Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Canada (August 2026)
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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19 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$20M |
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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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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $650k–$50M |
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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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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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N49P
VC Fund
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9 | Canada, United States, Jamaica | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $593k–$20M |
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Canada Media Fund
VC Fund
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9 | Canada | Seed, Grant | Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality | |
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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 | $1.6M–$21M |
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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 | $717k–$20M |
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VA Angels
VC Fund
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8 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | |
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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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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $20k–$2M |
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $10k–$5M |
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$35M |
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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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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $368k–$14M |
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Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Machine Learning | $1.8M–$30M |
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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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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $951k–$13M |
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Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $340k–$13M |
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $3.5M–$50M |
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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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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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5 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $60k–$4.9M |
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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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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $35k–$2.2M |
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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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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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Golden Triangle Angel Network
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Grant | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Baseline Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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YUL Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Machine Learning, Information Technology | |
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Fondaction
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, France | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software | |
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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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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $500k–$32M |
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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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OMERS Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$100M |
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Front Row Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $18k–$4.1M |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | $500k–$45M |
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Relentless Pursuit Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $398k–$7.6M |
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Prairies Economic Development Canada
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, Spain | Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software | $176k–$3.1M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Australia, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $500k–$20M |
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Craft Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.9M–$120M |
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Good News Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, Cyprus | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $146k–$4.3M |
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BDC Capital Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2M–$100M |
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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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Rho Canada Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Italy | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Analytics, Internet | |
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RBC Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | |
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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:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 441
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spark — Spark provides the platform required to sell, market, close and report on your entire portfolio of new development projects.
- 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.
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
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$20M; Series B $7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- 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.
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.
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.
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Jamaica
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $593k–$3.6M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wygo — This is why you've gotta go outside.
- Dessn — Design & prototype directly in your codebase, without any coding setup.
- FightCamp — FightCamp delivers at-home boxing and kickboxing with real-time punch tracking and trainer-led programs built around your data. Earn every round.
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: Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
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: 116
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $3.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2006
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: 155
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.5M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Communo — Communities of compatible marketing pros collaborating on the work they love, with the people the love, for the brands they love.
- MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.
- OnCall Health — Leading behavioral health EHR software and electronic healthcare record solutions built to modernize care, manage workflows and improve patient outcomes.
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
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
- PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
- eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1452
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$630k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised 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.
- Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
- 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.
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, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $183k–$5M; Angel $10k–$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.
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: 170
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.5M; Series A $4.4M–$14M; Series B $5.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the trusted AI partner for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M; Angel $68k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
- Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
- fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Pre-Seed $368k–$1.5M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- TimeSmart.AI — A healthcare-focused solution for contract management, clinician timesheet review and approvals, payment tracking & contract compliance enforcement
- Authentic Web — Authentic Web is a Corporate Domain Name Management platform for the New TLD Era.We equip enterprise teams in Digital, Marketing & IT with domain and DNS automation, providing business intelligence to support digital optimization and innovation for digital brands.Our workflow, automation and security protocols address Security andCompliance requirements for Risk, Compliance and IT Security teams to lock down domain assets and support teams to manage DNS network exposures.
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, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $2.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $54M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
- Pricepoint — Pricepoint is an autonomous AI agent that optimizes your hotel pricing in real time. Maximize revenue, eliminate manual work, and stay competitive 24/7.
- Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
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: 65
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.7M; Series A $2.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
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, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Series A $951k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Dryrun — From lightening fast data imports and automated forecasts, through to unmatched control to model out scenarios, Dryrun is the choice for CFOs managing cash flow for multi-million dollar businesses. Dryrun integrates with Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Pipedrive.
- Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
- Fairly Staffing — The modern dental staffing platform. Connect your clinic with vetted dental hygienists and assistants, or find flexible temp dental jobs near you with Fairly.
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, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Pre-Seed $340k–$2.5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
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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Browse database — It's Free!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, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 250
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$22M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ionik — Popreach is now @IonikGroup
- Velto Renewables — Velto Renewables is a renewable energy company that specializes in enabling global economy to decarbonize by developing renewable assets.
- 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.
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: 49
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $317k–$2M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M 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!
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.
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, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $60k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $146k–$512k
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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
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: 189
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.7M–$32M; Series B $14M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
- Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is building the interoperable command layer for the Arctic
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, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $35k–$779k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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.
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.
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.ai powers business loan brokers and lenders with application automation that increases conversion, saves time and provides an amazing experience.
- 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
The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Justo — Cashback. Lower listing fees. Experienced local agents. Advanced technology. Free services. Justo is a new real estate brokerage based on a radical idea: Consumers are paying too much to buy or sell a home. That's why we offer a new model, based on fairness and transparency. Looking to buy a home? We'll split our commission with you50/50. Plus, our all-inclusive model covers home inspections and lawyer fees. Selling a home? Save half the listing fee of traditional brokerages, and thousands more with free staging, 3D virtual tours, professional photography and online marketing. Our experienced agents work closely with you to help find the home of your dreams, or sell your home for best the possible price. It just makes sense to use Justo.
- LabsCubed — LabsCubed manufactures automated multi-sample tensile testing robots that manufacturers use to increase lab efficiency and reduce labor by up to 85%.
- 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.
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, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- LucidLink — LucidLink empowers fast and secure collaboration for creative teams working with any file size, across any distance.
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Browse database — It's Free!Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, France
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- Total investments: 63
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
- Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
- VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
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, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- 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.
- LANDR — LANDR empowers musicians to create and get heard. As a pioneer in big data and machine learning for the music industry, LANDR provides millions of independent artists and labels with a single space to learn about, collaborate on, master, release and monetize music online. Since launching in 2014, LANDR has consistently built tools that level theplaying field for musicians, combining into a self-serve platform that is affordable and invaluable at every stage of the music creation lifecycle.
- Sonder — Your new way to stay in vibrant cities around the world with exceptional spaces designed for living.
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, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
- Rcm Modulaire — Rcm Modulaire is engaged in the designs and manufactures quality modular buildings.
- Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.
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.
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: 971
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
- Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
- Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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: 263
- Round size: Seed $550k–$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!
OMERS Ventures is an early-stage tech investor serving fintech, vertical software, enterprise app and AI/infra founders.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $6M–$29M; Series B $12M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $750M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Turnstile — Turnstile takes the hassle out of managing your revenue lifecycle.
- Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is building the interoperable command layer for the Arctic
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
Front Row Ventures believe , students are in a unique position to challenge the status quo. Their university years are an entrepreneurial sweet spot, and they want their peers to capitalize on their potential. Their want to help them to launch unthinkable ventures, and start companies that change the world.Their bigger mission is to spread startupand venture capital culture across Montreal campuses. They engage and empower students to learn, get involved, and create from Montreal’s vibrant technology sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $18k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $37k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pelcro — Pelcro is an all-in-one platform for businesses selling digital memberships, subscriptions, magazines, newspapers, and everything in between.
- Swish Solar — Eliminate inefficiencies and maximize energy output with our breakthrough waterless self-cleaning solar panel technology. Perfect for arid regions with zero moving parts.
- Serenity Power — Advanced SOFC technology with high-efficiency targets, lower emissions, and fuel flexibility for oil & gas, industrial operations, and distributed power applications.
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, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Seed $660k–$5.8M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.4M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
- Artemis — Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.
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- Industry: Health Care, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $398k–$2.8M; Series A $4.5M–$7.6M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- Modality.AI — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
- ClaimBuddy — ClaimBuddy acts as one-stop solutions for Health Insurance Claim assistance for Patients and Hospitals. ClaimBuddy are building an ecosystem to ensure Hassle-free insurance claims by leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes and operations.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 196
- Round size: Grant $176k–$3.1M; Debt Financing $183k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $384k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 94% lead, 6% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PAMI — Innovative Engineering Solutions - PAMI is a trusted third-party collaborator who researches, designs, builds & tests machines, components and processes.
- 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.
- Global Agri-Food Advancement Partnership — GAAP is a privately run and operated agri-food investment incubator seeking cutting-edge solutions from early and rapid-growth firms intending to increase efficiency, sustainability, and profitability in the global agriculture and food sector.
Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1093
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
- Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 483
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.4M; Series A $10M–$35M; Series B $20M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- ParadeDB — One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension.
- Horizon3.ai — Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA.
- OpenEvidence — OpenEvidence uses artificial intelligence to aggregate, synthesize, and visualize clinical evidence in understandable, clinically-useful formats that can be used to make more evidenced-based decisions and improve patient outcomes.
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
- Geography: Canada, United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $376k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $146k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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
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, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Avidbots Corp. — Avidbots vision is to bring robots to everyday life to expand human potential. Avidbots first product is NEO - the world's smartest autonomous scrubbing robot. NEO is trusted by some of the best managed airports, retail malls, hospitals, colleges, industrial sites, museums, warehouses, etc in 7 countries and counting.
- General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
- Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1253
- Round size: Seed $2M–$27M; Series A $5.7M–$47M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $557M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vectra AI — Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks.
- Zebra Medical Vision — NANOX AI enables more accurate risk-adjustment so patients are provided with preventative care paths they need, while improving quality of health services at significantly lower associated costs.
- Blue River Technology — Blue River Technology is a pioneer in the use of computer vision and robotics for agriculture. Founded in 2011 by two Stanford University Alumni, Blue River Technology is bringing crop protection into the digital era with See & Spray machines that precisely observe and treat each plant in a field. By applying herbicides only to weeds thesemachines dramatically reduce the amount of chemicals used, enable farmers the freedom to choose any herbicide that meets their needs, and improve grower economics. Currently, farmers are limited to equipment that applies fertilizer and chemicals inefficiently across an entire field. In contrast, Blue River have developed tractor-towed robots that are able to sense each individual plant and precisely apply the right amount of inputs – all in real time, at tractor speeds.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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.
Rho Canada Ventures is a division of Rho Capital Partners focusing on early-stage investing in Canada’s most innovative technology companies.The Rho Canada Ventures team comprises a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operational, and venture investment experience in the United States and Canada. With a combined 80 years of experience, RhoCanada Ventures offers entrepreneurs the expertise to turn Canadian innovators into global leaders. Rho Canada Ventures' portfolio companies are a diverse group of investments that span new media, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and materials, and software.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sportlogiq — Sportlogiq is a venture-backed startup that develops sports statistics solutions. Using feeds from current broadcast cameras, the company uses player tracking and activity recognition to analyze player movement and provide context to game analysis. Sportlogiq was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
- Auvik Networks — Auvik’s cloud-based network management software keeps IT networks around the world running optimally. By automating and simplifying network management, Auvik helps rocket an IT team’s efficiency and capacity, while protecting the business from network risk. Auvik is one of the fastest growing North American technology companies, and is winner ofthe Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Deloitte Fast 500, and recognized as the #1 ranked Canadian company in the FT Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2020. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.
- Resson — Curate a collection of unforgettable quotes from celebrities that inspire, amuse, or provoke thought. This section showcases their wisdom and wit, resonating with audiences.
RBC Venture Partners invests venture capital and growth equity on behalf of the Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is one of the backers of the BlackBerry Partners Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- League — Payers, providers, employers and consumer health organizations use League's CX platform to deliver high-engagement, personalized health experiences.
- Hyperoptic — Hyperfast & Super Affordable Fibre Optic Broadband. Over 18x faster than the UK's average broadband speed. Check out our fibre broadband deals today!
- SecureKey Technologies — Deliver high-value online services securely to millions of consumers through federated authentication, regardless of the service, device or credentials.
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