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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	Recruiting Canada investments
Real Ventures	4
BDC Venture Capital	3
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	3
Garage Capital	3
Village Global	3
shl.vc	3
Sparkland Capital	2
Thomvest Ventures	2
Xfund	2
Conconi Growth Partners	2
Relay Ventures	2
Impact Engine	2
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	2
Jean Desgagne	1
Marc Morin	1
Robert Chaplinsky	1
Technologies HumanID	1
Hedgewood	1
Cabot Technology Solutions	1
Belltower Fund Group	1
Quad-C Management	1
Export Development Canada	1
Mike Durland	1
WELL Ventures	1
Startup TNT	1
Green Century Investment	1
Micheal Hyatt	1
Rho Capital Partners	1
David Henning	1
Strada Education Network	1
Mike Tilley	1
Jim English	1
East Valley Ventures	1
Ontario Centres of Excellence	1
Howard Stotland	1
Matthew Cowan	1
Wesley Clover	1
Garage Technology Ventures Canada	1
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund	1
The 51 Ventures	1
Bogdan Iarovoi	1
Michelson 20MM Foundation	1
Inovia Capital	1
JFF Ventures	1
Western Technology Investment	1
Night Capital	1
GrandBanks Capital	1
N49P	1
White Star Capital	1
Broad Street Bulls	1

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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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
Maxa AI — Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions.
Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.

BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Canada

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.
AmacaThera — Amacathera is developing an injectable hydrogel platform to provide localized, sustained drug delivery
Swift Medical — Swift Medical is the leader in Wound Care Management Technology for the healthcare enterprise.

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quilt — Quilt is the best home climate system available. Our electric, energy efficient heat pump uses smart technology to save homeowners money and cut emissions.
Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
Ellipsis — Ellipsist is a virtual teammate that turns every engineer into a 10x engineer. After installing into the GitHub repository, developers assign work to the bot, such as creating pull requests, conducting code reviews, and addressing peer feedback.

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Arch0 — Arch0 platform offers a pioneering approach that centralizes identity as the foundational element of cloud security, embedding proactive and automated security measures throughout the entire cloud ecosystem.
Eyebot — Vision care at the touch of a button
Angel AI Company — Angel AI Company is an AI platform that offers kids between the ages of five and twelve an age-appropriate online experience.

Investing over $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, India

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

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 is a offers a Bluetooth device designed to replace keys and passwords. It also generates secure passwords for website accounts, then automatically logs in when visiting a website. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.Thomvest Ventures was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

appCD — Generate Infrastructure from Code automatically based on application code with golden standards applied. Application deployments are streamlined and aligned. Be more profitable, secure and productive.
Bolster AI — Automatically detect & remediate threats across web sites, domain, social media, mobile app stores, marketplaces & the dark web.
Alsym Energy — Alsym™ Energy has developed an innovative low-cost, high-performance rechargeable energy storage technology that’s free of lithium and cobalt, and ideal for applications such as stationary storage, maritime shipping, and electric vehicles.By using readily available, inherently non-toxic and non-flammable energy storage materials, Alsym is workingto deliver wide-duration storage with performance comparable to lithium ion at a much lower cost, speeding the pace of decarbonization for people around the world.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chalk — Chalk is a data platform that powers machine learning and generative AI. Chalk's best-in-class developer experience enables data teams to declare features and their dependencies with idiomatic Python in online, streaming, and batch environments. Chalk compiles these definitions into parallel pipelines that run on a Rust-based engine. Thesepipelines use the same source code to serve temporally consistent training sets to data scientists and live feature values to models. This re-use ensures that feature values from online and offline contexts match and dramatically cuts development time. With Chalk, engineers, data scientists, and analysts can focus on their unique products while Chalk seamlessly handles data infrastructure.
AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
Oneinvest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
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.
Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.

Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in companies driving positive impact in economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.
Watershed Health — Revolutionize healthcare connectivity with Watershed Health's community-wide care coordination platform. Join our network for improved patient outcomes and seamless data sharing.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Solyntek — Solyntek is a startup that specializes in using the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform standard security cameras into 24/7 guardians that detect and alarm risky situations at work.
Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

Jean Desgagné is President and CEO, Global Enterprise Services, TMX Group, a member of TMX Group's executive management committee and is an Officer of the Corporation.Global Enterprise Services is accountable for the delivery of Technology, Operations, Transaction and Procurement Services for all of TMX.Desgagné joined The CanadianDepository for Securities Limited (CDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group, in 2013 from TD Bank Group where he was Senior Vice President, Trading Risk Services, holding responsibility for the independent oversight of valuation, market risk, liquidity and collateral for TD's global trading business. Prior to TD Bank, he held increasingly senior positions at some of Canada's leading financial institutions including Bank of Montreal and Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada) in areas such as treasury operations, technology, trading support and risk management.Desgagné is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Ottawa. He currently serves on the Board of the Jean Tweed Centre, the Board of Governors of Junior Achievement of Central Ontario, and has been active in a number of other community organizations. He is a member of the President's Advisory Council for the University of Ottawa and was awarded the Trudeau Medal by the Telfer School of Management and the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2002 in recognition of his community service.

Investment focus

Employment, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Luminari — Canada's largest professional community of CPAs

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Canada

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada

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!
Caribou — Our customers save an avg. of $115/month. See what you could save. Get prequalified offers in minutes with no impact on your credit and no Social Security Number required to see rates.
Trust & Will — Estate planning with Trust & Will is the easiest way to create, edit, store, and share your Trust or Will legal documents. Create an estate plan today!

Technologies HumanID is a venture capital company that contributes to the technological and financial development of the company.

Investment focus

B2B, Software, Consulting
Series A
Canada

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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Employment, Recruiting, Video Conferencing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Interview Rocket — Get set up with a new domain name right away. Affordable payment plans to fit any budget. Friendly customer support.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Recruiting
Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Withe — Withe is a hiring event and on-demand video interview platform designed to be the fastest way to connect qualified candidates with volume-hiring teams.
CassetteAI — CassetteAI is the first platform to utilize artificial intelligence to generate music by using text. Cassette is your AI powered Music Generator.

Quad-C Management is a middle-market private equity firm focused on investing in well-established business and consumer services, healthcare, industrials, specialty distribution, and transportation/logistics companies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vortex Companies — The Vortex Companies is one of the fastest growing trenchless solution providers in the water, sewer and industrial marketplace. Its list of services includes turnkey bypass, structural relining, structural and corrosion protection materials, pipe bursting, trenchless robotic systems, and pipe and drain cleaning tools.
Legacy Food Group — Legacy Food Group is a company created to acquire high quality regional independent distributors that will become owned operating divisions.
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.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
Renewable Power Capital — Renewable Power Capital invest in the development, construction and long-term ownership of solar, onshore wind and battery storage projects.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

TruLeaf —
Ideal — Ideal is a talent intelligence system that helps enterprise teams make more accurate, efficient, and fair decisions. Discover our product!

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, VoIP, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hasu — Confidential, safe and affordable online therapy with caring and compassionate mental health experts. Live better with Focus.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Scription — Scription offers maintenance companies the only end-to-end solution for pricing, selling, and managing personalized maintenance contracts.
Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

GCI Capital is a Toronto based early stage Private Equity firm.

Investment focus

Analytics, Enterprise Software, Software
Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Repable — Repable is an analytics company that is focused on the gaming industry.Repable provides broadcasters, teams, and enterprises with analytics and insights about the gaming and streaming industries to understand the financial and social impact of their interactions with their fans and public.Repable was founded by Sean Power and Heather AnneCarson in September 2015. And it is based in Toronto, Ontario.
TritonWear — TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique positionin the market.
Graphite Software — We are all individuals and our mobile experience should be as unique as we are. Gain unique mobile experiences while taking control of your mobile privacy.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Self-Storage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

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 — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho's four operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Rho Fund Investors and Rho Acceleration.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Advertising
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Toothio — Dental offices gain access to high-quality dental professionals, on-demand, while dental professionals can pick up work that fits their schedules.
evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community
Pawlicy Advisor — Pawlicy Advisor provides free quotes, comparison charts, and help from licensed agents to get you the best pet insurance for your breed at the lowest rate.

David Henning - Partner @ Otimo Retail

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Commercial
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.
Logiwa — Warehouse software and 3PL Software - empower companies to run a digital fulfillment network & grow their DTC business.

At Strada, we collaborate with students, policymakers, educators, and employers to ensure education provides equitable pathways to opportunity.

Investment focus

Education, Higher Education, Universities
Grant, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago

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 is one of the nation’s largest systems of public higher education with eight academic and six health institutions.University of Texas System to provide high-quality educational opportunities for the enhancement of the human resources of Texas, the nation and the world through intellectual and personal growth.

Mike Tilley

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Funding Round
Canada

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.

Jim English, President, CEO states; "Since I joined the business out of college in 1974, 'Our Mission' has been to aggressively grow our business through Complete Customer Satisfaction. I understand the value of each customer over a lifetime.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Funding Round
Canada

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.

East Valley is a startup accelerator and angel investor group in Atlantic Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
CIRCLES — You spend 1 hour a month with us on Zoom. We guide your content creation, build your LinkedIn funnel and bring in leads with 10x performing daily video campaigns.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

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.

Howard Stotland - President @ Otimo Retail

Investment focus

Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.

Matthew Cowan is The Corporate Director At BitGo.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series B, Series D
United States, Canada, Israel

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!
Hoodline — Get breaking news from Hoodline's local reporters with stories to inform you about politics, weather, real estate, business, dining, crime, & more.
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.

Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.

Garage Technology Ventures Canada is currently not investing. If you have further information, please update this profile.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Iscopia Software — Headquartered in Montreal, Iscopia provides on-demand online hiring solutions (delivered over the web as Software as a Service) that enable organizations of all sizes to recruit the best candidates and promote the most deserving employees. Iscopia's award-winning online hiring solution, AQSâ„¢, enables small and medium-sized businesses(SMB) to hire better employees and reduce turnover quickly, simply and economically. Our customer base ranges from industry leading test publishers and HR consultants to companies large and small.

The BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund has a bold vision: Foster the creation of the next generation of millionaire Canadian women technology entrepreneurs. With $200 million to be invested, it is currently the world’s largest venture capital fund dedicated solely to investing in women led technology companies across sectors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Smart Building
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Manifest Climate — Manifest Climate: Building Climate Confidence & Navigating Risks through Reporting & Disclosure. Achieve Net Zero for your Business with our expert solutions.
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.

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Heylist — Heylist is an influencer marketing platform where brands connect with a community of content creators to create, track, and measure their marketing campaigns.
Monark — Monark is an on-demand leadership development platform that offers self-led and expert-facilitated programs to help you transform your career.
Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Snipfeed — Launch your own social storefront and make money online with ease! Our platform allows creators to easily create and manage their online store.
Ondaka — Ondaka makes Industrial Knowledge Accessible for critical infrastructure & heavy industry.
Cattle Care — Cattle Care is a revolutionary dairy management software using your existing parlor cameras and artificial intelligence to save money.

The Michelson 20MM Foundation supports innovation in education and higher learning initiatives. The organization was founded by Dr. Gary Michelson and Alya Michelson in 2010.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Higher Education
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

JobBliss — JobBliss is the best Freelancer Management System (FMS) designed for companies to effectively manage and collaborate with their curated pool of external contractors.
Oliver Pets — Oliver Pets is an all-in-one pet care platform that makes pet parenting simpler and smarter. Our App integrates all pet goods and services involved with the pet care. Pet food delivered within 3 hours, convenient pet insurance, online vets and more with an incredible experience.
New Apprenticeship — New Apprenticeship is a transformative 15-month tech apprenticeship program designed to give recent grads the skills they need to thrive in the workforce and provide employers with highly qualified and productive talent.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gaiia — With an all-in-one solution for billing, operations, automation and everything in between. gaiia is the simplest platform to run your ISP.
BlinqIO — BlinqIO developed an autonomous AI-operated virtual tester (BVT) - the BVT receives as input test scenarios, takes decisions how to perform the tests and creates in the background test automation code.
Credit App — Credit App is a fintech company that operates a credit application platform. The platform is designed to manage billions of applications, ranging from automotive to residential rentals. It provides a secure and efficient way for consumers to apply for credit. The company also offers tools and capabilities that enable lenders of all sizes to processapplications. In addition to serving online lenders and automotive dealerships, Credit App also caters to residential landlords, providing a comprehensive solution for credit application management.

Funding technologies that build a more inclusive future of work.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cell-Ed — The full-circle solution for public and private orgs to launch and administer education, social and healthcare programs for better life, work and health.
Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

Night Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Durable — Durable is the easiest way to start a service business online. With marketing tools, invoicing, and templates - it's everything you need to build a business.
tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Advertising
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Later (Formerly Mavrck) — 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 only software platform to help enterprises successfully unlock the potential of flexible service provider networks to provide world-class customer experiences.

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Power Life Science — Discover cutting-edge therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Power helps patients everywhere take control of their care.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rymedi — Rymedi removes the friction of a manual, paper filled operation to quickly achieve higher testing throughput and lower total cost of ownership.
ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Virtuo — Virtuo is a CX platform built for home builders, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and more, to elevate their home buyer experience.
54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
Cherry Health — Cherry Health is your medical network. Where healthcare connects, finds jobs and more.

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