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Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Canada (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Canada Manufacturing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Manufacturing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
District Ventures Capital
VC Fund
30 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
28 Canada, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $603k–$16M
Fondaction
VC Fund
21 Canada, United States, France Private Equity, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $273k–$125M
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
19 Canada, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software $2.2M–$83M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
18 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $25k–$2M
Government of Canada
VC Fund
17 Canada, United States, Germany Grant, Debt Financing Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care $58k–$54M
Real Ventures
VC Fund
14 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $650k–$50M
Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
13 Canada, United States, Argentina Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $275k–$15M
WUTIF
VC Fund
13 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $100k–$3.8M
Inovia Capital
VC Fund
11 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$79M
Export Development Canada
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $3.5M–$50M
GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $675k–$5M
Anges Quebec
VC Fund
10 Canada, Spain, United States Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $366k–$3.1M
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund
9 Canada, France Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction $100k–$2.6M
Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund
8 Canada, United States, Brazil Grant, Seed Manufacturing, Energy, Software $73k–$6.2M
Yaletown Partners
VC Fund
8 Canada, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software $603k–$31M
Cycle Capital
VC Fund
8 Canada, United States, Germany Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics $55k–$25M
Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $805k–$22M
SOSV
VC Fund
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $375k–$14M
Government Of Quebec
VC Fund
6 Canada, Germany Grant, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $98k–$44M
Innovacorp
VC Fund
6 Canada, Australia, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $18k–$3.1M
Ecofuel Fund
VC Fund
6 Canada Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Telecommunications $1.5M–$5M
Angel One Network
VC Fund
6 Canada, United States, Malaysia Angel, Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $68k–$7M
Sherbrooke Innopole
VC Fund
5 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology $850k–$2.4M
EnerTech Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, Israel Series B, Series C Energy, Software, Manufacturing $5M–$32M
E-Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada, China, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical Device, Medical $256k–$4.2M
VA Angels
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, India Seed, Debt Financing Health Care, Software, Information Technology $110k–$1.5M
Active Impact Investments
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, CleanTech $731k–$38M
SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Post-IPO Equity Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing $1.2M–$5.1M
BDC Capital Cleantech Practice
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Series A, Series C Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $7M–$53M
Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $10k–$5M
Amplify Capital
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$28M
Desjardins Capital
VC Fund
4 Canada Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Software, SaaS $1M–$30M
Natural Gas Innovation Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Grant, Series A Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Energy $85k–$58M
The 51 Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Health Care, Fashion $655k–$3.8M
Economic Development of Canada
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Grant, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Software, Non Profit $15k–$22M
Startup TNT
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Medical Device $23k–$2M
Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Medical, Software $7.3k–$3.1M
FedDev
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Pallasite Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $988k–$115M
Innovate Calgary
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $73k–$1.9M
Momenta
VC Fund
4 United States, Switzerland, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things $1M–$60M
Radical Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.8M–$200M
BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Energy $3.4M–$49M
Shell Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Series B Energy, Renewable Energy, Software $3M–$126M
Concrete Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$4.1M
BDC Capital Corporation
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $600k–$30M
Fulmer Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, France Private Equity, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Marketing $1.1M–$1.3M
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 30 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
  • Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
  • Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 28 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 401
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arteria AI — Arteria unlocks the power of your contracts by helping you to generate, negotiate and turn your executed contracts into data that allow you to diagnose problems, identify opportunities and drive value for your organization.
  • Augmenta Inc. — Design sustainable, code compliant and fully constructible buildings in hours.
  • 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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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 21 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Debt Financing $273k–$10M; Private Equity $750k–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
  • JLD - Laguë — The JLD-Laguë Group, authorized John Deere dealers, specializes in the sale of agricultural, commercial and construction equipment.
  • BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 19 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 196
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$62M; Series B $6M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Rail GD — Rail GD Inc. is a mechanical and refurbishing workshop of tourist trains, Colorado Railcar, passenger cars, freight cars and locomotives. Design, engineering and integration.
  • Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.
  • Namakor Holdings — Namakor Holdings is recognized for its deep operational experience. It is focused on acquiring mid-market companies in the industrial manufacturing sector in North America and in integrating top-tier management teams that drive profitability through operational efficiency, organic revenue growth, or growth from strategic acquisitions to createlong-term value. The Namakor partners believe in long-term commitments to generate optimal profitability in a sustainable way. As such, NAMAKOR Holdings is the right solution for SME owners and managers who want to ensure the continued success of their business over the long term. In addition to investing in promising businesses, NAMAKOR Holdings provides them with constant operational support and enables them to benefit from ready access to a comprehensive business network.
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 18 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $30k–$2M; Debt Financing $138k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Greenii — Greenii provides recycling services for paper bags. They offer services that include newsprint paper bags, kraft paper bags, logo printing, crinkle paper shreds, and shredded cardboard.
  • ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
  • RFINE Biomass Solutions — RFINE Biomass Solutions is to make coffee waste sustainable and delightful.
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Government of Canada
VC Fund · Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · 17 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Grant $58k–$54M; Debt Financing $100k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Confederation Centre — Confederation Center of the Arts is a visual and performing arts cultural center.
  • Killam Apartment REIT — Killam Apartment REIT is a Canadian real estate investment trust developing apartments and manufactured home communities.
  • The Alignment Project — The Alignment Project is dedicated to accelerating progress in AI alignment research. TAP aim is to promote the development of advanced AI systems that are safe, reliable, and beneficial to society.
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 14 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 207
  • 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.
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 13 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dozr — Construction equipment rentals available near you. From compact track loader to aerial work platform rentals, research prices and reserve heavy equipment rentals online.
  • Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
  • Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
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WUTIF
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 13 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 72
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $256k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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 is a biotechnology company that transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts while permanently storing carbon dioxide.
  • Polar Beer Taps — Polar Beer Taps Permafrost V3 system is leading the way in the future of portable beverage serving. They can provide reliable, high-quality commercial draft systems to any location, which elevates any event.
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 11 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 335
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2M–$18M; Series B $5M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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.
  • 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.
  • Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$22M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SK ecoplant — SK ekoplant is a top-tiered global city developer and infrastructure builder. SK ekoplant is one of the leading subsidiaries of SK group.SK ekoplant is one of the world’s best companies in the engineering industry, undertaking plants on EPCC basis (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) in the fields of Refineries,Petrochemicals, Fertilizer, Industrial Plants and Environmental Plants, Plants to wireless mobile communication equipment worldwide. As a major player in high-tech engineering market of the 21st century, SK ekoplant is committed to becoming the top-tier company by acquiring the drive for the future growth through the expansion of overseas markets and the launching of new products and by successful establishing the developed enterprise structure through improvement of internal system and process as well as performance assessment system.SK ekoplant is currently carrying out huge projects in U.S, Saudi Arabia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Ecuador, Qatar, Algeria, Venezuela and CIS. This outstanding achievement is the culmination of SK ekoplant's extensive project experience, superior technology, and talents.
  • Photonic — We are building a new world through scalable, fault-tolerant quantum technologies.
  • Troilus Gold — Troilus Gold is a Canadian based development stage resource company focused on the potential restart and mineral expansion of the former producing Troilus gold and copper mine, located within the Frotêt-Evans Greenstone Belt in Quebec.
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GreenSky Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $675k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Assetflo — Assetflo provides mobile IoT solutions for tracking the precise location from tracking applications.
  • Stratly — Boost your donation revenue, centralize data, and deepen donor engagement with Stratly's all-in-one fundraising platform.
  • BioAlert Solutions — Innovative real-time Legionella detection system for industrial facilities. Lower operational costs and meet regulatory compliance.
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 154
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$3.1M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
  • Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
  • Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund · 9 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Canada Economic Development for Quebec funding and support for SMEs and economic non-profit organizations (NPOs) in all regions of Quebec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $100k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 96% lead, 4% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolar — Bolar is a building material company that manufactures and supplies a wide range of foot grille systems for project construction.
  • Garde-Malade — Garde-Malade is an apparel company that sells medical scrubs and uniforms for healthcare professionals.
  • Multi Online Distribution — Multinautic designs and distributes modular dock systems and related waterfront products for residential use. The company offers aluminum and wooden dock kits that can be configured as stationary, semi-floating, or floating docks. Its catalog includes boat ramps, mooring ramps, foam-filled dock floats in multiple sizes, galvanized hardware forwooden docks, dock ladders, wheel kits, hinges, and various dock accessories. Multinautic provides assembly guides and calculation tools to help users plan floatation and build custom dock configurations. Products are sold through major retailers, dealers, and a network of dock builders and installers, with availability across Canada and the United States. The company also offers backyard lifestyle and structure kits under the Korto brand.
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 8 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$1.7M; Grant $878k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
  • 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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Yaletown Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 8 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$4M; Series A $2.9M–$16M; Series B $2.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
  • Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
  • Circle Cardiovascular Imaging — Explore advanced cardiovascular imaging software. Enhance diagnosis & clinical workflows with our AI-driven solutions. Contact us today!
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Cycle Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 8 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Cycle Capital is a pioneer in Canadian Cleantech venture capital fund management investing in companies at the development and commercialization stages in North America. Founded in 2009 by Andrée-Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital’s Platform has become an important venture capital investor of the Cleantech industry with its 3funds totaling $230M Assets Under Management (AUM). Cycle Capital is looking to invests in promising ventures that are not capital intensive and/or that can benefit from the leverage brought by Cycle Capital extensive network of investors, strategic partners and advisors.In addition to its core investments, Cycle Capital targets companies with high growth potential – especially those with strong intellectual property, leading edge technologies and with exceptional management talent that would benefit from the firm’s network of strategic industrial partners and expert advisors. With its core investment and business expertise, Cycle Capital plays an active role adding meaningful and tangible value to its portfolio companies at all stages of their life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$2.3M; Series B $6.3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $145M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Thymox Technology — A powerful, non-toxic botanical disinfectant that kills 99.9% of bacteria, fungi and molds as well as COVID-19. Thymox is safe for you and your family.
  • BioAlert Solutions — Innovative real-time Legionella detection system for industrial facilities. Lower operational costs and meet regulatory compliance.
  • GreenMantra Technologies — Based in Brantford, Ontario, GreenMantra™ Technologies utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and "up-cycle" waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range ofapplications in the coatings, plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries.
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Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund · Lévis, Quebec, Canada · 7 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 134
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$5M; Series A $5.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $120M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
  • Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
  • Moka — Moka helps you save effortlessly by automatically investing your spare change. Get started in just a few minutes and watch your money grow with every purchase you make. Save more, spend less and invest smarter with Moka.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 6 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$1.2M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Axonify — Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance.
  • SceneDoc — SceneDoc is public safety’s first all-in-one mobile software for data collection and retrieval. By modernizing with SceneDoc, agencies operate with higher levels of clarity and control, with fewer moving parts, capturing data and reporting at the point of need. SceneDoc is saving agencies an hour of paperwork per shift on average, resulting in lesstime reporting and more time in the community so officers can do what they do best.
  • SYMX.AI — Digitally Transforming the Resource Industry in Real-Time with End-to-End Actionable Data Insights
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Government Of Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Easily access government information and services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Grant $98k–$44M; Debt Financing $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChargeHub — EV solutions: Empower your EV business with ChargeHub solutions eMSP, CPO, Plug & Charge, E roaming, EV Charging Map, EV Charging App, EV Chargers & Guides
  • Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute — Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal), Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence which now rallies 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning, including professors, students, industrial partners and startups.
  • McGill University — McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. McGill was founded in 1821 thanks to a generousbequest by James McGill, and since then, we've grown from a small college to a bustling university with two campuses, 11 faculties, some 300 programs of study, and more than 37,500 students. The University also partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals to graduate over 1,000 health care professionals each year.In addition to a stellar faculty, McGill is known for attracting the brightest students from across Canada, the United States, and around the world. McGill students have the highest average entering grades in Canada, and our commitment to fostering the very best has helped our students win more national and international awards on average than their peers at any other Canadian university. The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship has gone to a nation-leading 136 McGill students.
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Innovacorp
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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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Ecofuel Fund
VC Fund · 6 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Ecofuel is a venture capital fund specialized in cleantech startups. Ecofuel Fund invests smart money in startups that develop and commercializes clean technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
  • POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
  • Tengiva — All-inclusive digital solutions for textiles: B2B distribution, sourcing, and data management.
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Angel One Network
VC Fund · Burlington, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Join Angel One Investor Network: Your Path to Profitable Investments. Curated ventures, expert angel investors, and more. Take action now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M; Angel $68k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
  • Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
  • fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
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Sherbrooke Innopole
VC Fund · Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Sherbrooke Innopole is the economic development organization of the City of Sherbrooke which serves the industrial and tertiary-engine sectors. We provide free support to entrepreneurs in the industrial and technological sectors in Sherbrooke towards success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Immugenia — Immugenia is an early-stage immuno-oncology company developing a novel approach to CAR therapy by engineering hematopoietic stem cells to treat cancer and prevent relapses.
  • Calogy Solutions — Calogy offers thermal management solutions and modular battery systems for e-mobility, energy storage and power electronics.
  • TATUM bioscience — TATUM bioscience is a synthetic biology startup developing synthetic advanced biologics capable of multi-tasking therapeutic activities, packing all the advantages of combination therapy in a single agent to provide safer and more efficient treatments.
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EnerTech Capital
VC Fund · Ambler, Pennsylvania, United States · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

EnerTech Capital works hand-in-hand with pioneers and innovators daring to change the world. For 25 years EnerTech’s fundamental focus has been investing and partnering with innovative companies driving informational impact across the energy landscape; with a focus on Mobility, Industry 4.0, and Connected Customer. Since its founding in 1996,EnerTech has made 74 investments and has managed over $500 million in capital commitments. EnerTech works with investors and stakeholders from corporates with growing innovation programs to seasoned investors seeking differentiated opportunities for strategic capital deployment or tailored solutions. EnerTech partners with companies across all stages of enterprise value creation from late development and seed through commercialization and growth. While investment activities are predominantly focused in North America, EnerTech partners with teams globally on an opportunistic basis.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$20M; Series C $5.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • SHAED — The smarter way to procure commercial vehicles. Built for fleets. Trusted by dealers. Designed for scale.
  • OwnEnergy — OwnEnergy is the national leader in mid-sized wind energy development. We partner with energy entrepreneurs across the country to develop 30-100 MW wind energy projects. Our local partners are leading members of wind-rich communities who play an active role in project development and receive a share of project ownership in return.We have anational network of projects under development with our local partners in wind-rich areas around the country. These energy entrepreneurs not only invest their hard-earned capital in the projects we jointly develop, but they also serve as the front line of OwnEnergy’s development team and work on a wide range of local development issues. At OwnEnergy, we pair that local knowledge and connection with our vast energy development experience and expertise to drive projects to completion. In this way, OwnEnergy plays a major role in providing innovative energy solutions that make wind power feasible and economical at the community scale.OwnEnergy’s breakthrough approach to project development dramatically reduces the costs and risks associated with project development while increasing turnaround time and profitability. In the process, we are cultivating a nationwide network of local champions and arming them with the skill set to develop community scale energy projects at the local level.The completion and subsequent sale of six of our projects, totaling 240 MW, is the ultimate measure of the power of our development approach. In addition, our executive team’s leadership at the upper echelons of the wind industry makes us a formidable player in America’s most successful renewable energy industry. That national presence, along with local resources complemented by our team of experienced employees, has given OwnEnergy a reputation that is second-to-none as a reliable and trustworthy developer. In short, we believe in what we’re doing, we do it well and, in turn, our stakeholders believe in us.
  • Swift Navigation — Harness the power of precision GNSS to unlock Vehicle Autonomy Start Your Free Trial Contact Sales Harness the power of precision GNSS to unlock Precision Logistics Start Your Free Trial Contact Sales
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E-Fund
VC Fund · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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 Device, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $256k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
  • VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
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VA Angels
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
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Active Impact Investments
VC Fund · North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

We support environmental resiliency through profitable investment. We provide capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures catalyzing the transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water & products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $731k–$9M; Series A $1.8M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $51M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiwatt, Inc. — Optiwatt integrates your exact electricity rates so you can save on EV charging and HVAC. Automatically use electricity off-peak and earn rebates in utility programs.
  • Relyion Energy — Discover Relyion Energy's innovative AI-driven battery management systems that extend battery life by up to 30 years, reduce costs by up to 50%, and support a range of applications from backup power to EV fast charging.
  • ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
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SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund · Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

SaskWorks Venture Fund is a Saskatchewan-based retail mutual fund that invests in privately-held small and medium-sized businesses owned or primarily operated in Saskatchewan. As a labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC), investments in SaskWorks are eligible to receive a tax credit equal to 35% in addition to their RRSP tax deferral.Since its inception, the Fund has provided a unique opportunity for Saskatchewan residents to keep their investment dollars at home, helping to grow local companies and creating jobs in their province.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.1M; Post-IPO Equity $3.7M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
  • 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
  • Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
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BDC Capital Cleantech Practice
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$31M; Series C $9.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • eLeapPower — Learn more about how our technology is revolutionizing eMobility.
  • Equispheres — All metal powders for additive manufacturing are not created equal - except ours. Make manufacturing AM a reality with our revolutionary powder technology.
  • FREDsense — Ensure accurate PFAS detection with Fredsense's advanced testing solutions for water quality and safety. Contact us today for more information!
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$5M; Angel $10k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
  • Virica Biotech — Viral Sensitizers (VSE) for drug developers and manufacturers are small molecules that improve viral yields and effectiveness by reducing the antiviral defences on a cellular level.
  • Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.
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Amplify Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.3M; Series A $7.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $22M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprout Labs — EarlyBird helps educators identify children at risk for reading difficulties, like dyslexia, at a time when intervention is most effective.
  • Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.
  • BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
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Desjardins Capital
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Desjardins Capital is a banking firm that offers practical tools, expert advice, and testimonial services. By making investments in the expansion and long-term success of regional companies, Desjardins Capital supports the long-term prosperity of individuals and their communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $9.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qohash — Track and secure high-risk files to reduce oversharing and accelerate GenAI adoption with Qohash
  • Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
  • LOC International — LOC International, leading manufacturer & distributor in Canada for the hospitality industry. Get all the hotel equipment you need for your hotels.
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Natural Gas Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

NGIF Capital offers an integrated hybrid model for financing cleantech companies with solutions for the energy sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Energy
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Grant $85k–$2.8M; Series A $14M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ionomr — Ionomr designs & manufactures advanced ion-exchange polymers & membranes that enable high performance and efficiency in applications like water & wastewater treatment, hydrogen production and advanced energy storage.
  • Carbonova — Carbonova takes carbon dioxide plus methane that combined with waste heat produces carbon nanofiber. Carbonova sees waste and pollution as a new untapped resource creating a true circular economy. It has applications in a wide variety of industries including replacing carbon black, tires, batteries,
  • Galatea Technologies — Galatea offers cutting-edge technology to empower businesses with data-driven solutions, optimizing operational, financial, and environmental performance.
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The 51 Ventures
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $731k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
  • Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
  • Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
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Economic Development of Canada
VC Fund · Val-d'or, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Economic Development of Canada is providing assistance to enterprises and communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Non Profit
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Grant $15k–$22M; Debt Financing $95k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GIMXPORT — GIMXPORT offers its members support consulting services. Their services include assessment and diagnosis meetings, targeting the best business opportunities, consulting services in the development of a suitable strategy, planning to structure your approach, finding funding to carry out your project, technical support in the implementation, andindividual or group training and coaching to help achieve goals.
  • Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
  • Cycle Momentum — Cycle Momentum is a startup accelerator in Montreal, Quebec, helping early-stage startups grow with mentorship, funding, and hands-on support.
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Startup TNT
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Startup TNT is a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building of investors, entrepreneurs and cheerleaders, who gather every week and build friendships before companies. Previously generated more than $3 Million capital for local startups, TNT aims to transform Alberta into Canada's be

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $51k–$2M; Pre-Seed $23k–$439k
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
  • Northernmost — Northernmost is a company that develops machines that protect and transport donated kidneys for transplantation.
  • Rivercity Innovations — Rivercity Innovations provides cold-chain monitoring technologies.
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Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

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: 44
  • Round size: Seed $366k–$3.1M; Grant $7.3k–$110k; Pre-Seed $146k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quthero — Accelerating the ways we treat wounds today - from passive to rapid, & healthy wound management
  • Noa Therapeutics — Defying the convention of traditional drug development to revolutionize treatment options for complex inflammatory skin diseases.
  • MIMOSA Diagnostics — MIMOSA Diagnostics is an m-health tech startup with a novel handheld device and integrated smartphone app for image visualization of skin health. MIMOSA is bringing medical grade technology out of hospitals and into the hands of patient consumers. The value proposition for MIMOSA’s AI diagnostic data warehouse will provide metadata insightsintegrated with patient EMR/EHR systems. Our first commercial entry launch is in the Diabetes sector, with future expansion to follow into other therapeutic areas.MIMOSA diagnostics puts the future of skin health into your hands. The MIMOSA is one of the few handheld multispectral skin imaging devices in the healthcare industry. Our proprietary algorithms risk profile the skin in various clinical settings. Our technology will allow healthcare to be equitable, efficient, and more personalized for all.
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FedDev
VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

FedDev Ontario aids the southern Ontario economy by supporting innovation, commercialization, business growth, productivity, and communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Universal Seal — Is a professional manufacturer & exporter of polyurethane hydraulic seals and SPECIAL URETHANE products.
  • DMZ — The DMZ at Ryerson University is a business incubator for tech startups in Canada. It helps startups build businesses by connecting it with customers, capital, experts, and a community of entrepreneurs and influencers. This means creating an environment where people can focus on scaling businesses.The DMZ at Ryerson University was founded on 2010and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
  • PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise — PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise provides regular workshops, conferences, and events to support personal and professional development. They provide business support including access to funding for women entrepreneurs living. Their customers communicate via phone, address, and online applications.
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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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Pallasite Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $988k–$5M; Series A $3.2M–$26M; Series B $14M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ionomr — Ionomr designs & manufactures advanced ion-exchange polymers & membranes that enable high performance and efficiency in applications like water & wastewater treatment, hydrogen production and advanced energy storage.
  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • Aspect Biosystems — Pioneering the development of bioprinted tissue therapeutics to transform how we treat some of the most elusive diseases.
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Innovate Calgary
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 36
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $73k–$428k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
  • InventoRR MD — InventoRR MD focuses on commercializing groundbreaking trauma and general surgery devices that improve patient recovery outcomes, simplify procedures for doctors, and reduce costs for healthcare organizations.
  • Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
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Momenta
VC Fund · Engelberg, Obwalden, Switzerland · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Momenta is the leading Industrial Impact® venture capital firm, accelerating industrial innovators across energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and the supply chain. For over a decade, our team of deep industry operators has helped scale industry leaders and innovators to improve critical industries, the environment, and people's quality oflife. PitchBook has ranked Momenta as one of the ten best-performing venture capital firms for 2023 in its prestigious Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, and the firm is the only European-headquartered VC to secure a Top 10 spot on the list.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Series A $2.9M–$23M; Series B $21M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Agtonomy — Smart Automation Made Simple
  • Composabl — Composabl is a platform for creating industrial-strength, skill-based agents that work in real life. Composabl agents can control manufacturing equipment or make decisions for manufacturing and logistics processes.
  • Overview.ai — Deploy deep learning vision inspection in days. Train models in hours with 10x fewer images. Edge-computing cameras achieve 99.9%+ accuracy on micron-level defects.
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Radical Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing 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: 115
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$27M; Series A $7M–$53M; Series B $30M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
  • Covariant — Covariant is a developer of artificial intelligence for robotics. Covariant is building the Covariant Brain, a universal AI to give robots the ability to see, reason and act on the world around them.
  • Lisa Health — Midday is a science-backed, personalized menopause app that supports women on their menopause and healthy aging journey. Manage symptoms and midlife health, track your menopause stage and symptoms, and access menopause specialists, therapeutic support, and education.
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BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund
VC Fund · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund invests in Canadian climate technology firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$5M; Series A $7.3M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayrton Energy — Unlocking hydrogen's full potential with safe, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.
  • Summit Nanotech — Summit Nanotech innovates direct lithium extraction (DLE) processes to economically and sustainably unlock lithium resources globally.
  • Graphite Innovation & Technologies — GIT is focused on providing innovative and most sustainable smart coating solutions for the shipping industry - we use nanotechnology to make smart and environmentally friendly paints for constantly moving vessels to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The company has several ocean-going ships utilizing the technology and gettingready to ramp up production worldwide.GIT offers a full suite of marine coating systems for seafaring vessels. As a trusted partner in unlocking peak vessel efficiency, our innovative marine coatings help ship operators save money by reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions. Our products are designed to be the most sustainable marine coatings in the world. Unlike many marine coatings, we do not rely on leaching chemicals and other harmful substances to improve fuel efficiency. Our coatings are unique in that they are hydrophobic and extremely hard, which prevents marine life from adhering to the hull surface, thus reducing drag as the vessel cuts through the water. GIT competes in the global marine coatings market and has positioned itself as a disruptor in the industry. This is driven by our passion for innovation and change as we push towards a more sustainable future for the maritime industry.
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Shell Ventures
VC Fund · Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $3M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kespry — Firmatek provides end-to-end insights for heavy industry through expert field services, drone mapping, and software that turns data into confident decisions.
  • ElectronX — ElectronX is an electricity demand grows and the grid rapidly shifts to intermittent renewable energy sources.
  • Innowatts — Innowatts is a data analytics and energy transition leader who uses energy usage data, insights and best-in-class machine learning to help energy retailers and utilities from around the world manage their grids, profitability, customer relationships and sustainability goals in a digitalizing, decarbonizing, and electrifying world. To date, theInnowatts eUtility™ technology platform has leveraged data from more than 34 million meters to help energy providers ensure grid reliability, anticipate trends, secure profitability, and promote sustainability — advancing and creating a more personalized energy experience for their customers. For more information, please visit www.innowatts.com.
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Concrete Ventures
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

Concrete Ventures finds great ideas and founders in Atlantic Canada that are ready to build massively scalable businesses and work with them to grow their businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $250k–$878k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
  • 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.
  • 3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.
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BDC Capital Corporation
VC Fund · Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

BDC Capital can customize a financing plan to meet the needs of you and your business, whether your need is $100,000 or $5 million.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$2M; Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Food.ee — Food.ee is a fun and simple service which delivers meals, snacks, cakes and alcohol to your office! All you need to do it 1. Pick a price point 2. Choose your food type 3. Build a menu. Its that easy.
  • Muse — Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements to help you build a consistent meditation practice.
  • General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
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Fulmer Capital Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Manufacturing startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnie Integrated Services — omnie is the only customer service solution that blends advanced AI and experienced agents into one seamless, scalable experience.
  • CoInspect — Continuous monitoring technology that protects your inventory, while putting money back in your pocket. Awesome, automated temperature management.
  • ChopValue Manufacturing — Creating beautiful, high-performance engineered products made entirely from recycled chopsticks. We offer green franchising opportunities so you can make a positive difference in your community. Let's work towards a circular economy, one chopstick at a time.
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Manufacturing Investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 1.1k deals from 821 investors.

821
investors
in Canada Manufacturing startups
1.1k
deals
in Canada Manufacturing startups
$2.6M
median round
in Canada Manufacturing startups
43%
lead investors
lead at least one round
17%
Grant
most common funding stage
92/8
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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