# Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Canada in June 2026

## Inovia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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

## Relay Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

## Marc Morin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy.
Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.

## Bag Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Broadcasting

Bag Ventures is an investment firm.

## Union Square Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

## Todd Finch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, iOS

Todd Finch - President & CEO @ Vizible

## Beedie Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Equity, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mining

Beedie Capital is a Vancouver-based investor deploying flexible debt and equity capital across tech, mining, and diversified sectors in Canada and the US.

## Double M Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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## Hedgewood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, FinTech

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

## Matthew Cauble
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Broadcasting

Matthew Cauble heads Soylent’s internal project development and marketing, focusing on Soylent product packaging, manufacturing and distribution. He currently manages Soylent’s beta program whereby iterations of the formula, packaging and customer experience are reviewed by a select group in order to ensure the quality and safety of the productshipped to Soylent customers. Prior to joining Soylent, he served as procurement manager at Capital One before co-founding Level RF with Soylent CEO, Robert Rhinehart. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Certificate in Finance.

## Jerusalem Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

Since the firm was founded in 1994, Jerusalem Global's goal has been to support private Israeli technology initiatives and to generate superior returns to investors. Over the last two decades, the partners of Jerusalem Global Ventures have developed strong ties with the top Israeli entrepreneurs and visionaries enabling JGV to invest in thebest of Israel's entrepreneurs and help their portfolio companies build winning management teams.

## Niagara Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Content

Connect with Niagara Angel Network to invest in innovative startups and learn about membership opportunities in Niagara's thriving entrepreneurial community.

## Rhino Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Rhino partners with entrepreneurs to build, acquire, and scale market-leading platforms.

## Scott Lake
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Finance

Scott Lake is a startup entrepreneur, tech investor, and philanthropist.  He is best known as the cofounder of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), then later as founder of Source Metrics.Currently, Scott is a general partner at Hello Ventures, where he leverages all the learning from his entrepreneurial journeys to invest in and advise early-stage techcompanies.Scott also plays an active role with his wife Jess as philanthropic funders of diverse social and public health causes.In his past lives, he has been a bike messenger, a university lecturer, a driver at NATO, and a political science PhD.

## Elton Pereira
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Consumer, Lifestyle

Elton Pereira is a Partner at SureSwift Capital, Co-Founder of Elton Pereira Records and an Angel Investor in STN Video. Elton Pereira attended the University of Victoria.

## Version One Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Blockchain

Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/

## Vimac Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Manufacturing

VIMAC's investing model is founded on two core principles—respect for the entrepreneur, and humble acceptance that nobody has seen the future. New business creation is essentially a collaborative enterprise where success requires continuous learning and broad-based sharing of innovative ideas.Based in Boston, they deploy capital inearly-stage companies located in the eastern U.S. and Canada. Today, they have two separate investment teams—one focused on early stage ventures in IT/Adv.Materials technologies and the other focused on life sciences.To date, VIMAC investments have led to the creation of over 20 successful companies that continue to generate business innovations in IT, communications, and Internet technologies. These investments today account for over $2 billion in market value. The fund seeks to make about five new investments each year. A new investment typically goes into a Series A or Series B round with adequate reserves to support subsequent funding until the company exits via a trade sale or an IPO. Over its lifetime, a company is likely to receive $5 million to $15 million from the fund. The life sciences team makes investments from the VIMAC Milestone Medica in early stage biotechnology and medical device companies.They lead or co-lead most investments and their managers play a very active role on portfolio companies’ Boards of Directors. Often, they invest in a company's first institutional round of funding and maintain support throughout the company’s lifecycle. Along the way, they maintain a close working relationship with the management team, helping them refine business plan, build go-to-market strategies, enhance capital efficiency, find early customers and partners, and grow the business.

## Runway Growth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: California City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Medical Device

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## Postmedia Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, News, Retail

Postmedia Network Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (TSX:PNC.A, PNC.B), is the largest publisher by circulation of paid English-language daily newspapers in Canada, representing some of the country's oldest and best known media brands. Reaching millions of Canadians every week, Postmedia Network engages readersand offers advertisers and marketers integrated solutions to effectively reach target audiences through a variety of print, online, digital, and mobile platforms.

## Angel One Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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## Northern Ontario Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Health Diagnostics

Northern Ontario Angels specializes in structuring various customized car leases and car loans. They offer car financing with simple and affordable payment schedules that are tailored to your preferences. You can either opt to pay variable interest rates or fixed rates on the financial arrangement of your choosing. Along with personalizedamortization period, they offer spreads that are one of the lowest in the industry. They don't incorporate high credit risk premiums even if your credit score is bad. On the other hand, if your credit is good, you can enjoy a ride with negligible risk premiums in their financing arrangement.

## Natacor Inc.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Natacor Inc. is a firm that provides financial and business advising as well as capital investments.

## Terry McBride
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

Terry McBride is the current CEO and one of three founders of the Nettwerk Music Group, which includes Nettwerk Productions (Canada’s largest independent record label), Nettwerk Management (artist and producer management), Nettwerk One (publishing), and Artwerks (graphic and fashion design). Founded in McBride's apartment in 1984, Nettwerk hascorporate offices in Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Hamburg and London. Since its inception, Nettwerk has released over 500 different albums and sold over 150 million albums worldwide. In the past few years McBride has spoke at dozens of international conferences about advances in digital technology, intellectual property rights and the future of music distribution. In 2008, McBride co-authored a paper for the British University of Westminster’s “Musictank” entitled Meet the Millennials. In 2004, McBride stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time by way of recommendation from a friend, and it wasn't long before he realized that yoga offered him more than just a flexible body and mind. Acting on this realization, McBride along with his friend and yoga instructor, Lara Kozan, launched a chain of wellness centers called YYoga. It's McBride's vision for YYoga Studios to evolve into social third spaces, focusing on health and wellness for the body, mind, spirit and the community. McBride’s latest endeavor combines his two principle passions in the re-launch of Nutone Music. Encompassing music from the realm of devotional chant, world beat and beyond, Nutone is dedicated to the development of a new genre within today’s musical landscape. McBride explains, “Nutone's mission is to seek out what we feel is the best music that fits into the modern day Yoga studio, various wellness practices and everyday enjoyment of music. With many descriptions from World music to Chant to New Age to Mantra music, Nutone will demystify and clarify for listeners a brand that will be consistent in delivering quality albums.” At the 2003 Juno Awards Terry received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, recognizing an outstanding individual who has contributed to the growth and advancement of the Canadian music industry. Terry has also twice been awarded the Pollstar Industry Award for Personal Manager of the year for his work with Sarah McLachlan (1997) and Avril Lavigne / Coldplay (2002).

## eLab Technology Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: News, Publishing, Advertising

eLab Technology Fund is a leading Canadian early stage e-commerce venture fund. They excel at identifying and forming best of breed partnerships to globally launch innovative businesses, for maximum investment return.

## Stephen O. Marshall
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Broadcasting

Steve joined EdgeStone as a Partner in June 2002 and has over 25 years of transaction and corporate development experience. From 1999 until 2002, he was Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of MDC Corporation (now MDC Partners Inc.), a diversified business services corporation listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, withinvestments in specialty printing, marketing and communications, direct selling, card manufacturing and technology services. From 1982 to 1999, Steve worked at Torys, one of Canada's leading transactional law firms, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and financing. He became a partner at Torys in 1990 and from 1995 to 1998 was Managing Partner of Torys' European office based in London, England.Steve is Chairman of the Board of EZShield and Eurospec Manufacturing and serves on the Board of Directors of Porter Aviation Holdings and Continental Alloys and Services. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Richards Packaging and served on the Board of Directors of Trimaster Manufacturing and Farley Windows. He holds a L.L.B from the University of Western Ontario and a M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sunnybrook Foundation and the Canadian Opera Company.

## Beyond Impact
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, News, Seafood

Beyond Impact is your trusted Managed Service Provider (MSP), delivering tailored IT solutions like managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud computing, IT help desk support, and data backup. Our expert team aligns your IT with business goals, providing proactive monitoring and network security. Contact us today to streamline your IT operations for a secure, agile, and future-ready business. Beyond Impact: Empowering your IT success.

## Scott Hawthorn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Publishing, Broadcasting

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## Kale United
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers

## Mark Jowett
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group

## HBC Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Travel, Publishing

HBC Investments is an private equity firm.

## Golden Triangle Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Medical

Canada's leading early-stage investor community in Waterloo, funding innovative startups across tech sectors with a strong focus on impact and diversity.

## Bert Amato
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Bert Amato is a Venture Partner at Golden Venture Partners. With over 25 years of software and technology experience, as well as a proven track record in early-stage investing, Bert is our resident unicorn hunter.Currently an investor, advisor, and director to multiple technology companies, he co-founded Delrina Corporation, best known for itscommunications software product, WinFax. As Chief Technical Officer of Delrina, he was responsible for all product strategy and R&D. At Delrina, Bert also held the positions of Director and Executive Vice President of the corporation. Acquired by Symantec Corporation for US$415M, Bert served as a Vice President of Symantec.In investing, Bert has had a solid track record, placing his personal angel and seed stage money in ten companies which have sold. He is currently an angel investor in Wattpad, Farelogix, Echoworx and Infinity Quick.Prior to his work with Delrina, Bert held a technical development position at the IBM Canada Research Laboratory and was a co-founder and executive officer of Schematix Computer Systems Inc., a software and consulting company. He has an Honours Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.

## 7 Gate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

7 Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups from Seed to pre-Series A in the technology industry, with a sector focus on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps and solutions, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech, and HealthTech. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneursspecializing in tech, operational expertise, and venture capital. 7 Gate Ventures brings key industry connections, decades of international venture-building experience and foresight to effectively strategize, mentor, and scale new businesses. 7 Gate Ventures was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

## RoyNat Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: News, Hardware, Software

As your trusted financial partners for modern and innovative capital structures, Roynat Capital will support your future business goals.

## Gibraltar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Publishing, Advertising

We invest in fast growing, disruptive consumer companies and back passionate entrepreneurs.

## Golden Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Tiny Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

We give founders simple exits that protect their team and keep their businesses operating. Offers in 7 days, close in 30.

## Dan Fraser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

Dan Fraser began his music industry career on the road at 17 years of age, consistently traveling over 250 days per year and moving up through the ranks in the touring world to tour manager, before co-founding the Nettwerk Music Group and becoming President of Nettwerk Management. As president, Fraser oversees all clients, artist managers,employees, financials, and contract negotiations. Further, Fraser manages all aspects of the touring careers of Juno and Grammy award-winning clients. He also contributes to the overall strategic development of the Nettwerk Music Group, along with the other three co-founders. In 1996, Fraser, along with Sarah McLachlan, Terry McBride, and Marty Diamond, co-founded the famed Lilith Fair tours, which ran from 1996-1999, and 2010. Fraser has guided the live carriers of many Nettwerk clients such as Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Avril, Coldplay, Stereophonics and many others. He currently manages / co manages Joshua Hyslop. Wanting and Juno nominated children’s act Bobs and Lolo. Fraser has sat on several boards such as the 2007 Memorial Cup and 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships held in British Columbia. He was an Executive Producer for the 2002 BC Cancer Benefit and the 2005 Tsunami Relief Benefit. Fraser served on the Ceremonies Production team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Currently, he sits on the board for the Unison Benevolent Fund.

## RevenueWire
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Video, Publishing, Advertising

RevenueWire is a global ecommerce platform for small and medium sized companies, with a focus on digital products. RevenueWire empowers companies to grow their business online by optimizing every phase of the transaction lifecycle through the SafeCart ecommerce platform and its performance marketing channels, AffiliateWire and CallStream.Thecompany consistently ranks as a top performing company in North America and worldwide, having received awards and accolades from the PROFIT 500, Branham 300, mThink Blue Book Survey and the CODiE Awards.

## RBC Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

RBC Venture Partners invests venture capital and growth equity on behalf of the Royal Bank of Canada.

RBC is one of the backers of the BlackBerry Partners Fund.

## Conconi Growth Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

## Flow
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Publishing

Flow Ventures is a SR&ED consulting firm with unparalleled experience helping companies maximize their SR&ED refunds while minimizing their risk and time.

## Capital Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

## Ontario Centres of Excellence
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

## Eastward Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Newton, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Analytics

Eastward venture debt firm works with entrepreneurs and equity sponsors to provide companies with compelling solutions to their lending needs.

## Andrew Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, CRM

Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.

## Ric Arboit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group

## FTVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series D
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Security

FTVentures invests growth capital in business services and software companies. Their key target sector is financial services. FTVentures was established on the premise that a collaborative global financial services investor network could benefit entrepreneurs and investors alike through enhanced market intelligence and shared evaluation of industrytrends, and improved diligence, ultimately helping portfolio companies to create long-term value. FTVentures currently has over $1 billion under management. They have offices in San Francisco and New York.

## Alliance of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

## David Kosmayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, E-Commerce, Publishing

David Kosmayer - Founder and CEO @ Bookmark