Top 50 Restaurants VC Funds in Canada
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Restaurants VC Funds in Canada
Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ronbow — Ronbow is a commercial company that distributes, designs, and manufactures a diverse selection of decorative bathing products, including sinks, vanities, medicine cabinets, and more. The company selects the highest-quality hardwood and puts them through a rigorous 10-step finishing process that is finalized with a comprehensive assembly process.Ronbow offers a dynamic and diverse design spectrum to fit any style home, from ultra contemporary to old world traditional. Their versatile designs allow for interchangeable sinks and countertops in wood, glass, stone & ceramic to match any home decor. The company provides options for interchangeable sizes and materials to inspire a truly unique customizable experience.Ronbow was founded by Jason Chen in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA, USA.
- Ilant Health — We offer a comprehensive solution that take the stress and stigma out of obesity treatment. We increase access, improve quality, and drive reduction in total cost of care.
- Virgo Surgical Video Solutions — Accelerate GI clinical trials with AI for endoscopy. Use video to automate workflows, improve standard of care, and accelerate results.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
- Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
- Basil Systems — Basil’s SaaS platform leverages machine-learning across product, market and regulatory data to provide analytics and insights for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.
Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
- Storm Labs — We are an open-source software development studio that builds infrastructure for the next financial generation.
- Layer2 Financial — Layer2 is a regulated Payments infrastructure that enables payment processors, fintechs, neobanks to launch innovative payments products in weeks.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
- Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
- Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round.BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly,Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products..Find out more at www.brandproject.com
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Porta — Restaurant-quality Italian food delivered to your door. Pizza, Pasta, Dessert subscription.
- Acid League — Experiments in acid? Acid League makes flavor-tripping vinegars, drinks, sauces, and condiments to energize your cooking.
- Guaranteed — Guaranteed reimagines hospice care with at-home treatment, cutting-edge technology, and a clinical team that puts the dying and grieving first.
Our team invests in early-stage digital health and consumer startups at CentreGold Capital.
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Juix — Juix is a power bank rental service that allows people to charge their devices on the go.
- Virgo Surgical Video Solutions — Accelerate GI clinical trials with AI for endoscopy. Use video to automate workflows, improve standard of care, and accelerate results.
- WeBox — Saltalk is a virtual kitchen platform that focuses on Asian Authentic Food optimized for delivery services.
Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.
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- Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
- FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
- Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
Plexo Capital is an institutional investor focused on investing into venture capital funds led by GPs creating the next generation of companies led by entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
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- 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- Notch — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
- Arthur — Arthur is a proactive model monitoring platform that gives you the confidence that your AI deployments are performing as expected, and the peace of mind that you can catch and fix issues before they impact your business. Performance monitoring, bias detection, and explainability made easy.
Napier Park Global Capital is an independent alternative asset management firm with a core focus on alternative credit and structured equity investments that manages approximately $6.7 billion. The firm manages a diversified product mix including hedge funds, bespoke client separate accounts, private investments and CLOs for large, sophisticatedinstitutional investors.Financial Partners seeks to provide primary, secondary and special situations capital to financial services businesses and companies servicing financial institutions. The strategy provides equity, debt or hybrid capital for event, special situation, or growth, acquisition or recapitalization financings.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Series C, Series E, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- 7shifts — Restaurant Employee Scheduling Software. Make scheduling, timesheets, team communication, task and tip management, and labor compliance easy. Get started for free.
- TouchBistro — TouchBistro is an all-in-one restaurant management system. Advanced features. Intuitive platform. Increase sales, delight guests, save time and money. Learn more!
- Q4 — Q4 is a SaaS platform that provides advanced communication and intelligence solutions to investor relations officers and the C-suite of public companies. With the goal of improving the effectiveness of investor relations through innovative, forward-thinking website solutions, the Q4 team designed an alternative approach to IR websites that putstorytelling first and emphasized intuitive corporate reporting.Q4 is a trusted partner to over 2,200 of the world’s largest brands. Q4’s comprehensive portfolio of IR communications, intelligence and corporate access solutions, supported by an industry-leading customer experience model, empower customers to build impactful and strategic IR programs
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Loyal One is a Canadian-based VC group
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- SPATULA Foods — SPATULA Foods is a chef-to-consumer marketplace which offers elevated, high-quality meals and food products.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation — Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issuesthat arise from creating human-like machines.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
- Joyride — Make mobility instantly connected, keyless, shareable and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
- Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- Fieldcraft — Fieldcraft is the ingredient marketplace for food and beverage companies. Search, sample and simplify bulk industrial ingredient sourcing.
- Henry Meds — Our mission is making treatment fast, easy, and affordable for all. Programs include provider and medication without hidden-fees or office visits.
- Heard Technologies — Heard combines smart software with real humans to handle accounting, payroll and taxes. We act as a trusted financial advisor for your private practice.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Quilt — Quilt is the best home climate system available. Our electric, energy efficient heat pump uses smart technology to save homeowners money and cut emissions.
- Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
GCI Capital is a Toronto based early stage Private Equity firm.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fantuan — Order food with Fantuan Delivery. Get the best Asian food delivered to your door from your favorite local restaurants. Everyday promotion.
- Gali Health — At Gali Health, we are on a mission to make sure nobody ever feels isolated, lost or powerless in the face of existing or potential disease. We are working to advance consumer-powered healthcare by crowdsourcing personal health data and medically-validated insights, applying AI to process them and providing highly personalized informational supporton the medical, lifestyle and psychological aspects of living with chronic disease. Our mobile personal health assistant named Gali relies on collective intelligence to help people with chronic conditions proactively manage their health.
- IOT Pay — Omni Channel Payment Solution
Here at Math Venture Partners, we partner with founding teams to take their vision further and grow with greater certainty.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Reposite — Reposite is the industry-leading planning tool that fuels supplier discovery on our B2B marketplace and simplifies coordination for group travel & event planners. Get Started Free! Book a Demo.
- WorkTorch — QuickHire is a career discovery platform for the service economy workforce. We partner with job seekers to find career fulfillment by finding the right job and advancement opportunities. This unique approach helps us provide a better engaged and aligned talent pool for employers.
- Sleuth — The future of medicine is not a cure, it is a map - a guide to the right care at any given moment. We are creating that map one person at a time. Sleuth gathers the expertise of parents - collecting, analyzing, and sharing their experiences - so that infants and toddlers get better care. Share your story at hellosleuth.com
Purple Angel is a venture capital firm focused on investments in the communications and infrastructure sectors. It was formed in early 2001 by several retired alumni of Bell Northern Research (BNR).
To date, Purple Angel has invested in 29 companies, all but two in the National Capital Region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Spoonity — Discover the future of customer loyalty with Spoonity. Boost your quick-serve restaurant's growth through tailored rewards programs.
- Rarelogic — Rare.io provides online retailers with an automated predictive email marketing solution that’s proven to increase email click-through rates and drive repeat business. We are a SaaS based ecommerce marketing automation platform that uses your customer data to provide insights and opportunities to build deeper customer relationships.
- The Better Software Company — Franchising software solutions for small business, including crm, invoicing, scheduling, text messaging, reporting, tons of customization, and much more.
BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service financial services provider. We offer corporate and investment banking, treasury management, as well as rese
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Investment focus
- Software, Precious Metals, Energy
- Post-IPO Equity, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Canada, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
- Sound Agriculture — Sound Agriculture is creating a more agile and resilient food system with innovative on-demand crop solutions.
- Trident Royalties plc — Trident Royalties promotes economics for the company's shareholders through value-added transactions involving precious, base, battery, and bulk materials. They provide investors with exposure to a wide range of mining commodities, with a preference for properties that are in production or near production. It differs from the bulk of itscounterparts, who largely prefer precious metals, in that it has a diverse portfolio of commodities.
Tandem Capital is a seed stage venture capital fund investing in stellar founding teams whose innovation extends beyond their products into how they acquire their customers, develop their distribution channels and build their overall brands. Its portfolio companies are disrupting such industries as construction, consumer packaged goods andelectronics, entertainment and media, food and beverage, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics. These businesses originate from various locations around the world but often run global operations and always benefit from a strong connection with Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, India, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
- Coral Labs — Coral Labs offers a smart manicure device that can automatically paint nails. The company is solving complex problems to simplify personal care. It was founded in 2017 by Bradley Leong and Ramya Venkateswaran and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.
- Lambda School — Lambda School is a combination of a school and an investment fund. Lambda School's mission is to find untapped or underutilized talent, and train that talent for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around.
Oyster Ventures invests in exceptional new-frontier technology companies.
We target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, and with the leverage to massively scale.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Rithmm — Rithmm is a personalized predictive analytics platform for sports betting. We enable our users to test their own strategies, rather than relying on the thoughts of others, through the simplification and personalization of sports betting models. Your instincts. Our algorithm. Give yourself an edge.
- Ridepanda — Employer sponsored leases on the widest selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters from top brands.
- Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.
Emil Capital is an early stage investment firm focused on long term success. We back the next generation of consumer brands.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Subscription Service
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cheribundi — Cheribundi sells a brand of cherry juice beverages. Its tart cherry juices are all-natural, not from concentrate, and are crafted through a one-of-a-kind juicing process, developed by scientists at Cornell University that delivers the highest antioxidant strength of any superfruit juice.
- PetFriendly — PetFriendly is a pet care subscription box for dogs and cats. From flea treatment to dog supplements we provide custom products for every life stage.
- No Meat Factory — Vegetarian Food | No Meat Factory Inc.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
- Meragi — Meragi is an end to end wedding decor service taking care of all decor requirements from deisgn to execution, all at a great price
- Newme — Newme is a real-time fashion e-commerce platform that offers various trendy clothes. The company presently distributes its clothing brand through both online and offline avenues. Newme embraces diversity and individuality, empowering Generation Z to articulate their unique selves through affordable and accessible latest fashion trends.
Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
- Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
Vision Plus Capital (also known as Yuan Jing Capital) focuses on the Internet innovation, consumer upgrades, digital medical, intelligent technology four areas, the RMB and the dollar double currency investment. Yuan Jing Capital for the start-up enterprises to provide multi-faceted help, including the introduction of talent, strategy carding,operational upgrading, financing strategies.Founded in 2015, it was composed of team members for first-line Internet company's core positions of experts and domestic first-tier VC senior investors, for the start-up companies to provide practical experience and team support.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Canada
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- UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
- Biostate AI — Biostate AI is a startup with a mission to develop generative AI that can benefit all of human health.
- Hengdao Technology — Hengdao Technology focuses on precision hot runner technology research and production for injection molds, aiming to become a domestic manufacturer of hot runner systems and components.
Mindset Venture Group Ltd is a private investment firm based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We invest in early stage companies with rapid growth potential in the technology and consumer business industries.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Subscription Service, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MobSquad — Access MobSquad's global technology talent pool to grow your business. We solve US work visa issues for US companies and their technology talent. Learn more.
- NovoBind — Working to combat rising resistance to anti-infectives and their accumulating residue in the environment, NovoBind develops next-generation biologics that target and neutralize the specific bacteria, viruses, and parasites that cause intestinal ailments in livestock, aquaculture, and pets. Our novel biotherapeutic solutions (NBXs) are based on single-domain antibodies and complementary to conventional treatments.
- Biom — At biom, we offer 100% plant-based and biodegradable wipes that look as good as clean feels. Learn more about our wipes, refillable dispenser, and more here.
The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Seedz — Seedz - Home - Produtores
- Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
- NanobOx — We use a low-voltage electric field to generate nanobubbles directly in water; significantly reducing the energy cost compared to conventional methods.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
- Not Diamond — Not Diamond is the world's most powerful AI model router.
- Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
- Rcm Modulaire — Rcm Modulaire is engaged in the designs and manufactures quality modular buildings.
- Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
- Baselayer — Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud in the financial sector. It offers services such as business verification (KYB), fraud detection, business onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring & alerting, and workflow automation. Baselayer empowers 100s of financial institutions, governmentagencies, lenders, and fintech to unlock instant trust with any business in America.
- Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
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- Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
- Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.
- Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.
Globalive fuels innovation by partnering with visionary entrepreneurs. Join our venture studio or explore funding opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Curv Health — Modern virtual Training, Physiotherapy, & Rehab Clinic. Computer Vision & Health Coaches for Strengthening & Recovery.
- Appello — Streamline workforce management, health & safety compliance, and resource allocation for construction businesses with Appello.
- WellnessLiving Systems — Business Management Software by WellnessLiving: take your gym, fitness studio, spa or salon to the next level! Book and attract new clients instantly. See why over 10 million users love WellnessLiving. Get your free demo today!
SaskWorks Venture Fund is a Saskatchewan-based retail mutual fund that invests in privately-held small and medium-sized businesses owned or primarily operated in Saskatchewan. As a labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC), investments in SaskWorks are eligible to receive a tax credit equal to 35% in addition to their RRSP tax deferral.Since its inception, the Fund has provided a unique opportunity for Saskatchewan residents to keep their investment dollars at home, helping to grow local companies and creating jobs in their province.
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Investment focus
- Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
- 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
- Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
The restaurant, employee and consumer members of the Radish Cooperative.
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- Restaurants, Reservations, Food Delivery
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Radish — Radish is an online restauration platform that is organized as a solidarity cooperative between restaurants, deliverers and consumers.
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
Sprout.vc is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative seed-stage technology companies in Western Canada focused on B2B software markets.
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- Software, FinTech, Delivery
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Frontly — Build AI-powered SaaS apps and custom internal tools in record time with no code.
- Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
- Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.
USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Ukraine, United States, Estonia
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- Imabys — Imabys - Influence marketing by subscription
- AssayMe — AssayMe App helps you measure and interpret 10 important parameters of your body in just 2 minutes. Click on any test button on the menu to learn more about possible risks of being outside of a normal range of values for a particular indicator.
- Fintellect — Get more profitability from your projects with price estimations, automated analytics, and projections
Birchcliff Partners LP is an investment firm.
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- Health Care, Video, Product Design
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Userful — The #1 Software-Defined Platform for Enterprise AV-over-IP
- Headversity — Transform your workforce with headversity's proactive mental health support. Empower, engage, and enhance your team's wellbeing today.
- Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.
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- Mining, Health Care, Financial Services
- Post-IPO Equity, Series A, Seed
- Canada, United States, China
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- Hank Payments — Our mission is to make consumers financially well.
- Parvis Invest — Parvis is the go-to digital marketplace for real estate investing. Our platform democratizes access, bringing quality real estate opportunities to more people.
- Xybion — Unified All-in-One Cloud Solutions for R&D, Lab Systems, and Workforce Health and Safety | Embedded QMS, Predictive Compliance & Real Time Monitoring.
Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Ambyint — Ambyint well optimization and automation technology enables you to increase production, lower operating costs, and streamline operations across the lifecycle of your producing assets.
- Ontopical — Get complete monitoring of emerging local government contracts across North America, months before an RFP is issued. Build your sales pipeline with Ontopical.
- Care Group — Care Group is revolutionizing mental health with advanced AI and disruptive technologies, empowering individuals and communities by introducing scalable, user-friendly solutions that respect all users.
VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, India
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- Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
- PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
- eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.
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- Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
- Exxel Polymers — Exxel Polymers takes post-industrial and post-consumer plastic waste from various sources and processes it using granulation, shredding, and extrusion. The company sells recycled materials through an established distribution network.
- London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.
At Teamworthy Ventures, we seek to develop long-term relationships with talented and trustworthy entrepreneurs and teams, and we invest in their ventures at the seed, early, or growth stage. A sample of our investments: SeatGeek, Ibotta, Boxed, and more. Our partners are Thomas Lehrman, Evan Kaye, a
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- Shift5 — Shift5 is a cybersecurity company that provides hardware and software solutions to defend operational technology (OT) platforms, such as planes, satellites, ground combat vehicles and large-scale mining and construction vehicles.
- User Interviews — Recruit users from our audience of over a million vetted consumers and professionals, or bring your own audience and build a participant database for any type of UX research.
- Zelus Analytics — Professional sports teams are currently engaged in a billion-dollar arms race to squeeze wins out of data. While early innovations in sports analytics largely relied on simple techniques, many teams are struggling to handle emergent challenges with the complex data sources now dominating the space. At Zelus Analytics, our mission is to address these challenges by building the world's [...]
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Literati — Based in Austin,Texas Literati is a subscription book club company. Since 2017, Literati has provided a unique try-before-you-buy book club service to kids 12 and under. Most recently the company has expanded its product line, offering book clubs curated by “luminaries,” a collection of authors, intellectuals, and other notable figures.Literati's team is made up of product people, perfectionistic designers, philosophical hackers, and straight-up hustlers on a mission to build revolutionary excitement in literature. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
- Redactive — Redactive removes the specialist Data engineering knowledge that application developers need to build scalable AI applications for internal use cases or providing new AI experiences to your customers.
- Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- NadaMoo — Grab a spoon, you're going to want to try this deliciously dairy-free coconut milk ice cream. Dairy-free, Gluten-Free, Plant-Based, Vegan, Non-GMO, Faire Trade, B-Corp. Our pints are filled with 100% goodness.
- Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
- Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
Conexus is Saskatchewan's largest and Canada's sixth largest credit union. Conexus has $7.14 billion in total funds managed and more than 120,000 members being provided personalized service at 41 branches across the province.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- Callia — Callia elevates the experience of sending flowers and sets out to add more special moments in everyday lives. Flowers have the ability to share love, kindness, and hope – Callia makes sending great quality bouquets simple and fast, so you can focus on making those moments happen.
- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
- Coconut Software — Coconut Software provides digital scheduling solutions to empower financial organizations to create holistic customer experiences across all touchpoints.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
- nodaFi — nodaFi mounts smart-signs in spaces giving guests the ability to quickly report issues linked directly to their location. nodaFi closes the gap between the maintainers of a facility and its users. Once an issue is reported, staff can leverage the mobile and web applications to collaborate on solving the issue and facility managers can access acomprehensive dashboard to make data-driven decisions about their building operations. nodaFi is a San Francisco/Milwaukee based, Delaware C-Corp.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.
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- Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- forml — Discover how our platform can help your business harness the power of Machine Learning and drive growth. Get started today!
- Capa — Capa is an interoperability protocol that connects fiat and blockchains in LATAM.
- Sinn Studio Inc. — Swordsman is a physics-based combat game designed for virtual reality. Slash your way through medieval Earth to become the ultimate Swordsman.
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