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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Canada (June 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
Hedgewood
VC Fund
5 Canada, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, FinTech $725k–$17M
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
4 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $375k–$14M
White Star Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$60M
Bedrock
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.8M–$100M
Otimo Retail
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Retail Technology, Retail $573k–$8.5M
Thomas Pentz
Angel
3 United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Angel Apps, FinTech, Internet $2M–$87M
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$13M
Fondaction
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, France Private Equity, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $273k–$125M
Panache Ventures
VC Fund
3 Canada, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $717k–$20M
ClearAngel
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Fashion, E-Commerce, Women's $10k–$88k
Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Financial Services $535k–$15M
Roham Gharegozlou
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $470k–$27M
Tom Williams
Angel
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Financial Services $1.3M–$67M
Harley Finkelstein
Angel
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps $2.7M–$39M
FundersClub
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $450k–$23M
Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $439k–$15M
HOF Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $385k–$57M
Angel One Network
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Malaysia Angel, Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $68k–$7M
Russell Cook
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Series C, Series D Logistics, Food Delivery, SaaS $750k–$1B
Wesley Clover
VC Fund
2 Canada, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $327k–$8M
Origin Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $1M–$31M
Impression Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $951k–$52M
Rho Canada Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Italy Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Analytics, Internet $750k–$37M
Heron Rock Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS
BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $603k–$16M
Sierra Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$38M
Export Development Canada
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, India Series B, Series A Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Real Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $650k–$50M
Inovia Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$79M
Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Machine Learning $1.8M–$28M
Portage Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$60M
RFI
VC Fund
2 Canada, Austria, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Analytics $150k–$5.4M
Valor Siren Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, Canada Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software $3M–$20M
Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
ScaleUP Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Egypt Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
CIBC Innovation Banking
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Private Equity Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$52M
Framework Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $2.2M–$35M
ChileGlobal Ventures
VC Fund
2 Chile, Canada, France Seed, Series A Software, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$4M
Banana Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care $2M–$260M
Acton Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $4.2M–$35M
West Quad Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, India Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $400k–$34M
Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $805k–$22M
Plaza Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $2.2M–$70M
Sandpiper Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Wellness $366k–$6.1M
37 Angels
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $35k–$3.2M
True.
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Golden Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$47M
Andreas Penna
Angel
2 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, FinTech, Machine Learning $400k–$34M
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, France Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $25k–$2M
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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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Hedgewood
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$4.3M; Series A $7M–$17M
  • 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! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Retail startups

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: 156
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$1.2M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Axonify — Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance.
  • SceneDoc — SceneDoc is public safety’s first all-in-one mobile software for data collection and retrieval. By modernizing with SceneDoc, agencies operate with higher levels of clarity and control, with fewer moving parts, capturing data and reporting at the point of need. SceneDoc is saving agencies an hour of paperwork per shift on average, resulting in lesstime reporting and more time in the community so officers can do what they do best.
  • SYMX.AI — Digitally Transforming the Resource Industry in Real-Time with End-to-End Actionable Data Insights
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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: 188
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Aire — The income assessment platform that leverages first-party data. Access real-time confidence in the stated income of any consumer.
  • FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
  • 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.
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Bedrock
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $18M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $401M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Popmenu — Popmenu is a SaaS company that helps restaurants turn their menu into a customer conversion engine. Its cloud-based marketing and customer engagement platform use smart algorithms to track and convert menus, feedback, customer ratings, and related information into an interactive forum for hotels and customers to communicate directly with each otherand access personalized menu and restaurant recommendations in real-time. The platform enables businesses to take control of their menu and increase customer engagement.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • PayMongo — PayMongo is the easiest way to get paid online. Create an account in minutes and start accepting credit cards, GCash, GrabPay, PayMaya and more.
  • Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
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Otimo Retail
VC Fund · Montréal, 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
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $573k–$800k; Series A $3.1M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiwa — Logiwa is the leading cloud fulfillment software for high-volume direct-to-consumer brands, wholesalers, and 3PLs. The Logiwa Cloud Fulfillment Platform is an integrated WMS and order fulfillment system that makes it easy to run a digital warehouse and scale your high-volume DTC fulfillment operations. Logiwa’s solution works where traditional WMSsystems fail: it connects quickly with new online stores and marketplaces, makes it easy to run a digital warehouse, and is easily updated to support dynamic warehouse environments.
  • XCCommerce — XCCommerce is a leading software development and implementation company that specializes in retail specific solutions.XCCommerce’s team has a proven track record of developing and deploying Promotion Management Solutions, implementing projects on time and on budget, and generating optimal ROI for their customers.XCCommerce has a strong marketpresence and their capabilities in delivering applications are rooted in best practices. Their solutions enable retailers to transform the customer experience and allow seamless interaction with the consumer on their terms.They are trusted with providing focused solutions and dedicated expertise to the retail industry, ranging from Tier 1 retailers to organizations who are growing their brands.
  • Trendalytics Innovation Labs — Discover data-driven insights with Trendalytics AI. Analyze millions of data points to refine product development, craft compelling marketing strategies, and stay ahead of industry trends.
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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 schoolteacher 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:

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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

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • SoleSavy — Drop alerts, free raffle management, and release strategies for sneaker enthusiasts. Track 500+ stores and buy at retail with the SoleSavy DROPS app.
  • JuneShine — JuneShine makes insanely delicious, better-for-you hard kombucha and canned cocktails. They're sustainably brewed, made with real ingredients, and range from 6-10% ABV. Real. Refreshing.
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $1.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Moveline — Moveline provides multiple moving quotes from quality moving companies, all from one form. Get up to four quotes now.
  • Vumo — Car Scanner is a automotive company which scans car for automatic parking enforcement and car damage documentation via autonomous robot.
  • Linker Cloud Fulfillment Network — Linker Cloud is the future of fulfillment. We blur geographical boundaries for cross-border eCommerce and D2C companies, helping them to grow faster.
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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 3 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, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Debt Financing $273k–$10M; Private Equity $750k–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
  • JLD - Laguë — The JLD-Laguë Group, authorized John Deere dealers, specializes in the sale of agricultural, commercial and construction equipment.
  • BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in Canada Retail startups

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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.8M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.
  • Qohash — Track and secure high-risk files to reduce oversharing and accelerate GenAI adoption with Qohash
  • OnCall Health — Leading behavioral health EHR software and electronic healthcare record solutions built to modernize care, manage workflows and improve patient outcomes.
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ClearAngel
VC Fund · 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, Women's
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$88k; 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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Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Mistral Venture Partners - The leading seed stage venture capital firm in Canada

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $535k–$2.5M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

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.
  • Rewind — Protect your mission-critical SaaS data now. Get Rewind, get peace of mind. Explore backups for ecommerce, development, accounting & more with Rewind.
  • Visualping — Monitor any website for changes with Visualping. Get instant alerts via email, SMS, API or Slack when a web page changes. Try it free today!
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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 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: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $470k–$19M; Series A $3.2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • 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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Tom Williams
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Tom Williams

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $7M–$21M; Series B $10M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
  • Possible Finance — Get money in minutes, build credit history and avoid hidden fees with Possible Finance. Apply in the app with just a few taps and manage money on your terms.
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Harley Finkelstein
Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $4.1M–$5M; Series A $13M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
  • Stilla AI — Stilla is an AI-powered productivity platform that transforms how product development teams coordinate work by automating organizational alignment through workflow and AI agent orchestration.
  • Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
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FundersClub
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1.7M; Series A $5.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $448k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
  • PopSQL — PopSQL is a developer of collaborative SQL query editing software designed to share queries and visualize data. The company's software stores SQL queries and runs regularly, grouping them into folders that can be kept private or shared among the team, track changes so it can be reverted if or when something breaks, enabling users to workcollaboratively on queries and then distribute among the team.
  • Complif — celeri helps financial companies grow while staying compliant
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Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund · Fremont, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$6M; Series A $8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ilant Health — We offer a comprehensive solution that take the stress and stigma out of obesity treatment. We increase access, improve quality, and drive reduction in total cost of care.
  • Unione Food Group — Unione Food Group is a food tech supply chain platform that offers supply chain services and solutions.
  • Maple Supply Chain
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HOF Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $385k–$5.5M; Series A $10M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cassidy — Create customized AI-assistants to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and adopt AI across your entire organization.
  • Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
  • BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
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Angel One Network
VC Fund · Burlington, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M; Angel $68k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
  • Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
  • fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
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Russell Cook
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Russell is the Co-Founder & President of FitOn, Founder of AllTrails (sold to Spectrum Equity), former SVP Operations / Angel Investor @ Postmates (sold to Uber) and former CTO of beRecruited (sold to The Raine Group). He studied electrical engineering, computer science and economics while attending Duke University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Food Delivery, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$13M; Series C $50M–$125M; Series D $80M–$1B
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
  • Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
  • Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Wesley Clover is a private, global investment management firm and holding company, enabling entrepreneurs, innovation and technology worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$1.4M; Series A $458k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Validient — Validient is a digital client onboarding system for law firms, real estate agents, and other regulated businesses.
  • VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
  • Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
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Origin Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth software, marketplace, and consumer businesses shaping the 'Digital Native Economy'. Founded in 1999, the firm has the unique distinction of having multiple funds in the top 5% on realized performance. Typical check size is $500K to $8M. Select exitsinclude Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), BacklotCars, Tock, Ahalogy, and Teem.To learn more, visit www.originventures.com.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $2.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Pronto — Hit Labs is a technology company that develops applications designed to connect people to those who will help them succeed in school, in work, and in life.
  • Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
  • R2 Wireless — R2 Wireless offers low-cost RF Situation Awareness and Terrain Dominance capabilities to safeguard key facilities against intrusions and RF harmful attacks.
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Impression Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $951k–$6M; Series A $4M–$17M; Series B $25M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 401GO — 401GO provides a comprehensive 401k solution for small businesses of all sizes, from a single to thousands of employees. Ongoing administration is automated with payroll integrations while compliance, government filings, notifications, and all other responsibilities are handled by the company.
  • Sensibill — Sensibill is a solution for financial institutions and banks to collect, synthesize, and action customer spend data to personalize at scale. Schedule a free demo now!
  • Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
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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, RhoCanada 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, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $750k–$8M; Series B $4.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

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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Heron Rock Fund
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Tom Williams | Heron Rock. Angel investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Helaina — Helaina builds better breast milk alternatives for the modern parent. It is dedicated to supporting parents with breastfeeding. It was founded in 2019 by Laura Katz and is headquartered in New York.
  • Jumbotail — Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building.
  • Aifleet — aifleet is a tech-powered trucking company based in Austin, TX. The company is using proprietary technology to rebuild and humanize trucking for hard-working drivers.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 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 strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arteria AI — Arteria unlocks the power of your contracts by helping you to generate, negotiate and turn your executed contracts into data that allow you to diagnose problems, identify opportunities and drive value for your organization.
  • Augmenta Inc. — Design sustainable, code compliant and fully constructible buildings in hours.
  • CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Sierra Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of enterprise, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 331
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Series A $4.3M–$20M; Series B $5.7M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $79M in 1991

Portfolio highlights

  • SenSage — IgniteTech provides an innovative home for the software solutions our customers rely on.
  • TeamOhana — TeamOhana unifies people, processes, and data into one single source of truth so you can execute your headcount plan on time and within budget.
  • SupportLogic — SupportLogic extracts customer sentiment signals so you can predict and prevent escalations, reduce churn, and protect and grow revenue.
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups, 18 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, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
  • Koios Intelligence — MISSIONKoïos Intelligence is on a mission to Improve the insurance value chain using conversational AI.Our platform Olivo is built for insurance customers with the goal of eliminating waiting time, reducing operational costs and offering an unprecedented customer experience. Based on Natural Language Processing and state-of-the-art ArtificialIntelligence, Olivo is made to answer new customer needs and expectations in today’s digital world.
  • Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 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, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 207
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $2.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 335
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2M–$18M; Series B $5M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
  • Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
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Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.6M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $2.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $54M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Enurgen — Accuracy you can trust and returns you can prove. A 3D, physics-based model to validate bankable, scalable, and reliable solar energy yields.
  • Coral — Coral is a virtual care clinic that provides evidence-based, personalized support for perimenopause and menopause, weight loss and longevity.
  • Brickeye — Brickeye IoT solutions monitor assets and processes across various industries and generate data and insights for better decision making.
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $6.6M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
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RFI
VC Fund · 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, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Austria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5.4M; Convertible Note $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flipd — Flipd is the all-in-one productivity app makes you feel good about your progress. Keep track of your productivity, stay motivated, connect with others, and achieve your goals with Flipd.
  • Repable — Repable is an analytics company that is focused on the gaming industry.Repable provides broadcasters, teams, and enterprises with analytics and insights about the gaming and streaming industries to understand the financial and social impact of their interactions with their fans and public.Repable was founded by Sean Power and Heather AnneCarson in September 2015. And it is based in Toronto, Ontario.
  • Litmus Automation — The Industrial Data Platform that helps you get results. Connect, collect, normalize, contextualize, analyze, model, integrate, repeat.
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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: 42
  • 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 — 28g protein. 150 calories. 0g sugar. More protein and fewer calories help you increase muscle and decrease body fat. ~50% more protein per calorie (CFP) than any bar.
  • Climate Vault Solutions — Measure, reduce, and remove your organization's carbon footprint in a regulated and verifiable manner. Don't risk your company's integrity.
  • 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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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
  • FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
  • Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.
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ScaleUP Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
  • Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
  • Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.
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CIBC Innovation Banking
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

We serve innovators and their investors with startup lending, venture debt and specialized fund finance solutions. Backed by 25+ years funding the innovation economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$50M; Private Equity $25M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 87% lead, 13% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.5B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Maystreet — Integrate, enrich and consume quality, connected data and content you need for faster and smarter decisions, wherever and whenever you need it.
  • EZ Texting — Featuring fast registration and powerful tools, EZ Texting is the best mass texting service for sending bulk SMS marketing messages and MMS messaging. Start your free trial today!
  • Redica Systems — Redica Systems developed an essential tool for regulatory & compliance that provides data intelligence to quality & safety experts around the world. Learn more!
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Framework Venture Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 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, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Series A $5M–$21M; Series B $11M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500k in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Attunely — We offer a proven, compliant, and trustworthy machine learning platform that makes the recovery of receivables easy, seamless, and profitable.
  • PAPER — Give every student an equal opportunity to excel academically. Paper delivers unlimited, 24/7, personalized learning help from expert tutors.
  • Castellum.AI — Castellum.AI is the most accurate, reliable and fastest financial crime prevention solution. Don't take our word for it, try it yourself. Search sanctions, PEPs and 1000+ global watchlists in 100+ languages.
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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, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Chile, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $2.8M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
  • Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
  • Wareclouds — Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.
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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, Retail, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $8M–$50M; Series B $25M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Browse AI — Easily scrape web data, monitor webpage changes, and turn websites into APIs with Browse AI.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
  • Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
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Acton Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Since 1999, Acton Capital invests in tech-enabled business models to create value for the long run. We support world-class teams on their way to market leadership.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Series A $4.2M–$17M; Series B $8.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $263M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Convelio — Convelio is a global logistics startup specialized in bulky, fragile and high-value items.
  • Skribble — Skribble is a platform for electronic signatures that presupposes the identification of the signatures. The platform provides the legally suitable electronic signature for every type of contract even if the law requires the same legal weight as a handwritten signature. It allows signing documents electronically with just a few clicks legallybinding in accordance with Swiss & EU law.Skribble was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
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West Quad Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

West Quad Ventures invest in startups that aspire to be leaders in their respective category, teams we believe in with an emphasis on what’s good for the world!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$6.6M; Series A $7M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • katch — AI call assistant designed to make your calls purposeful and efficient.
  • Ding Dong — Ding Dong is an online supermarket. They offer products ranging from fresh fruits and veggies to drinks, and all come in only 10 minutes to your door.
  • StayTuned — StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors.
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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, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $805k–$5M; Series A $5.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $120M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
  • Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
  • Moka — Moka helps you save effortlessly by automatically investing your spare change. Get started in just a few minutes and watch your money grow with every purchase you make. Save more, spend less and invest smarter with Moka.
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Plaza Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$70M; Series B $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
  • KERV Interactive — KERV redefines the AI-video landscape, turning video moments into brand opportunities. See how content, context, and commerce converge for real results.
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Sandpiper Ventures
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $366k–$3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.3M; Series A $805k–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • QuickFacts — Insurance software for brokers. The first website they open in the morning. We save them up to 2 hours every day. Built by brokers for brokers.
  • 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 — OUR AI-POWERED ASSESSMENTS GUIDE PERSONALIZED FERTILITY TREATMENT DECISIONS IN OVER 180 CLINICS ACROSS 32 COUNTRIES
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37 Angels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 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: 151
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$3.2M; Angel $45k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $90k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aavia — We're here for you and your hormones. Download our app to see how your hormones are wayyy more than your period and live your healthiest life.
  • Veracity — Veracity creates a personal skincare experience based on real data about your hormones and biofactors through our Skin + Health test.
  • Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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True.
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
  • Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
  • Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $5.9M–$32M; Series B $14M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Wattpad — Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
  • OMsignal — Discover our range of Hexoskin and Astroskin Smart Garments for health and fitness tracking. Find the perfect Shirts and Kits for your needs today!
  • Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
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Andreas Penna
Angel · Miami Beach, Florida, United States · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$8.6M; Series A $7M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bonsai — Bridging content and commerce. Bonsai brings together products people love and the content they can't get enough of.
  • Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
  • Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Retail startups

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: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $30k–$2M; Debt Financing $138k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Greenii — Greenii provides recycling services for paper bags. They offer services that include newsprint paper bags, kraft paper bags, logo printing, crinkle paper shreds, and shredded cardboard.
  • ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
  • RFINE Biomass Solutions — RFINE Biomass Solutions is to make coffee waste sustainable and delightful.
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Retail Investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 270 deals from 340 investors.

340
investors
in Canada Retail startups
270
deals
in Canada Retail startups
$2.9M
median round
in Canada Retail startups
41%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Seed
most common funding stage
87/13
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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