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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada

Last updated: Apr 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
shl.vc	3
Village Global	3
Garage Capital	3
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	3
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	2
Sparkland Capital	2
Xfund	2
BDC Venture Capital	2
Impact Engine	2
Relay Ventures	2
Jim English	1
Thomvest Ventures	1
East Valley Ventures	1
Garage Technology Ventures Canada	1
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund	1
GrandBanks Capital	1
The 51 Ventures	1
Bogdan Iarovoi	1
Kirk Simpson	1
Ontario Centres of Excellence	1
EduLab Capital Partners	1
Michelson 20MM Foundation	1
Inovia Capital	1
Western Technology Investment	1
N49P	1
Level One Fund	1
Otimo Retail	1
White Star Capital	1
Broad Street Bulls	1
Gerry Pond	1
First Angel Network	1
Anil Dharni	1
Amplify Partners	1
Jean Desgagne	1
Marc Morin	1
Richard Hyatt	1
Robert Chaplinsky	1
Howard Stotland	1
Technologies HumanID	1
Hedgewood	1
Cabot Technology Solutions	1
Conconi Growth Partners	1
Pearson	1
LongShot Capital	1
Belltower Fund Group	1
Quad-C Management	1
Export Development Canada	1
Mike Durland	1
Rand Lockwood	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.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Pre-Seed, 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.

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

Excarta — Excarta is a cutting-edge AI research project that aims to make businesses more adaptable to unpredictable weather.
LightBeam.ai — LightBeam.ai - zero trust data protection pioneer, converges & simplifies data security, privacy, & AI governance, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed & confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, We tie together sensitive data cataloging, control, & compliance across structured, unstructured, & semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, & compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations.
Elemind Technologies — At Elemind, our goal is to use novel neuromodulation techniques to augment sleep, attention, and ultimately, the human experience.

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

tofu — tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent.
Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.

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

Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Felix Health — Felix offers on-demand treatment for common health issues such as erectile dysfunction, hair loss, HIV prevention, acne, birth control, and more.
Swift Medical — Swift Medical is the leader in Wound Care Management Technology for the healthcare enterprise.

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

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
Victory Advanced Technologies — Victory Advanced Technologies offers the development and manufacturing of electric motors and drive systems to clean the mobility supply chain by producing powertrain components in a sustainable way.

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.

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.

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

Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
Thentia Cloud — Thentia Cloud is a highly configurable, low-code government technology platform built for regulators, by regulators.
LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.

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

Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Cloverly — Integrate sustainability into every transaction with carbon estimates. Neutralize the impact in real-time with carbon reduction solutions from Cloverly.
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.

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.

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.

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, FinTech, Software
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.
Cohere — Cohere provides industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and RAG capabilities tailored to meet the needs of enterprise use cases that solve real-world problems.
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.

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

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.

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.

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kibbi: Job Search — Kibbi is a mobile app and online job board that provides job seekers with the best opportunities in their local area.
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.

Kirk Simpson is the co-founder and CEO of Wave, a provider of cloud-based, integrated software and tools for small businesses. He has spent his career working in digital media with some of Canada’s largest media companies. Prior to Wave, Kirk started two other companies and through this, realized the pain of handling back-office tasks first-hand,which led him to create Wave. Since founding Wave, Kirk has helped the company grow to over 2 million total users, with over $25 million raised in capital.

Investment focus

Finance, Sales, Banking
Seed, Angel, 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!
Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.

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.

EduLab Capital Partners is seed-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on the education market, investing in business models that transcend the traditional education landscape. The Company’s Boston- and Tokyo-based team provides foundational support to entrepreneurs to help expand their customer base, make key early-stage hires, and raiseadditional capital for profitable and sustainable growth. EduLab’s education market savvy and artificial intelligence expertise provide unique leverage points for its investments, while the Company’s network of global partnerships and distribution channels provide its portfolio companies with the depth and reach to quickly accelerate product integration and impact.

Investment focus

Education, Software, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ceresa — Setting the new standard for leadership development with equitable access for all.
Schola — Schola helps families find and enroll in the ideal PreK-12 schools.
Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.

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, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
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.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.

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.

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.
EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers and support.
Power Life Science — Discover cutting-edge therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Power helps patients everywhere take control of their care.

We're an early stage venture capital fund investing across all industries.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Recruiting
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FCTRY LAb — Fctry lab combine traditional manufacturing methods with modern technology, allowing us to redefine techniques and invent new construction methods
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.

We invest in retail focused technology companies.

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 — Your personal data scientist. Trendalytics retail intelligence platform helps retailers drive more profitable decisions through data-driven forecasting.

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.

Gerry Pond is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Mariner Innovations. Gerry Pond The University of New Brunswick.

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

R17 — R17 (was RUMAnalytics) measures, monitors, diagnosis and optimizes websites for speed. Faster websites have higher conversion rates, lower bounce rates, higher search engine rankings, lower bandwidth costs and a better user experience on personal computers and mobile devices.They created R17 to make the internet faster. R17 combines theworld's foremost experts on performance optimization with easy-to-understand analytics, actionable recommendations and mind-blowing CDN technology.
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.
Porpoise — Porpoise is an employee engagement platform for companies that have corporate responsibility initiatives and are looking to automate involvement, measurement and reporting. Porpoise makes it simple to recognize, capture, and amplify the social impact that employees are making on behalf of your company, finally giving your marketing departments thecontent they need to deliver great campaigns, and HR managers the data to track and manage employees engagement programs and targeted initiatives.Spend less time managing your impact and giving programs, and more time accelerating the impact!

First Angel Network Association (FAN) is a not-for-profit organization formed to bridge the capital gap for companies with extraordinary potential in Atlantic Canada. Created by angel investors for angel investors, FAN provides entrepreneurs and investors with a confidential, disciplined, high-quality private equity investment experience. FAN alsodelivers education and networking opportunities in the areas of investment readiness, angel investing and commercialization.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WellTrack — WellTrack provides on-demand online therapy for stress, anxiety, and depression.
Covina Biomedical — Covina Biomedical is a minimally invasive orthopaedics company producing injectable biomaterials that enhance quality of life. The company is developing its first platform product, a glass-based bone cement to enhance the longevity of orthopaedic implants. Using collaborative research approaches, and in partnership with end users, Covina Biomedicalhas created the first technology of its kind in the industry.
Beauceron Security — Beauceron makes it faster, easier and less complex for organisations to measure, manage and monitor human-centric cyber risk. Their comprehensive, automated cybersecurity platform covers cybersecurity education, social engineering simulations, executive surveys, and dashboards as well as business process, and technology gap assessment and analysis.

Anil Dharni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sense. Attended at MIT Sloan School of Management.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MotherDuck — Making analytics ducking awesome with DuckDB. Sign up to stay in touch.
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.
Sonera Magnetics — Sonera Magnetics develops a technology for high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces to democratize access to the brain.Its core technology enables them to detect signals from the brain at performance levels comparable to the best diagnostic tools that rely on superconducting sensors. It can detect high-quality magnetic signalsfrom neurons firing in the brain using a non-invasive, low-cost, and low-power system - enabling a practical brain-computer interface. ‍Sonera’s portable brain imaging systems can be used to provide concordant evidence for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and dementia.The company was founded in 2018 by Nishita Deka, Dominic Labanowski, and Sayeef Salahuddin in Berkeley, California.

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.

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.

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

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 — Refinance your car loan. See if you can save money. Get pre-qualified offers in seconds with no Social Security number required and no impact on your credit.
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!

Howard Stotland - President @ Otimo Retail

Investment focus

Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Smashcut — Smashcut is a next generation learning platform built for real time, media-based education.

LongShot Capital invests in pre-seed and seed stage technology companies alongside other angels, strategic investors, and VC.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
United States, 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.
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.

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

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Pre-Seed
Canada

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

Joyride — Make mobility instantly shareable, connected, keyless and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
Virtuo — Virtuo is a CX platform built for home builders, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and more, to elevate their home buyer experience.
WELL Health Technologies — WELL aims to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower and support patients and doctors. Learn about our mission and purpose.

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!

Rand Lockwood joined Recruit N Refer as Co-Founder.

Investment focus

SaaS, Accounting, Recruiting
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Recruit N Refer — Recruit N Refer (RNR) is a Vancouver-based recruitment platform specializing in connecting companies with freelance recruiters to find quality CPA candidates.

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