Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026

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• Moveline — Moveline provides multiple moving quotes from quality moving companies, all from one form. Get up to four quotes now.
• ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
• Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.

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• Haply — Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance.
• JetScale AI — JetScale AI is a Montreal-based startup specializing in AI-driven cloud infrastructure optimization. It uses agentic AI to detect inefficiencies, provide remediation plans, and generate compliant Infrastructure-as-Code for cost savings and sustainability.
• Cognota — Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
• Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
• fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
• Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
• Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.

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• 500px — 500px is the premier community and social network for aspiring and practicing photographers. Over 15M creatives from 195 countries come to 500px to discover and share the highest-quality photography, gain global exposure, and get paid for their work and skills.The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and was launched in 2009. 500px hasraised over $20 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Harrison Metal, ff Ventures, and other investors. In early 2018, 500px was acquired by Visual China Group.

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• SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
• Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
• Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

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• CanvasPop — Print any photo on canvas with Canvaspop. Our expert printing processes allow you to create gallery-quality canvas art from your own photos & images.

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• Shoebox — Shoebox is a service that provides unlimited online photo backup. It scans a user’s entire offline photo collection, uploads it to cloud storage and applies organization algorithms to automatically categorize pics and provide different ways of viewing them. Shoebox was created by Couch Labs Inc in Toronto to simplify photo collections andbackup in a world where almost every device has a built in camera. Shoebox’s strength is in getting the pictures from storage and sources that aren’t connected, to the web, as quickly and painlessly as possible. It’s a shotgun, not a scalpel, and it’s very good at what it does. With native applications for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, Shoebox allows users to rediscover their memories anytime and anywhere.Visit shoeboxapp.com for more info.

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• Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
• Quest Portal — Quest Portal is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease.
• Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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• Hone — Hone helps HR and L&D teams scale development that upskills managers, leaders, and teams through AI-powered and live experiences that deliver measurable impact
• Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
• Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction is a software provider specialized in automating complex communication workflows. Their premier product, the Automated Patient Interaction System, enables healthcare organizations to communicate more effectively with patients using text messaging, automated voice, and email.This automated system helps both patients and healthcare providers connect quickly through technology to remind patients of appointments, fill open slots and request patient feedback.

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• KidPass — KidPass is the leading destination for parents to discover and book amazing children’s activities.
• Viro Media — Viro Media helps mobile developers to easily add VR to their apps using familiar tools and code bases.
• Homer Logistics — Homer provides efficient, professional last-mile delivery service to local businesses and their customers in Manhattan and in the New York Metropolitan area. Apply within to join our network of businesses or to work as a Homer courier.

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• Earkick - AI Therapist — Measure & improve your mental health in real time with your personal AI chat bot. No sign up. Available 24/7. Daily insights just for you!
• Norbert Health — Norbert Health develops a home medical pod that monitors the health of families using contactless sensors. Their product senses key vital signs including heart rate, breathing rate, and temperature, providing a real-time and historical view of the user's health. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
• Sonus Microsystems — Sonus Microsystems is revolutionizing ultrasound imaging with polymer CMUTs, developing transducers for advanced healthcare, NDT and wearable applications.

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• Flixel Photos — Flixel lets you easily create beautiful living photos, also known as 'cinemagraphs'. Unlike a still photo, a living photo contains a portion of of seamless and infinitely looping motion. Whether it's hair blowing in the wind or a flickering fire in the background of an otherwise still image, the effect can be mesmerizing.

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• Hallow — Pray every day this Lent with Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
• Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
• Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

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• Privy — Rated the #1 sales app in the Shopify App Store. Used by 600,000+ online brands around the world to grow sales NOW with email & SMS.
• Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
• PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.

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• Foxglove — Foxglove is visualization and management for temporal and multimodal data. It's used by robotics companies to scale and accelerate development.
• Anything — Anything is your AI agent for turning ideas into apps. Build sites, apps, tools, products and more just by describing what you want
• Manifold Labs — Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company.

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• Armoire — Rent an infinite closet, styled just for you. Armoire is a women's rental clothing membership that continuously styles you with curated, contemporary designs.
• Revealx — Deehubs is an advertising company that creates smart and social billboards. Their product unites ordinary people and advertisers. Its mission is to create public stages for people and to make ad content on billboards interesting. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
• memelabs — Memelabs is a completely customizable tool for organizing user contributed video and photo submissions. Built as a user-generated contesting (UGC) platform, memelabs is used by Fortune 500 companies to deliver flawless user experiences. It includes power tools for sharing and spreading a message.Developed specifically for businesses seekinginspired, high-level, creative marketing initiatives, memelabs helps companies promote their ideas. They do this through viral video, and other low-cost, high-exposure marketing campaigns.Memelabs is part of memesuite, an agency toolkit with solutions for audio-visual delivery, contesting and client database management. Memesuite also includes memeserver and minimeme. Memeserver is a robust, professional, and customizable video server. Minimeme is a fast, easy turnkey-based contest platform for video and photos.Clients include The Gap, Wells Fargo, Intrawest, Texas Instruments, and PBS.Memelabs Relaunches as

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• Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
• ClinicGlide — ClinicGlide uses AI to automate patient calls, messages, and bookings across phone, SMS, and web. Respond instantly, reduce front desk workload, and improve patient access without adding staff.
• Smart Skin Technologies — SmartSkin helps pharma and beverage manufacturers reduce breakage, optimize line efficiency, and achieve zero-defect operations.

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• Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
• Harper Wilde — Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie.The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs andpass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.
• DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
• Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.

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• Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
• Talent.com — Find jobs, salary & company information on Talent.com. Discover your next career today. Your job search starts here!
• GoodFit — Implement & scale any GTM strategy. Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice

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• Dynami Battery Corp — Dynami supercharges current and future lithium battery chemistries through electrode micro-engineering.
• SceneDoc — SceneDoc is public safety’s first all-in-one mobile software for data collection and retrieval. By modernizing with SceneDoc, agencies operate with higher levels of clarity and control, with fewer moving parts, capturing data and reporting at the point of need. SceneDoc is saving agencies an hour of paperwork per shift on average, resulting in lesstime reporting and more time in the community so officers can do what they do best.
• Mayday — Time is your most valuable asset. Make sure you're spending it wisely.

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• Tessl — Tessl transforms software development for the AI era with its innovative AI-native development approach. Its AI-powered development platform provides secure, high-quality, and self-maintaining code tailored to the user's requirements.
• CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
• Spectro Cloud — Enterprise Kubernetes management platform built for scale. Complete lifecycle management of any type of cluster, from bare metal to the edge.

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• scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
• Heritable Agriculture — Revolutionary agricultural biotechnology that enables precise genetic programming of plants. Transform how the world grows food through cutting-edge synthetic biology.
• Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.

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• Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
• Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
• Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR

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• Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
• Platfora — Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora's Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time.
• Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.

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• UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
• FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
• Raven Connected — Raven Connected - The connected dash camera for every need. The single device with all of the tools necessary to safeguard your vehicle and those in it. Gain peace of mind and freedom to focus on what's important to you, knowing Raven will call if there's any sign of trouble.

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• Locket — Locket is an Android lock screen company. Its product portfolio includes Locket App, an application that enables users to see trending content on the lock screen, and Locket Engage SDK, a re-engagement Android platform that allows app publishers to re-engage users with their content via the lock screen.
• videogram — Want to boost your video revenue?Use the power of Videogram AI Sign up
• Flixel Photos — Flixel lets you easily create beautiful living photos, also known as 'cinemagraphs'. Unlike a still photo, a living photo contains a portion of of seamless and infinitely looping motion. Whether it's hair blowing in the wind or a flickering fire in the background of an otherwise still image, the effect can be mesmerizing.

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• Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
• Carrot — The app that automatically saves your finds and helps you get back to them when you're ready to buy. Download on Chrome & iOS
• Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.