Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in May 2025
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- 1Fort — Get peace of mind from digital threats with combined cyber insurance and security. All in a few clicks - no tech expertise needed.
- P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
- Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
Investing over $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
- Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
- Planetary Technologies — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
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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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.
- Nomic — The world's fastest & most seamless protein profiling service, with as fast as 1-week turnaround. Multiplexing without compromise.
- BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Page — Page, an AI-powered external relations platform that provides real-time insights to help enterprises navigate government policies, media, and regulations.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kovr.ai — The only AI-native cyber compliance automation platform built on large language models. No setup required. Drag, drop, and report. Change is a constant. Check compliance against any standard. Compliance Standards 0 + TM The world is at an inflection point. Safeguarding...
- AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
- Distributed Spectrum — Gain actionable insights from the radio spectrum in real-time with small, cheap and efficient sensors from Distributed Spectrum
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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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Exaforce — Exaforce is an Agentic SOC platform that consists of AI agents (called Exabots) and an advanced data exploration platform. This transforms how SOC teams do alert triage, investigations, detection & response (D&R), and threat hunting.
- Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
- Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds
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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.
- Swift Medical — Swift Medical is a digital wound care technology to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. From Capture to Claim: The world's most advanced and comprehensive wound care management software for the healthcare enterprise. Precise, consistent measurement, instant documentation and wound progression images with a smartphone.
- Eigen Innovations — Eigen combines imaging and AI to detect issues traditional vision systems miss, revolutionizing quality inspection.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the AI assistant 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.
- Ownright — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Mexico
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Commercial
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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.
Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Snipfeed — Snipfeed is building Shopify but for content creators. The platform allows them to build their storefront directly on top of social and consolidate all the monetization tools they need in one place. Snipfeed lets them monetize their audience in one click through on-demand content, direct interactions, tips, and commerce. On the back-end,Snipfeed's dashboard helps you optimize and grow your business by integrating with all the third-party tools you need as a creator (analytics, financial tools...).
- 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.
At Strada, we collaborate with students, policymakers, educators, and employers to ensure education provides equitable pathways to opportunity.
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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 (UT System) consists of 14 academic and health institutions across the state, making a global impact.
We invest in retail focused technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Retail Technology, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- On Me — The hobbies gift card you can tap-to-pay.
- Keragon — Keragon is an Integration and Automation platform to enable you connect all your homegrown & 3rd party solutions and build healthcare-specific automations without code, in weeks.
- Harmonyze — Harmonyze makes it easier for franchisors to run exceptional and profitable businesses. Using AI agents, Harmonyze centralizes and automates operational compliance, monitoring and reporting, and rapid two-way experimentation across scaled franchise networks. This innovative approach not only drives down costs but also frees up teams to focus onstrategic, revenue-generating activities, ultimately improving margins.
Wayfinder Ventures is a San Francisco based early stage venture fund
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
- Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
- Twenty (YC S23) — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Technologies HumanID is a venture capital company that contributes to the technological and financial development of the company.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Software, Consulting
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Standout Jobs — Part of the Free-Work Group, including Technojobs and Contractor UK. Thousands of tech and IT jobs available.
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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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
- Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
- fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, VoIP, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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.
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.
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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 — Rapidly extract key datapoints from disclosures to uncover ESG insights, comply with reporting requirements, and effectively manage risk.
- 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.
Anil Dharni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sense. Attended at MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, iOS
- Seed, Series A
- United States, India, 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!
- Nuzzel — Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance.Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine.Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, LowercaseCapital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.
- Rover — Rover Rover is an advanced personalization and recommendation technology app. Its Recommendation Engine is also used to power discovery on numerous third party news and media sites. Rover helps people discover content they love, that they never knew existed from a wide variety of over 15,000 topics. The recommendation engine uses machine learningto learn a user's fine-grained interests through content a user engages with while being respectful of a user's need for privacy. Rover also connects to other people who are influential in topics that care about and help discover other people with similar interests. Rover uses Machine Learning to help people discover content they love that they never knew existed.It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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.
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, eSports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Isle of Man
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.
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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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.
Funding technologies that build a more inclusive future of work.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Symba — Engage your new hires from Day 0, and fast-track preboarding to productivity with Symba's new hire readiness platform.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Employment, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Talin — Supercharge your recruting process with Talin's AI powered tools.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Advertising
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- ESG Flo — ESG Flo, the leading ESG software, leverages artificial intelligence to seamlessly automate the collection and transformation of ESG data into audit-ready metrics.
- 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
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the AI assistant 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.
- Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
- 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.
Amplify Partners invests in technical founders solving technical problems for the enterprise. They invest in early-stage companies pioneering novel applications in machine intelligence and computer science.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
- Hightouch — Hightouch is the fastest way to sync live customer data into the tools your teams rely on. Get started for free, no credit card required.
- Temporal Technologies — Build invincible apps with Temporal's open source durable execution platform. Eliminate complexity and ship features faster. Talk to an expert today!
Garage Technology Ventures Canada is currently not investing.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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.
We're an early stage venture capital fund investing across all industries.
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- Information Technology, Software, Recruiting
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- FCTRY LAb — We are a black-led company with the vast majority of our team and partners being people of color. Our goal is to disrupt the long held status quo of an industry where big sneaker brands often make the overwhelming majority of profits on the star/creative power of minority designers, athletes and influencers.
- Kompliant — Kompliant’s configurable, purpose-built workflow is fully integrated with best-in-class data providers to address the entire compliance lifecycle through embedded compliance management.
- Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
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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- Education, EdTech, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Kirk Simpson is the CEO of Confirm. He is a passionate team builder, innovator, and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience leading disruptive technology ventures.Before his current role at Confirm, Kirk co-founded Wave Financial Inc., a company dedicated to providing financial services and software solutions to small businesses.Under his leadership as CEO, Wave expanded significantly, achieving $100M in annual revenue and growing its team to 370 employees. This growth culminated in Wave’s acquisition by H&R Block for $537M in June 2019.In the same year, Kirk’s exceptional leadership was recognized when he was named Canada’s Most Admired CEO in the growth category by Waterstone Human Capital.Beyond his role at Confirm, Kirk actively contributes to the North American startup ecosystem as an angel investor and advisor.
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- Finance, Software, Credit Cards
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada
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- Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
- Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
- Float Financial — All-in-one corporate cards, fast bill payments, reimbursements, and expense management software. Get started today for free.
Night Capital is an investment firm.
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- Software, Finance, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- 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.
Night Capital is a boutique venture capital business that helps great innovators build huge markets.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
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- Sotira — Make your excess inventory do more for you.
- Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.
- Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
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- Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
- 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.
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.
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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Vortex Companies — Cost-effective water & sewer infrastructure, developed using no-dig, trenchless technology. See our products & services.
- Legacy Food Group — Legacy Food Group acquires and partners with mid-tier or larger distributors to create an entity that shares best practices and resources.
- Flow Service Partners — Flow Service Partners is a full-service nationwide HVAC, Plumbing, and Refrigeration Company. It provides to serve national accounts as well as the local businesses and communities.
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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- Employment, Recruiting, Video Conferencing
- Seed
- Canada
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- Interview Rocket — Get set up with a new domain name right away. Affordable payment plans to fit any budget. Friendly customer support.
Mike Tilley
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Funding Round
- Canada
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- 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.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
- Innventure — Innventure develops a global open-architecture venture platform to provide access to multinational companies to identify, grow, and commercialize their proprietary IP while strategically partnering for success.
- Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- 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.
LongShot Capital invests in pre-seed and seed stage technology companies alongside other angels, strategic investors, and VC.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- 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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- Software, SaaS, Self-Storage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- 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.
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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- Health Care, Education, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Kenya
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- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- The Helper Bees — The Helper Bees partners with insurance carriers and health plans to provide data-backed products and services, empowering aging in place.
- 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.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
- Delos — Delos is a generative AI platform for organizational and business development for companies.
- DIAMO — DIAMO combines automated room pricing, digital marketing, booking engine, and expert revenue support in one intuitive platform.
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