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Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2026

Investor	Recruiting Canada investments
Garage Capital	3
Village Global	3
shl.vc	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
Real Ventures	3
Xfund	2
Conconi Growth Partners	2
Thomvest Ventures	2
Relay Ventures	2
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	2
Ontario Centre of Innovation	1
Ontario Centres of Excellence	1
Sparkland Capital	1
Angel One Network	1
SOSV	1
Broad Street Bulls	1
Startup TNT	1
WELL Ventures	1
Strada Education Network	1
Michelson 20MM Foundation	1
Night Capital	1
Capital Angel Network	1
MergeLane	1
Inovia Capital	1
Garage Technology Ventures Canada	1
Impact Engine	1
Export Development Canada	1
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	1
LongShot Capital	1
The 51 Ventures	1
GrandBanks Capital	1
Green Alley Investment	1
Calgary tech incubator	1
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund	1
Quad-C Management	1
TD Bank	1
Belltower Fund Group	1
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	1
Night Capital	1
First Angel Network	1
Green Century Investment	1
Level One Fund	1
Wayfinder Ventures	1
Western Technology Investment	1
Rho Capital Partners	1
Hedgewood	1
Amplify Capital	1
Pearson	1
Cabot Technology Solutions	1
Cascade Seed Fund	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
Devyce — The easiest way to get a second UK mobile phone number. Get a new number or bring your own and port it for free. For teams and individuals.
Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Adora — Adora is the AI-native performance marketing engine that gives enterprise brands direct control over the inputs that drive their results.
AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
Lore — Being a fan used to be fun. We are going to fix it.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Litebulb — Use Litebulb to save hundreds of engineering hours, get better candidates, and reduce bias. Litebulb interviews are simulations of regular dev work in familiar environments. We extract data about a candidate's production readiness, code quality, and scalable design.
Airwork — Airwork is a platform that connects workers with warehouses in the Greater Toronto Area to fill shifts. Workers can pick up shifts from any of the warehouses on our platform, whenever they like. No resumes, no interviews, and get paid within the same day.
Arcana Network — Arcana Network builds tools that make it easier for developers to make the adoption of Web3 dApps simple. Arcana Auth is the first of such tools. Boost your customer conversion rates by 90% with our social and email login solution.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.
Influitive — Our Customer Advocacy Saas product and professional services allow your company to strategically discover, nurture and mobilize customer advocates.
Shoebox — Clearwater Clinical designs and manufactures innovative, affordable, medical-grade devices that apply the advantages of mobile technology to common clinical practices.

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

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.

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

Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
Curebase — Software and services for decentralized clinical trials. Reach patients far beyond traditional research sites.
Guideline — Guideline's full-service 401(k) plans make it easier and more affordable to offer your employees the retirement benefits they deserve.

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clari — Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipeline, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn.Clari was founded by Venkat Rangan and Andy Byrne in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
CyCognito — Proactive attack surface protection that prevents breaches. See your risks as attackers do. Know what to fix first. Remediate faster. Spend Less
Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.

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

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.
Trusty Estate — Trusty helps you create a digital Letter of Wishes, so the things you love end up with the people you love. Securely add assets, documents, and more.
ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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

Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
Felix Health — Felix offers on-demand treatment for common health issues such as erectile dysfunction, hair loss, HIV prevention, acne, birth control, and more.

Ontario Centre of Innovation provides a preeminent research-to-commercialization vehicle in Ontario

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Talin — Supercharge your recruting process with Talin's AI powered tools.
Mesosil — Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision.
HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.

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 is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.

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 provides proximity-based security with touchless MFA, passwordless authentication, and zero-trust access. Simplify secure access and enhance cybersecurity for IT leaders.

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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.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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

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.

Startup TNT is a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building of investors, entrepreneurs and cheerleaders, who gather every week and build friendships before companies. Previously generated more than $3 Million capital for local startups, TNT aims to transform Alberta into Canada's be

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
SimpleHedge — SimpleHedge is a Financial Software for the farmers to make crop hedging process easy and valid.
Rivercity Innovations — Rivercity Innovations provides cold-chain monitoring technologies.

WELL Ventures is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WELL Health Technologies Corp., whose mandate is to invest in exceptional leaders, entrepreneurs, and businesses supporting the global digital health ecosystem, with an emphasis on advancing innovative digital health initiatives in Canada.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hasu — 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Doowii, Inc — Your data, Your questions, One easy AI tool. Only Doowii empowers you to access all your education data in one platform
The University of Texas System — The University of Texas System (UT System) consists of 14 academic and health institutions across the state, making a global impact.

Michelson 20MM Foundation believes that equitable higher education and employment opportunities should be available to all. Michelson 20MM supports historically underrepresented and underserved individuals by expanding learning, workforce development, and employment opportunities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
BridgeCare — Child care data and technology solutions for government agencies.
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.

Night Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

MergeLane is the leading venture fund investing in high-growth startups with at least one female leader.

Investment focus

SaaS, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mapistry — Mapistry is SaaS for industrial environmental compliance. We give customers, companies like 3M, Republic Services and Vulcan Materials, visibility into their compliance status, and guide them through each regulatory requirement using our unique combination of technology, training, and tech-enabled services.Our customers are manufacturing andtransportation companies, from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies. Their environmental departments are drowning in regulations. Not only is there a long list of complicated regulations (wastewater, stormwater, air emissions, spill prevention, hazardous and solid waste, etc), but environmental managers must coordinate sampling & monitoring, capital improvements, inspections, maintenance, reporting, AND they must do this for regulations that change across locations. Failure to comply with these regulations can also mean multi-million dollar fines and lawsuits. For more details, visit mapistry.com/software
Frate — First-of-its-kind automated peer-to-peer returns solution. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability while also saving money on every return.
Intelligems — Intelligems simplifies profit optimization for e-commerce businesses, enabling effortless testing of prices, discounts, and shipping rates to maximize margins.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Talent.com — Find jobs, salary & company information on Talent.com. Discover your next career today. Your job search starts here!
GoodFit — Implement & scale any GTM strategy. Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice

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 — Get the premium .com domain you deserve. Seamless and professional transactions. Payment plans available.

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

Portfolio highlights

Borrowell — 1 in 10 Canadians use Borrowell to monitor their credit. No credit card or SIN needed. We're the only free credit score app made in Canada.
Fixer — Hire a handyman from Fixer to help with any of your home repair needs.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
Moselle — Automated inventory forecasting, purchasing, and planning for fast growing multi-channel brands.

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.

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.

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 — Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur.
Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
Dispatch — Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market.

Europe's first startup prize for the Circular Economy encourages entrepreneurs to step forward with their ideas around recycling and prevention of waste.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Seed
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.

Calgary tech incubator is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Medical, Recruiting, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

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 uncover the insights needed to respond to climate pressure and find climate confidence.
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.

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, we have a strong track record of success. We have invested over $4.5 billion of capital in 85+ companies, and we have deep industry expertise in two key verticals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

TD Bank is a banking center that provides its clients with retail, small business, and commercial banking products and services.Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 85,000 employees in offices around the world, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). D had CDN$1.3 trillion in assetson January 31, 2019. TD also ranks among the world’s leading online financial services firms, with more than 12 million active online and mobile customers. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol "TD".The Toronto-Dominion Bank is a chartered bank subject to the provisions of the Bank Act (Canada). It was formed on February 1, 1955 through the amalgamation of The Bank of Toronto, chartered in 1855, and The Dominion Bank, chartered in 1869.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Information Technology, Financial Services
Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Atwell — Atwell is a comprehensive consultation, engineering and construction firm focused on real estate & land development, power & renewable energy, and oil & gas.
Getty Realty — Getty Realty Corp. (NYSE: GTY) is a publicly traded, net lease REIT specializing in convenience, automotive and other single tenant retail real estate.
Group 1 Automotive — Group 1 Automotive owns and operates about 130 franchises at approximately 100 dealerships, as well as about 25 collision service centers in more than a dozen states. Group 1 Automotive also has a handful of franchises in the UK. The company's dealerships offer new (60% of sales) and used cars and light trucks under more than 30 differentbrands. It also offers financing, provides maintenance and repair services, and sells replacement parts.

Belltower Fund Group is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in early-stage companies. It provides fund administration and operations for select private equity and venture funds. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Seattle Washington.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Withe — Withe is a career fair platform that unlocks the data of in-person interactions. Designed for governments, post-secondary schools, and campus recruitment teams.
CassetteAI — CassetteAI is the first platform to utilize artificial intelligence to generate music by using text. Cassette is your AI powered Music Generator.

MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

HDAX Therapeutics — HDAX Therapeutics novel modality unlocks a never-seen-before binding mechanism to key biological molecules.
Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
Grey Matter Neurosciences — Grey Matter Neurosciences is a neurotechnology firm developing new medical devices and drug-device combinations to treat age-related brain illnesses like dementia.

Night Capital is a boutique venture capital business that helps great innovators build huge markets.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sotira — Make your excess inventory do more for you.
Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.
Get Parallel — Get Parallel is a software company that develops a headcount planning solution for finance teams. The company also offers hassle-free headcount forecasting, increased accuracy and confidence in submitted plans, decreased time spent in manual reconciliation, simplified reporting for department leaders, and better planning decisions. Get Parallel islocated in Lehi, Utah.

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 — The best software for MSSPs & MSPs to deliver anti-fraud, anti-phishing, e-mail analysis and security awareness training that motivates behavior change.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Repable — Repable is an analytics company that is focused on the gaming industry.Repable provides broadcasters, teams, and enterprises with analytics and insights about the gaming and streaming industries to understand the financial and social impact of their interactions with their fans and public.Repable was founded by Sean Power and Heather AnneCarson in September 2015. And it is based in Toronto, Ontario.
TritonWear — TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique positionin the market.
Graphite Software — Graphite’s team has extensive experience building strong and easy to use security solutions for consumer devices and has been influential in this market. We see an opportunity in the BYOD market for Android phones and tablets where dual persona solutions are insecure, cumbersome to use and do not benefit the device owner. It easy to createsolutions that are either easy to use, or super secure. But enterprises and consumers want both.As veterans in the device security business, we are re-defining mobile device security. Join us and together let’s make a difference when it comes to the next generation of secure computing.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Recruiting
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FCTRY LAb — LA-based sneaker studio by Omar Bailey, ex-Yeezy. Shop NLE Choppa Duck Boots, Stomper, Knight RNR, MOCC & RUFL boots. Artist collabs, limited drops from FCTRY LAb.
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.

Wayfinder Ventures is a San Francisco based early stage venture fund

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Archil — Archil is a software company that specializes in instant access for cloud applications to store data.
Oway — Join thousands that ship freight instantly with Oway's rideshare freight platform and save up to 50% on your shipping. Pickups in just 1 hour, delivered overnight with insurance and tracking included on all shipments.
Garage — America's trusted marketplace for emergency vehicles. Buy & sell fire trucks, ambulances, rescue vehicles & equipment. Trusted by 1000+ fire departments nationwide. Free listings, nationwide shipping, warranties available.

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, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
Innventure — Innventure is a provider of a global open-architecture venture platform.
Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MyBuys — MyBuys is the leader in cross-channel personalization for retailers. We help marketers increase their marketing effectiveness by learning what individual shoppers like, then using these insights to present them with the most compelling recommendations and offers, coordinated across every channel -- on e-commerce sites, through email, via displayads, on mobile devices, and on Facebook. More than 300 companies, including 75 of the Internet Retailer Top 500, use MyBuys to sell more. Based in San Mateo, Calif., MyBuys is a privately held company. Visit them online at www.MyBuys.com.
CloudPay — CloudPay provides managed global payroll services to multinational organizations through a single, unified SaaS solution. By delivering end-to-end managed payroll services through an innovative platform, CloudPay ensures consistent and compliant payroll around the globe while reducing operating costs and minimizing manual processes. CloudPay’sservices and technology standardize the payroll function across geographies, helping organizations increase efficiency, streamline compliance, and achieve greater visibility into payroll performance and costs. The CloudPay solution is backed by deep industry expertise earned over twenty-plus years delivering services to over 2,500 multinational entities. CloudPay’s solution guarantees accurate payroll processing across 130+ countries in more than twenty-five languages. Positioned as a Leader in NelsonHall’s 2019 Payroll Outsourcing NEAT assessment and as an Achiever in Everest Group’s 2019 Multi-Country Payroll Platform report, CloudPay has won multiple awards for its technology and service, including Global Payroll Transformation Project of the Year Award (2017), Payroll Software Product of the Year (2018) and the prestigious Global Payroll Supplier of the Year (2019). To learn more, visit www.cloudpay.net.
Channelinsight — Channelinsight offers the only complete cloud-based Channel Data Management (CDM) solution, providing technology manufacturers with visibility into every partner and every end-customer, for every POS transaction in real-time, allowing them to gain the insight necessary to drive sales and optimize inventory. The company processes over 120 millionPOS and inventory transactions per year and collects POS and inventory data from over 4000 worldwide channel partners. We process over $100 billion in channel sales transactions annually. Customers benefitting from this technology include Schneider Electric, Corning Life Sciences, HP, TE Connectivity, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Smart Technologies, Fluke Networks, Fortinet, and Wasp Barcode. Channelinsight is backed by Rho Ventures, Sequel Venture Partners and Vedanta Capital, with headquarters in Denver and offices in Palo Alto, UK and Singapore.

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 — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
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.

Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Lyteflo — Lyteflo provides electric vehicle (EV) sales tools.
Cerula Care — Cerula Care specializes in behavioral health services for people with chronic conditions.
Carbon Upcycling — Our cities, roads, energy, AI, and all critical infrastructure are built on a foundation of concrete. And cement is the glue that holds it all together. Securing our tomorrow means securing our critical cement materials. It means building manufacturing independence, localizing supply chains, and investing...

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.

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 — Interview Rocket is a revolutionary new online service that allows recruiters to pre-screen job candidates independent of busy schedules, time zones or geographies.

Creating opportunities for entrepreneurs in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Talin — Supercharge your recruting process with Talin's AI powered tools.
FlexPoint — LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold.
Tiga Labs — Tiga Sales AI loves to prospect for you. Tiga can navigate sales conversations at scale and generate personalized prospecting plays to meet your business goals.

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