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

Last updated: Apr 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 April 2025

Investor	Recruiting Canada investments
shl.vc	3
Village Global	3
Real Ventures	3
Garage Capital	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
Thomvest Ventures	2
Conconi Growth Partners	2
BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund	2
Xfund	2
Relay Ventures	2
Otimo Retail	1
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund	1
N49P	1
focal	1
JFF Ventures	1
Connect Ventures	1
Green Alley Investment	1
Calgary tech incubator	1
Cabot Technology Solutions	1
Technologies HumanID	1
Cascade Seed Fund	1
Capital Angel Network	1
Sparkland Capital	1
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	1
East Valley Ventures	1
Angel One Network	1
SOSV	1
Quad-C Management	1
Garage Technology Ventures Canada	1
TD Bank	1
White Star Capital	1
Ontario Centre of Innovation	1
Belltower Fund Group	1
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners	1
Night Capital	1
First Angel Network	1
Green Century Investment	1
Broad Street Bulls	1
Level One Fund	1
Startup TNT	1
Wayfinder Ventures	1
Wesley Clover	1
SmartHub	1
Amplify Partners	1
Ontario Centres of Excellence	1
Western Technology Investment	1
Rho Capital Partners	1
WELL Ventures	1
MergeLane	1
Impact Engine	1

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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.

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

Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
Breakout — Breakout is the always-available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by offering personalized engagement and ive demos to your website visitors.
Orpheus Ocean — The first AUV to unlock scalable seafloor access

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

Portfolio highlights

Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
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.
Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.

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, SaaS
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
Planetary Technologies — 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.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.

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 combines imaging and AI to detect issues traditional vision systems miss, revolutionizing quality inspection.

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.
Eirene — Find trusted answers about end-of-life planning, grief support, and more.
The Curling Group — The Curling Group is a sports business venture that aims to revolutionize curling through strategic investments, innovation, and content development.

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 — Discover data-driven insights with Trendalytics AI. Analyze millions of data points to refine product development, craft compelling marketing strategies, and stay ahead of industry trends.

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 — Rapidly extract key datapoints from disclosures to uncover ESG insights, comply with reporting requirements, and effectively manage risk.
InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

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

On Me — The hobbies gift card you can tap-to-pay.
Keragon — Keragon is an Integration and Automation platform to enable you connect all your homegrown & 3rd party solutions and build healthcare-specific automations without code, in weeks.
Harmonyze — Harmonyze makes it easier for franchisors to run exceptional and profitable businesses. Using AI agents, Harmonyze centralizes and automates operational compliance, monitoring and reporting, and rapid two-way experimentation across scaled franchise networks. This innovative approach not only drives down costs but also frees up teams to focus onstrategic, revenue-generating activities, ultimately improving margins.

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.

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

Embedd — Software integration and testing of semiconductor chips
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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.

Cabot is an offshore software development company crafting smart solutions in Mobile, Web, and Enterprise sectors in the Unites States,Canada, and other regions of the world.

Investment focus

Employment, Recruiting, Video Conferencing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

B2B, Software, Consulting
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Standout Jobs — Part of the Free-Work Group, including Technojobs and Contractor UK. Thousands of tech and IT jobs available.

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.
EVA — The streamlined solution for booking quality entertainment. We have more than 500 vetted entertainers ready to place an offer on your virtual or in person event.
Tab Commerce — Tab Commerce helps restaurants of all sizes consolidate, analyze, and better manage every single expense they have.

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

RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.

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.

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.

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.
Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FCTRY LAb — We are a black-led company with the vast majority of our team and partners being people of color. Our goal is to disrupt the long held status quo of an industry where big sneaker brands often make the overwhelming majority of profits on the star/creative power of minority designers, athletes and influencers.
Kompliant — Kompliant’s configurable, purpose-built workflow is fully integrated with best-in-class data providers to address the entire compliance lifecycle through embedded compliance management.
Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.

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 — Automated cold chain temperature monitoring to prevent food loss and digitize compliance data. No Wifi, No Bluetooth, and no cheap sensors. We do it right.

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 — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
Twenty (YC S23) — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.
The Helper Bees — The Helper Bees partners with insurance carriers and health plans to provide data-backed products and services, empowering aging in place.
Watershed Health — Revolutionize healthcare connectivity with Watershed Health's community-wide care coordination platform. Join our network for improved patient outcomes and seamless data sharing.

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