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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Canada in December 2024

Investor	Payments Canada investments
Luge Capital	6
Alameda Research	5
Golden Ventures	5
Garage Capital	5
Inovia Capital	5
Impression Ventures	5
OMERS Ventures	5
Maple VC	4
Ventures Platform	4
Lemniscap	4
FJ Labs	4
Zaeem Shaukat Mirza	4
Real Ventures	4
Thin Air Labs	4
Anges Quebec	4
N49P	4
CoinFund	4
Tribe Capital	4
ConsenSys	4
Susa Ventures	4
Mistral Venture Partners	4
Panache Ventures	4
Accomplice	3
Microtraction	3
Olugbenga Agboola	3
Matchstick Ventures	3
Genblock Capital	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Tenzor Capital	3
Ankr	3
CMCC Global	3
Balaji Srinivasan	3
LoftyInc Capital	3
CMS Holdings	3
Ethos VC	3
Third Sphere	3
Cycle Capital	3
BoxOne Ventures	3
XDL Capital Group	3
Blockchain Capital	3
Fenbushi Capital	3
Dimeji Sofowora	3
CRV	3
Adegoke Olubusi	3
Arjun Sethi	3
AU21 Capital	3
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	3
GreenSky Ventures	3
Uncorrelated Ventures	3
Diagram Ventures	3

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Luge Capital is a fintech focused venture capital fund, investing in early-stage teams shaping the way the world experiences financial services. We are an experienced team with value added investors and a deep industry network to help founders build successful companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Deck — Open Data API accessing Energy, Water, Government and many more data verticals to power sustainability, credit check, accounting, bill payments and many more use-cases. Start building now with Deck's self-serve platform.
Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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

Deck — Open Data API accessing Energy, Water, Government and many more data verticals to power sustainability, credit check, accounting, bill payments and many more use-cases. Start building now with Deck's self-serve platform.
Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
CYRISMA — The strength of Data Spotlite's SaaS solutions CYRISMA is not simply discovering and reporting Cyber Risk but RESOLVING those risks. This solution offers a single interface to identify, report, summarize and manage risks. Traditional methods of cyber risk management rely on a collection of separate and costly solutions that generate a mountainof disconnected reports that must be manually addressed. Many organizations simply don’t have the resources or manpower to reach their compliance goals as a result.

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DryMerge — DryMerge lets you connect your apps and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. Try for free today and save hours of time with 30 seconds.
Brightband — Responsible development and maintenance of advanced Earth System AI for the long-term benefit of all humanity and the Earth.
Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Scribenote — Effortless documentation for veterinary professionals.

VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

401GO — 401GO provides a comprehensive 401k solution for small businesses of all sizes, from a single to thousands of employees. Ongoing administration is automated with payroll integrations while compliance, government filings, notifications, and all other responsibilities are handled by the company.
Ned — Ned develops and creates a platform that provides revenue based financing solutions and services. It is based in New York, USA.
Goose Insurance Services — Mobile First B2C Insurance Platform

OMERS Ventures Home Page.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Medal — Gamers live here. Medal is the best way to record, clip, edit, and share your gaming clips and videos. Clip, Edit, Share, and Relive your gaming moments.
Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.
Brightwave — Brightwave is a revolutionary AI research assistant that generates trustworthy, insightful financial analysis on demand.

Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Blockus — Blockus enables game studios to build fast, reduce costs and laser focus on gameplay. Seamlessly integrated WaaS, first party NFT marketplace, and fiat + crypto payments.
Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
TMRW — Tomorrow is a social payments app for bitcoiners and their global friends. Enjoy instant, fee-free Bitcoin and USD transactions powered by the Lightning Network. Join the waitlist and unlock the power of seamless, borderless money transfers.

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
VOOM — VOOM is a tech enabled platform built to simplify and disrupt the buying & selling used car market.

Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
Nitro Labs — Termina is a powerful platform designed to streamline the deployment of Solana blocks through an integrated engine for the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.

Zaeem is a dynamic professional with a passion for launching, building, and managing global brands and companies. He has a proven track record of creating substantial revenue impact through precision marketing, demand generation, scaled customer acquisition, digital strategies, and e-commerce initiatives.With experience spanning over 90 countriesand 175 cities, Zaeem has honed his expertise in global marketing, marketing operations, growth marketing, user acquisition, digital transformation, e-commerce, online sales, customer relationship management, and demand generation at scale. He has had the privilege of working with industry-leading companies such as Rewaa, Dentsu iProspect, AmoebaCom, Qatar Airways, and Google, where he has driven scale and efficiency in global business and marketing operations.Zaeem has successfully managed diverse teams and portfolios across 24 languages, with marketing budgets exceeding $100 million, contributing to revenues in the billions. His commitment to social impact is evident through his consultancy work with various organizations in management, fundraising, and non-profit marketing.An alumnus of INSEAD, Singapore, where he graduated from the Marketing Academy, Zaeem aspires to pursue a Ph.D. in Marketing Technology. His academic credentials include being a University of Mumbai ranker, a mass communication graduate from St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, IN), and a post-graduate in advertising management from MICA (IN).Zaeem is also a dedicated mentor and investor, driven by a desire to nurture entrepreneurs who are passionate about technology, product innovation, or social impact. His enthusiasm for continual learning sees him facilitating media and business school programs, conducting corporate workshops, and speaking at industry conferences on topics such as marketing strategy, e-commerce, brand management, and non-profit marketing.Outside of work, Zaeem enjoys slow traveling, reading, painting, exploring new business opportunities, and spending quality time with family and friends.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
UMMAH1.com — UMMAH1.com is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
UMMAH1.org — UMMAH1.org is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.

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

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

Thin Air Labs is the leading investment firm in Canada focused on the growth asset class in innovation and technology. We currently have 24 companies in our portfolio. We believe in igniting venture growth for greater human impact.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Clinify Inc — Medical records are barely digitized in Africa. The lack of digitally centralized health records has led to a large number of preventable deaths as a result of wrong and self diagnosis by patients due to poor to no medical histories, paper record mismatch, long wait times and missed revenue opportunities. There is also a shortage of healthcarepractitioners and a lack of stable healthcare infrastructure.We are building a health information management system that leverages the capabilities of Artificial intelligence. Our solution cuts wait time in half, enables users to easily access, populate, own and centralize their health records. This allows them to control and better understand their encounters, book appointments via a web portal and mobile app, have virtual consultation with healthcare professionals and providers while running it on a low cost infrastructure without affecting system performance.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
Quickly — The trusted platform to provide valuable discounts on payables, offer trade credit extensions and manage the entirety of your transaction process.

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) — Hexoskin is the leader in Smart Clothing, Software & AI Data Analytics. The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are clinically validated for continuous ECG, HRV, Respiratory, Activity, Sleep & Stress monitoring. The Hexoskin Smart Garments are used by sports scientists, healthcare, defense, aerospace & research professionals.
Workstaff — Simplify workforce management, staff scheduling and time tracking with the Workstaff software and mobile app. Start for free and save time today!
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
Raad Labs — Raad Labs is a blockchain and climate technology company.
XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.

Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. The team is made up of investors, engineers and scientists who use artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data science to model venture-backed private companies.Beyond investment capital, Tribe deploys these AI tools toseparate signal from noise, helping our companies understand their businesses better. Our data-informed strategy includes an underwriting infrastructure and a quantitative analysis tool called the “Magic 8-ball.” We leverage these tools to provide deep insight on factors driving growth and how to accelerate sustainable growth, honed through years of developing similar products at major tech and finance players like Lyft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Bridgewater Associates. Our team uses these tools to measure quantitative product-market fit, so we can more effectively assess and accelerate what Tribe refers to as “N-of-1” companies - companies with the potential to be 10-100x growth opportunities, while minimizing loss ratio by a large degree. Tribe Capital has $1.6 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken, Instabase, Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wingbits — Explore Wingbits, the DePIN flight-tracking network powered by Solana's blockchain. Shape the future of aviation - register for free today!
Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
Foundation — Foundation is developing the future of robotics with a vision to revolutionize both military efficiency and industrial productivity. Our mission is to create advanced humanoid robots that can operate in complex environments, reducing human risk in con...

Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
Centaur Labs — Centaur Labs offers accurate and scalable medical data labeling across a variety of modalities and data formats including CT, ultrasound, image, video, text and many more.
Fanstake — Fanstake helps in organizing player specific programs by pooling funds from fans.

Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
Realm.Security — Realm.Security transforms sprawling security data into a unified intelligent entity. Leveraging AI and cutting edge data processing technology, we deliver the right information to the right destination at the right time.

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Matchstick is an early stage venture fund in the North and Rockies. We invest where innovative ideas, huge markets and, most importantly, diverse founders strike. We are honored to support "underdog" founders who will stop at nothing to succeed. Matchstick exists to act as a catalyst for our founders, our partners, and our startup communities.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Two Boxes — The future of optimized and sustainable ecommerce returns has arrived. Two Boxes powers the processing of returns and captures critical data from the returns process, no matter the SKU count or SOP.
Frate — First-of-its-kind automated peer-to-peer returns solution. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability while also saving money on every return.
Tab Commerce — Tab Commerce helps restaurants of all sizes consolidate, analyze, and better manage every single expense they have.

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Tenzor Capital is a $40M venture capital fund active since 2017 that invests in crypto and Web3 startups. Tenzor backs ventures at any stage with token or equity investments, ranging from $100k to $3m. Tenzor provides strategic support with marketing, hiring, and accelerating growth.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
Zeko Labs — Zeko Labs is a zero-knowledge cross-chain scaling protocol built on Mina and designed for developers shaping the future of finance, AI, gaming, and the internet.
KOKODI — KOKODI is a cross-chain, multi-platform MMO game that allows players to play with zero-knowledge cryptography.

Get faster, more reliable multi-chain development tools

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Grant, Series A
Canada, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

VIP3 — VIP3 is the FIRST all-in-one web3 benefits and membership platform, providing users with rewards and discounts.
Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
AlterVerse — Discover AlterVerse, an immersive free-to-play game coming to the Epic Store. Explore endless possibilities in our boundless sandbox environment where survival skills are key. Join the adventure today!

CMCC Global is one of Asia’s first venture capital funds focused solely on blockchain investments, with offices in North America and Asia.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.
Covalent — Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points.
OpenTrade — OpenTrade providers web3 treasurers, institutions, and accredited investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade RWAs.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Lnfi Network — Lnfi Network is an all-in-one financialization layer for Taproot Assets, enabling builders to issue, fundraise, and bootstrap communities and users to mint, send/receive, and earn.

Ethos empowers visionary entrepreneurs to bring their transformative ideas to life, fueling innovation and pushing society forward.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Funding Round, Series D
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Setscale — Setscale simplifies trade & empower companies to scale with Purchase Order Financing. Setscale only get paid once you do! We fund Supply. You meet demand.
Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nevoya — Nevoya's focus on zero-emission freight transport is a significant step toward sustainability in the logistics industry. Nevoya is an electric truckload carriers can help reduce the carbon footprint of shipping while also potentially lowering operational costs in the long run.
Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
FireDome — FireDome's revolutionary wildfire defense system takes a two-tiered strategy. First, a mechanical launcher quickly deploys a protective barrier to impede the direct route of advancing wildfires. Second, the system actively detects and promptly extinguishes spot fires created by airborne embers that bypass the primary barrier.

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
Funding Round, Series B, 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 industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
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.

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Talus Bio — Talus Bioscience combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to target hard-to-treat transcription factors driving cancer & beyond.
CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
Axonis Therapeutics — AXONIS Therapeutics, Inc. is advancing breakthrough discoveries to develop first-in-class therapies for neurological disorders.

XDL is a Ontario-based private equity investor that invests in technology companies. Since 1996 we have supported entrepreneurs building technology related companies in new and growing business sectors. XDL is primarily a private equity investor. They invest their own monies, uniting their interests with each investee. They provide focusedattention on their investments, sharing experience, networks and knowledge to help the entrepreneurs grow and prosper.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Infrastructure
Seed, Series D, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuco — Nuco is a crypto marketing agency focusing on PR, SEO and Social. We specialize in web3 and blockchain clients, but also do SEO for gambling.
Figment — Figment: Staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for investors and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technology.
MIMOSA Diagnostics — MIMOSA Diagnostics is an m-health tech startup with a novel handheld device and integrated smartphone app for image visualization of skin health. MIMOSA is bringing medical grade technology out of hospitals and into the hands of patient consumers. The value proposition for MIMOSA’s AI diagnostic data warehouse will provide metadata insightsintegrated with patient EMR/EHR systems. Our first commercial entry launch is in the Diabetes sector, with future expansion to follow into other therapeutic areas.MIMOSA diagnostics puts the future of skin health into your hands. The MIMOSA is one of the few handheld multispectral skin imaging devices in the healthcare industry. Our proprietary algorithms risk profile the skin in various clinical settings. Our technology will allow healthcare to be equitable, efficient, and more personalized for all.

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Mamori — ML-powered automated value extraction system
QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.

Dimeji Sofowora is a co-founder at Helium Health.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
Fastino — Fastino provides enterprise AI developers with high-performance, task-optimized language models built to scale.
Flipturn — The unified control center for EV fleet and charger operations

Goke is one of Africa's finest entrepreneurs at the forefront of technology disruptions across Africa. A Johns Hopkins University alumni and previously an engineer at eBay, PayPal and Goldman Sachs in the U.S., Goke has a penchant for solving tough problems. He served on the founding team of Africa's leading social network with 30m+ usersand received multiple honours/awards from Forbes, Chevron, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Pre-Seed
Canada, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Panda Salud — Singapore pools merupakan layanan live draw sgp yang sudah bisa anda saksikan melalui live draw sgp prize. Result sgp pools diadakan setiap jam 17.45 wib.
Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.

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 AI is an on-demand delivery software that enables restaurants to automate in-house delivery. The end-to-end software solution utilizes artificial intelligence to fully automate delivery operations.
Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
Ethica Channel Enablement Inc. — A simple solution for last-mile internet connectivity, specializing in link bonding, session-proof failover, and network management.

Nerds who invest in infrastructure software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Orb — Drive business model innovation with Orb. We power billing for the world's leading software companies.
Northflank — Northflank is the comprehensive developer platform designed for scale. Seamlessly deploy and release any project on our cloud or in yours.
FeedbackNow — FeedbackNow, a maker of physical buttons and monitoring software that companies deploy to measure, analyze, and improve customer experience

Connecting ideas, founders, and capital to build companies

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Katara — Katara is an advanced agentic workflow automation platform that allows you to manage a fleet of AI workers and expand your team's bandwidth.
Upfront — Upfront is a company that provides smooth cash flow solutions to real estate brokers, enabling to overcome financial obstacles and achieve greater success.
Walnut Insurance — Insurance for everyone. Pick from transparent plans made for you.

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