Top 15 Local Startup Investors in Canada (September 2026)

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• Shopify — Try Shopify free and start a business or grow an existing one. Get more than ecommerce software with tools to manage every part of your business.
• FundThrough — Businesses in the U.S. & Canada can get paid in a day by advancing funds from unpaid invoices with online invoice financing and factoring from FundThrough.
• 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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• Bild — Bild enables faster and more confident design reviews so engineering teams can deliver products to market faster and with more confidence. Get access today!
• VergeSense — VergeSense provides the leading spatial intelligence platform supporting enterprise companies across the globe.
• Maxinsights — Maxinsights aims to accelerate adoption of physical AI by delivering unmatched data quality on a global scale.

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• ARVIE — Find it fast. Book it faster. At over 4,000+ campgrounds with more than 500,000 campsites across the USA, including most State and National Parks.
• Lumi — Lumi manufactures and designs portable and high quality projectors.
• Woddle Baby — Woddle baby - The Smart Change Pad for the Modern Family. Giving Parents Peace of Mind.

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• Guiides — Brought to you by Porkbun.
• ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.

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• KredosAI — Our human centered AI platform drives real engagement with consumers leading to positive payment outcomes for enterprises.
• SelectFI Lending Solutions — SelectFI leverages proprietary Predictive Lending™ analysis to prequalify customers for financing using an auto dealership's existing lenders. The platform uses soft pull technology and lender guidelines to prequalify a customer for their vehicle of choice, and give dealerships fast, accurate quotes from each of its lenders without impactingthe customer's credit score. The software reduces dealership expenses for hard credit pulls, greatly improves efficiency for their internal F&I teams, and helps dealerships remain compliant with FTC regulations for fair lending.
• In-Seam — In-Seam is a platform that helps connectors whose personal relationships account for the majority of luxury fashion sales. The company is currently working with top luxury brands including Dior, Khaite, Ganni, Lapointe, Rosetta Getty, Rodarte, Adam Lippes, Brandon Maxwell, Altuzarra, Rosie Assoulin, Bibi van der Velden; and leading personalshoppers, including Micaela Erlanger, and the mission is to shift the value chain and bring power, efficiency, and financial reward to the connectors who's personalized service drives luxury while reimagining connection for designers and clients alike. It was founded in 2020 and is located in New York, New York.

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• SweetIQ Analytics — Uberall Multi-Location Marketing Platform makes your stores stand out against their competition across all your online directories

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• Guiides — Brought to you by Porkbun.
• ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.

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• Imagia — At Imagia Canexia Health, we make high-quality cancer genomic information accessible and affordable with our clinically-validated assays, informatics, and support.
• LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
• Airex Energy — Industrial biomass conversion solutions for biocoal, biochar, and biocarbon using advanced torrefaction and carbonization technologies.

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• VRChat — VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and bewalking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place.It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
• Wave — Wave focuses on interactive virtual experiences with a mission to help artists make money at the intersection of gaming and entertainment. Wave’s technology enables musicians to create lifelike avatars of themselves that can “perform” their music on a virtual stage. Most of these virtual shows take place either on the company’s YouTube channel, butWave’s apps let users tune in on gaming consoles, phones or even the Oculus Rift VR headset. While watching a Wave, viewers can log in to comment in a chat function and give live feedback to the avatar performers.
• InsiteVR — InsiteVR helps architects and 3D designers easily create immersive virtual reality experiences. At InsiteVR.com architects and 3D designers can upload existing 3D models, which are then converted and optimized for viewing in virtual reality devices like the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or simply on mobile devices.Trying to understand 3D spacesby looking at static two-dimensional pictures is not intuitive. Communicating those 3D designs to a client, friend or colleague who isn't trained to understand 3D space isn't always trivial either. With virtual reality, architects and designers can effortlessly communicate the essence of their designs, save time and feel confident their viewer understands the design.

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• Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
• SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
• Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!

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• 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.
• SPARK Microsystems — SPARK Microsystems delivers Low Energy Ultra-Wideband (LE-UWB) technology with ultra-low latency, high data throughput, and revolutionary power efficiency.

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• CareCru — Donna puts growth on autopilot by syncing with your Practice Management Software in real-time, in order to find opportunities in your schedule, and fill them on your behalf.
• Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
• Blossom Social — The investor's social network.

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• Favs — The Memory Company
• Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
• Go Oil — Go Oil is car maintenance made easy. Our service vans come to you and change your car's oil, rotate your truck's tires, replace your SUV's battery and more

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• Solstice Gold — Solstice Gold is a gold mining company with three district-scale projects in tier-one mining jurisdictions. It capitalizes on management’s expertise to create value by identifying opportunities, making discoveries, and advancing them through the exploration stage to development.
• Fury Gold Mines — High-Grade Gold Portfolio in Low-Risk Jurisdictions Latest News Recent Photos Upcoming Events Recent Media
• Golden Rapture Mining — Golden Rapture Mining is a well-funded exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of high-potential assets located in favourable, established Tier 1 mining jurisdictions in the Rainy River and Geraldton areas of NW Ontario, Canada. Their two properties are truly a treasure trove of forgotten golden opportunitieswith an astonishing eighteen (18) mine shafts and an adit with visible gold having been recorded historically & recently at their Rainy River area property (first discovered in 1894) and their past producing Hutchison/Maylac Gold Mine located in the Geraldton Gold Camp, NW Ontario which was (mined from 1937 to 1947).

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• Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
• Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
• SenseNet Inc. — Wildfire Detection in Minutes. Advanced Integration of Ground Sensors, Cameras, and Satellite Technologies.