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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Canada (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Canada Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
District Ventures Capital
VC Fund
20 Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
10 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $182k–$35M
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
9 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $400k–$11M
Bedrock
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.8M–$100M
Fondaction
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $276k–$150M
Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $439k–$16M
White Star Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.4M–$60M
Real Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $592k–$47M
ScaleUP Ventures
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States, Egypt Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $100k–$65M
Hedgewood
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Software, E-Commerce $500k–$120M
Panache Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $713k–$20M
Thomas Pentz
Angel
3 United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Angel Apps, FinTech, Internet $2M–$87M
Framework Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.4M–$220M
Inovia Capital
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1M–$65M
Version One Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Blockchain $1M–$55M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $25k–$2M
FundersClub
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $125k–$22M
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $974k–$12M
Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $10k–$2.7M
Prairies Economic Development Canada
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Spain Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software $176k–$3M
Sandpiper Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $398k–$7.3M
Otimo Retail
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Retail Technology, Retail $552k–$8.5M
Origin Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$31M
Roham Gharegozlou
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $470k–$30M
Venn Growth Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Retail, E-Commerce, Pet $3.7M–$30M
37 Angels
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $40k–$3M
Rho Canada Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Italy Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Analytics, Internet $168k–$37M
BDC IT Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Big Data $1M–$27M
Gen 1 Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada Seed, Series A Retail, Machine Learning, Service Industry
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $50k–$50M
Trybe Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Portugal Series A, Seed, Series B Sports, Gaming, Retail $3.7M–$100M
Horizons Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $900k–$110M
Export Development Canada
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Manufacturing, Energy $4M–$858M
ClearAngel
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail $10k–$400k
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $500k–$83M
SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing $931k–$7M
MATH Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Denmark Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, SaaS $850k–$15M
Fastbreak Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $25k–$5.4M
Farhan Thawar
Angel
2 Canada, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, SaaS $2.7M–$8.5M
Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $9.2M–$435M
Valor Siren Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, Canada Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software $3M–$20M
Banana Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care $2M–$260M
Government of Canada
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, India Grant, Debt Financing Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care $100k–$30M
Second Avenue Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Japan Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce $12M–$126M
Backbone Angels
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Bahamas Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Fashion, Software $1.1M–$8M
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund
2 Canada, France, Luxembourg Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction $100k–$3.7M
HSG
VC Fund
2 China, United States, Australia Series B, Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Software $2M–$226M
ChileGlobal Ventures
VC Fund
2 Chile, United States, Canada Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $95k–$7.3M
LOI Venture
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $100k–$15M
Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $600k–$228M
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 20 investments in Canada Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
  • 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.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 10 investments in Canada Retail startups

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 strong Canadian 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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 628
  • Round size: Seed $182k–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
  • TechInsights — TechInsights is a technology company that offers intellectual property consulting, patent brokerage services, and technical analysis.TechInsights offers IP advisory and consulting services; technical investigation and reverse engineering; market intelligence and device teardown and analysis; patent management software and tools; andmore.TechInsights is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Ottawa, Canada; Austin, U.S.A.; Tokyo, Japan; Shanghai, China; Warsaw, Poland; Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, Korea; and Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Gemin X Pharmaceuticals — Own Geminx.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 9 investments in Canada Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$4M; Pre-Seed $409k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.5M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
  • Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
  • Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.
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Bedrock
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Canada Retail startups

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $20M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $25M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Durin — Mineral exploration technology company
  • TensorZero — TensorZero builds open-source tools for production-grade LLM applications: LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluations, and experimentation.
  • Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 5 investments in Canada Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 223
  • Round size: Debt Financing $276k–$10M; Private Equity $750k–$103M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Solar Uniquartier —
  • Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace is more than just an immobilization brace, it's a dynamic and innovative solution.
  • Assembler AI — Assembler AI is an industrial AI company that focuses on improving manual manufacturing operations.
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Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund · Fremont, California, United States · 4 investments in Canada Retail startups

Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $439k–$1.6M; Series A $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5.1M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • WearLinq — WearLinq is a provider of wearable health monitoring and diagnosis solutions. The company's device records a multi-lead ECG and transmits it in real-time with AI to detect typical irregular heart rhythms, including a normal heart rhythm, aFib, bradycardia, and tachycardia, allowing users to discover history and trends, set reminders, andconnect directly with physicians.
  • Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
  • Maple Supply Chain — Maple Supply Chain offers customized supply chain management solutions for brands and manufacturers.
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White Star Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Canada Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $12M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Himedi — Himedi is an information technology company that provides hospital reservation service.
  • Una Brands — Ready to sell your e-commerce business? We'll make the process fair, fast, and fuss-free. Continue to profit as we grow your brand.
  • Boostsecurity.io — Boostsecurity.io is a computer software company that assists software developers to discover cybersecurity-related issues. It was founded in 2020 and its headquarters is located in Montreal, Quebec.
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 309
  • Round size: Seed $592k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Axya — Axya is a procurement execution platform for manufacturers. Use AI to run sourcing, purchase orders, and supplier follow-up alongside your ERP.
  • DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
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ScaleUP Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Retail startups

ScaleUP Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports creative entrepreneurs and assists with investments. It is focused on early-stage venture capital with a preference for Business-to-Business opportunities. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7.5M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $15M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
  • Penny — Same team, new platform. Brands run creator programs on Endlss. Creators get paid for what they sell.
  • Dream Appeal — Dream Appeal is a career growth platform that helps in management of career oriented goals and connect with peers with similar interest.
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Hedgewood
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.9M; Series A $5.1M–$17M; Series B $7.5M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
  • 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! Our patented system is the safe, easy, and effective way to start early allergen introduction with you baby. Allergist-mom developed with all organic ingredients and zero added sugar.
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $912k–$6M; Pre-Seed $713k–$2.5M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
  • Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.
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Thomas Pentz
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and managed the record company Mad Decent and co-founded the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200. During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü. Source: [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplo)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6.5M; Series A $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Certifyde — Certifyde uses real workflow data to recommend the right AI strategy, then orchestrates delivery across every team. Org-level outcomes. Individual AI fluency. Measured at every step.
  • CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
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Framework Venture Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Framework is a top-performing venture fund that discovers, develops and scales the next generation of world-class technologies, through a unique founder-centric approach to active capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$8M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $3.7M–$220M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500k in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
  • ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
  • Airspeed — Airspeed is the AI-native platform that turns every customer conversation into automated CRM updates, proactive deal intelligence, and coaching, so your reps sell, not type.
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 427
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Modem — Modem gives your whole team one living record of what customers said, what you're building, and what shipped. Connect any agent, or use ours.
  • Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.
  • Wealthsimple — Being better than a bank means more of everything. Spend, trade and invest with Wealthsimple.
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Version One Ventures
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders who are early in new areas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $78M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • rio.ai — rio.ai provides an online pharmacy and shopping assistant accessed through WhatsApp. It supports orders for prescription and over-the-counter medicines, personal care products, baby items, nutraceuticals, ayurvedic products, food, and pet supplies. Customers can describe their needs in text or send a product image, after which Rio connects the request with available suppliers and arranges delivery. The service operates across Noida and the Delhi NCR region.
  • Pilot Protocol — Pilot Protocol is an open-source network for AI agents: addresses, encrypted tunnels and trust, about 430 live data agents, an App Store and Pilot Cloud.
  • Arctus Aerospace — We build unmanned airplanes for zero infrastructure earth observation. We fly at 45,000 feet for 24 hours at a go
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups, 124 in the past 12 months

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians, we are building a stronger economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 270
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $36k–$981k; Debt Financing $111k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M&M Service — M&M Service is an industrial service provider specializing in comprehensive mechanical repair and precision metal fabrication. The company operates dedicated service divisions to support heavy industries, including transportation, construction, manufacturing, and utilities.
  • Ann-Lab Sucrerie — Ann-Lab Sucrerie Ltée is a commercial maple syrup harvesting and production company. The enterprise focuses on modernizing traditional agro-forestry practices through technical automation and sustainable structural expansions
  • Eagle Falls Campground — Eagle Falls Campground is a rustic, family-owned nature retreat designed as a peaceful getaway to help travelers reconnect with nature, soak in scenic views, and get quality rest. Operating seasonally from late spring through autumn, the property balances a wild, nature-first environment with highly attentive customer service.
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FundersClub
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab. FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more; FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 605
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Scape — Scape is an AI email client that proactively drafts replies and surfaces what matters. Built for professionals who live in their inbox.
  • Numeral — We fully manage the headaches of sales tax so you can get back to real work. Get started for free today!
  • Neuron Industries — Neuron Industries develops AI-native industrial controllers to replace traditional PLCs, enabling deterministic factory automation via plain English. Neuron Industries was founded in 2026 by Dennis Ren and Kenneth Rhee.
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $974k–$4.3M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Nomagic — Nomagic provides robotic systems to automate repetitive pick-and-place tasks in warehouses with efficiency, flexibility and reliability.
  • FlyFocus — FlyFocus specializes in the design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles for the civilian, military, and law enforcement markets. It provides product development and custom engineering services. They also offer mechanical CAD design, electronics, software, simulations, and aerodynamics optimization.
  • Waldo — Waldo is an AI-powered strategy engine for agencies & brands. Get audience insights, industry trends, and competitive intelligence in one powerful platform.
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.7M; Angel $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $188k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
  • RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
  • Afynia Laboratories — Keluaran sgp hari ini dan pengeluaran sgp tercepat menyediakan hasil togel singapore pools melalui tabel data sgp prize. Angka keluar sgp terbaru ditampilkan melalui siaran live draw sgp.
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Prairies Economic Development Canada
VC Fund · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) is the department that diversifies the economy across the Canadian Prairies. PrairiesCan leads in building a strong, competitive Canadian economy by supporting business, innovation and community economic development unique to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Non Profit, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Round size: Grant $176k–$3M; Debt Financing $332k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $384k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solo Italia Fine Pasta — Solo Italia Fine Pasta specializes in handcrafted, small-batch Italian food products that blend traditional family heritage recipes with high-quality Western Canadian durum wheat. The business operates as a rapidly growing brand under its parent company, Southwest Terminal (SWT), a producer-owned grain handler.
  • Energy Transition Centre foundation — The ETC Foundation is a vibrant center that brings together players from academia, industry, government, and the larger innovation ecosystem to create vital answers to climate concerns and spur innovation.
  • Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute — One of Canada’s three National AI Institutes in the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, Amii is an Alberta-based non-profit institute that supports world-leading research in artificial intelligence and machine learning and translates scientific advancement into industry adoption. Amii grows AI capabilities through advancing leading-edge research, deliveringexceptional educational offerings and providing business advice – all with the goal of building in-house AI capabilities.
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Sandpiper Ventures
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Sandpiper Ventures is a high-conviction early-stage fund turning missed opportunities into strategic advantage. We provide a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $398k–$3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.5M; Series A $911k–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • CURA — CURA removes cement's process emissions upstream with electrochemical technology. Deep decarbonization without replacing feedstocks, plants, or standards.
  • Reusables.com — Get your favourite food and drinks in Reusables and help reduce single-use packaging from our environment. We help food businesses reduce packaging waste by providing tech enabled reusables that makes it easy for customers to reuse!
  • Future Fertility — Future Fertility is a fertility technology company focused on AI-enabled and non-invasive diagnostic solutions to optimize decision making throughout the IVF journey, maximizing the probability of positive outcomes in IVF workflows. The first product is an egg assessment software, which uniquely provides insights in egg quality and has thepotential to improve success rates of IVF, egg freezing and egg donation cycles.
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Otimo Retail
VC Fund · Westmount, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

We invest in retail focused technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $552k–$800k; Series A $3.2M–$8.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiwa — Optimize your enterprise warehouse fulfillment operations with Logiwa IO. Scale flawlessly and boost margins with an AI- and cloud-native WMS.
  • 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.
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Origin Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Origin Ventures targets investments during initial funding cycles, specifically managing financing rounds for software developer operations, marketplaces, and service providers. Its primary investment focus includes entities engineering artificial intelligence infrastructure, native automation software, and frontier computing models designed to optimize business operations. The firm supports its financial investments by maintaining a collaborative advisory network of startup operators and investment professionals to guide portfolio companies as they expand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.2M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $2.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • VECKTA — VECKTA is the Energy Transition Market Platform. VECKTA integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. VECKTA empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energysituation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability and/or emissions) and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably.
  • ClearJet — AI-orchestrated parcel infrastructure for enterprise ecommerce shippers. Air, ground and middle mile on one network, with two-day nationwide delivery.
  • Century Health — Century Health turns specialty-practice EHR data into de-identified, research-grade disease registries for life sciences teams and AI labs.
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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $890k–$17M; Pre-Seed $470k–$19M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
  • Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
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Venn Growth Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Venn Growth Partners is a new growth equity fund in process of raising $300M USD to partner with distinctive consumer, health care services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Pet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$13M; Series B $30M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monos — Travel is what you make of it. For some, it’s an escape from everyday life. But for others, travel is a chance to grow and learn. To explore places near and far with wonder and curiosity, with gratitude and graciousness. To greet the world with open eyes and arms, and open mind and heart. We founded Monos with these travellers in mind, because weare these travellers too.Our name is inspired by the Japanese concept of mono no aware – roughly translated as “the bittersweet poignancy of things”. Like falling cherry blossoms, moments, experiences, and people drift in and out of your life – but it is their impermanence that makes them all the more beautiful. We believe that when we are present in the moment and mindful in our travels – when we are passionate wanderers – that is when the deeper beauty of the world reveals itself.As fellow travellers, we understand that the journey is as important as the destination, and we’ve made it our mission to create thoughtfully designed, functional travel pieces to aid in your wandering, wherever it might lead you. Whether it’s in a far-flung locale or somewhere closer to home, a beautiful moment is waiting to be experienced. Find your moment.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
  • California Cowboy — High-quality, vintage-inspired casual gear designed in California. Hawaiian print shirts, plush flannels, t-shirts, sweatshirts & more. Our clothes are packed with functional features to up your social game. Shop online.
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37 Angels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Community of women angel investors that offers angel investing training for investors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$3M; Angel $45k–$1M; Pre-Seed $90k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waku — Deliciously replenishing herbal tea with prebiotic powers and 0g of added sugar. Experience Sunrise on the Inside.
  • Sayso — Sayso is a cocktail company that produces and sells tea bag products.
  • Veracity — Veracity creates a personal skincare experience based on real data about your hormones and biofactors through our Skin + Health test.
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Rho Canada Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Rho Canada Ventures is a division of Rho Capital Partners focusing on early-stage investing in Canada’s most innovative technology companies. The Rho Canada Ventures team comprises a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operational, and venture investment experience in the United States and Canada. With a combined 80 years of experience, Rho Canada Ventures offers entrepreneurs the expertise to turn Canadian innovators into global leaders. Rho Canada Ventures' portfolio companies are a diverse group of investments that span new media, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and materials, and software.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $168k–$2M; Series A $968k–$8M; Series B $4.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $98M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Sportlogiq — Sportlogiq is a venture-backed startup that develops sports statistics solutions. Using feeds from current broadcast cameras, the company uses player tracking and activity recognition to analyze player movement and provide context to game analysis. Sportlogiq was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
  • Auvik Networks — Auvik’s cloud-based network management software keeps IT networks around the world running optimally. By automating and simplifying network management, Auvik helps rocket an IT team’s efficiency and capacity, while protecting the business from network risk. Auvik is one of the fastest growing North American technology companies, and is winner ofthe Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Deloitte Fast 500, and recognized as the #1 ranked Canadian company in the FT Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2020. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.
  • Resson — Curate a collection of unforgettable quotes from celebrities that inspire, amuse, or provoke thought. This section showcases their wisdom and wit, resonating with audiences.
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BDC IT Venture Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

BDC IT Venture Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging and mid-stage Internet, mobile and enterprise companies in Canada. Its initial investment typically ranges from $2M to $5M in Series A or B rounds with up to $15M invested over the life of the company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.9M; Series A $1M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • League — Deploy proven solutions live at scale, or build your own on League's healthcare-grade platform. Every path is engineered to deliver completed care.
  • Food.ee — Food.ee is a fun and simple service which delivers meals, snacks, cakes and alcohol to your office! All you need to do it 1. Pick a price point 2. Choose your food type 3. Build a menu. Its that easy.
  • CloudLink Tech — CloudLink data security products provide advanced data security and encryption to secure data in the cloud and virtual environments across nearly any platform.
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Gen 1 Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Machine Learning, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zippedi — Zippedi serves age-old retail business problems. The company is using AI-powered robots to automate inventory management and retail execution. They provide retailers and CPG manufacturers with the most accurate, actionable data to help them increase sales, labor efficiency, and customer satisfaction and lifetime value.
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1320
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $703k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
  • Sukha — An all-in-one focus app and distraction blocker for Mac, Windows and Chromebook: AI tasks, binaural music, website and phone blocking, Pomodoro timers.
  • Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
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Trybe Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

With a history in angel investing and now operating under Trybe Ventures, we invest in early-stage companies with a focus in healthcare, media, sports tech, SaaS, and biotech. The "Y" in Trybe highlights to the founder that this starts with them and our aim is to help catapult their company closer to achieving its goals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Gaming, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$14M; Series B $58M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Togethxr — Togethxr is an unapologetic platform that values representation and equality. A meeting place for culture, activism, lifestyle, and sports.
  • Bet on Her — Bet on Her is an independent woman-owned media collective that focuses on leagues, athletes and communities.
  • Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
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Horizons Ventures
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 357
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$10M; Series A $4.8M–$42M; Series B $10M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HZO — HZO delivers customized protective nano and conformal coatings that safeguard electronics from the most demanding environments. It provides water protection solutions for electronics manufacturers by introducing a durable film to components during assembly. The company specializes in the fields of nanotechnology, waterproofing, electronics,nano-coating, full-submersion.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina.
  • FiSee AI — FiSee AI is an academic vertical AI search service provider.
  • Atomo Coffee — Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee.
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups, 21 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Energy
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $4M–$500M; Debt Financing $4M–$858M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • East Side Games Group — Leaders in free-to-play mobile games.
  • Kenter Groendus — Kenter Groendus is a full-service energy partner serving commercial and industrial clients. The company offers an end-to-end suite of hardware and software solutions to help organizations navigate grid congestion, rising energy costs, and regulatory compliance. Its portfolio spans metering services, transformer stations, energy storage/batteries, solar installations, an energy marketplace, and AI-driven Energy Management Systems (EMS).
  • Royal Caribbean Group — Focused on delivering the ultimate vacation experiences and priceless memories for our guests. Royal Caribbean delivers thrilling vacations.
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ClearAngel
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Clearco funds direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands. Clearco is the best funding alternative to ecommerce loans to fund inventory, marketing bills, and logistics for your ecommerce business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$400k; Angel $10k–$10k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobobaby — The Mobobaby Nursing Cover + Hat is the only breastfeeding cover up worn by baby. The innovative, breathable nursing cover is a great hooter hider so you can enjoy covered goods. Recommended by lactation consultants, baby sleep consultants, and sleep trainers, it is one of the best, unique baby gifts.
  • Better Rhodes — Curated Collection of Alcohol-Free Beer, Wine, and Spirits. We host the best in non-alcoholic beers, wines, spirits, mocktail kits, gift boxes, and more.
  • Everlasting Adult Pleasure — Everlasting Adult Pleasure focuses on top-tier, personalized customer service.
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ
VC Fund · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession, financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$50M; Series B $7.5M–$83M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Namakor Holdings — We combine strategic investment and in-house operational expertise to untap the true potential of your industrial manufacturing businessNamakor Holdings is a private equity firm investing in mid-market manufacturing companies, driving growth, innovation, and global expansion.
  • KERIDIS BioÉnergie — KERIDIS BioÉnergie is engaged in the development of anaerobic digestation plants to produce renewable natural gas.
  • Les Chantiers de Chibougamau ltée — Nordic Structures is the leading innovator in engineered wood products and mass timber construction. Its resource comes from responsibly managed lands within the regional boreal forest. Vertical integration, from forest to structure, bolstered by Nordic’s experienced design and development team, ensures consistent quality and unparalleled level ofservice.
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SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund · Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $931k–$5.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Clear Cost — ClearCost operates a fertilizer trading platform focused on price transparency.
  • 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.
  • Cadence — Cadence's Executor Assistant helps surviving family members to complete benefits claims, notifications, account subscriptions, and other tasks after a death.
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MATH Venture Partners
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

MATH Venture Partners is no longer making new investments. The firm continues to support its existing portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.1M; Series A $4.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $46M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ChefHero — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
  • Markit.io — Building tools to supercharge recruiters
  • Pie Systems — Pie Systems - Easy tax free shopping and VAT refunds for merchants, business owners, travelers, and tourists through our web, iOS, and Android Pie VAT app. No forms, no waiting in line, and higher refunds.
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Fastbreak Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Pre-Seed and Seed StageVenture Investing We aim to lead the first institutional round for exceptional founders building highly scalable software platforms. We leverage our experience as founders and operators along with customer connections to accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies. Portfolio Exits Prioritize what you can control al February 3, 2022 Founders often ask

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5.4M; Angel $462k–$540k; Pre-Seed $25k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Summatti — Summatti is an AI-powered platform that gives you actionable insights from all of your customer interactions to grow your business.
  • BuyProperly — BuyProperly is an online exchange for fractional real estate investments. Through a proprietary technology platform, BuyProperly provides private market returns, public market ease of access, and the ability to build a property portfolio. The company has set out to democratize investments in real estate with a vision of improving access andeliminating inefficiencies of alternate asset class investments for the mass market.
  • Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.
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Farhan Thawar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering at Shopify. Attended University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
  • Mantle — Mantle offers two AI-powered platforms: Mantle Equity for cap table management, fundraising scenarios, SAFEs, options, and 409A workflows; and Mantle Portal for private fund data aggregation, document tracking, and LP reporting.
  • Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
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Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellence and the courage to transform their industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 337
  • Round size: Series A $9.2M–$80M; Series B $18M–$230M; Series C $12M–$435M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $759M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
  • Atomic Machines — Atomic Machines is building the Matter Compiler, an AI-native, all-digital manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines directly from code, and PrimeSwitch, its first product family.
  • Bedrock Robotics — Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
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Valor Siren Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Valor Siren Ventures is a joint venture created by Starbucks and Valor .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$15M; Series A $6.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • David — David Gold bars: 28g protein, 150 calories, 0g of sugar. Paired with strength training, a high-protein diet can help increase muscle & decrease fat.
  • The Desire Company — Drive conversions with trusted product reviews from verified experts.
  • The Cumulus Coffee Company — The first coffee system built exclusively for cold and iced coffee. Enjoy nitro cold brew, cold brew, and cold espresso for iced lattes on demand, at the touch of a button. Upgrade to cold coffee perfection, with the ideal system for enjoying exceptional cold coffee at home or in the office. Ready in under 60 seconds.
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Banana Capital
VC Fund · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Banana Capital is an early stage investment firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $8M–$110M; Series B $25M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.3M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BinStar — BinStar is an e-commerce and retail company that offers users a shopping experience in the form of treasure hunt.
  • Bee — Bee converts conversations into clear takeaways, summaries and insights you can search, while learning your patterns and relationships over time.
  • Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
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Government of Canada
VC Fund · Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 514
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$22M; Debt Financing $100k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CAMH — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. We believe that #MentalHealthIsHealth
  • Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
  • University of Manitoba — The University of Manitoba received its charter on February 28, 1877. Today, the UofM has three main locations: the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.The downtown Bannatyne campus of the university comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave andWilliam Ave in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the university. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the 95,000 sq ft (8,800 m2) Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008. The Brodie Center is known as the "flagship" which connects all three faculties as well as the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library and the Joe Doupe Fitness Centre. It is located on 727 McDermot Avenue.The main Fort Garry campus (located on the Red River in south Winnipeg) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on 233 hectares (580 acres) of land. In addition, Smartpark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development organizations involving university-industry partnerships. The address is 66 Chancellors Circle.The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.The university operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba. The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a 406 acres (164 ha) facility located 70 km (43 mi) from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately 1,000 acres (405 ha) and located 20 km (12 mi) from Winnipeg.
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Second Avenue Capital Partners
VC Fund · Great Neck, New York, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Second Avenue Capital Partners (SACP) provides capital solutions that offer maximum liquidity and flexibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Debt Financing $12M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RUDSAK Inc — Proudly designed in Canada since 1994. Explore our premium designs, crafted to perform with luxe details.
  • Mirai Casting Group — Mirai Casting Group focused on casting services, likely in manufacturing or metalworking contexts.​
  • American Signature Furniture — American Signature Furniture is a Sectionals, sofas and couches, living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, reclining furniture, mattresses, home decor, and accessories. Home furnishings, Internet retail services are also provided. online order and delivered at the customer location. accessories like adjustable beds, bed frames, and Mattress protectors& sheets. products for the living room are designed to their customer's needs. chair, sofa, and living room set are also they providing finance for the furniture.
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Backbone Angels
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

We are a collective of angel investors. We are coming together to invest in women and non-binary founders with a focus on investments in Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour-led companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Bahamas

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wygo — This is why you've gotta go outside.
  • Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is the Certified B Corp.™ behind the only natural incontinence care line that outperforms conventional brands. Our products and packaging combine innovative, plant-based materials with cutting edge technology to deliver high performance, skin-safe protection women can trust while supporting better overall health and wellbeing. We arealso deeply committed to eliminating the shame and stigma historically associated with urinary incontinence and ensuring women have access to reliable information about this condition, including treatment options that may be available.Attn: Grace was founded by Mia Abbruzzese and Alexandra Fennell in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.
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Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
VC Fund · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups, 54 in the past 12 months

Canada Economic Development for Quebec funding and support for SMEs and economic non-profit organizations (NPOs) in all regions of Quebec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial, Construction
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, France, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$3.7M; Debt Financing $100k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 97% lead, 3% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • La Ruche — La Ruche is a non-profit organization that offers a crowdfunding platform that contributes in economic development of projects.
  • Hydrep Hydraulic Repair Center — Hydrep Hydraulic Repair Center designs and manufactures prototypes and series products for electro-hydraulic applications.
  • Moteurs électriques Laval ltée — Moteurs électriques Laval ltée offers expertise in sale and repair of electric motors and in the integration of variable speed controllers.
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HSG
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

HSG is a leading venture capital and private equity firm investing globally in the technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 970
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$50M; Series A $4.4M–$100M; Series B $12M–$226M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/gOw7WpwkJt https://t.co/ot9sGVXU8x
  • Hypershell — An exoskeleton innovator reshaping lifestyles and enabling technology to empower life.
  • Suisheng Technology — Suisheng Technology is an innovative company specializing in AI-driven memory services, dedicated to developing intelligent solutions that help individuals and businesses capture, organize, and retrieve important information with greater efficiency and precision.
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ChileGlobal Ventures
VC Fund · Vitacura, Region Metropolitana, Chile · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

ChileGlobal Ventures is promote the growth of dynamic and innovative startups for the benefit of Chile and the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Chile, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $95k–$2.5M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • INDIMIN — INDIMIN is a platform that transforms data into productivity and connects artificial intelligence, people for sustainable mining. It creates a new state of play in the mining industry that achieves the triple digital impact: solutions that integrate the environment, people, and operational efficiency.
  • DataRoot — DataRoot provides data science and AI solutions, helping businesses leverage data for growth and optimization.
  • Poliglota — Poliglota was founded in 2012 and aims at changing the way people learn languages. It gathers people in small social groups in coffee places instead of classrooms, led by expert teachers, and using a social methodology. It is based on a program of innovative and social activities, focusing on social skills that create faster and more effectivelearning progress. Poliglota won the Avonni award for Innovation, was selected by the IDB as one of the disruptive educational innovations in Latin America, and is selling over USD $2 M in language plans, while they keep expanding their model.
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LOI Venture
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

LOI Venture is a $20M Pre-Seed Fund focused on founders aged 17-25 attending the League of Innovators Program.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.2M; Series A $3.4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MeepMeep — MeepMeep offers bluetooth disc golf disc trackers with app-based location and alarm features for easier disc retrieval.
  • Superpanel — The digital teammate that manages inbound customer journeys from qualification, follow-up, document collection, and scheduling. Across voice, SMS, and email. Autonomously. 24/7.
  • Layers — Layers was created by a team with extensive experience in merchandising, product discovery, suggestions, analytics, and storefront optimization.
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Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund · Lévis, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $600k–$228M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $120M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
  • Inscora — Inscora is the cyber-insurability platform for MSPs and MSSPs. Assess risk, accurately measure client insurability, and unlock new revenue - without adding operational burden.
  • Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
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Retail Investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 487 deals from 507 investors.

507
investors
in Canada Retail startups
487
deals
in Canada Retail startups
$1.5M
median round
in Canada Retail startups
41%
lead investors
lead at least one round
20%
Seed
most common funding stage
87/13
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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