Top 10 Local VC Funds & Investors in Canada (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hardy Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Arab Emirates | Angel, Pre-Seed, Series B | Communities, Local, Sales | |
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Structure Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Internet, Travel | $365k–$12M |
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Plaza Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $2.2M–$70M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $650k–$50M |
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Rothenberg Ventures
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce | |
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Haywood Securities Inc.
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1 | Canada, Japan | Post-IPO Equity, Angel, Post-IPO Secondary | Mining, Mineral, Precious Metals | $560k–$52M |
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Retail Group
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1 | Canada | Series A | SEO, Local, Software | |
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StartFast Ventures
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Desjardins-Innovatech
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1 | Canada, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | |
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Otimo Retail
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail Technology, Retail | |
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Hardy Capital invest in high growth companies with the potential to out execute the competition.Hardy Capital is a Canadian merchant bank established to foster the growth of young businesses. With a history of international transactions including; acquisitions throughout Northern Europe ( Sweden, Holland, Germany and the UK ) the United Statesand Asia ( Japan, Singapore ). Public company listings on the OMX: Europe, TSX: Canada and the NASDAQ: Usa. Along with both public and private financings throughout Europe, Asia and North America.With dedicated assets of over $100M, Their mission is to help build and grow businesses that have the potential to achieve market leading positions primarily in the consumer space. They are especially interested in businesses that are disruptive to large very profitable incumbent monopolies and use new technology to improve customer experiences. With acute interest in transactions focused around Optical, Fin-tech, Real estate and Insurance disruption. They understand and can support businesses by helping them navigate the complex nature of growth in the global marketplace and fast track the company to the right investor or mentor groups.
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- Industry: Communities, Local, Sales
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Eyewa — Eyewa is the first dedicated online eyewear store for the Middle East. We have thousands of different eyeglasses, sunglasses, color contact lenses and prescription contact lenses for you to choose from. On Eyewa, you’ll find quintessentially cool brands like Ray-Ban and Emporio Armani, heritage brands like Burberry and Persol, high-fashion brandslike Fendi, Dolce & Gabbanaand Prada sporty brands like Nike and Lacoste and everything in between. Discover their brands portfolio with thousands of styles here.
- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- Naborly — Next-gen tenant screening. We help landlords find a great tenant and help tenants share a single application to multiple landlords. It's a win-win!
We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $365k–$4.5M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
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- Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
- Artera — Well Health provides a communication platform that connects patients to healthcare organizations through text, email, phone, and live chat. WELL is a communication tool that allows front offices to have two-way text conversations with patients, using existing office phone numbers. The platform is designed from the ground up to make patientcommunications more intuitive across the enterprise. Well Health's mission is to make going to the doctor as easy as meeting up with a close friend.
Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$70M; Series B $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
- 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.
- KERV Interactive — KERV redefines the AI-video landscape, turning video moments into brand opportunities. See how content, context, and commerce converge for real results.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $2.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
- 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.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California.
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- Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Haywood Securities is an investment firm that invests in the institutional and retail markets.
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- Industry: Mining, Mineral, Precious Metals
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Angel, Post-IPO Secondary
- Geography: Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Angel $1M–$1M; Post-IPO Equity $560k–$52M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- K92 Mining — K92 Mining Inc is focused on advancing the Kainantu Gold Mine, located in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, towards production. The Kainantu property covers a total area of approx. 410 km2 and was previously mined by Highlands Pacific and Barrick Gold from 2006-2009. K92 Mining Inc. was purpose built for the acquisition of theKainantu Gold Mine. In addition to targeting a move towards production, K92 will focus on both expanding known areas of mineralization and drilling high priority exploration targets.K92 is led by an experienced team of industry professionals with substantial international expertise in mining, production start ups, production re-starts, mineral exploration, and finance.
- Nomad Royalty Company — Guerrero Ventures Inc. is a growth-oriented, Canadian mining company dedicated to the exploration and development of precious and base metal resources. Guerrero is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) under the symbol “GV”. Guerrero is based in Vancouver, British Columbia and aims to create shareholder value through the acquisition,exploration, and development of profitable mineral properties, in a manner that is consistent with best practice in environmental stewardship, safety and stakeholder engagement.Guerrero Ventures is exploring the Biricu Project, directly adjoining Goldcorp ( Los Filos ) and Torex ( El Limon-Guajes ) in the Guererro Gold Belt in Mexico. The 90,000 acre Biricu Project is now undergoing its first modern exploration and a maiden diamond drill program of 5,300 metres was completed in December 2014. The Company plans on initiating phase II diamond drilling during the second half (H2) of 2015.
- 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).
Our business is to improve our clients business throught our understanding of shoppers, their shopping habits, retailers and skills of retailing.
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- Industry: SEO, Local, Software
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SweetIQ Analytics — Uberall Multi-Location Marketing Platform makes your stores stand out against their competition across all your online directories
StartFast invests in the heartland of America. We have built companies outside VC hubs and know what it takes to succeed. We like… Strong, diverse teams with proven track records and exceptional domain expertise Recurring revenue business models, particularly with a business to business focus Founders based outside venture capital hubs, at theSeries Seed and Series A stageLearn more and partner with us at http://startfast.net.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- KredosAI — Our human centered AI platform drives real engagement with consumers leading to positive payment outcomes for enterprises.
- In-Seam — In-Seam. Luxury, Connected.
- Blackbird.AI — Blackbird.AI provides organizations with Deception Detection technology to protect against narrative manipulation and disinformation.
Desjardins-Innovatech is a Canadian venture capital company that funds innovative businesses in diverse sectors across Quebec.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Concentric Agriculture — Concentric produces high-performance specialty biological products that naturally improve crop yields and replenish soils.
- LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
- A3 Surfaces inc — A3 Surfaces Inc. offers a surface treatment service incorporating various antimicrobial agents directly into the anodized aluminum layer. The antimicrobial effect of these surfaces prevents the transmission of hospital-acquired infections. The technology used by A3 Surfaces offers antibacterial products that eradicate pathogens and can be used onall commercial, industrial or institutional surfaces. Founded in 2015, this Chicoutimi company employs 5 people.
We invest in retail focused technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Retail Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Logiwa — Logiwa is the leading cloud fulfillment software for high-volume direct-to-consumer brands, wholesalers, and 3PLs. The Logiwa Cloud Fulfillment Platform is an integrated WMS and order fulfillment system that makes it easy to run a digital warehouse and scale your high-volume DTC fulfillment operations. Logiwa’s solution works where traditional WMSsystems fail: it connects quickly with new online stores and marketplaces, makes it easy to run a digital warehouse, and is easily updated to support dynamic warehouse environments.
- XCCommerce — XCCommerce is a leading software development and implementation company that specializes in retail specific solutions.XCCommerce’s team has a proven track record of developing and deploying Promotion Management Solutions, implementing projects on time and on budget, and generating optimal ROI for their customers.XCCommerce has a strong marketpresence and their capabilities in delivering applications are rooted in best practices. Their solutions enable retailers to transform the customer experience and allow seamless interaction with the consumer on their terms.They are trusted with providing focused solutions and dedicated expertise to the retail industry, ranging from Tier 1 retailers to organizations who are growing their brands.
- Trendalytics Innovation Labs — Trendalytics is an AI-powered trend forecasting and market intelligence tool. We make sense of millions of data points to cut through the noise and tell you what customers want. We are the leading retail intelligence platform.
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