and access to a network of support tools for business success across our regions.
  • PEI BioAlliance — PEI BioAlliance is a not-for-profit organization committed to the advancement of the bioscience industry. The BioAlliance has aided businesses, academic and research institutions, and federal and provincial government agencies in establishing the bioscience sector as a critical pillar in the province's and Atlantic Canada's economicfoundation. It facilitates the use of new technology through research and assists in the identification of new commercial opportunities. The PEI BioAlliance leads the Cluster of business, academic, research, and government organizations committed to increasing the economic impact of the bioscience sector in Prince Edward Island.
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WUTIF
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 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, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
  • Carbonyx — Carbonyx 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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Bee Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Bee Partners, a preSeed venture capital fund, partners with Founders with the smarts, grit, and humanity to create tomorrow's machines. We invest in three vectors: Human Machine Interaction, Machine-to-Machine Learning, and Biological Machines.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.1M; Series A $4.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Octave — The context engine for Growth and GTM engineering teams
  • Drafter — the design intent company | bridging the gap between engineering, fabrication and metrology | automating design-for-manufacturing | Join waitlist
  • C-Infinity — Pioneering AI for mechanical design and manufacturing. Our product, AutoAssembler, provides breakthrough assembly intelligence for complex physical systems.
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Builders VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Builders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries including healthcare, agriculture, industrials and real-estate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$21M; Series B $8M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AuX Labs — No compromise between taste and what you care about. A capital-efficient platform delivering the proteins that give dairy its magic.
  • Askari Defense — Intelligent Kinetic Defense For the Age of Robotic Warfare
  • Ichor Microbial Solutions — Ichor Microbial Solutions is a company that offers agricultural services.
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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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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
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $5.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • YScope — YScope is a software development company that provides log management and troubleshooting tools for automated failure prediction.
  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Qubic Technologies — Qubic Technologies is a manufacturer of quantum microwave transmitters and receivers for remote sensing and communication.
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Alexandria Venture Investments
VC Fund · Pasadena, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that aredeveloping transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 262
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$31M; Series A $12M–$101M; Series B $25M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • miRecule — MiRecule is an early-stage biotechnology company that focuses on developing microRNA-based therapeutics. It features a genomic-based drug development platform that integrates genomic sequencing, expression, and prognostic data from cancer patients. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, United States.
  • Deep Genomics — Revolutions in AI, biology and automation are enabling a new approach to medicine. Deep Genomics is at the forefront.
  • CREATE Medicines — Myeloid Therapeutics is an immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to harness myeloid cells to eradicate cancer and other diseases. The Company's ATAKTM platform technology can be broadly applied, and it is initially advancing a cell therapy program for T cell lymphoma and a primed monocyteapproach to treat glioblastoma. The ATAK platform is scalable to multiple treatment modalities and other disease areas in collaboration with partners.
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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.
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  • 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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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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Yaletown Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Life Science startups

Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5.2M; Series A $2.9M–$16M; Series B $2.1M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

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

Stats across 258 deals from 317 investors.

317
investors
in Canada Life Science startups
258
deals
in Canada Life Science startups
$2.5M
median round
in Canada Life Science startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage

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