Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada (July 2026)
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $650k–$50M |
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Garage Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $765k–$50M |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$17M |
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BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $2.2M–$200M |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $600k–$23M |
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shl.vc
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Recruiting | $1.5M–$2.3M |
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Conconi Growth Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $500k–$21M |
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Night Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$35M |
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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $25k–$2.2M |
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Ritual Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $500k–$25M |
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Thomvest Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $3M–$100M |
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Xfund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.6M–$45M |
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Apps | $1.4M–$35M |
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Impact Engine
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Software, Education | $225k–$21M |
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Sparkland Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Virtual Reality, Video Streaming | $830k–$16M |
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LongShot Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | |
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Micheal Hyatt
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Self-Storage | |
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Mike Durland
Angel
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1 | Canada | SaaS, Software, Recruiting | ||
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Richard Hyatt
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | SaaS, Software, Commercial | |
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Strada Education Network
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago | Grant, Series A | Education, Higher Education, Universities | |
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focal
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Technologies HumanID
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Series A | B2B, Software, Consulting | |
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Belltower Fund Group
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Recruiting | |
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WELL Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, VoIP, Medical | |
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Broad Street Bulls
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Isle of Man | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, eSports | |
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Jafar Owainati
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Software, Employment, Recruiting | |
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Pearson
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Education, EdTech, Software | |
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Startup TNT
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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EduLab Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Education, Software, EdTech | |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Dr.Parker Vandermeer
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Medical, Recruiting, Health Care | |
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Calgary tech incubator
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Medical, Recruiting, Health Care | |
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Marc Morin
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, SaaS | $549k–$1.6M |
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Howard Stotland
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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GrandBanks Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Advertising | $1M–$15M |
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Robert Chaplinsky
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Sales | $1.6M–$50M |
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SmartHub
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | SaaS, Internet, Software | $600k–$5M |
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Cabot Technology Solutions
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Employment, Recruiting, Video Conferencing | |
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Rho Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $2.6M–$44M |
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The 51 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, Fashion | $677k–$4.2M |
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Green Alley Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Estonia | Seed, Grant | SaaS, Software, Industrial | |
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David Henning
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed | Mobile, Software, Commercial | |
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $327k–$8M |
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Hedgewood
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, FinTech | $725k–$17M |
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Quad-C Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Private Equity, Seed | Manufacturing, Financial Services, Textiles | |
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Otimo Retail
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail Technology, Retail | $573k–$8.5M |
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Matthew Cowan
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series B, Series D | SaaS, Mobile, Software | $1.6M–$60M |
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Amplify Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.7M–$80M |
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Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
- Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $765k–$3.6M; Series A $7.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
- Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
- Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 409
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sheertex — Sheertex - #1 Bestselling tights in the USA. Ultra-strong sheers engineered for durability and comfort, up to 10x more durable than others.
- Xanadu — Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.
- LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$72M; Series B $13M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
- HiMama — Lillio is the all-in-one daycare solution with parent messaging, daily reports, check in and more. It's childcare management made easy! Book your demo now.
- Eigen Innovations — Eigen combines imaging and AI to detect issues traditional vision systems miss, revolutionizing quality inspection.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 339
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $600k–$4M; Series A $7.7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- MNX — MNX is a company focused on decentralized futures exchanges in the AI economy.
- Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
Investing over $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Litebulb — Use Litebulb to save hundreds of engineering hours, get better candidates, and reduce bias. Litebulb interviews are simulations of regular dev work in familiar environments. We extract data about a candidate's production readiness, code quality, and scalable design.
- Airwork — Airwork is a platform that connects workers with warehouses in the Greater Toronto Area to fill shifts. Workers can pick up shifts from any of the warehouses on our platform, whenever they like. No resumes, no interviews, and get paid within the same day.
- Arcana Network — Arcana Network builds tools that make it easier for developers to make the adoption of Web3 dApps simple. Arcana Auth is the first of such tools. Boost your customer conversion rates by 90% with our social and email login solution.
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.7M; Series A $2.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Early partner to the exceptional.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $13M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
- Lassie — The AI for independent doctors.
- Tenkara — Modern manufacturers need modern tools. Tenkara brings AI automation to sourcing and operations, helping you find better suppliers faster, prevent delays, and run a more efficient manufacturing business.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.2M; Grant $25k–$436k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
- Lastwall — Lastwall exists to protect democratic institutions by strengthening the cybersecurity posture of defense and critical infrastructure partners.
Ritual Capital is a seed-stage venture fund that invests in creators creating iconic brands.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $9.8M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
- Schematic — Convert more users, expand accounts, and prevent churn with better monetization powered by Schematic.
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Browse database — It's Free!Thomvest is a cross-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage, growth-stage, start-up, and mid-venture investments. The company primarily focuses on opportunities with early-to-mid-stage companies in the fields of financial technology, marketing technology, cybersecurity, sales, and cloud infrastructure sectors. As part of their focuson these areas, they are committed to helping their companies become leaders in their fields through their work with them and through the focus on understanding where value can be created in these industries, as can be seen from the research they publish regularly.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $8M–$74M; Series C $8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Opaque Systems — From confidential computing to data clean rooms, the Opaque Platform enables secure access, sharing and analytics on confidential data.
- Capchase — Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow.
- Avalanche Technology — Avalanche Technology is the world leader in Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) non-volatile memory. The company is headquartered n California, USA.
Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers. Partnering with Harvard University and others of the world’s preeminent universities, Xfund looks beyond the stereotypical technical pedigrees to seek out extraordinary people who are being systemically ignored by traditional venture capital: technically-gifted liberal artsentrepreneurs. We believe it’s our responsibility to help these unconventional, high potential founders align their ambition and passion with opportunity we help them create, to build the sort of ground-breaking companies that can create a better tomorrow. Xfund has offices in Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more about Xfund, please visit http://www.xfund.com.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $7M–$26M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- BoldVoice — BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native English speakers be as well-understood in English as in their own language. Users learn by watching video lessons developed by Hollywood accent coaches, and get automated feedback as they practice their pronunciation. Improvement starts to show within a week.
- Juno — Juno offers automation for modern tax firms, focusing on research, preparation, review, and advisory services. The software includes structured tax review features that ensure consistent checks and enhance quality control in tax preparation processes.
- Onyx Odds — Onyx Odds is a predictions company, specializing in sports predictions.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.5M; Series A $4.4M–$14M; Series B $5.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the trusted AI partner for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
- PressBox — PressBox was founded by ex-Bleacher Report engineers who saw where AI could help media organizations scale the discovery, creation, and measurement of personalized content across a variety of platforms. Gen-Z is leading a shift in fandom, following sports through athletes, influencers, and cultural moments in contrast to the team and city-basedaffinity of previous generations. Sports organizations are looking to personalization to meet this rapidly growing portion of the fan base, but lack the end-to-end solution to deliver revenue-producing results. Our platform enables leagues to reach more fans by automating the creation and distribution of highly-personalized, sponsorable, multi-modal content that speaks to fans regardless of their connection to a sport.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in companies driving positive impact in economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $225k–$5M; Series A $4M–$12M; Series B $5.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
- Circuit — Provider of micro-transition services intended to be offered through electric cars. The company's services uses electric vehicles which can be booked through application which are provided with responsible and efficient drivers, enabling users to access their shuttle service at their convenience.
- The Helper Bees — The Helper Bees partners with insurance carriers and health plans to provide data-backed products and services, empowering aging in place.
Sparkland Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in frontier technologies. With Asian-access capital and resources, we back global visionary entrepreneurs who move fast, think big, and are committed to reimagine the world. Connecting Silicon Valley and Asia, we leverage our deep networks to provide market intelligence,strategic advice and local relationships for founders to expand.Entrepreneurship is in our DNA. We trust, believe and work with entrepreneurs to disrupt existing industries, redefine the markets, and create the future. The Sparkland team is comprised of dedicated entrepreneurs, investors, founders, and early employees from prominent technology companies. Our investment focus are VR/AR, IoT, Cyber Security, AI/Robotics, and Enterprise Software. Since 2014, we have invested in over 30 innovative startups.
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- Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, Video Streaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $830k–$6.2M; Series A $4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Zeguro — Zeguro provides complete cybersecurity risk assessment, mitigation, and insurance, allowing you to easily manage your cyber risk.
- Everykey — Everykey provides proximity-based security with touchless MFA, passwordless authentication, and zero-trust access. Simplify secure access and enhance cybersecurity for IT leaders.
LongShot Capital invests in pre-seed and seed stage technology companies alongside other angels, strategic investors, and VC.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Kiira Health — A smart virtual clinic for women. Kiira provides personalized primary care, mental health, and women's health resources all from your phone. Get access to doctors and providers, virtual appointments, prescriptions, health tracking, and answers via chat 24/7.
- Ash Wellness — Ash Wellness is paving the way for more inclusive and accessible healthcare by enabling organizations to provide at-home diagnostics care to their patients.
Michael Hyatt is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of BlueCat Networks and a recipient of the Top 40 Under 40™ Award. BlueCat is a four-time winner of “Deloitte’s Fast 50” and has received Gartner’s highest “Strong Positive” rating. Michael also co-founded Dyadem, a highly successful software company that was acquired by IHS (NYSE: IHS).Michael is a weekly business commentator on CBC Newsworld and has been featured on the cover of Canadian Business Magazine. He is also a finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and an active participant and lender for three special charities: Kiva.org, OneProsper and Future Possibilities for Kids.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Self-Storage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MinuteBox — Secure legal entity management in the cloud. Minute books, transactions, compliance, document assembly, cap tables, e-signature, automated workflows
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
- GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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 operates as a biotechnology company and develops innovative solutions for plasmid DNA production.
Mike Durland is the former Group Head and CEO, Global Banking and Markets, for Scotiabank. He retired from Scotiabank in 2016 to pursue a variety of business, philanthropic, and academic interests. Today, he is the CEO of Melancthon Capital, a member of the Business Strategy Committee for the Global Risk Institute, the Chair of the Board ofDirectors of DeepLearning, a founding principal in Cabot Links, a member of the Board of Directors of TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, a member of the advisory board of Riipen Networks Inc., a member of the Board of Directors of the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Center for Social Impact and the Master of Management Analytics Program, both at Queen’s University. He holds a B.Comm degree from St. Mary’s University, a PhD in Finance and Operations Research from Queen’s University, and an honorary doctorate from St. Mary’s University.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TruLeaf —
- Ideal — Ideal is a talent intelligence system that helps enterprise teams make more accurate, efficient, and fair decisions. Discover our product!
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Browse database — It's Free!Richard Hyatt co-founded BlueCat Networks, Inc. in 2000 and has been its Chief Scientist since January 2014. Mr. Hyatt served as Chief Technology Officer and as Vice President of Engineering at BlueCat Networks, Inc and serves as its Director.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Commercial
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MinuteBox — Secure legal entity management in the cloud. Minute books, transactions, compliance, document assembly, cap tables, e-signature, automated workflows
- Ideal — Ideal is a talent intelligence system that helps enterprise teams make more accurate, efficient, and fair decisions. Discover our product!
- GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
At Strada, we collaborate with students, policymakers, educators, and employers to ensure education provides equitable pathways to opportunity.
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- Industry: Education, Higher Education, Universities
- Stage:Grant, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Doowii, Inc — Your data, Your questions, One easy AI tool. Only Doowii empowers you to access all your education data in one platform
- The University of Texas System — The University of Texas System (UT System) consists of 14 academic and health institutions across the state, making a global impact.
True 0 to 1 specialists, laser focused on helping you cut through Seed and get to Series A and beyond with velocity.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- On Me — The hobbies gift card you can tap-to-pay.
- Pump — Pump uses AI & group buying to automate cloud savings with zero engineering input. #GetPumped
- Drafter — Drafter is a faster, cheaper, better way to get the drawings you need
Technologies HumanID is a venture capital company that contributes to the technological and financial development of the company.
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- Industry: B2B, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Standout Jobs — Standout Jobs provides a [Recruitment Communication Platform] (http://www.standoutjobs.com), to power companies' online recruiting efforts. The core is a do-it-yourself, interactive Career Site that helps engage and attract candidates, and build on-going relationships with them. As well, the Standout Jobs platform provides acandidate tracking tool, easier job marketing and candidate sourcing functionality.
Belltower Fund Group is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in early-stage companies. It provides fund administration and operations for select private equity and venture funds. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Seattle Washington.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Recruiting
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Withe — Withe is a career fair platform that unlocks the data of in-person interactions. Designed for governments, post-secondary schools, and campus recruitment teams.
- CassetteAI — CassetteAI is the first platform to utilize artificial intelligence to generate music by using text. Cassette is your AI powered Music Generator.
WELL Ventures is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WELL Health Technologies Corp., whose mandate is to invest in exceptional leaders, entrepreneurs, and businesses supporting the global digital health ecosystem, with an emphasis on advancing innovative digital health initiatives in Canada.
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- Industry: Health Care, VoIP, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hasu — Hasu eCounselling is a PHIPA and PIPEDA-compliant healthcare platform and mobile app that provides secure online video, talk, and text counseling for individuals and their families struggling with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, as well as abuse and dependency on alcohol or drugs.
- Tali AI — You can use Tali AI to dictate your medical notes directly into your Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. Additionally, this extension will enable you to look up information from evidence-based medical databases at the point-of-care without needing to leave the EMR.
- Cherry Health — Cherry Health is your medical network. Where healthcare connects, finds jobs and more.
Broad Street Bulls VC invests in companies, ideas, and founders in Saskatchewan and the prairies at the pre-seed and seed stage. It offers capital, mentorship, and support to founders of early-stage technology and high growth start-ups in industries ready for disruption.The company is driven by a vision to become a valuable partner forearly-stage tech companies and support them as they scale up beyond the prairies. It hopes to create an outsized impact on the ecosystem and economy.Broad Street Bulls was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Isle of Man
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Budsense — Cannabis menus are hard to manage. Selling weed is supposed to be fun. BudSense helps you create better digital, print, and web cannabis menus.
- Virtuo — The Complete Platform for Modern Homeownership
- Cherry Health — Cherry Health is your medical network. Where healthcare connects, finds jobs and more.
Jafar Owainati is the Co-founder at Barley. He is a former Co-Founder at Loopio. Jafar Owainati attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Queen's University.
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- Industry: Software, Employment, Recruiting
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Talin — Supercharge your recruting process with Talin's AI powered tools.
Get to know who we are and what we have to offer. Our mission is simple, to help people make progress in their lives through learning.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Smashcut — Smashcut is a next generation learning platform built for real time, media-based education.
Startup TNT is a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building of investors, entrepreneurs and cheerleaders, who gather every week and build friendships before companies. Previously generated more than $3 Million capital for local startups, TNT aims to transform Alberta into Canada's be
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
- SimpleHedge — SimpleHedge is a Financial Software for the farmers to make crop hedging process easy and valid.
- Rivercity Innovations — Rivercity Innovations provides cold-chain monitoring technologies.
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Browse database — It's Free!EduLab Capital Partners is seed-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on the education market, investing in business models that transcend the traditional education landscape. The Company’s Boston- and Tokyo-based team provides foundational support to entrepreneurs to help expand their customer base, make key early-stage hires, and raiseadditional capital for profitable and sustainable growth. EduLab’s education market savvy and artificial intelligence expertise provide unique leverage points for its investments, while the Company’s network of global partnerships and distribution channels provide its portfolio companies with the depth and reach to quickly accelerate product integration and impact.
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- Industry: Education, Software, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Schola — Schola helps families find and enroll in the ideal PreK-12 schools.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Authentica Solutions — Authentica Solutions provides innovative solutions and products for education that empower learners, educators, and administrators.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
Parker Vandermeer is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Medical, Recruiting, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cherry Health — Cherry Health is your medical network. Where healthcare connects, finds jobs and more.
Calgary tech incubator is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Medical, Recruiting, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cherry Health — Cherry Health is your medical network. Where healthcare connects, finds jobs and more.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
- Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
Howard Stotland - President @ Otimo Retail
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- Industry: Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wirkn — Looking for the best betting sites in Canada? Compare Canadian sportsbooks by sports coverage, crypto payments, withdrawals, and location.
GrandBanks Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in wireless and mobile technologies, digital media, web-based commerce, cloud-based services, storage, and financial technologies.The GrandBanks team and its partners collectively have more than 100 years of venture capital investing and senior operating experience, a proofpoint to their insight and expertise that helps entrepreneurs build the next wave of premier companies in emerging markets. Comprised of recognized business builders within targeted investment sectors, the investment team possesses a sought after reputation within the venture capital community for actively building successful companies.Recognizing new technologies with the potential for significant impact, GrandBanks Capital team members and partners have been lead investors and senior executives for some of the most successful companies in their respective sectors, including Yahoo!, E*Trade, Art Technology Group, GEAC, GeoCities, Multex Systems, 1800Flowers.com, GSI Commerce, SOFTBANK, EMC Corporation, Thomson Financial, First Call, CCBN, Lycos, The Learning Company, and Phoenix Technologies LTD.Current portfolio companies include Where Inc., I Love Rewards, Glasshouse Technologies, KnowledgeVision, Vela Systems and Nexage.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Series A $1M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $150M in 2007
Portfolio highlights
- Later — Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur.
- Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
- Dispatch — Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market.
Rob Chaplinsky is the Co-Founder and Managing Director Link Ventures. Rob previously worked at Bridgescale Partners as the Managing Director. He Harvard Business School and the University of Waterloo.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Sales
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$1.6M; Series A $3.5M–$9.7M; Series B $15M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Caribou — Thinking about refinancing your auto loan? MotoRefi offers clear guidance and expert tips to help you save money and make the best financial decision for your car or truck loan. Start saving today!
SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
- Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Cabot is an offshore software development company crafting smart solutions in Mobile, Web, and Enterprise sectors in the Unites States,Canada, and other regions of the world.
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- Industry: Employment, Recruiting, Video Conferencing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Interview Rocket — Get set up with a new domain name right away. Affordable payment plans to fit any budget. Friendly customer support.
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Browse database — It's Free!Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho's four operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Rho Fund Investors and Rho Acceleration.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$15M; Series B $6.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- MyBuys — MyBuys is the leader in cross-channel personalization for retailers. We help marketers increase their marketing effectiveness by learning what individual shoppers like, then using these insights to present them with the most compelling recommendations and offers, coordinated across every channel -- on e-commerce sites, through email, via displayads, on mobile devices, and on Facebook. More than 300 companies, including 75 of the Internet Retailer Top 500, use MyBuys to sell more. Based in San Mateo, Calif., MyBuys is a privately held company. Visit them online at www.MyBuys.com.
- Passport — The only end-to-end, digital platform for managing mobile pay parking, digital enforcement and permitting, and mobility management.
- Channelinsight — Channelinsight offers the only complete cloud-based Channel Data Management (CDM) solution, providing technology manufacturers with visibility into every partner and every end-customer, for every POS transaction in real-time, allowing them to gain the insight necessary to drive sales and optimize inventory. The company processes over 120 millionPOS and inventory transactions per year and collects POS and inventory data from over 4000 worldwide channel partners. We process over $100 billion in channel sales transactions annually. Customers benefitting from this technology include Schneider Electric, Corning Life Sciences, HP, TE Connectivity, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Smart Technologies, Fluke Networks, Fortinet, and Wasp Barcode. Channelinsight is backed by Rho Ventures, Sequel Venture Partners and Vedanta Capital, with headquarters in Denver and offices in Palo Alto, UK and Singapore.
Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $731k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $677k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
Europe's first startup prize for the Circular Economy encourages entrepreneurs to step forward with their ideas around recycling and prevention of waste.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Industrial
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- S.Lab — S.Lab creates eco-friendly and biodegradable packaging from mycelium and agricultural waste. This unique technology allows for the production of water- and heat-resistant materials that decompose in under 45 days.
David Henning - Partner @ Otimo Retail
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Commercial
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wirkn — Looking for the best betting sites in Canada? Compare Canadian sportsbooks by sports coverage, crypto payments, withdrawals, and location.
- Logiwa — Logiwa is the leading cloud fulfillment software for high-volume direct-to-consumer brands, wholesalers, and 3PLs. The Logiwa Cloud Fulfillment Platform is an integrated WMS and order fulfillment system that makes it easy to run a digital warehouse and scale your high-volume DTC fulfillment operations. Logiwa’s solution works where traditional WMSsystems fail: it connects quickly with new online stores and marketplaces, makes it easy to run a digital warehouse, and is easily updated to support dynamic warehouse environments.
Wesley Clover is a private, global investment management firm and holding company, enabling entrepreneurs, innovation and technology worldwide.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $327k–$1.5M; Series A $458k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Validient — Validient is a digital client onboarding system for law firms, real estate agents, and other regulated businesses.
- VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
- Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $725k–$4.3M; Series A $7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, we have a strong track record of success. We have invested over $4.5 billion of capital in 85+ companies, and we have deep industry expertise in two key verticals.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Textiles
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- AIT Worldwide Logistics — AIT delivers customized supply chain solutions via air, sea and ground, including customs clearance and other special services for industries with unique shipping requirements.
- U.S. Endo Partners — We are a national network of growth-minded clinicians, who collaborate to create better outcomes for our patients, partners and teams, and to advance the endodontic specialty.
- Titan Security Group — Titan Security Group is your premier security solutions provider. Flexible and efficient solutions for the security challenges of today.
We invest in retail focused technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Retail Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $573k–$800k; Series A $3.1M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logiwa — Logiwa is the leading cloud fulfillment software for high-volume direct-to-consumer brands, wholesalers, and 3PLs. The Logiwa Cloud Fulfillment Platform is an integrated WMS and order fulfillment system that makes it easy to run a digital warehouse and scale your high-volume DTC fulfillment operations. Logiwa’s solution works where traditional WMSsystems fail: it connects quickly with new online stores and marketplaces, makes it easy to run a digital warehouse, and is easily updated to support dynamic warehouse environments.
- XCCommerce — XCCommerce is a leading software development and implementation company that specializes in retail specific solutions.XCCommerce’s team has a proven track record of developing and deploying Promotion Management Solutions, implementing projects on time and on budget, and generating optimal ROI for their customers.XCCommerce has a strong marketpresence and their capabilities in delivering applications are rooted in best practices. Their solutions enable retailers to transform the customer experience and allow seamless interaction with the consumer on their terms.They are trusted with providing focused solutions and dedicated expertise to the retail industry, ranging from Tier 1 retailers to organizations who are growing their brands.
- Trendalytics Innovation Labs — Discover data-driven insights with Trendalytics AI. Analyze millions of data points to refine product development, craft compelling marketing strategies, and stay ahead of industry trends.
Matthew Cowan is The Corporate Director At BitGo.
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series D
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2M; Series B $40M–$60M; Series D $12M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- LUUM — LUUM Lash is revolutionizing the beauty industry with the world's first robotic lash extensions. The power of machine learning, AI and robotics combine to help lash artists improve efficiency, precision and overall results.
Amplify is the first investor for technical founders building the next generation of technical applications, tools, and platforms.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$12M; Series A $7M–$30M; Series B $15M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
- Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
- Strangeworks — The most advanced compute network, managed by the industry's top experts.
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Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
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Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
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Who built Shizune?
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