Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Canada (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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26 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $387k–$40M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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21 | Canada, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $592k–$47M |
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund
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18 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Yaletown Partners
VC Fund
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10 | Canada, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | |
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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10 | Canada, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Canada Media Fund
VC Fund
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9 | Canada | Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance | Mobile, Software, Virtual Reality | $9.2k–$1.8M |
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N49P
VC Fund
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9 | Canada, United States, Jamaica | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $593k–$20M |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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9 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $375k–$14M |
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GrowthWorks Capital
VC Fund
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9 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | |
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $713k–$20M |
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$40M |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $50k–$1.7M |
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VA Angels
VC Fund
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8 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing, Convertible Note | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $108k–$4.7M |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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8 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $340k–$13M |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $68k–$7M |
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Software, Manufacturing, Energy | $3.6M–$858M |
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $10k–$2.7M |
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StandUp Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $317k–$14M |
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ScaleUP Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $100k–$65M |
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Conconi Growth Partners
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Argentina | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | |
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7 Gate Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $60k–$3.5M |
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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Machine Learning, SaaS | |
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Good News Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Cyprus | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $150k–$3.6M |
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Mantella Venture Partners
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | |
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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $35k–$3.5M |
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Red Thread Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Health Care, E-Commerce, Software | $23k–$3.5M |
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Boost VC
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality | $100k–$8.9M |
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BlueRun Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | China, United States, South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics | $2M–$30M |
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Fondaction
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $276k–$145M |
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Golden Triangle Angel Network
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, China | Angel, Seed, Grant | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $400k–$2.4M |
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BDC Capital Corporation
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $650k–$30M |
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Prairies Economic Development Canada
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Spain | Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software | $176k–$3M |
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FundersClub
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $125k–$23M |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$49M |
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Poland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Hedgewood
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | |
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TIMIA Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Debt Financing, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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OMERS Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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4 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Mobile | |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Baseline Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $850k–$45M |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $200k–$6M |
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YUL Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Audio, Productivity Tools | $421k–$2M |
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Version One Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Blockchain, Internet | $1.4M–$55M |
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Killick Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Aerospace | $525k–$10M |
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Government of Canada
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, Kenya | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Non Profit, Manufacturing, Education | $100k–$38M |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$100M |
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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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 571
- Round size: Seed $387k–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cytochroma — Cytochroma is a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company that designs, develops and commercializes prescription products to treat and prevent the clinical consequences of vitamin D insufficiency and secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The Company has an advanced portfolio of new therapiesdesigned to safely and effectively treat patients with vitamin D insufficiency and SHPT associated with Stage 3, 4 or 5 CKD. In addition, Cytochroma is developing novel therapies to treat elevated blood phosphorus levels (hyperphosphatemia) in order to improve the control of SHPT in CKD patients.
- LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
- Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 302
- Round size: Seed $592k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Axya — Optimize manufacturing procurement with Axya. Enhance visibility, streamline collaboration, and automate tasks. Say goodbye to spreadsheet chaos and email overload.
- DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 296
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Scribenote — Effortless documentation for veterinary professionals.
- Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
- Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
- Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
- HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $175k–$1.8M; Grant $9.2k–$1M; Non-Equity Assistance $12k–$619k
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
- Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
- Duo Productions — Duo Productions is a media and broadcasting company that produces television series and documentaries.
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Jamaica
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $593k–$3.6M; Series A $4.6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Dessn — Dessn is an AI app that enables designers & product managers to contribute to product building without coding.
- thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents to coordinate operational actions.
- Orbits — Orbits is a family-focused home management platform that simplifies household tasks, schedules, and everyday organization.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $375k–$4M; Pre-Seed $409k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.5M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents to coordinate operational actions.
- SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
- Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers nuclear instrumentation, plasma diagnostics, and engineering services for fusion and small modular reactor projects.
Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
- ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
- HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 161
- Round size: Seed $912k–$6M; Pre-Seed $713k–$2.5M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
- Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers nuclear instrumentation, plasma diagnostics, and engineering services for fusion and small modular reactor projects.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 196
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $4.7M–$14M; Series B $5.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- PressBox — PressBox was founded by ex-Bleacher Report engineers who saw where AI could help media organizations scale the discovery, creation, and measurement of personalized content across a variety of platforms. Gen-Z is leading a shift in fandom, following sports through athletes, influencers, and cultural moments in contrast to the team and city-basedaffinity of previous generations. Sports organizations are looking to personalization to meet this rapidly growing portion of the fan base, but lack the end-to-end solution to deliver revenue-producing results. Our platform enables leagues to reach more fans by automating the creation and distribution of highly-personalized, sponsorable, multi-modal content that speaks to fans regardless of their connection to a sport.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
- Leonardo Worldwide —
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2067
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- TasksMind — Customer Reliability Platform
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Convertible Note
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $108k–$1.5M; Convertible Note $120k–$4.7M
- 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
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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- 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.
Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $340k–$2.5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TACMIND — Tacmind is an AI platform that helps companies understand how AI models perceive, describe, and recommend their brand. It analyzes how large language models and other AI technologies speak about a brand, detecting tone, emotion, and narrative. Tacmind provides insights that allow companies to see their brand's presence and reputation inAI-driven environments, benchmark against competitors, and optimize their brand assets and messages specifically for how AI systems view them. This helps companies influence and improve the narrative AI models generate about their brand to better control brand perception and increase visibility in AI-assisted searches and recommendations. Tacmind’s tools give companies a strategic advantage in the evolving landscape where AI plays a significant role in shaping consumer decisions and brand discovery.
- Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
- Ezra AI Labs — Helping recruiting teams quickly screen and rank hundreds of applicants through customizable voice AI interviews.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.3M; Angel $68k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
- Coldblock — Coldblock delivers short-wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy, and safety. They offer services that include mining assays, environmental testing, food testing, metal assays, laboratory technology, and sample digestion.
- fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Energy
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $3.6M–$500M; Debt Financing $3.6M–$858M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revolve Renewable Power — We are an owner-operator and developer of utility-scale renewable energy generation projects in North America that focus on wind, hydro, solar & battery storage
- CleanPlanet Chemical — Discover the most advanced solvent recycler available today. Whether you recycle your solvent on-site, off-site, or not at all, save money with CleanPlanet Chemical's solvent recycling system.
- International Test Pilots School — International Test Pilots School (ITPS) offers EASA Approved Test Pilot & Flight Test Engineer courses for military and industry customers.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $183k–$2.7M; Angel $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $188k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Afynia Laboratories — #FemTech startup developing fast, easy-to-use products to fill current gaps in #womenshealth-- starting with at-home testing for #endometriosis.
StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in female-founded companies in the B2B software and digital health sector.The firm is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors, and other strategic mentors who willprovide high-touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from its network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $317k–$2M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $16M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Wygo — This is why you've gotta go outside.
- GridBank — Enhance Your Social Media Engagement And Following With Stunning User-Generated Videos. Access A Wide Range Of Royalty-Free Stock Videos For Various Themes Including Travel, Productivity, Aesthetic Backgrounds, And More
- Pluvo — Financial forecasts calling for dry, complicated spreadsheets? Reclaim your time - no broken formulas, no duplication, no problems. Pluvo centralizes your data for dynamic scenario planning and unlimited forecasting!
ScaleUP Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports creative entrepreneurs and assists with investments. It is focused on early-stage venture capital with a preference for Business-to-Business opportunities. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $100k–$7.5M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $15M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
- Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
- Dream Appeal — Dream Appeal is a career growth platform that helps in management of career oriented goals and connect with peers with similar interest.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
- Loop — Bank on Loop to save time, save money and grow globally. Join thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across Canada to spend, send and grow without fees.
- Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
- Cardinal Energy — Cardinal Energy is an oil production company that offers low decline light, medium, and heavy quality oil in Western Canada.
7 Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups from Seed to pre-Series A in the technology industry, with a sector focus on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps and solutions, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech, and HealthTech. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneursspecializing in tech, operational expertise, and venture capital. 7 Gate Ventures brings key industry connections, decades of international venture-building experience and foresight to effectively strategize, mentor, and scale new businesses. 7 Gate Ventures was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $60k–$514k
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LyteHorse — LyteHorse is a manufacurer designing to build innovative electric performance vehicles to meet mobility needs across various sectors.
- AVEE HEALTH — Avee Health is redefining access to primary care and positioning itself as a model for the future of healthcare. Its virtual care platform connects patients with licensed doctors within hours, reducing long wait times and the friction of traditional systems.Avee operates on a flexible on demand model that allows physicians to open availabilityduring slower periods or between other commitments, maximizing efficiency while ensuring patients receive timely care. This creates a balanced system that respects both patient urgency and practitioner autonomy.Powered by technology, AI, and strong partnerships, Avee Health matches healthcare supply with real time patient demand while streamlining clinical workflows and supporting clinical decision making. Through its expanding network of pharmacy partners and practitioners, Avee Health is setting a new benchmark for fast, flexible, and patient centred virtual care with a model designed for global scalability.
- Notify Me! — Never lose a sale again with "Notify Me! Back in Stock & PreOrder", a reliable inventory management solution for Shopify stores
Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ambyint — Ambyint well optimization and automation technology enables you to increase production, lower operating costs, and streamline operations across the lifecycle of your producing assets.
- PulseMedica — PulseMedica is developing a medical device to treat eye diseases that affect over 500 million people worldwide. Our device consists of a state-of-the-art 3D imaging and surgical platform that allows for comprehensive patient treatment.
- Care Group — Care Group is revolutionizing mental health with advanced AI and disruptive technologies, empowering individuals and communities by introducing scalable, user-friendly solutions that respect all users.
Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
- Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.
- Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.
We invest in founders who are driven to push the limits of what is possible
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $414k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $750k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Reddio — The fastest Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 with GPU-powered Parallel EVM and ZK Proofs for AI, gaming, and real-time applications.
- Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
- Pipeshift — Inference for real-time agents
Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
- Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $35k–$779k; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
- East Coast Innovation — Precision engineered, patent pending SmoothMove Smart Funnel - exciting new fish loading technology. Simple & low cost.
- Elle, MD Biotechnologies — Your terms. Your body. Just Livv.
Red Thread Ventures (RTV) is a global investment and advisory firm. We form long term partnerships with early stage companies led by incredible management teams across a variety of industries. Besides capital, Red Thread adds value by leveraging an extensive CFO and capital markets executive network to aid ventures as they scale from idea toPre-IPO and beyond. Red Thread Ventures currently manages two investment funds, a VCC (Venture Capital Corporation) fund focused on pre-seed/seed stage opportunities in British Columbia and a "Global Fund" for follow-on investments and opportunities across different geographies and asset classes.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $23k–$3.5M; Angel $470k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $529k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Levr.ai — Levr helps business loan brokers automate client intake, prepare lender-ready applications, and review matching lenders. The core broker plan costs $0 with no platform commission split.
- Walter — One platform for law firms and company builders. Stay on the same page while raising capital and managing shareholders and employee stock option programs.
- Minutebook — Simplify corporate records management. The only equity platform you need for lawyers, company builders, employees and investors
Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 431
- Round size: Seed $195k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $620k–$8.9M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
- heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
- Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.
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Browse database — It's Free!BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in the United States, Shanghai, Beijing, and Korea. BlueRun invests in information technology, mobile, and consumer technologies, with an emphasis on mobile opportunities. BRV has invested in over 160 companies, with select exits from PayPal (acquired by eBay), Waze (acquired by Google),Topsy (acquired by Apple), Coupa (NASDAQ: COUP), and more. In 2005, BlueRun changed its name from Nokia Venture Partners. While branded as Nokia Venture Partners, the firm helped to build emerging market leaders such as Airgo, Bitfone, Cornice, PayPal, Wavemarket, and WiderThan.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 281
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $5.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $493M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ganji — Ganji.com is a Chinese domestic classified website.As a web portal in China where users publish and exchange information, Ganji.com has been providing a variety of local information, such as estates for rent or sale, jobs, second hand products, used cars, pets, tickets, education, training, group purchase, and more. Targeting the untapped localbusiness market, Ganji.com is building a massive user- and content-focused online community platform where both the users' and local merchants' needs are met.The website aggregates a large amount of real-time information because by the end of June 2011, there were around 890,000 users posting per day.Launched in 2005, the website has reached users in over 343 cities in China with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.The company completed a $70 million Series C round from Capital Today and Sequoia on May 6, 2011. China Renaissance acted as the exclusive financial advisor for Ganji.com.
- SaveUp — SaveUp is the first free rewards program for saving money and reducing debt. Users earn SaveUp credits for every dollar saved or debt reduced and can use these credits to play for prizes ranging from travel, cars to even a $2M jackpot. While using SaveUp users are provided financial education, suggestions to improve their financial circumstancesand better financial services. SaveUp can be used with 18,000 financial institutions in the US including rewards for savings accounts, 401k, IRA, or reducing debts like credit cards, car loans, student loans and mortgages.
- Qianjue Robot — Qianjue Robot researches and develops multimodal tactile perception and intelligence technologies for precision robot operations.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Debt Financing $276k–$11M; Private Equity $750k–$125M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$145M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Icentia — Icentia provides a range of innovative medical tests for healthcare institutions. They are able to offer valuable solutions for major problems in the field of medical testing.
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- Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace is more than just an immobilization brace, it's a dynamic and innovative solution.
Canada's leading early-stage investor community in Waterloo, funding innovative startups across tech sectors with a strong focus on impact and diversity.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.4M; Angel $400k–$677k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MesoMat — Boost fleet safety, fuel consumption, and operating costs real-time data from your tires.
- YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
- Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $650k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Chocolate — Awake Chocolate is a food company that offers chocolates. They sell energy drinks. They also offer delivery services.
- Puzzle Medical Devices — Puzzle Medical Low-risk heart support for high-risk patients
- ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.
Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) is the department that diversifies the economy across the Canadian Prairies. PrairiesCan leads in building a strong, competitive Canadian economy by supporting business, innovation and community economic development unique to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Grant $176k–$3M; Debt Financing $220k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $384k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hawkstone Mining — Arizona Lithium provides strong chemical properties, water production target, mineral exploration, and development services. They also provide USA exploring lithium, the lone pine gold project, western desert project gold, and copper exploration projects.
- Atom-Jet Industries — Atom-Jet Industries manufactures agriculture and industrial products to agricultural and industrial markets.
- Energy Transition Centre foundation — The ETC Foundation is a vibrant center that brings together players from academia, industry, government, and the larger innovation ecosystem to create vital answers to climate concerns and spur innovation.
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 550
- Round size: Seed $668k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120k in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Klaimee — Financial protection for companies building or using AI agents. Understand covered failures, explore pricing, and start your agent risk assessment.
- Scape — Scape is an AI email client that proactively drafts replies and surfaces what matters. Built for professionals who live in their inbox.
- Numeral — We fully manage the headaches of sales tax so you can get back to real work. Get started for free today!
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 200
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.8M–$32M; Series B $10M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $103M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
- Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
- Brodie Rec Leagues — Brodie Rec Leagues specializes in basketball tournaments, leagues, and training.
ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Paraspot AI — Paraspot enables companies in the field of real estate to conduct automatic inspections free of human error, by using computer vision. Moving the physical visits, online.
- ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
- Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
TIMIA Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing growth capital to B2B and SaaS companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- EnergyWatch — Sustainability and energy data management are fully integrated to track all energy, water, waste, and emissions data on your journey towards net-zero emissions.
- Agentis — Agentis is a Chicago-based technology company revolutionizing the way utilities engage and empower businesses to manage energy usage, saving money and increasing competitive advantage.Agentis is driven by the belief that utilities hold valuable data that can catalyze a new energy future. The success of the Agentis platform is driven by ourunderstanding of the unique voice and needs of the utility customer managing complex energy challenges. Our employees are united through their ability to transform these challenges into a solution while working in a fun and dynamic environment.
- Lasso MD — Elevate your dental practice with Lasso MD's all-in-one marketing and software solutions. From lead generation to patient scheduling, we've got you covered.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Medal — Gamers live here. Medal is the best way to record, clip, edit, and share your gaming clips and videos. Clip, Edit, Share, and Relive your gaming moments.
- Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.
- Deep Sky — Deep Sky is building infrastructure to scale CO2 removal. Deep Sky will remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground, back where it belongs. A new benchmark for Scope 3 Emissions: durable, scalable, and inherently measurable and verifiable.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1119
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
Baseline addresses the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 100 companies and helped more than 50 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by theseenterprises):PagerDuty (IPO) SFIX (IPO) Twitter (IPO) Instagram (Facebook) Freckle (Renaissance) Spacious (WeWork) Bloc.io (Thinkful) PacketZoom (Roblox) Apiary (Oracle) Datalot (Lightyear Capital) Pocket (Mozilla) TaskRabbit (IKEA) Gild (Citadel) Launchkit (Google) Pronoun (Macmillan) Librato (SolarWinds) Reverb (Wordnick) (News Distribution Network) TrialPay (Visa) TastemakerX (Rdio) ExactTarget (SalesForce) StackMob (Paypal) GoInstance (SalesForce) CoTweet (ExactTarget) Heroku (SalesForce) IndexTank (LinkedIn) Versly (Cisco) BookFresh (Sugar Media) DocVerse (Google) Stax (CloudBees) Town.me (fka MixerLabs (GeoAPI)) (Twitter) Parakey (Parakey) Shape Security Inc (F5 Networks) Machine Zone (AppLovin) n'Way (Animoca Brands) PopSugar (Group Nine) Weebly (Square) MangoHealth (TrialCard) Thinkful (Chegg) mLab (MongoDB) Smyte (Twitter) Appuri (Docusign) Iron.io (Xenon Ventures) Soma (Full Circle) Careport (Allscripts) Kanjoya (Ultimate Software) Piqora (Olapic) Blekko (IBM) Path (Daum Kakao) TellApart (Twitter) Citrus Lane Inc. (Care.com) Crashlytics (Twitter) Metaresolver (Millenial Media) Xobni (Yahoo) OMBPop (Zynga) Flowtown (Demandforce) Hunch (eBay) Instructables (Autodesk) Aardvark (Google) Cake Financial (E*Trade) ScanScout (Tremor Media) Yardbarker (Fox Sports) Sendori (IAC) Rupture (Electronic Arts) Parakey (Parakey)
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $3.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Jarvio — Jarvio is a cloud‑based platform that enables brands to manage and scale sales on global marketplaces.
- ViaBot — ViaBot Inc. offers robotic sweeping services for parking lots, courtyards, parking garages, and more!
- Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
YUL Ventures is an early stage private fund that is sponsored by entrepreneurs and invests in technology businesses. The company is situated in Canada and it was founded in 2013 by Pascal Pilon
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- Industry: SaaS, Audio, Productivity Tools
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $421k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
- LANDR — LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution.
- Sonder — Your new way to stay in vibrant cities around the world with exceptional spaces designed for living.
Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.7M; Series A $4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $78M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- rio.ai — rio.ai provides WhatsApp-based delivery of medicines, personal care items, baby products, and pet supplies.
- Pilot Protocol — Network OS for AI Agents
- Arctus Aerospace — We build unmanned airplanes for zero infrastructure earth observation. We fly at 45,000 feet for 24 hours at a go.
Killick Capital is a leading Atlantic Canadian private equity firm, dedicated to partnering with Atlantic Canadian businesses and Aerospace businesses. Our team of professionals work closely with portfolio companies to maximize success.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $525k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $750k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CoLab Software — The only tool purpose-built to simplify design reviews for engineering teams building complex products.
- Avalon Holographics — Avalon Holographics is designing next-generation holographic displays for commercial and consumer applications. The company is leading the next wave of display technology with light field displays that revolutionize the way people produce, view, and understand visual content. By replicating the experience of looking at real objects, Avalon’sdisplays produce realistic, comfortable, and accessory-free experiences.
- Sparrow BioAcoustics — Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data.
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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- Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Education
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 533
- Round size: Seed $293k–$4.7M; Grant $100k–$25M; Debt Financing $100k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- CAMH — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. We believe that #MentalHealthIsHealth
- Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
- University of Manitoba — The University of Manitoba received its charter on February 28, 1877. Today, the UofM has three main locations: the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.The downtown Bannatyne campus of the university comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave andWilliam Ave in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the university. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the 95,000 sq ft (8,800 m2) Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008. The Brodie Center is known as the "flagship" which connects all three faculties as well as the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library and the Joe Doupe Fitness Centre. It is located on 727 McDermot Avenue.The main Fort Garry campus (located on the Red River in south Winnipeg) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on 233 hectares (580 acres) of land. In addition, Smartpark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development organizations involving university-industry partnerships. The address is 66 Chancellors Circle.The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.The university operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba. The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a 406 acres (164 ha) facility located 70 km (43 mi) from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately 1,000 acres (405 ha) and located 20 km (12 mi) from Winnipeg.
SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1394
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Flow Engineering — Flow Engineering develops AI-powered systems engineering software for requirements management, validation, and hardware design workflows.
- Proximal — Proximal builds AI training data and environments to improve software engineering agents and autonomous coding systems.
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