500 Startups Canada
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
500 Startups Canada is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Machine Learning. Geo-fund of the world-wide 500 Startups fund
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $22M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries 500 Startups Canada invests in
Stages 500 Startups Canada invests in
Countries 500 Startups Canada invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (36%)
- Machine Learning 8 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (29%)
- Information Technology 5 (18%)
- Mobile 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (64%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (25%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
- Convertible Note 1 (4%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 1 (4%)
Country
- Canada 21 (75%)
- United States 5 (18%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Dufresne
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Emily Dagneau
Community & Portfolio Relations
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Community & Portfolio Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jerome Ng
Venture Associate
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Venture Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mike Cegelski
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Neha Khera
Co-founder & Partner
|
Co-founder & Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| DYNE is a customer data and analytics tool for restaurants and retailers that uses machine learning. Shorten the time it takes to make operational decisions and boost profits for all sizes of restaurants and retail companies. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. | $1.5M / Seed / Dec 11, 2022 | ||
| Asaak provides asset financing to mobility workers across emerging markets, currently in East Africa and Mexico. | $30M / Equity Crowdfunding / Jul 22, 2022 | ||
| Motorleaf is an agriculture technology company specializing in artificial intelligence tools for greenhouse production. We design algorithms and data-driven products using techniques in machine learning to deliver insights that help farmers maximize yield and reduce operational costs in commercial greenhouses. Our team of data scientists specializein model development and data mining to produce products that help farmers manage greenhouses, get insights on plant health optimization, and preemptively address potential farming issues. The results speak for themselves: our technology can reduce error in harvest forecasting by 50% to 70% from the start and becomes even more accurate with time. AI-powered estimates are typically more than twice more accurate than those made by a human.Situated within a global hub of innovation in artificial intelligence, Motorleaf is a Montreal-based company founded in 2016. | $2.9M / Seed / May 16, 2018 | ||
| Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs. | $2M / Seed / May 09, 2018 | ||
| BenchSci uses AI to empower scientists to run more successful experiments to accelerate drug discovery.The company empowers scientists with advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology acceleratesscience pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 research centers worldwide. | $7.9M / Series A / May 02, 2018 | ||
| reDock is proposal software that mines and tailors corporate information on demand to help businesses prepare proposals in response to complex RFPs. Our software uses a proprietary mix of artificial intelligence-‐based technology to master, store and compile your corporate documents so you can prepare compliant, compelling and competitiveproposals faster. Up to ten times faster. We’ve measured. Our software provides relief to proposal-‐development teams, so these teams of highly intelligent professionals can devote their time, effort and smarts to the highest-‐rated components of RFPs, while reDock works brilliantly in the background. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 05, 2017 | ||
| WayPay operates as a payment platform for businesses. It was founded in 2014. | Pre-Seed / Aug 08, 2017 | ||
| BenchSci uses AI to empower scientists to run more successful experiments to accelerate drug discovery.The company empowers scientists with advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology acceleratesscience pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 research centers worldwide. | $1.8M / Seed / Jul 10, 2017 | ||
| Fluent.ai adopts a fundamentally different machine learning approach to speech recognition. Our models learns from context, behavior, and speech, in any language. Its speech recognition engine expresses the flexibility to understand natural phrases reliably across languages, accents, and noise environments such as a smart home, connected car,wearable, or virtual reality headset.Special features of Fluent.ai include multilingual, van be personalized, reliability, and ability to use both offline and online. It was launched in 2015 by Vikrant Tomar.. | $1.5M / Seed / Jun 29, 2017 | ||
| See all 28 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does 500 Startups Canada invest in?
500 Startups Canada invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at 500 Startups Canada?
The team at 500 Startups Canada includes David Dufresne (Partner), Emily Dagneau (Community & Portfolio Relations) and Jerome Ng (Venture Associate), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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