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Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 30 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Photography startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	Photography Canada investments
ff Venture Capital	4
BDC Venture Capital	3
Angel One Network	3
SOSV	2
LDV Capital	1
Rugged Ventures	1
CAA Ventures	1
Inovia Capital	1
Bedrock	1
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	1
boldstart ventures	1
SVG Ventures	1
Fierce Capital	1
Dustin Plett	1
Mantella Venture Partners	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
WUTIF	1
Tobias Lütke	1
Cranson Capital Securities	1
Celtic House Venture Partners	1
David Wieland	1
Harrison Metal	1
Clark Valberg	1
Roger Dickey	1
Nitesh Banta	1
Brice Scheschuk	1
Accomplice	1
SVG Ventures	1
Richard L’Abbé	1
Heather Redman	1

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ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paraspot AI — Paraspot enables companies in the field of real estate to conduct automatic inspections free of human error, by using computer vision. Moving the physical visits, online.
ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
Maxa AI — Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions.
Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
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.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
OncoPrecision — We're developing personalized assays to determine the most suitable medication for cancer therapy at the patient level. Through our proprietary Drug Activity and Resistance Test, oncologists will be able to make data-driven decisions regarding cancer therapy selection based on patient-derived samples. Our goal is to democratize access toPrecision Oncology and improve cancer patients' lives.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Sonus Microsystems — Sonus Microsystems is revolutionizing ultrasound imaging with polymer CMUTs, developing transducers for advanced healthcare, NDT and wearable applications.

Rugged Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in seed-stage companies. Founded by Dave Lerner, Rugged Ventures has been making seed stage investments since 2001.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Content
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

KidPass — The best indoor and outdoor kids activities, summer camps, and online classes for kids ages 0-18+ in art, music, dance, yoga, language, STEM, sports, coding, and more.
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.

CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Gaiia — With an all-in-one solution for billing, operations, automation and everything in between. gaiia is the simplest platform to run your ISP.
Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

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, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Solyntek — Solyntek is a startup that specializes in using the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform standard security cameras into 24/7 guardians that detect and alarm risky situations at work.
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.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zuplo — Zuplo is fully-managed API Management designed for developers. Add rate-limiting, authentication and more as fast as you can commit to git.
Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.
Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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
Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.

Fierce Capital LLC is developing and investing in early-stage startups, including female-focused businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Video
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Dustin is based in Toronto, Canada. He is VP Business Development at 500px.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Internet
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
SDF — SDF is the next generation transformation layer and best developer platform for data. A compiler and execution engine designed to improve the data engineering experience, with compile time guarantees and composable execution.
Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.

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

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
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.
VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.

Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Cranson Capital Securities Inc. is a boutique investment banking firm that is registered with the Ontario Securities Commission as an Exempt Market Dealer. They specialize in raising capital from accredited investors for private placements in real estate developments and high growth companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Photography
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.

David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hallow — Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.
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.

Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
Crowdbotics — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction uses patient engagement insights & intelligent medical scheduling to improve practice profitability & patient satisfaction

Clark Valberg Clark Valberg is the Managing Partner at Tiferes Ventures. He previously worked as the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies,including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Consumer Goods
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
Lottielab — Create and ship animations to your products faster. Bring your websites and apps to life with the simplest editor for Lottie animations.
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

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

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.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!
Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience

Brice Scheschuk is a Co-founder, Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Globalive Communications / Wind Mobile. He has been with Globalive / Wind for eight years in a senior finance capacity and is responsible for all aspects of finance, facilities and business planning including direct responsibility for raising in excess of $1.2billion in capital. Brice is the Co-President of Brave Investment, an investment holding company focused on private and public company and fund investing and manages over $10 million in assets across a number of investment classes including alternative funds, private and public equity, venture capital, angel, real estate, CPC’s, SPAC’s and RTO’s. He is the Chairman and Director of Samba Days, a gift experiences company, and a past director of a number of public and private companies including Web Host Industry Review, iLookabout, Hy-Drive Technologies and Varicent Software. Brice is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and earned his designation at Coopers & Lybrand in 1997. A passionate entrepreneur and investor, Brice has been involved in some of the most exciting start-ups in Canada over the past 15 years.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Storm Labs — We are an open-source software development studio that builds infrastructure for the next financial generation.
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.
Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Richard L’Abbé. is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist.In 1981, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Richard L'Abbé co-founded Med-Eng Systems Inc. at the age of 24, two years after graduating from the University of Ottawa with a degree in mechanical engineering. From his initial position as production manager of the Ottawa-basedmanufacturer, he quickly became President and CEO, a position he held until he retired in late 2005. Under his leadership, Med-Eng became a major international player in the field of explosive ordnance disposal equipment.L’Abbé has always firmly believed that to successfully create and market a product, you must have complete faith in it; there are no half-measures. With this in mind, he insisted on being closely involved in every facet of developing a range of innovative Med-Eng products, including in product design, testing and client relations. This steadfast commitment propelled his company to international success: by 2007, Med-Eng held over 80% of the global market share in bomb disposal suits, had signed contracts in some 120 countries, and had become a world leader in electronic countermeasures.

Investment focus

Printing, E-Commerce, Photography
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Heather Redman is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Flying Fish Partners, a new venture firm funding tech companies in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, with a concentration on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Heather is an investor in TechStars, 9 Mile Labs, Founders' Co-op, Alliance of Angels and Pioneer SquareLabs and an adviser to Blokable and iInnovate. She has served on the boards of several privately held companies and many industry associations and non-profit companies as well as on numerous advisory boards. She is the Chair of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Vice Chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), a Washington State University Regent, and a nationally recognized “tech” advocate, driving cities to create symbiotic relationships with tech companies–large and small. She is also a fierce believer in diversity as a key driver of success.Heather delivers a wealth of commercial and legal experience with more than two decades of success in the areas of business development, corporate development and structuring, strategy, operations, M&A, corporate and project finance, product acquisition, intellectual property, licensing, and tax. She has handled many corporate transactions including successful exits, financings and joint ventures for her companies. Her experience ranges from management positions in consumer products companies to B2B companies serving Fortune 500 customers.Heather has held diverse leadership roles, including VP Business Operations & GC at Indix Corporation, Principal and Senior VP at Summit Power Group, Executive VP and co-COO at Atom Entertainment, SVP and General Counsel at Getty Image and PhotoDisc, Inc. While at PhotoDisc and Atom, she led negotiations for their successful sales. At Getty, she served as General Counsel and managed the company's relisting on NASDAQ.Heather is active in local, state and national politics. She holds a JD (with distinction) from Stanford University and received her Bachelor's from Reed College.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shyft Technologies — Shyft empowers employees to swap their shifts, message team members, and manage schedules, all from their mobile device.
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.
Modumetal — Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and partsModumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence materialproperties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.

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