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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 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 September 2025

Investor	Music Canada investments
Real Ventures	5
YUL Ventures	3
Blockchain Founders Fund	3
Panache Ventures	3
Amplify Capital	2
Reverb Ventures	2
BDC Capital Corporation	2
MEDTEQ+	2
Ontario Centre of Innovation	2
Anges Quebec	2
Leva Capital	2
Red Thread Ventures	2
Relentless Pursuit Partners	2
FundersClub	1
HDGL	1
Etienne Veilleux	1
KNDL	1
Naveen Jain	1
2 Punks Capital	1
Martin Archambault	1
BDC Venture Capital	1
William Tunstall-Pedoe	1
Aventrock Ventures	1
Slack	1
INP Capital	1
HBC Investments	1
OMERS Ventures	1
Edward Lando	1
Ric Arboit	1
Lowercase Capital	1
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital	1
T. Chen Fong	1
Pareto Holdings	1
TPG	1
TransCosmos	1
Hike Ventures	1
Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management	1
Mark Jowett	1
Nasir Jones	1
Larry Fichtner	1
Noise DAO	1
TD Commercial Banking	1
TheVentures	1
Pierre Fleurent	1
Mark Britto	1
Hedgewood	1
Mantella Venture Partners	1
Jamie King	1
Amit Mital	1
Plus Eight Equity Fund LP	1

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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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
Nomic — The world's fastest & most seamless protein profiling service, with as fast as 1-week turnaround. Multiplexing without compromise.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
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.

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
Metafide — Metafide offers AI-driven trading solutions and Web3 asset analysis for financial entities.
Velvet Capital — Velvet Capital is a DeFi operating system that helps launch and manage on-chain funds and structured products. Velvet Capital offers its users a way to gain exposure to digital assets.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
Ranger AI — Discover how Ranger RFX simplifies proposals with innovative tools designed for manufacturers. Improve accuracy, reduce downtime, and achieve cost savings today.
Featherless.ai — Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Lyteflo — Lyteflo provides electric vehicle (EV) sales tools.
Cerula Care — Cerula Care specializes in behavioral health services for people with chronic conditions.
Carbon Upcycling — Our cities, roads, energy, AI, and all critical infrastructure are built on a foundation of concrete. And cement is the glue that holds it all together. Securing our tomorrow means securing our critical cement materials. It means building manufacturing independence, localizing supply chains, and investing...

Through Reverb Ventures, I invest $150k - 250k checks in Web3, Creator economy and community startups.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Apera AI — Make your vision-guided robotics more reliable and productive using AI-powered vision from Apera AI.
Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
Puzzle Medical Devices — Puzzle Medical Low-risk heart support for high-risk patients

MEDTEQ is a non-profit organization for industrial research and innovation in medical technology. The organization accelerates the development of innovative technological solutions to improve patients’ health and quality of life by mobilizing Canadian talents. They bringing together the key players in healthcare and innovation allows them and theirpartners, to offer Canadians access to novel solutions.MEDTEQ’s mission is, through collaborative, industry-led projects, to accelerate innovation and position, on a global scale, products and services developed by the Canadian medical technologies industry.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
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

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.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

HiringBranch — Skills based hiring solutions for global companies. We help you hire for the right skills - performance improvement guaranteed.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Paperplane Therapeutics — Harnessing the transformative power of immersive virtual reality to reduce pain perception during medical procedures.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Music, Medical
Seed, Angel, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
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.

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.

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

Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

AthenaHQ — AthenaHQ is the one-stop-shop for marketers for everything AI Search.
Sorcerer — Sorcerer builds weather balloons that fly for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar and reaching previously inaccessible regions
Airweave — Airweave transforms content into searchable knowledge bases for agents to search user apps by connecting productivity tools and databases.

COMPANY

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.

Etienne Veilleux

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Energy
Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Distech Controls — Connecting people with intelligent building solutions through forward-thinking technologies and services for better spaces and efficiencies for our customers.

SOAN facilitates the mobilization of investments from accredited investors into companies being developed in southeastern Ontario. This Network is closely associated with our regional innovation centre, local economic development agencies, research institutions, the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs and other recognized angel networks in Ontario,Canada and the US. The Southeastern Ontario Angel Network is a not-for-profit corporation, recognized by and registered with the Network of Angel Organizations – Ontario.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Music, Product Management
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Canada

Portfolio highlights

SWFTCharge — We provide the best and most convenient phone charging service for music festivals. No more wires, lockers or charging stations. We bring the power to you!
Wavve Boating — The Wavve Boating App helps boaters connect and collaborate. See each other on the water with state of the art nautical gps navigation and charts.
Food Cycle Science — The FoodCycler is a food-waste management system that recycles your food into a nutrient-rich soil amendment.

Naveen Jain is the Founder and CEO of Viome Life Sciences. He previously worked at Intelius as a Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Naveen Jain attended XLRI- Xavier School of Management.

Investment focus

Web3, Space Travel, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RELICSxyz — Music culture for the Metaverse era
Safe Cash — Safe Cash makes cash more secure, convenient, and profitable for banks, merchants, and consumers. Safe Cash provides the Safe Cash Platform, which is a cryptographically-secure digital platform for exchanging digital tokens. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.

2 Punks Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on the future of web3, gaming, DAOs, and consumer blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
Yuliverse — Yuliverse is a Web3 metaverse game platform where players can meet other players and connect with like-minded individuals in the same city.
Feature — The future of storytelling has arrived. Join us.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Analytics
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Retinad — Analytics platform made for 360VR media. Drag & drop plugin integration across all major VR headsets.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
Blumind — Blumind provides analog machine learning inferencing engines for edge smart sensors and smart devices.
4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

Aventrock is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Calgary, Canada. We are passionate strategists who believe in supporting entrepreneurialism as that is the driving force to improve the world around us. We provide resources and network to help businesses reach their full potential.

Investment focus

SaaS, Grocery, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed
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.
Arbor — See your real-time sustainability dashboard to evaluate practices and processes over time, providing instant feedback for making data-driven decisions.
Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

HBC Investments is an private equity firm.

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

OMERS Ventures is an early-stage tech investor serving fintech, vertical software, enterprise app and AI/infra founders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Octaura — Octaura, an industry-led electronic trading, data and analytics solution for syndicated loans.
Crux — The ecosystem for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact & manage transferable tax credits.
Group14 Technologies — Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer thecost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group

Investment focus

Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
Private Equity
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series D
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Openprise — Learn more about the Openprise RevOps Data Automation Cloud.
Mad Mobile — Mad Mobile elevates the experience of both your retail and restaurant guests with award-winning technology and hardware.
Octagos Health — Discover Octagos' comprehensive cardiac remote monitoring software and services designed to enhance patient care and streamline clinic operations.

Dr. Fong is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Fong is active in funding and nurturing start-up companies. Over the past two decades, he funded over 50 companies in diverse technology sectors,with an emphasis in medical devices. Dr. Fong is the co-founder and board member of Calgary Scientific Inc. and is also on the board of Clarius Mobile Health, Cohesic Inc. and Innovere Medical. In addition to seed investing, Dr. Fong is active in the Calgary community sitting on six charitable boards and foundations.In 2015, Dr. Fong joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto business school as a mentor. CDL helps young entrepreneurs to shape or pivot their nascent ideas. He is widely credited with launching CDL at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, bringing together seasoned business leaders from Alberta, Canada and the US to grow budding companies. Dr. Fong is on the Strategic Advisory Board of CDL and a Fellow of CDL in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. In 2017, Dr. Fong was named to the Order of Canada for his contribution to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

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.

TPG is a global alternative asset manager that focuses on innovation. It manages a portfolio of active companies in various countries. It serves technology, healthcare, and impact investing industries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Private Equity, Series C, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
Novotech — Novotech is a global full-service clinical research organization (CRO) and scientific advisory partner for biotech and small to mid-sized pharma companies.
DealStack — Dealstack is the operating system for private capital, built for private capital, by private capital professionals.

Transcosmos Investments & Business Development, Inc., is a strategic corporate investor and an active local business partner for Internet-based U.S. technology companies expanding into the Japanese and Asian marketplace.It is offering capitalization of joint ventures, infrastructure development, strategic relationships, and localization tocompanies in the U.S. technology sector. Transcosmos Investments' portfolios, which focus on companies specializing in digital marketing, e-commerce and digital media, include such brand names as Ask.com, DoubleClick Inc., RealNetworks Inc., NetRatings Inc., Atom/Shockwave Entertainment, Inc., Become, Inc., Pheedo, Inc. and Brightcove, Inc.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Erasco — Erasco is Indonesia’s largest B2B trucking platform. Kargo’s product suites can seamlessly integrate with any business and empower supply chains to work with more transparency & efficiency. Kargo’s workflow tools allow freight to be priced, tracked and billed with technology. Kargo’s platform has highly managed and vetted transporters alongwith reputation systems to instill trust. The platform has managed to grow to tens of thousands of truckers and attracted notable clients such as some of the world's largest MNCs, the largest eCommerce platforms, and thousands of SME businesses
Anchanto — Anchanto is a global B2B SaaS company enabling warehouse management, omni-channel retail management; offers inventory management system, order management system and product information management
Reply.ai — Scale your customer service and deliver great customer experiences using AI chatbots and intelligent self-service that goes beyond static long FAQ answers. Improve self-service on chat, email and messaging.

Hike Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
Salmon Labs — Use Salmon to transform your CRM. Effortlessly clean, verify, and enrich your data. with AI capabilities. Keep Your CRM Data Fresh and Dynamic.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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.

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 — ElemeMedical.com - a great premium domain available for sale at DomainMarket.com.

Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group

Investment focus

Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
Private Equity
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV

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.

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.

Larry Fichtner

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.

Noise DAO supports DAO music with technology.

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.

TD Commercial Banking is committed to helping you move your business forward with tailored products & services.

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.

Founders Backing Founders

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.

Pierre Fleurent is currently the Senior Advisor at Canaccord Genuity Inc.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Music Streaming
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Mobile, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Music, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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

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