Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in Canada (June 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
• EyeVi Technologies — EyeVi is a provider of road network intelligence with AI-powered on-demand mapping technologies.

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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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• Axonify — Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance.
• RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
• Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.

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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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• 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.
• CoreStory — 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.

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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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• Stedi — Stedi is the only programmable healthcare clearinghouse. We offer modern, AI-ready APIs for eligibility checks, claims, transaction enrollment, and more.
• Synthetic — Synthetic provides an autonomous accounting agent that processes financial data and produces completed monthly books with minimal manual input. Its system handles tasks such as transaction categorization, reconciliation, and financial record generation. The platform is designed to integrate with existing financial tools and maintain structured,auditable outputs.

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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.
• MedReddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
• Versos AI Inc — Intelligent Application Platform as a Service (IA- PaaS) Versos is a next-generation intelligent application development platform designed to empower developers to build personalized, conversational AI-powered applications with ease.Its unique GenAI-first architecture leverages advanced Natural Language Technology (NLT) to enable human-likecommunication between users and systems, replacing outdated keyword-based search with a conversational approach that synthesizes information into actionable answers. Unlike traditional search and retrieval tools that overwhelm users with long result lists, Versos delivers faster, more accurate insights through natural language interactions.With multi-data connectors, Versos integrates seamlessly with structured and unstructured data sources across your organization and your customers. Using proprietary Multimodal Search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Versos ensures responses are grounded in your specific data, providing unmatched relevance and precision.Whether you're streamlining search, improving customer support, or creating dynamic AI assistants, Versos transforms how you build conversational AI applications—delivering better results and deeper personalization.Versos makes it easy for developers less experienced with AI technologies to build AI applications on top of our API platform with all the “plumbing” figured out, specifically the ability to ingest many forms of unstructured data (documents, images, videos, 3D models) and access it with natural language queries. Almost all of the AI innovation ideas from companies now need to store, search and reference their existing data, and their data is their product.

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• Stellate — Stellate brings the power of edge computing to GraphQL APIs, delivering enterprise-grade security, global scalability, and low latency. Safeguard your APIs with advanced protections while building resilient, high-performance systems at the edge.
• Liveblocks — Liveblocks provides the infrastructure to handle concurrent edits on shared data, so people and AI agents can collaborate without breaking your app.
• Superstream — Keeping your Kafka healthy, reliable, and cost-efficient even while you sleep.

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• Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
• Clean Valley Bio-filtration Technologies — Clean Valley Bio-filtration Technologies CIC builds sustainable aquaculture technology to create the future of seafood production.

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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.
• Duo Productions — Duo Productions is a media and broadcasting company that produces television series and documentaries.

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• ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
• Carbonyx — Carbonyx is a biotechnology company that transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts while permanently storing carbon dioxide.
• CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is developing novel RNA therapeutics for central nervous system disorders.

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• Popmenu — Popmenu is a SaaS company that helps restaurants turn their menu into a customer conversion engine. Its cloud-based marketing and customer engagement platform use smart algorithms to track and convert menus, feedback, customer ratings, and related information into an interactive forum for hotels and customers to communicate directly with each otherand access personalized menu and restaurant recommendations in real-time. The platform enables businesses to take control of their menu and increase customer engagement.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
• PayMongo — PayMongo is the easiest way to get paid online. Create an account in minutes and start accepting credit cards, GCash, GrabPay, PayMaya and more.
• Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

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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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• 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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• 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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• VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
• Dannce.ai — dannce.ai uses AI-driven 3D-aligned neural networks to automate behavioral analysis for faster, more accurate drug development and clinical care.
• 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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• 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.
• 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.
• Big Shot Pictures — Big Shot Pictures is an animation and live-action production company that combines storytelling expertise with cutting-edge technology.

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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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• 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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• Nuvyyo — Tablo is your portal to free TV. Watch and record broadcast TV from your antenna and free streaming channels via the Tablo app on any device in your home including smartphones, tablets, streaming devices, and smart TVs.
• Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
• Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.

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• Macro — You've never zoomed like this before.
• 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.

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• Bounce — Luggage Storage Near Me 24/7 - Store your baggage in 32,000+ worldwide locations. Bounce is the BEST luggage storage app for finding and booking left luggage & lockers near you!
• Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
• Shapeways — Shapeways is the #1 online 3D printing service company. Working with over a million customers since 2007 - Get 3D products and parts delivered to over 100 countries.

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• Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
• Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
• Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!

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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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• Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
• SkyX — SkyX is an AI-powered Web3 venture platform designed to help projects build, launch, and scale through structured automation and community-driven growth systems.The platform combines AI-driven workflows with a gamified engagement model, enabling users to participate through tasks, referrals, and incentive-based mechanisms. This creates a scalableecosystem where user activity contributes to platform growth and development.SkyX supports project validation, structured launches, and ecosystem expansion by reducing operational complexity and improving onboarding efficiency. The platform enables founders to deploy projects, users to engage through participation models, and operators to manage scalable growth within a unified system.Operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain infrastructure, SkyX addresses inefficiencies in traditional incubation and launch processes by introducing automated workflows, community-driven participation, and streamlined execution models.
• 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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• 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.