Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Canada (October 2026)
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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, FinTech | $1M–$65M |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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11 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $375k–$14M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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11 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $50k–$5M |
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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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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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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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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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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $50k–$1.7M |
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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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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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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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VA Angels
VC Fund
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8 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $108k–$1.5M |
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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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7 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $317k–$14M |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Health Care | |
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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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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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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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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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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 | $500k–$21M |
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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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Hedgewood
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $500k–$120M |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$100M |
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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, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$8.9M |
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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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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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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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SOSV HAX
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, China | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Robotics, Manufacturing, Health Care | $25k–$4.7M |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Comcast Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $4.5M–$53M |
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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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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 strong Canadian 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: 585
- Round size: Seed $387k–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- WhatsNexx — Sujintoto adalah situs slot online yang memberikan pelayanan deposit yang sat set dan withdraw cepet selama 24 jam
- Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
- Gemin X Pharmaceuticals — Own Geminx.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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: 303
- Round size: Seed $592k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Axya — Axya is a procurement execution platform for manufacturers. Use AI to run sourcing, purchase orders, and supplier follow-up alongside your ERP.
- 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, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 420
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Modem — Modem gives your whole team one living record of what customers said, what you're building, and what shipped. Connect any agent, or use ours.
- TicketIQ — Buy authentic sports tickets, concert tickets, and theater tickets for your favorite live events at TicketIQ.
- Branch Energy — A tech-powered, green energy provider focused on helping consumers reduce their energy bills and carbon footprints
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $375k–$4M; Pre-Seed $409k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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 through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
- 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.
- Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3729
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
- Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women.
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.
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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 — Make your events more dynamic with affordable, collaborative livestreaming. Use your phone to capture multiple POVs of the same moment!
- 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.
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.
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 — Turn your production codebase into a collaborative design canvas and ship merge-ready product work.
- thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
- Orbits — Orbits is a family-focused home management platform that simplifies household tasks, schedules, and everyday organization.
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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 instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2086
- 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.
- Athel AI — Athel AI provides an AI-powered clinical intake platform for physicians and healthcare teams. Its tools conduct patient interviews through voice, chat, and video, capture clinical histories, and generate structured summaries for physicians. The platform also supports AI-assisted reception, dictation, multilingual interviews, and automated clinical workflows. Athel AI provides clinical decision support while keeping diagnosis and treatment decisions under the physician's authority.
- 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.
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.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- 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
- Endo — Endodeals is the first platform designed to value endorsement deals, giving you a credible, defensible estimate of a deal’s worth before negotiations begin.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
- Leonardo Worldwide —
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: 82
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $340k–$1.5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Botsi — Botsi personalizes prices, paywalls, and offers for the real people behind your numbers. Custom AI models that grow subscription revenue.
- Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
- Ezra AI Labs — Meet the AI interview agent built for structured hiring. Greenhouse Voice AI runs two-way voice interviews, scored against your rubric.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $108k–$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
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: 260
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $3.6M–$500M; Debt Financing $4M–$858M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- East Side Games Group — Leaders in free-to-play mobile games.
- Revolve Renewable Power — Transition to net zero emissions, Revolve is a developer of renewable energy projects in North America focusing on wind, solar and battery storage technologies
- 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 $228k–$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 — Keluaran sgp hari ini dan pengeluaran sgp tercepat menyediakan hasil togel singapore pools melalui tabel data sgp prize. Angka keluar sgp terbaru ditampilkan melalui siaran live draw sgp.
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 will provide 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: 52
- 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
- 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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! — Notify Me provides Shopify and ecommerce alerts for back‑in‑stock, low‑stock, wishlists, and preorder notifications.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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.
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.7M; Series A $2.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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.
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.
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, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.9M; Series A $7M–$17M; Series B $7.5M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% 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.
- 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! Our patented system is the safe, easy, and effective way to start early allergen introduction with you baby. Allergist-mom developed with all organic ingredients and zero added sugar.
SV Angel offers founders assistance with key inflection points, including capital raising, strategic networking, business development, talent acquisition, and corporate transactions. Through its relationship network, the organization connects emerging businesses with industry partners, executive advisors, and ecosystem resources. Additionally, the firm provides guidance on corporate governance, operational scaling, and management decisions to support technology enterprises throughout their growth stages.
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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: 1404
- 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
- Tab — Tab is an text-based AI assistant that acts as an execution agent rather than just an information provider. Developed by Terrasoft, Inc., it allows users to delegate actual workloads directly via their messaging app using text, photos, documents, or video.
- Ghost — Ghost is a consumer hardware and software company building a private, local-first computing system for personal artificial intelligence.
- 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.
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, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 436
- Round size: Seed $190k–$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.
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: 556
- Round size: Seed $600k–$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 — Insurance designed for the financial consequences of AI agent failures. Explore coverage and pricing, assess your agents, and get a quote from Klaimee.
- 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!
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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.
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
HAX is a program for Hard Tech startups taking their first steps towards commercialization. We provide hands-on support and investment as part of SOSV, a $1B AUM multi-stage venture firm.
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- Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 669
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.4M; Convertible Note $100k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 5QXT — 5QXT is a mining technology company that provides the design, development, and implementation of metal extraction processes.
- XFuel — XFuel is a fuel company that provides green and clean fuels to distributors and consumers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Baleares.
- Cortysis — Cortysis develops brain stimulation device for rapid spatial and temporal modulation of cortical networks
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.
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 — Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably.
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: 151
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $35k–$779k; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vimy Forge — Vimy Forge is a public-private partnership that aims to bridge the gap between defense procurement and Canadian innovation.
- 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.
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: 218
- Round size: Debt Financing $276k–$10M; 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.
- Solar Uniquartier —
- 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: 58
- 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: 239
- Round size: Grant $176k–$3M; Debt Financing $332k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $384k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Energy Transition Centre foundation — ETC bridges the gap between startups, investors, industry leaders, and researchers. Collaborating to power the solutions needed for the future of energy.
- The Western Canadian Short Line Railway Association — The Western Canadian Short Line Railway Association is an industry association that represents 20+ short line railways and their rail supplier.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 355
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9M–$50M; Series C $11M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $250M in 2007
Portfolio highlights
- Sierra — Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
- Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.
- Runware — One API for 400K+ AI models, plus serverless GPUs and reserved GPU capacity, all on modular data centers we design, build and run to cost less.
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: 1121
- 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
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- 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 these enterprises): 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: 194
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $3.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Navra — Navra is a bridge between traditional finance and the blockchain economy, built on railroads that have already moved billions.
- Jarvio — Build your own e-commerce operating system with agent-ready apps, connected marketplace and D2C data, security and hosting already in place.
- ViaBot — ViaBot Inc. offers robotic sweeping services for parking lots, courtyards, parking garages, and more!
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