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Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 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 2025

Investor	Recruiting Canada investments
Village Global	3
shl.vc	3
Real Ventures	3
Garage Capital	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
Thomvest Ventures	2
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	2
Sparkland Capital	2
Conconi Growth Partners	2
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	2
Xfund	2
Relay Ventures	2
MergeLane	1
Michelson 20MM Foundation	1
Impact Engine	1
LongShot Capital	1
Inovia Capital	1
Export Development Canada	1
Rho Capital Partners	1
The 51 Ventures	1
Strada Education Network	1
East Valley Ventures	1
WELL Ventures	1
Angel One Network	1
SOSV	1
Quad-C Management	1
Wayfinder Ventures	1
focal	1
EduLab Capital Partners	1
JFF Ventures	1
Wesley Clover	1
Connect Ventures	1
Green Alley Investment	1
Calgary tech incubator	1
Garage Technology Ventures Canada	1
TD Bank	1
Hedgewood	1
Cabot Technology Solutions	1
Amplify Capital	1
GrandBanks Capital	1
Pearson	1
White Star Capital	1
SmartHub	1
Amplify Partners	1
Ontario Centre of Innovation	1
Otimo Retail	1
Ontario Centres of Excellence	1
Belltower Fund Group	1
Western Technology Investment	1
Technologies HumanID	1

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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

Maisa — Maisa is a deep-tech AI research lab focused on autonomous knowledge processing and reasoning engines leveraging KPU (knowledge processing Unit). It powers maiWork, the first platform to execute end-to-end jobs and mission-critical processes with autonomous digital workers, with full traceability and ever-growing know-how.
Across AI — Across AI develops web app and chatbot that connects to various parts of the enterprise stack.
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

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.

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.
Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DryMerge — DryMerge lets you connect your apps and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. Try for free today and save hours of time with 30 seconds.
Brightband — Responsible development and maintenance of advanced Earth System AI for the long-term benefit of all humanity and the Earth.
Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.

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

KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

Thomvest is a cross-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage, growth stage, start-up, and mid venture investments. The company primarily focuses on opportunities with early-to-mid stage companies in the fields of financial technology, marketing technology, cybersecurity, sales, and cloud infrastructure sectors. As part of their focuson these areas, they are committed to helping their companies become leaders in their fields through their work with them and through the focus on understanding where value can be created in these industries, as can be seen from the research they publish regularly.Thomvest Ventures was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

StackGen — Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneurs Sachin Aggarwal and Asif Awan, StackGen (formerly appCD) automatically generates Infrastructure from Code (IfC) based on application code with golden standards applied. Unlike manual Infrastructure as Code (IaC) creation or "golden templates" that quickly become outdated, StackGen generates IaCautomatically from the application code, without requiring any code changes, and applies preset standards. StackGen provides seamless, full-stack infrastructure solutions that enhance the developer experience and enforce industry standards. Built for platform engineers and DevOps teams tasked with improving the developer experience and enforcing standards, StackGen reduces software development lifecycle (SDLC) bottlenecks, minimizes liabilities, and eliminates cognitive overload. StackGen is backed by notable venture capital firms Thomvest Ventures, WestWave Capital, FireBolt Ventures, and Secure Octane. For further information, please visit www.stackgen.com.
Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.

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, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
Swift Medical — Swift Medical is a digital wound care technology to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. From Capture to Claim: The world's most advanced and comprehensive wound care management software for the healthcare enterprise. Precise, consistent measurement, instant documentation and wound progression images with a smartphone.
Eigen Innovations — Eigen specializes in helping manufacturers realize “Zero Defects” by giving them real-time, actionable insights to better control their processes and the quality of their outputs. Our team is made up of a mix of machine learning, mechanical and software engineers with extensive in-factory experience allowing us to help manufacturers reduce thetime to value in adopting AI-enabled solutions.

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.
Kudos — Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.

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

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
The Curling Group — The Curling Group is a sports business venture that aims to revolutionize curling through strategic investments, innovation, and content development.

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
Watershed Health — Revolutionize healthcare connectivity with Watershed Health's community-wide care coordination platform. Join our network for improved patient outcomes and seamless data sharing.

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.

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

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.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Scribenote — Effortless documentation for veterinary professionals.

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.

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

ESG Flo — ESG Flo, the leading ESG software, leverages artificial intelligence to seamlessly automate the collection and transformation of ESG data into audit-ready metrics.
Toothio — Dental offices gain access to high-quality dental professionals, on-demand, while dental professionals can pick up work that fits their schedules.
evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community

Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heylist — Heylist is an influencer marketing platform where brands connect with a community of content creators to create, track, and measure their marketing campaigns.
Retellio — AI Agents that distill thousands of hours of customer calls into 30 minute podcasts.
Ayrton Energy — H2 STORAGE & TRANSPORTATION SIMPLIFIED

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.

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hasu — Confidential, safe and affordable online therapy with caring and compassionate mental health experts. Live better with Focus.
Tali AI — You can use Tali AI to dictate your medical notes directly into your Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. Additionally, this extension will enable you to look up information from evidence-based medical databases at the point-of-care without needing to leave the EMR.
Cherry Health — Cherry Health is your medical network. Where healthcare connects, finds jobs and more.

Join Angel One Investor Network: Your Path to Profitable Investments. Curated ventures, expert angel investors, and more. Take action now!

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
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.

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.

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

Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
Fazeshift — Fazeshift is a developer of an invoice and financial management platform for businesses. The platform works with the existing tools to automate invoicing, cash application, and collections.
Twenty (YC S23) — Experience the forefront of open-source CRM. Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, and community support. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

True 0 to 1 specialists, laser focused on helping you cut through Seed and get to Series A and beyond with velocity.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Keragon — Keragon is an Integration and Automation platform to enable you connect all your homegrown & 3rd party solutions and build healthcare-specific automations without code, in weeks.
Harmonyze — Harmonyze makes it easier for franchisors to run exceptional and profitable businesses. Using AI agents, Harmonyze centralizes and automates operational compliance, monitoring and reporting, and rapid two-way experimentation across scaled franchise networks. This innovative approach not only drives down costs but also frees up teams to focus onstrategic, revenue-generating activities, ultimately improving margins.
Thoras.ai — Thoras is an ML-powered platform that helps SRE teams view the future of their Kubernetes workloads.

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

Schola — Schola helps families find and enroll in the ideal PreK-12 schools.
Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
Authentica Solutions — Authentica Solutions provides innovative solutions and products for education that empower learners, educators, and administrators.

Funding technologies that build a more inclusive future of work.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Symba — Engage your new hires from Day 0, and fast-track preboarding to productivity with Symba's new hire readiness platform.
Cell-Ed — The full-circle solution for public and private orgs to launch and administer education, social and healthcare programs for better life, work and health.
Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.

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.

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.

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

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Atwell — Atwell is a consulting, engineering, and construction service company, that deliver a broad range of strategic and creative solutions to clients in a variety of industries including real estate and land development, power and energy, and oil and gas markets.
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.
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers, Inc. — The Liberty Company. founded in 1987 and licensed to operate in all 50 states, is one of the fastest-growing privately-held insurance brokerages in the US.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

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

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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 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.

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

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

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

Investment focus

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

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Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Petfolk — Petfolk's world-class animal hospitals & pet care centers offer virtual, in-person & urgent veterinary care with a pet-parent-focused approach. Learn more!
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.

SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

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

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Eppo — Hypothesis-centered A/B experimentation, built for today's product and data teams.
Luma AI — Building visual AI to expand human imagination and capabilities
Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.

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

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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.

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.

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

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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 develops a global open-architecture venture platform to provide access to multinational companies to identify, grow, and commercialize their proprietary IP while strategically partnering for success.
Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.