Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Canada in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Music startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Canada in November 2024
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
- BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
- Persist Ventures — We bring visions to life with a full suite of agencies to help our companies start and scale.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
- Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
- Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...
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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
BDC Capital can customize a financing plan to meet the needs of you and your business, whether your need is $100,000 or $5 million.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Levr.ai — Levr.ai supercharges your team with easy to implement tools that increase conversion, save time and provide a better experience for everyone.
- 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
Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
- Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com
- BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- Modality.AI, Inc. — 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.
- Orpyx Medical Technologies — Orpyx SI sensory insoles help manage and prevent diabetic foot ulcer recurrence for people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Orpyx SI sensory insoles are custom made for every individual and designed to effortlessly capture plantar pressure, temperature, and movement data throughout the day.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
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.
Leva Capital invests in privately owned businesses within the healthcare sector in Canada, from startups to medium sized companies looking to partner and leverage our full toolbox, not only the funds.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Music, Medical
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — Hormone testing redesigned so you can monitor anytime, anywhere.
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- 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.
Through Reverb Ventures, I invest $150k - 250k checks in Web3, Creator economy and community startups.
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Investment focus
- Music, Internet, Software
- Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- Popularium — At Popularium, we believe that successful games are built by world-class developers who know what great looks like.
- Arkive — Arkive is a web3 museum of real world items, curated by a community of passionate hobbyists, collectors, artists, designers, and creators.
A voice in setting the standards, best practices and processes in health technologies ; a privileged access to 190+ members
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — Hormone testing redesigned so you can monitor anytime, anywhere.
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- HALEO Clinic — HALEO is an online insomnia clinic that fits in your pocket
Ontario Centre of Innovation provides a preeminent research-to-commercialization vehicle in Ontario
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Talin — Supercharge your recruting process with Talin's AI powered tools.
- Mesosil — Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision.
- HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Amit Mital is a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at National Security Council.
Amit earned an MS in Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Music Streaming
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- CRED — Join 9M+ CRED members to earn rewards on your credit card bill payments.
- aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
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.
Jamie King @former Verafin founder and fraud detection.
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Investment focus
- Music, Software, Real Time
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Popularium — At Popularium, we believe that successful games are built by world-class developers who know what great looks like.
- Lumen Orbit — Lumen Orbit provides in-orbit cloud computing and data relay for satellites.
- Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
HBC Investments is an private equity firm.
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Investment focus
- Music, Travel, Publishing
- Series A, Private Equity
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hail Merry Snacks — Hail Merry exists to elevate the snacking experience through fresh energizing snacks made from clean plant-based ingredients. Our purpose is to provide better-for-you plant-based snacks that celebrate the benefits of energizing coconut oil and raw fats from nuts, while delivering an unparalleled luxurious taste experi
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Malibou — Malibou is developing the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for all French startups and SMBs. Malibou is committed to simplifying complex processes so that you can focus on your business.
- Talus Bio — Talus Bioscience combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to target hard-to-treat transcription factors driving cancer & beyond.
- Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
Noise DAO supports DAO music with technology.
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Investment focus
- Music, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Spawning — Data Governance for Generative AI
- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
- New Computer Corporation — New Computer Corporation provides an application program interface for web3 infrastructure. The agency is a potent combination of emerging media, radical new content and interaction design, technology innovation, and product design defining the look and feel of digital marketing.
Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group
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Investment focus
- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
COMPANY
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Investment focus
- Music, Big Data, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
A leader in the alternative asset space, TPG was built for a distinctive approach, managing assets through a principled focus on innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Private Equity, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Vinted — Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Apskritis, Lithuania.
- Twelve — Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design.
- Creative Planning — An international investment management and financial planning firm serving cross-border investors and Americans abroad.
Liberty Global Ventures is an investment fund owned by Liberty Global. Its existing portfolio consists of companies in the content, technology, internet, and distribution space. These investments are managed by a dedicated team of professionals located in Denver, Palo Alto, London, and Amsterdam.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Enfabrica — Enfabrica - unleash the revolution in next-gen computing
- Bolster AI — Automatically detect & remediate threats across web sites, domain, social media, mobile app stores, marketplaces & the dark web.
- Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
Now known as Tekla Capital Management LLC. Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management, LLC ("HQCM"), a registered investment adviser based in Boston, Massachusetts, is currently the investment adviser for two closed-end equity funds, H&Q Healthcare Investors and H&Q Life Sciences Investors. The Funds invest in growth equities, bothpublic and private, in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series C, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Veniti — VENITI is the first medical device company developing a suite of innovative technology and solutions that will provide comprehensive treatment across the venous disease continuum.Venous disease refers to all conditions related to or caused by veins that become diseased or abnormal. This encompasses a broad set of maladies. The venous diseasecycle begins when vein walls become weak or damaged, or the valves are stretched or injured, and can no longer prevent reflux (backward flow of blood). Once the veins lose their ability to convey blood without reflux, the progressive venous disease cycle has begun. This is commonly referred to as chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI. The blood will begin to back up into the peripheral veins, causing venous hypertension, potential thrombosis (clotting), and leading to even more damage of the vein walls and valves. This in turn leads to more reflux.The VENITI team of experts in science, technology and business are currently developing the VENITI VICI VENOUS STENT® System. Through this, and other, innovative technology, VENITI will achieve results that sets it apart in addressing the challenges specific to the venous system and venous disease.
- FlowCardia — FlowCardia, Inc. is a medical device company founded in 2002 to design and develop a portfolio of innovative, catheter-based technologies to facilitate guidewire crossing of totally occluded coronary and peripheral arteries. Chronic Total Occlusions (CTOs) are considered one of the last major clinical challenges in interventional therapy. Thehistoric absence of safe and effective CTO recanalization devices is a major reason a large number of patients are still referred to coronary and peripheral bypass surgery and lower limb amputation.
- Eleme Medical — DomainMarket.com sells premium domain names to entrepreneurs, businesses, and nonprofits that want to dominate their online marketplaces and control great brands.
Nathalie Marcoux is VP finance at Capinabel inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Pierre Fleurent is currently the Senior Advisor at Canaccord Genuity Inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
TD Commercial Banking is committed to helping you move your business forward with tailored products & services.
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Investment focus
- Music, Music Streaming
- Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Calm Radio — Calm Radio is a music streaming alternative that offers calming music. Listen to classical and relaxation music for work and sleep, online jazz music with nature sounds, meditation and world music available on our Calm Radio app.
INP Capital is a global private-market investor with international offices in Canada, Australia, China, UK and Germany. We back and invest in entrepreneurs looking to change the world. We are committed to building long-term relationships with our investors, investment partners and colleagues.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
- Power to Hydrogen — Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) is simplifying hydrogen. Our technology enables a brighter energy future by solving the technical and economic challenges that come with producing hydrogen. Our AEM-based, electrolysis technology produces high pressure, high efficiency hydrogen from renewable energy with lower cost materials thancompeting electrolyzers. This technology can reduce the total cost of hydrogen to enable clean transportation, store energy efficiently, and decarbonize industrial processes. In addition to low-cost, high-pressure hydrogen production, the technology can produce high-pressure oxygen and be used reversibly to produce electricity. Both services can create additional revenue streams to make the total cost of hydrogen $1/kg.
Dan Fraser began his music industry career on the road at 17 years of age, consistently traveling over 250 days per year and moving up through the ranks in the touring world to tour manager, before co-founding the Nettwerk Music Group and becoming President of Nettwerk Management. As president, Fraser oversees all clients, artist managers,employees, financials, and contract negotiations. Further, Fraser manages all aspects of the touring careers of Juno and Grammy award-winning clients. He also contributes to the overall strategic development of the Nettwerk Music Group, along with the other three co-founders. In 1996, Fraser, along with Sarah McLachlan, Terry McBride, and Marty Diamond, co-founded the famed Lilith Fair tours, which ran from 1996-1999, and 2010. Fraser has guided the live carriers of many Nettwerk clients such as Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Avril, Coldplay, Stereophonics and many others. He currently manages / co manages Joshua Hyslop. Wanting and Juno nominated children’s act Bobs and Lolo. Fraser has sat on several boards such as the 2007 Memorial Cup and 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships held in British Columbia. He was an Executive Producer for the 2002 BC Cancer Benefit and the 2005 Tsunami Relief Benefit. Fraser served on the Ceremonies Production team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Currently, he sits on the board for the Unison Benevolent Fund.
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Investment focus
- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
OMERS Ventures Home Page.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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.
- Brightwave — Brightwave is a revolutionary AI research assistant that generates trustworthy, insightful financial analysis on demand.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Kahi — Kahi's Automated Asset Intelligence offers near real-time tracking. See your assets in transit and on your job sites. Mobile App.
- KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
- Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
- Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
- Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
Dan Robichaud is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. His first company was acquired in 2006 by a Global Fortune 500®. He went on to start and exit 5 other technology companies. His latest venture is PasswordBox, which was acquired by Intel in December 2014. He is a Limited Partner in 7 VC funds and he is an angel investor in more than 45promising start-ups. For 3 years Dan has been the Chief Innovation Officer of Intel Identity division. Since September 2017, Dan Robichaud is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Diagram a launchpad for the most exciting ventures in Fintech and Insurtech. Before his entrepreneurial days, he started as a radio show host on the biggest Canadian radio station CKOI where he pioneered RSS audio podcasting.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Textiley — Textiley is an environmental deep-tech firm developed to address environmental issues caused by landfilling and incineration of waste textiles.
- Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
- Hyphen — Hyphen has developed 'Yugwanggi', a YouTube ad search engine that categorizes advertising videos using generative Al technology. Hyphen aims to evolve from referencing work to a hub that integrates collaboration in PR/marketing work, It focuses on the marketer work process after referencing.
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
- Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
- Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups, mature, and acquisition of later-stage companies. The firm typically invests in wireless, media, commerce, infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. It also advises businesses and funds. Lowercase Capital was founded in 2010and is based in New York, New York.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
- Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
- Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Turkey
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- Mistikist — Mistikist helps you focus, relax & sleep in just 2-8 minutes. It redefines how to relax quickly! Try it today!
- Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensivegrowth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series D
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Vortexa — State of the art energy analytics that paints a global picture of cargo flows. Identify energy market opportunities before the competition with Vortexa.
- Openprise — Learn more about the Openprise RevOps Data Automation Cloud.
- cPacket Networks — Explore cPacket Networks for unmatched network packet data solutions. Discover our state-of-the-art network observability and security services for zero downtime enterprises.
Founded in 2014, Plus Eight Equity Partners is an early stage venture capital firm that has partnered with electronic music industry leaders to invest in groundbreaking music technology companies. The Principals of Plus Eight have over 100 years of combined experience in electronic music and music technology. Plus Eight possesses deep institutionalknowledge and relationships within these industries. The firm specializes in sourcing propriety investment opportunities and building value through organizational development and organic growth. Plus Eight drives significant momentum in its portfolio company investments by leveraging its robust network in music, technology, finance, operations and manufacturing.
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- Music, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
- Overplay — Videos you Play. Games you Make
- VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge
With over 20 years as an entrepreneur, sales and financial services executive, Mark Britto is responsible for making BOKU the leading mobile payments platform.Mark joins BOKU after six years as the CEO of Ingenio, a service marketplace and performance advertising company, which he led to a 2007 acquisition by AT&T.Prior to Ingenio, Markspent 4 years as SVP of worldwide services and sales at Amazon.com, where he signed landmark deals with brands such as Toys R Us, Borders, Circuit City and Target.Mark's first start-up, Accept.com, was bought by Amazon.com in 1999 and served as the primary backbone of Amazon's global payments platform.Mark began his career in senior credit and risk management roles at leading national banks FirstUSA and Bank of America.
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- Information Technology, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Sokin — Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages!
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services
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- Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Fave — Fave is a social platform dedicated to superfans enabling them to create immersive video content, connect and bond with like-minded fans, compete in fun challenges, exchange both physical and virtual goods in a fan-driven marketplace, and rack up points throughout it all to prove their top fan status, gain recognition in the fandom, and earnexclusive rewards around the artists and creators they love. They also partner with the creators to finally allow them to monetize their fans' activity directly.
- Nika — Nika is Yugoslavia's first privately owned music label and distribution company.
- Dancing Bear — Dancing Bear runs a music company that focuses in recorded music, music publishing, artist services, and vinyl records. The company's services include music creation, music label management, and vinyl record publication.
Slack is a global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. From global Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, businesses, and teams of every kind use Slack to bring the right people together with all the right information. Slack is headquartered in San Francisco California and has nineoffices around the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
- Crosschq — Crosschq is a technology platform that utilizes human intelligence to help companies hire and retain the best talent. Through proprietary software and science, Crosschq gathers people-driven insights from job seekers and those who know them best and converts those insights into predictive data. Crosschq data can be used to ensure people andbusinesses are well-matched, creating long-term, successful employees, and winning workplace cultures. The company’s cloud-based SaaS solutions were built with a talent-first approach that prioritizes trust and transparency, minimizes bias, and protects privacy. Founded in 2017, Crosschq is backed by GGV Capital, Bessemer Ventures, and other well-known Silicon Valley Investors.
- Electric — Electric IT makes managing IT easy for small and medium sized businesses. IT Management for you, real-time support for your team.
Martin-Luc Archambault is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of leadership experience in imagining, building and selling technology. At the age of 21, he created, CDT Inc., a web publishing & advertising company, and quickly grew it to profitability before selling it to Zango within three years. Since then, he hasrelentlessly been bringing new ideas to life, making him a proud recipient of an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award in 2012.SPOTR, his latest Montreal startup, gives life to your moments by letting you caption and share your stories through pictures. He is a board member at Anges Quebec and a mentor at FounderFuel and Growlab. Recently he has been working on a new mobile app called AMP, a mobile application that allows the creation of a musical ambiance, by synchronizing an unlimited amount of smart phones, thus creating a giant speaker.He lives and breathes technology innovations: he has made over 20 successful investments including Wajam, PasswordBox (sold to Intel), Anomalous Networks (sold to Tangoe – NASDAQ: TNGO), Frank & Oak, VarageSale, Mirego, .Club, Playerize, SmartReno, Viral ninja, Laurea Virtua, Instabrand, Sarbakan, Crowdbase, Planbox, Artfox, Acadam, Minitrade, Real Ventures, and many more... No idea is too big for Martin-Luc as long as he’s investing in the right people.
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- Apps, Music, Analytics
- Angel
- Canada
William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
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- Ai Build — Additive Manufacturing Software
- Checkstep — CheckStep provides a AI-powered Trust & Safety and UGC management software to online platform worldwide. It enables company to manage the full policy management life-cycle.
- Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
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- Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
Richard Speer is the Founder and President/CEO at Attraction media.
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- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
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- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Valhalla Private Capital offers investor and startup, angel investing, private equity and debt funds, and global accelerator programs to meet the lifecycle needs of both businesses and investors.
In 2017, Danny Way established the firm in Calgary, Alberta.
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- Software, Marketing, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- 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!
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- Dyne — Growing restaurants and local economies while connecting communities over food. We are in the foodie community business, ready to Dyne with us?
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