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Top 50 Oil and Gas VC Funds in Canada

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Oil and gas startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Oil and gas companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Oil and Gas VC Funds in Canada

Investor	Oil and Gas Canada investments
SaskWorks Venture Fund	9
Business Development Bank of Canada	3
VA Angels	3
Enbridge	2
GreenSky Ventures	2
SLB	2
Evok Innovations	2
Accelerate Fund	2
Moment Ventures	2
Golden Ventures	2
Fulcrum Global Capital	2
Angel Invest	2
Investeco Capital	2
Rice Investment Group	2
Root Ventures	2
Sallyport Investments	2
Angular Ventures	2
BDC Capital Cleantech Practice	2
Regeneration.VC	2
Shell Ventures	1
Cenovus Energy	1
Cycle Capital	1
Golden Opportunities Fund	1
Sustainable Development Technology Canada	1
Sprout Fund LP	1
ZhenFund	1
The Ontario Capital Growth	1
Export Development Canada	1
Playground Global	1
WUTIF	1
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	1
BP Ventures	1
Real Ventures	1
Innovacorp	1
Space Capital	1
Energy Innovation Capital	1
Hillside Ventures	1
Yaletown Partners	1
Business Development Bank of Canada	1
Equinor Technology Ventures	1
UBC Seed Fund	1
Hatch Ltd	1
InterGen Capital	1
Bild Alternative Investments Corporation	1
Wing Venture Capital	1
Industry Ventures	1
Bullpen Capital	1
Pason Systems	1
Henkel	1
Fonds régionaux de solidarité FTQ	1

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SaskWorks Venture Fund is a Saskatchewan-based retail mutual fund that invests in privately-held small and medium-sized businesses owned or primarily operated in Saskatchewan. As a labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC), investments in SaskWorks are eligible to receive a tax credit equal to 35% in addition to their RRSP tax deferral.Since its inception, the Fund has provided a unique opportunity for Saskatchewan residents to keep their investment dollars at home, helping to grow local companies and creating jobs in their province.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
Terravest Industries — TerraVest Capital Inc. is a publicly traded income trust with a portfolio of diversified businesses and whose stated objective.

VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

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Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Divert — Divert provides resource recovery services for the retail industry's food and associated waste. The company provides tools for food tracking, donating, and recycling that integrate with retail operations' existing workflow, allowing clients to meet diversion goals, report on individual store performance, and save money while having apositive, long-term environmental impact.Divert was established on January 1, 2007 in Concord, Massachusetts by Nick Whitman.
Flyscan — Flyscan develops automated, airborne, leak and threat detection services for oil and gas pipeline operators.
Smart Pipe — Smart Pipe Company, Inc. designs and develops pipeline rehabilitation systems. It offers Smart Pipe, a monitored reinforced thermoplastic pipe used for the rehabilitation of an existing pipeline, or as a stand alone replacement. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Katy, Texas.

GreenSky Ventures is a Toronto-based firm that makes investments in early-stage Canadian technology companies.GreenSky Ventures seeks early-stage B2B technology companies in Canada, emphasizing protectable IP and experienced management. It makes investments in early-stage technology companies through its affiliated venture capital funds, GreenSkyAccelerator Fund I, II and III. Their principals bring a unique combination of experience in technology, law, and finance to high-growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs.GreenSky Capital was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010 by Geoff Simonett and Michael T. R. List.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Captain AI — Captain is the leading delivery management software for restaurant chains. Gain true visibility into your delivery operations while automating dispatch decisions and optimizing delivery times.
Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
Mission Control Space Services Inc. — Mission Control is a space exploration and robotics company specializing in spacecraft operations, onboard autonomy and artificial intelligence. We are developing a full-stack robotic control solution. Our technology is designed to control and automate robotic assets operating in harsh and remote environments and increase the safety, efficiency andscientific or financial return of missions.

SLB is a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Immaterial — Facilitating the energy transition with advanced materials.
Nauticus Robotics — Houston Mechatronics, Inc (HMI) specializes in mechatronics, automation engineering, intelligent systems, and robotics.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Founded in 2016, Evok Innovations is a fund that focuses on early-stage companies in the areas of Clean Energy, CleanTech, ClimateTech and CarbonTech.

Investment focus

Software, Oil and Gas, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SensorUp — SensorUp offers advanced software solutions for methane emissions management and reduction in the oil and gas industry, aligning with net zero goals and enhancing operational control through effective emissions reporting and measurement technology.
Disa — Stay sustainable and profitable with DISA's high-pressure slurry ablation technology for reclamation and mining
Ebb Carbon — Ebb Carbon is working on a reverse electrochemical ocean deacidification process that will capture CO2 from the atmosphere. The company was established in 2021 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ambyint — Ambyint well optimization and automation technology enables you to increase production, lower operating costs, and streamline operations across the lifecycle of your producing assets.
WaitWell — Get rid of lineups and improve service efficiency with WaitWell queue management software for busy public offices, universities, clinics and retail stores.
Ontopical — Get complete monitoring of emerging local government contracts across North America, months before an RFP is issued. Build your sales pipeline with Ontopical.

Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work. The firm invests in early-stage institutional rounds of companies in the future of work and prefers to invest in the logistics, food, oil and gas, education, transportation, and construction sectors.Moment Ventures was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inPalo Alto, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
Reveel — Track royalty for your entire NFT portfolio & create your own revenue share blocks to automate royalty accounting with your team & collaborators.
Power Life Science — Discover cutting-edge therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Power helps patients everywhere take control of their care.

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
Basil Systems — Basil’s SaaS platform leverages machine-learning across product, market and regulatory data to provide analytics and insights for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

Feeding the world one investment at a time

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Rantizo — Fly more acres, deliver better service. The equipment, tools, and expertise you need to be the grower's first call for drone spray services.
Sabanto — Meet Steward, your autonomous operator. Install Steward on your existing tractor to operate 24/7 without sitting in the driver's seat. Book a demo today.
Vytelle — Vytelle is a company with a deeper purpose and revolutionary technology that helps to advance bovine, deer and buffalo genetics faster by redefining reproduction.

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tabbx — Discover the easy way of settling up. Ask your friends to pay you back in just a few taps.
Naro — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.

InvestEco invests in innovative companies in the Food & Agriculture Sector. Learn More about our process, people, and companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

LesserEvil — From source to snack, LesserEvil is dedicated to creating clean, healthy snacks that are as tasty as they are guilt-free. Start your journey to better snacking!
M2 Ingredients — Founded in 2010, M2 Ingredients is a leading producer of certified 100% organic, whole food mushroom powders with the full spectrum of bioactive compounds to support daily health, sports performance, recovery and cognition.
Om Mushroom Superfood — Our powerful single species and mushroom superfood blends are designed to promote immunity, vitality, cognitive health and energy. Shop now!

Rice Investment Group invests in all verticals of the energy sector. We understand start-ups and how to deploy technology to efficiently scale the business.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Persefoni — Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides usersa single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions.
Trinity Gas Storage — Most reliable natural gas storage in Texas
Cold Bore Technology — Cold Bore Technology is a sensor-to-cloud completions solution that equips leading industry operators with data-focused infrastructures, smart processing capabilities, and actionable real-time services data unified on a single timeline

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
AllSpice — Allspice is a collaboration platform for hardware developers, inspired by software principles. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
ApertureData — ApertureData manages images and videos with a database purpose-built for data science and machine learning.

Sallyport provides capital and leadership to early-stage companies across a variety of industries.

Investment focus

Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Advice
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

VRGL — VRGL specializes in offering data analytics, portfolio performance, investment strategies, and guidance for wealth management businesses.
Persefoni — Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides usersa single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions.
Validere — Measure and capitalize on emission reductions while improving operations with all-in-one commodity & carbon management platform for oil and gas.

Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm committed to founders redefining global markets.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Portchain — Home Portchain. Portchain Berth Optimization Engine helps terminals that want to increase their quayside profitability by modernising their
Steadybit — Steadybit is a Chaos and Resilience Engineering platform that helps to proactively reduce downtime and provide visibility into systems to detect issues.
Memphis.dev — Highly scalable, and effortless data streaming platform.Made to enable developers and data teams to collaborate and build real-time and streaming applications fast.

We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Flyscan — Flyscan develops automated, airborne, leak and threat detection services for oil and gas pipeline operators.
Silfab Solar — Silfab solar panels are designed and engineered specifically for the North American environment and manufactured utilizing advanced robotics.
Giatec — Giatec is a global company revolutionizing the concrete industry by bringing smart testing technologies and IoT solutions to every jobsite.

Founded in Los Angeles, Regeneration.VC is an early-stage venture fund supercharging consumer-powered climate innovation driven by circular and regenerative principles. Our investment strategy encompasses design (materials & packaging), use (consumer brands & products), and reuse technologies (reverse logistics & marketplaces) thatgenerate measurable environmental impact alongside outsized return potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cruz Foam — Cruz Foam offers certified compostable, protective packaging foam and other solutions. Let us help you transition to compostable foam packaging solutions, today.
Greyparrot — Greyparrot is a flexible, end-to-end AI waste composition analysis software that drives stronger, data-driven decision making in the resources and waste sector.
Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

AiDash — AI-first SaaS company on a mission to transform operations, maintenance, and sustainability in industries with geographically distributed assets by using satellites and AI at scale.
Avnos — Our HDAC solution offers the broadest geographic potential available, enabling our technology to operate in water-scarce environments.
Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.

Cenovus is a Canadian oil company with oil sands operations in northern Alberta that use specialized methods like SAGD to drill and pump the oil to the surface

Investment focus

Energy, Water, Robotics
Series C, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Skyonic — In the market for air purifiers? Don't risk buying a lemon. Skyonic reviews the top air purifiers on the market so you make the right choice. Start here!
Hifi Engineering — Our HDS monitoring platform and turnkey services help our clients operate the smartest, most reliable pipelines in the world.
Saltworks Technologies — Saltworks is pioneering the future of sustainable water and lithium, delivering innovative chemical, membrane, and thermal solutions.

Cycle Capital is a pioneer in Canadian Cleantech venture capital fund management investing in companies at the development and commercialization stages in North America. Founded in 2009 by Andrée-Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital’s Platform has become an important venture capital investor of the Cleantech industry with its 3funds totaling $230M Assets Under Management (AUM). Cycle Capital is looking to invests in promising ventures that are not capital intensive and/or that can benefit from the leverage brought by Cycle Capital extensive network of investors, strategic partners and advisors.In addition to its core investments, Cycle Capital targets companies with high growth potential – especially those with strong intellectual property, leading edge technologies and with exceptional management talent that would benefit from the firm’s network of strategic industrial partners and expert advisors. With its core investment and business expertise, Cycle Capital plays an active role adding meaningful and tangible value to its portfolio companies at all stages of their life.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
Series B, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fibracast — Fibracast is the innovator of FibrePlate™, the next generation in MBR technology. This unique hybrid ultrafilter integrates the best attributes of hollow-fiber and flat-plate membranes into a compact, strong and energy efficient immersed membrane.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
Cycle Momentum — Cycle Momentum is a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to the cleantech startups. Founded by Cycle Capital, the accelerator works with entrepreneurs that develop and commercialize clean technologies to help build globally competitive companies. Cycle Momentum offers entrepreneurs a specialized and personalized program of trainingworkshops, networking sessions, experienced mentors and gives access to the investors to some of the most promising Canadian cleantech ventures.

Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. is Saskatchewan's first Provincial Labour-sponsored Investment Fund which was launched in 1999 and is registered as a Labour-sponsored Investment Fund Corporation under The Labour-sponsored Venture Capital Corporations Act (Saskatchewan). Saskatchewan residents who purchase Shares of the Fund receive a 15%Federal tax credit and a 20% Provincial tax credit for a total of 35% in tax credits to a maximum contribution of $5,000 annually. Investments are also 100% RRSP eligible.With the capital raised, the Fund makes investments in Saskatchewan companies, or other entities that carry on business in Saskatchewan, that have less than 500 employees at the time of investment and that pay at least 25% of all their wages and salaries to Saskatchewan employees (as per current regulation which may be amended from time to time). The objective of the Fund is to realize long-term capital appreciation of its investments in eligible businesses. Potential investments are evaluated according to, among other things: stage of development; size; quality of management; the market potential of the products or services sold or distributed; the profit potential of eligible business; and the opportunity for realization by the Fund of its investments.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Farming, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chrysalis — A meta-business in the SaaS industry, Chrysalis' goal is to develop technology that improves the human experience. We achieve this by supporting the businesses that naturally develop inside the Chrysalis ecosystem and by acquiring similar companies that support our vision. Chrysalis, its teams, and its companies develop software solutions thatenable people to create memorable and valuable moments where the digital meets the personal. With six more locations spread out around North America, Chrysalis is a privately held business with its main office in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mega Group — Mega Group offers billing, expert accounting, consumer finance, business basics, merchandising, marketing, integrated website, digital services, store design, and fundamentals services.
Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag is an agtech start-up creating our first product to measure and report real-time grain quality during harvest.

At Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), they fund Canadian cleantech projects and coach the companies that lead them as they move their ground-breaking technologies to market.SDTC’s support of cleantech translates into jobs, growth, and export opportunities for Canadian companies, as well as economic, environmental and healthbenefits for all Canadians. They are independent but don’t work alone. A big part of their role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad. They operate at arm’s length and receive funding from the Government of Canada.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Software
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
Cyclic Materials — Cyclic Materials has created the first circular supply chain for rare earth elements with the goal of helping the world transition to an environmentally responsible future.

Sprout Fund invests in seed- and early-stage companies with Series-A funding potential. The fund leverages the collective experience of its Managing and Limited Partners to mentor and fund high-potential technology companies. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
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!
Ideon Technologies — Unlock the power of subsurface imaging with groundbreaking muon tomography. Discover precise mineral detection for confident decision-making.

ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
Yi'an Holdings — Yi'an Holdings is a financial services company that provides one-stop investment banking services to small and medium-sized companies.

The Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC) was established by the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation Act, 2008 and was launched on February 27, 2009. The principal business of the OCGC is to manage the interest of the Government of Ontario in the limited partnership known as the Ontario Venture Capital Fund LP (OVCF) and to manage and operatethe Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF).

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Video
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Verold (zyenti) — Verold is an online visual editor that allows users to integrate 3D models into their presentations. The platform provides a studio that enables users to customize the lighting and environment setup of their project. They can also add animations, audio, and video assets and share their output in the web through Verold’s embeddable player.In2015, Verold was acquired by Box.
Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Smart Energy Instruments — The Best Electronic Tools and Instrumentation

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Joyride — Make mobility instantly shareable, connected, keyless and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
Virtuo — Virtuo is a CX platform built for home builders, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and more, to elevate their home buyer experience.
WELL Health Technologies — WELL aims to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower and support patients and doctors. Learn about our mission and purpose.

Playground is an early-stage investment firm that helps old and new investors and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of bits, atoms, and AI. It focuses on investment, innovation, connected hardware, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Boxbot — Dynamic storage and retrieval platform that adapts to varying cubic dimensions and eliminates manual pick stations.
Insamo — Insamo is a global biotechnology company pioneering the discovery of membrane-permeable and orally available cyclic-peptides with antibody-like binding affinity.
Element Zero — Element Zero - The Green Metal Company. Element Zero has developed a novel approach to cost-effectively and efficiently convert metal ores such as iron ore, nickel ore and other future facing metals, to pure metal form with zero carbon emissions.

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Frontly — Turn your Google Sheets into modern dashboards and internal business tools in minutes.
Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tali AI — You can use Tali AI to dictate your medical notes directly into your Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. Additionally, this extension will enable you to look up information from evidence-based medical databases at the point-of-care without needing to leave the EMR.
AmacaThera — Amacathera is developing an injectable hydrogel platform to provide localized, sustained drug delivery
Sibli — Institutional investors leverage our technology to secure an information advantage, reduce blind spots, and improve performance.

bp Ventures plays a key role in helping the company reinvent itself as an integrated energy company, in line with our new purpose: reimagining energy for people and planet.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Dynamon — Dynamon's advanced sustainable fleet solutions software and optimisation tools ensure operational transformation for the commercial transport industry
Advanced Ionics — Advanced Ionics has created an electrolyzer that allows industrial hydrogen users to produce green hydrogen for less than $1/kg.
Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.

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

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.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.

Space Capital is an early-stage space venture capital fund focused on unlocking the value in space technology stacks. Start to invest in the future of humanity!

Investment focus

Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
Zephr — Zephr operates as a developer of next generation location-based solutions.
Gradial — Marketing & sales ops at the speed of thought

Energy Innovation Capital is the premier capital provider for innovators serving the energy industry. EIC provides early and growth-stage funding for visionary entrepreneurs tackling global energy challenges with transformative, market-leading solutions. EIC's team leverages its industry expertise, networks and collaborative approach to helptalented entrepreneurs push the boundaries of what's possible and build great companies. To learn more, visit www.energyinnovationcapital.com.

Investment focus

Energy, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kairos Aerospace — Kairos Aerospace provides large-scale, aerial monitoring of methane emissions. The company completed the first-ever basin-wide aerial survey for methane detection in its 2019 survey of the Permian Basin. Kairos Aerospace’s mission is to improve operational excellence for the oil and gas industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions atscale.
Orbital Sidekick — Orbital Sidekick utilizes hyperspectral technology - capturing hundreds of narrow contiguous spectral bands, from visible light through infrared. The company develops a space-based infrastructure of hyperspectral sensors to provide monitoring services to the energy sector.Orbital Sidekick was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco,California, United States.
ConnectDER — ConnectDER adapters let anyone connect solar panels or EV chargers to their home at a fraction of the typical time and cost....

Hillside Ventures is an early-stage venture fund supporting companies either founded by UConn alumni or that are in the sustainability, insurtech, or edtech industries.

Investment focus

Energy, Sustainability, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BioGreen360 — BioGreen360 is a provider of technology services for sustainable food waste solutions. It is self-contained, continual feed, aerobic, organic waste digester. This revolutionary system biologically converts organic waste into a dry, sterile, high-nutrient product suitable as a fertilizer additive, reducing the negative environmental impact and costsassociated with landfill dumping. BioGreen360 was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Enviro Power — Enviro Power brings to market an innovative heating system. The SmartWatt Boiler technology platform is designed to generate close-to-zero cost electricity and provide backup power with the potential to reduce utility bills for millions of building owners while lowering its carbon footprint and enhancing grid resiliency.
Rebound Technologies — An agile cold chain solution that boosts revenues, preserves product quality and ensures food safety, all while offering proven energy cost reductions.

Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Canada, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
Clear Blue Technologies — Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly,less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.

Equinor is an energy company that is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas, as well as wind and solar power. It also sells crude oil and is a major supplier of natural gas, with activities in processing, refining, and trading. Its activities are managed through eight business areas, staff and support divisions, andhas operations in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania, and Norway.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, Energy, Software
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Norway, Canada

Portfolio highlights

eSmart Systems — ESmart Systems provides AI-driven software solutions to the energy industry and service providers. The company is based on more than 20 years of international experience in establishing and operating knowledge based, leading IT and energy related companies targeting global markets.The company provides software solutions to the energy industry andservice providers. Its cloud-born platform is designed to handle and exploit the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics in real-time. Common to all applications is vast data quantities gathered from sensors, which are analyzed using advanced prediction and optimization models. This results in completely new ways of visualizing data, making decisions and saving resources and costs. The platform is designed for Big Data from the ground up without legacy.eSmart Systems originates from the renowned IFE environment (Institute for Energy Technology). The company was founded in 2012 by an experienced team previously responsible for large IT service exports including delivery of the world's first power exchange to Nord Pool, the Nordic Power Exchange, in 1991. Since 2012 the company has grown rapidly and currently consists of almost 80 employees with offices in Norway, Denmark, the UK, and USA.
Data Gumbo — Data Gumbo is the smart contract company trusted by global industrial enterprises. The only network of enterprises and their customers, suppliers and vendors that successfully incorporates real-time sensor level and field data to validate transactions, GumboNet™ reduces costs by more than 10% for all network members by automatically eliminatingpayment delays, disputes and complicated reconciliations.To date, Data Gumbo has received equity funding with Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Saudi Aramco; Equinor Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Equinor, Norway’s leading energy operator; and L37, a hybrid venture capital and private equity company. Data Gumbo is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with global offices in Stavanger, Norway, and London, UK. For more information, visit www.datagumbo.com.
Earth Science Analytics — Earth Science Analytics is an innovative software technology company, established with a clear vision: to build the next generation of subsurface technologies and workflows. With proven Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) technology, extensive domain and industry knowledge, we enable rapid digitalisation of the energy industry, focusing in particular on Oil & Gas, New Energy, and Asset Management.

UBC Seed Fund

Investment focus

Robotics, Industrial, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ideon Technologies — Unlock the power of subsurface imaging with groundbreaking muon tomography. Discover precise mineral detection for confident decision-making.
Sonic Incytes — Sonic Incytes Provides Portable, Point Of Care Solution To Assess Liver Stiffness & Liver Attenuation. Learn About Our Handheld 3D Ultrasound Solution.
Variational AI — We discover novel drug-like small molecules with optimized properties for defined targets

Market conditions are transforming the way you do business. Stalled global economies, reduced investment activity, weaker global trade, and geopolitical turmoil are driving us all to make significant changes. They understand that your needs are changing rapidly, and so are your expectations of your partners.Their organization is passionatelycommitted to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. They embrace your visions as Their own and partner with you to develop better ideas that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. Their global network of 9,000 professionals work on the world’s toughest challenges. Their corporate roots extend back more than a hundred years, and Their experience spans over 150 countries around the world in the metals, energy, infrastructure, digital, and investments market sectors.

Investment focus

Sensor, Oil and Gas
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Flyscan — Flyscan develops automated, airborne, leak and threat detection services for oil and gas pipeline operators.

InterGen Capital deploys capital into post-seed, pre-Series A companies led by extraordinary teams with proven solutions and big markets. The firm has a strong network of retired and transitioning executives looking to engage with innovative companies emerging from start-up to scale-up.InterGen Capital was founded in 2018 and is located inCalgary, Alberta.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Data Visualization
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
StellarAlgo — Drive fan engagement and revenue across the entire fan journey. For Major Leagues, Emerging Leagues, Live Events, Media & Gaming, and Corporate Partnerships.
Virtuo — Virtuo is a CX platform built for home builders, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and more, to elevate their home buyer experience.

BAI Corporation makes investments in people & solutions that address our most pressing societal & environmental issues & concerns.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Packaging Services
Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Artemis — Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms. It specializes in indoor farming software solutions. Artemis help indoor farm operators use data to make more profitable production decisions. It tracks and analyzes all farm data in one place, enabling growers to optimize plant performance and reduce operating expenses.Allison Kopfand Jason Camp founded Agrilyst in 2015 that later became Artemis. It has its headquarters in Brooklyn in New York City.
Genera Energy — SUSTAINABLE FIBER SOLUTIONS Ag-based Fiber for Sustainable Products Genera simplifies your supply chain with domestically produced ag-based pulp and molded fiber products. Partnering with regional farmers, Genera provides a sustainable farm to finished product solution. SHOP EARTHABLE
Better Earth LLC — Better Earth - High-quality compostable food service packaging made from renewable materials. Helping businesses meet sustainability goals and boost the circular economy. From field to fork to field, compostable products for a Better Earth.

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Gradient — A centralized data platform that enables full organizational observability. Find and manage everything that's going on with your team, products, and customers.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.

Industry Ventures has cultivated new segments of the venture capital market for over two decades using its complete lifecycle approach.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AM Batteries — AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Sensible Weather — Discover Sensible Weather, the team that has you covered when unexpected weather puts a damper on your day.
Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.

Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.
PredictionStrike — PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares.

Pason Systems Inc. is a provider of data management systems for drilling rigs. The Company offers solutions, which include data acquisition, wellsite reporting, remote communications, and Web-based information management, enables collaboration between the rig and the office. It operates through three geographic segments: Canada, the United States,and International (Latin America, Offshore, the Eastern Hemisphere and the Middle East). Its Electronic Drilling Recorder (EDR) provides a complete system of drilling data acquisition, data networking, and drilling management tools and reports at both the wellsite and customer offices. Its solution Pit Volume Totalizer (PVT) is used for the detection and early warning of kicks that are caused by hydrocarbons entering the wellbore under high pressure and expanding as they migrate to the surface. Its data management system Pason DataHub collects, stores, and displays drilling data, reports and real-time information from drilling operations.

Investment focus

Energy, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Corporate Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Intelligent Wellhead Systems — Intelligent Wellhead Systems is a privately-owned oil and gas technology and service company that provides proprietary and unique surface control systems for the oil and gas industry. The company specializes in the development and deployment of unique pressure control systems. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

Henkel was founded in 1876. People around the world trust Henkel’s brands and technologies. In the fiscal year 2015, the company reported sales of approx. 18 billion euros and an operating profit of 2.9 billion euros (adjusted for one-time gains/charges and restructuring charges). The DAX-30 company has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany.Henkel employs about 50,000 people worldwide, more than 80 percent of whom work outside of Germany. Henkel is thus one of the most international German companies

Investment focus

Nanotechnology, E-Commerce, Electronics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Actnano — Actnano is a nanotechnology company that specializes in automotive, consumer electronics, and smart coating solutions that make products water-resistant. The company enables the protection of a variety of materials from water damage and harsh environmental conditions. Its technology provides a broad spectrum of transparent nano guard coatings thatcan be applied to electronic devices in a way that makes them water-resistant to IPx7 levels, enabling clients to keep their electronics and gadgets protected and last long in an economical way.actnano was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Direct-C — Remote asset monitoring systems for oil and gas infrastructure that provide rapid leak detection for liquid hydrocarons, produced water and more.
AGORA — Discover what we are known best for, our AGORA Edits!

Fonds régionaux de solidarité FTQ is a private equity firm investing in early and growth-stage companies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Mining, Industrial Engineering
Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Groupe Crete inc — The Crête Group's activities are the results of a family-run company founded by Gérard Crête in 1949 and developed thereafter by his son Martin and his grandson Sébastien. For the past sixty years, their business, human and community relations have been defined by honesty, respect and integrity. It is understood that, despite itsimpressive track record, the Crête family knew how to stay humble and modest in spite of their numerous success that they willingly share with all of their partners that accompanied them during those years. Going over this site, you will discover the passionate story of this family native of the Mauricie, that, during many years, knew how to get out of a tricky situation in an unstable economy and an industry constantly restructuring. A family as determined as dynamic, constantly challenging their own company politics while always seeking excellence. The Crête family is in business for long! Groupe Crete's misssion is to remain a performing and flexible company of the Québec softwood transformation industry, a renewable ressource. By manufacturing products that are adapted to the needs of our customers. The company develops innovative products that are respectful of the environment, with the objective to generate value for the community, its customers, employees and shareholders.
Novaxis Solutions — Novaxis Solutions is an internet company.
GCM Consultants — GCM Consultants has delivered, for over 25 years, high-performance engineering services through inspired resources who hail from industry. We execute capital projects between $0 and 200 M – studies, preliminary and detailed engineering, project and construction management.We offer technical services to our clients in the following industrialsectors: • Oil and gas production • Refining • Petrochemical • Mining and metallurgy • Pharma, Biotech and Food • Building and Data Center

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