Top 35 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Canada (June 2026)

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• Certn — Thousands of companies worldwide rely on Certn's integrated background screening to secure the right people with an 80% reduced time to hire.
• Visto — Visto is a technology company dedicated to bringing transparency, interoperability and accountability to digital advertising. The company’s Visto™ Enterprise Advertising Hub is a vendor-agnostic platform that unites the complete ad tech stack in a single user-friendly interface. Brands, media companies and agencies benefit from transparency inmanaging execution partners, optimizing ad spend, measuring performance and leveraging analytics to drive efficiencies and improve ROI. For more information, contact www.vistohub.com.
• WorkFusion — Intelligent Automation for top enterprises & regulated industries. AI-enabled digital workers increase team capacity, customer satisfaction and compliance.

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• Bird — Bird electric bikes and scooters are providing eco-friendly transportation for riders in hundreds of cities around the world. NYSE: BRDS.
• Luma — Luma was created by Dr. Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse. Paul and Mike have worked together for 15 years solving complex networking and security problems for the largest companies in the world.With the rise of the connected home, people are using more devices than ever. Home WiFi networks now need to be able to keep every one of them runningand fully secure. Mike, Paul, and the team decided to use their expertise to create the perfect, personalized WiFi network for everyone.On that day, Luma was born. Since then, the mission has been the same: To create the fastest, simplest, most secure, and most reliable home network that’s equipped for the technology of today, and tomorrow.
• FreshGrade — FreshGrade is a learning network that seamlessly integrates a digital portfolio, flexible gradebook, and real time communication platform.

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• Jobber — Jobber is an award-winning business management platform for small home service businesses. Unlike spreadsheets or pen and paper, Jobber keeps track of everything in one place and automates day-to-day operations, so small businesses can provide 5-star service at scale. Jobber’s 100,000+ home service professionals have served over 12 millionhouseholds in more than 47 countries. The company continually ranks as one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most innovative companies by Canadian Business and Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, and Deloitte.
• Pienza — Pienza Ventures - We help Indian Startups win in the US Market
• Preemadonna — Preemadonna is the maker of Nailbot. Nailbot is an intelligent at-home robot manicure powered by a creativity and automation platform. Nailbot prints instant personalized nail art and decals on fingernails in 5 seconds using your smartphone. Nailbot is your ultimate nail art tool that prints digital nail stickers.

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• Hyperoptic — Hyperoptic's true superfast broadband technology differs from the services currently offered by most other leading UK internet service providers in that it provides unimpeded fibre speeds directly to the premises. Other so-called ‘superfast fibre' services are generally hybrids, relying on existing infrastructure and dated copper cablesto make up at least part of the line, resulting in drastically reduced internet speeds and unpredictable performance.The UK currently lags behind other international markets when it comes to the availability of true hyperfast broadband, with FTTH technology available in less than 1 per cent of homes. In contrast, Japan boasts over 50 per cent penetration and the US around 10 per cent, according to FTTH Council Europe. With an aggressive expansion and development plan fuelled by this new investment, Hyperoptic is now primed to play a significant role in closing this gap.
• YourMechanic — The most trusted mobile car repair service. Get an instant quote. All makes & models. 1 Year/12K mile warranty. No worries. No hassle. No over-charging. Available 7 days a week.
• King Children — King Children operates as a 3D custom-printed eyewear company.Through their proprietary technology, their customers can conduct face scans and virtually try-on an ever expanding range of frame designs, colors, and lenses right from their phones. With exact measurements and confirmed order selections in hand, they then print and ship these customglasses directly to their doors.The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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• Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
• Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
• Mundi — Mundi provides financial, trade development, strategy, freight and reinventing international trade services.

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• The Logic — Canada's business and tech newsroom
• Tiny — We give founders simple exits that protect their team and keep their businesses operating. Offers in 7 days, close in 30.
• GSC Technologies — GSC Technologies is a manufacturing company that provides plastic storage and household furniture products.

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• Hail Merry Snacks — Hail Merry exists to elevate the snacking experience through fresh energizing snacks made from clean plant-based ingredients. Our purpose is to provide better-for-you plant-based snacks that celebrate the benefits of energizing coconut oil and raw fats from nuts, while delivering an unparalleled luxurious taste experi
• Nettwerk Music Group — Nettwerk Music Group operates as a record label and artist management company. It manages various artists. The company provides synchronization, co-writer, and other crucial publishing activities for its North American artists and writers.

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• Vrify — Vrify is an information technology and services company located in Vancouver.
• Kore.ai — Deploy AI agents at enterprise scale. Kore.ai helps you transform work, service, and processes with intelligent automation, orchestration, and AI insights.
• Varvara Development Group — Varvara Development Group is a mining company developing, operating, and financing mining projects.

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• GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
• Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
• SEAFOOD REBOOT — Seafood Reboot's ambition is to promote worldwide best-in-class Fish substitutes from micro-algae for natural, healthy, sustainable food and to preserve marine wildlife.

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• Diginex — World leading blockchain-enabled software to collect, digitize and improve your ESG and sustainability impact. Accessible, intuitive and affordable.
• Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
• ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.

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• Cybrid — The Cybrid software development kit & cloud-based platform can enable you to launch crypto trading within weeks, for minimal fees. Save millions in headcount, legal, and operational costs, compared to building your own platform from scratch.
• BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
• Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.

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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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• Fama — Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process.
• HONK — Drive customer loyalty with the highest rated customer satisfaction scores in the industry. Lots of companies make promises. We've built the technology to follow-through on ours.
• Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.

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• MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
• OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
• PrettyDamnQuick — PrettyDamnQuick. Logistics made damn simple. Deliver on time, every time with a smart delivery manager for the Shopify age. Get started now and make delivery your growth engine.

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• Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
• Hooked Foods — Leading the transition to a harmless seafood system by serving healthy vegan seafood for everybody to truly enjoy.
• Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.

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• Viafoura — Viafoura is the leading audience engagement and community platform trusted by over 800 global media brands. Boost loyalty, grow revenue and activate first-party data.
• Nicoya Lifesciences — Nicoya is a provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
• Vida Fresh Air — Vita Fresh Air Corp has developed and is set to commercialize a new catalytic converter technology, the Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC), which aims to lower emissions, lower fuel consumption, and lower equipment costs. Vida’s mission is to develop automotive products that genuinely improve engine performance and emission control in anethical, economical and sustainable manner.

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• Unito — 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.
• Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
• Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

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• CoHealth — Minitoto dikenal sebagai situs toto 4D resmi dengan reputasi kuat di Asia, cocok buat pemain togel yang cari prediksi akurat, hadiah terbesar dan gampang menang tahun 2025.
• Viafoura — Viafoura is the leading audience engagement and community platform trusted by over 800 global media brands. Boost loyalty, grow revenue and activate first-party data.
• Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.

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• Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
• Virica Biotech — Viral Sensitizers (VSE) for drug developers and manufacturers are small molecules that improve viral yields and effectiveness by reducing the antiviral defences on a cellular level.
• Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.

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• FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for government relations & public affairs software. Track policy, manage stakeholders, act fast.
• Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
• Allurion Technologies — Allurion Technologies is developing a medical device for weight loss that can be delivered and removed without surgery or endoscopy.

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• Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
• Prana — Discover Prana's delicious organic and plant-based snacks and ingredients to fuel your wholesome lifestyle. Enjoy free shipping starting at $49!
• BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.

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• Megawheels — Buy Electric Transport online in our site megawheels.com. High-quality E Transport at affordable prices with fast delivery for your comfort. Make your order right now!

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• Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
• LIVEKINDLY — LIVEKINDLY is a news and media platform focusing on food, health, sustainable living, and cruelty-free beauty. They build a home for informative and thought-provoking content, focusing on sustainable and compassionate living. The platform transforming the global food system by partnering with forward-looking poultry production companies seeking toembrace and contribute to plant-based options.

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• The Logic — Canada's business and tech newsroom
• PSS Systems — PSS leads the industry with its visionary products. They anticipated the legal holds and retention problem years ahead of others and launched the Atlas Solution Suite two years before the FRCP changes. They have invested deeply for five years in creating solutions on the Atlas platform to meet evolving market needs. PSS is committed to advancinglegal holds and retention practices across the industry through the Corporate Governance and Oversight Council, a corporate practitioners' community focused on retention, preservation and privacy.
• IgniteTech — IgniteTech provides an innovative home for the software solutions our customers rely on.

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• Lightmatter — Rethinking the limits of AI, Lightmatter merges photonics and computing to build a future where speed, efficiency, and intelligence converge.
• Bigleaf Networks — Bigleaf is a cloud-based internet redundancy and optimization service that provides improved reliability, performance, and support, for businesses that rely on the internet. This enables increased protection from business disruption, delivers the full potential of cloud and remote applications, and creates peace of mind for stakeholders.Withpreviously unavailable features such as seamless failover for all applications, circuit-aware load balancing, and true Quality-of-Service over commodity internet, Bigleaf is the evolution of internet connectivity.
• GAN Integrity — Streamline compliance with GAN Integrity's ethics and compliance management software. Ensure success with our comprehensive and configurable platform.

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• STN Video — STN Video is an award-winning online video platform that solves digital video for publishers, content creators, and advertisers. STN Video supplies digital publishers with premium content, advanced player technology, and reliable revenue. With a library of up to 5,000 new videos every day, the STN Video online video platform serves over 1,800publishers and hundreds of premium content providers at zero cost. STN Video’s partners include publishers like the NY Post, NY Daily News, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and premium content providers like MLB, NBA, Bloomberg, AP and Rolling Stone. Using the STN Video online video platform, publishers easily serve official video to keep readers engaged and on-site longer. From “sports to news”, STN Video offers publishers all the content they need to cover their sites. The combination of official, premium content, and top publishers provides a brand-safe environment for advertisers and connects content providers with a broader incremental audience. STN Video’s advanced technology sets it apart, offering the best contextually relevant content via Smart Match, an AI-powered video player. Smart Match matches articles with content from an extensive library of over 1 million videos, allowing publishers to embed relevant videos on every page automatically in seconds. The STN Video online video platform improves user experience, publisher workflow, and both its partners’ top and bottom lines. STN Video shares the revenue it generates with publishing partners and content creators while also accommodating their own advertising sales.

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• Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
• FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
• Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.

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• Julep — We are Julep, creators of innovative makeup, skincare, nail polish & sets. Every day is a chance to Brave Pretty.
• 3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.
• Hest Outdoors — We're on a mission to maximize days outside through a better night's sleep under the stars. Explore our revolutionary camping mattresses, sleeping pads and pillows. Sleep well. Play more.

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• AeroSafe Global — AeroSafe Global delivers cold chain solutions to the biopharma industry with zero temperature excursions for every patient, every product, every time.
• NeoEdge Networks — NeoEdge Networks is an in game advertising firm.
• Combinent Biomedical Systems — Combinent Biomedical Systems, Inc., a women's healthcare company, offers multi-segmented vaginal rings that allow the delivery of hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecules, proteins, and other large molecules. It focuses on transvaginal delivery of drugs targeting women's reproductive endocrinology disorders, as well as diabetes, obesity, andinfectious diseases. Combinent Biomedical Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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• Moovit — Utilizing the power of MaaS, we're helping cities, transit agencies and corporations simplify urban mobility, making it more efficient, accessible and sustainable.
• Quiet Therapeutics — Quiet Therapeutics is an emerging biotech company founded in 2010 developing a proprietary nanoparticle-based delivery system (gagomers) focused on oncology and inflammation.Based on the targeting capability of our innovative technology, the company is well positioned to expand the drug target repertoire in cancer and inflammation. The Gagomerdelivery approach enables us to target cell components that are not manageable by other therapeutic agents like small molecules or antibodies.
• SolarEdge Technologiesa — Turn your businesses and homes into a sustainable energy hub with a SolarEdge inverter solution and the SolarEdge energy manager platform.

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• Frontly — Build custom apps with no code
• Vesto — Fintech
• Yield Exchange — Find competitive rates quickly & efficiently with Yield Exchange, the all-in-one treasury management platform, transforming how businesses search, compare, and negotiate for GIC rates.

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• NearPad — NearPad Launchpad & DeFi hub for the NEAR ecosystem
• Symtext — Symtext focuses on the development of digital learning material for students, educational institutes, and educators.Symtext offers Liquid Textbook that enables instructors create customized digital textbooks that include texts from multiple publishers, presentations, videos, images, and podcasts.Symtext was founded by Ian Barker and it is basedin Toronto, Canada.

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• Rna Diagnostics — Rna Diagnostics is a clinical-stage molecular diagnostics company improving cancer care with the Veridapt DX predictive biomarker.
• Flosonics — Flosonics Medical is improving patient care through technology-enabled solutions and services that clinicians, and patients, love.
• Myomar Molecular — Myomar Molecular is developing a diagnostic tool to identify early stages of muscle atrophy. this technology will be used by physiotherapists and medical doctors to access therapy approaches, reduce hospitalization time, and analyze recovery progress.

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• Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
• Loop — Bank on Loop to save time, save money and grow globally. Join thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across Canada to spend, send and grow without fees.
• Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.

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• Busbud — Travel the world by bus. Compare and easily book bus tickets from thousands of bus companies for your next destination with Busbud.
• Quorso — Quorso's AI Intelligent Management Platform turns retail data and tasks into personalized, top-priority actions for every Field Leader.
• Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.