Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Canada (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund
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20 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail | |
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Hedgewood
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, FinTech | $725k–$17M |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $368k–$14M |
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White Star Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$60M |
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Poland, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$12M |
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $717k–$20M |
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Fondaction
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, France | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software | $273k–$125M |
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Otimo Retail
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail Technology, Retail | $573k–$8.5M |
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Bedrock
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.8M–$100M |
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Sandpiper Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Wellness | $366k–$6.1M |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$16M |
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Mistral Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $534k–$15M |
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ScaleUP Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Heron Rock Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | |
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing | |
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Valor Siren Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Series A, Seed | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software | $3M–$20M |
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Sierra Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$38M |
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West Quad Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $400k–$34M |
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CIBC Innovation Banking
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$52M |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $68k–$7M |
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Brightspark Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Machine Learning | $1.8M–$28M |
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HOF Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $385k–$57M |
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $327k–$8M |
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SaskWorks Venture Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing | $1.2M–$5.1M |
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Backbone Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Bahamas | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care | $1.1M–$7.9M |
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Celtic House Asia Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $439k–$15M |
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RFI
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Austria, United States | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $150k–$5.4M |
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Framework Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $2.2M–$35M |
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Two Small Fish Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Trinidad and Tobago | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.8M–$25M |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$47M |
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FundersClub
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $450k–$23M |
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Origin Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software | $1M–$31M |
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, France | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $25k–$2M |
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Acton Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, Canada | Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $4.2M–$35M |
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Banana Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care | $2M–$260M |
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$80M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $650k–$50M |
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$79M |
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Desjardins Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $805k–$22M |
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ClearAngel
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce, Women's | $10k–$88k |
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37 Angels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $35k–$3.2M |
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Impression Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $951k–$52M |
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Plaza Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $2.2M–$70M |
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Rho Canada Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Italy | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Analytics, Internet | $750k–$37M |
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ChileGlobal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Chile, Canada, France | Seed, Series A | Software, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$4M |
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True.
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail | |
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Google
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Celtic House Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | |
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First Ascent Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS | |
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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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- 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.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 161
- Round size: Seed $375k–$4M; Pre-Seed $368k–$1.5M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
- 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.
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- 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
- Himedi — Himedi is an information technology company that provides hospital reservation service.
- 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.
- TransactionLink — Our global KYC/KYB orchestration platform allows you to build and upgrade your digital onboarding journey in just days instead of 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Poland, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 290
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $1.3M–$12M
- 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.
- Waldo — Waldo is an AI-powered strategy engine for agencies & brands. Get audience insights, industry trends, and competitive intelligence in one powerful platform.
- PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.8M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- 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.
- Prana — Discover Prana's delicious organic and plant-based snacks and ingredients to fuel your wholesome lifestyle. Enjoy free shipping starting at $49!
- BBM-Lanctôt — BBM-Lanctôt is a major printing company in Quebec.
We invest in retail focused technology companies.
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- 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.
Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $6M–$15M; Series B $18M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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.
We provide a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 402
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
Mistral Venture Partners - The leading seed stage venture capital firm in Canada
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $708k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $534k–$2.5M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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.
- Nook — Nook is a personal knowledge base that helps capture, organize, and intelligently resurface what you need to know and do throughout your day. Get early access.
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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- 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.
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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- 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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Valor Siren Ventures is a joint venture created by Starbucks and Valor .
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- 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.
Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of enterprise, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 336
- 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
- Permeo Technologies — Broadcom Inc. is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions.
- Podcastle — Podcastle is the simplest way to create professional-quality podcasts. Record, edit, transcribe, and export your content with the power of AI, in an intuitive web-based platform.
- SupportLogic — SupportLogic extracts customer sentiment signals so you can predict and prevent escalations, reduce churn, and protect and grow revenue.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$50M; Private Equity $20M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% 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.
- Spare — Spare is your all-in-one mobility operations platform, designed to provide an end-to-end platform ecosystem for operating modern paratransit and microtransit systems.
- Andgo Systems — Andgo Systems is an Absence Management automation platform developed specifically for complex scheduling environments.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- 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
- 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.
- Drop — Join the free rewards app with over 5 million members that lets you earn points by shopping at 500+ brands, investing in crypto, playing games and more.
Wesley Clover is a private, global investment management firm and holding company, enabling entrepreneurs, innovation and technology worldwide.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $327k–$1.5M; 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.
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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- Industry: Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.1M; Post-IPO Equity $3.7M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
- 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
- Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Bahamas
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
- Tall Poppy — Digital safety for everyone.
Marketplace, Digital Health, SaaS
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $439k–$6M; Series A $8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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.
- Unione Food Group — Unione Food Group is a food tech supply chain platform that offers supply chain services and solutions.
- Maple Supply Chain —
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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- 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.
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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- 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
- 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.
- Attunely — We offer a proven, compliant, and trustworthy machine learning platform that makes the recovery of receivables easy, seamless, and profitable.
- Resilia — The Leading Nonprofit Capacity-Building & Grantmaker Intelligence Platform for Funders.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Trinidad and Tobago
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$16M; Series A $5.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $18M in 2022
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.
- Proof — Make Government Decisions, Better.
- Applied Brain Research — Applied Brain Research Inc is the maker of Nengo, a neuromorphic artificial intelligence interactive development environment for building neural computing applications. Neuromorphic computing is an emerging computing architecture which uses artificial neurons to compute like the brain does, massively parallel and low-power. AI networks built onneuromorphic hardware and software compute with less power and use more continuous states as opposed to discrete weight updates as machine learning algorithms do. The benefit is that applications built this way can use less power, be more responsive and more accurate. The neuromorphic architecture allows real-time integration of multiple AI networks into integrated, large, functional systems. Full-loop AI systems can be built with Nengo such as Spaun, the world's largest functional brain simulation. Spaun is ABR's research platform for full-loop service robotics. ABR is first commercializing Nengo as the compiler and runtime for the new generation of neuromorphic chips such as the Intel Loihi, Spinnaker and BrainDrop, as well as ABR's library of neuromorphic applications for these chips such as Reach for robotic reaching, Vision, Speech built on ABR's neuromorphic AI algorithms (spiking deep learning, reinforcement learning, adaptive control, ....). ABR's long run goal is to build its neuromorphic platform into a truly functional service robotic operating system, starting with ABR Reach and guided by the learnings from ABR's research into Spaun. ABR was spun out of Dr Chis Eliasmith's lab at the Center for Computation and Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- 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
- Cybrid — The Cybrid software development kit & cloud-based platform can enable you to launch crypto trading within weeks, for minimal fees. Save millions in headcount, legal, and operational costs, compared to building your own platform from scratch.
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- 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
- Zingbus — zingbus.com - India's Largest Online Ac Bus Booking Platform Offers Ac Bus Travels, Book AC Volvo Bus Tickets at Best Rates. Easy Cancellation & Instant Refund.
- Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
- Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.2M; 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
- Hammoq — HAMMOQ provides end-to-end solutions for processing and re-commerce of secondhand goods - from sorting module to listing solution powered by AI to ease operations
- Tovala — No need to shop, prep, cook, or clean.
- Glimpse — Create a distributed showroom experience without the hassle of a real showroom. Drive product discovery and track the customer journey with Glimpse's platform.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$17M; Series B $8.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $263M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Klaus — Klaus is a conversation review tool that improves customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. It also integrates with your help desk, good for improving the quality of answers and on-boarding new agents. They also connect to your favorite help desk solution and saves time on fumbling around with spreadsheets and comingup with the review system.Klaus is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
- HomeToGo — Booking the perfect vacation rental is quick and easy, no matter your destination. Find millions of offers from thousands of partners all at the best prices.
- 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.
Banana Capital is an early stage investment firm
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- 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $6.6M–$36M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% 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.
- Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
- Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- 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
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
- Canvass AI — Canvass AI empowers industrial workforces to leverage data and create immediate impact in their day-to-day operations.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 344
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2M–$18M; Series B $5M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
- Boosted USA — We provide you with the latest from Boosted. Boosted Revs Scooters, Boosted Plus, Boosted Stealth, Boosted Mini's are all available and on sale.
- WorkFusion — Intelligent Automation for top enterprises & regulated industries. AI-enabled digital workers increase team capacity, customer satisfaction and compliance.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- 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
- 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 provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Community of women angel investors that offers angel investing training for investors
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Seed $35k–$3.2M; Angel $45k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $90k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
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- 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.
- Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- 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.
- SenseNet Inc. — Wildfire Detection in Minutes. Advanced Integration of Ground Sensors, Cameras, and Satellite Technologies.
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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- 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.
ChileGlobal Ventures is promote the growth of dynamic and innovative startups for the benefit of Chile and the world.
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- 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.
A unique model for investing, innovating & growing
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- 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.
Google is a technology company that offers a search engine, that enables users to find information from various online sources, along with services such as email through Gmail, cloud storage via Google Drive, and productivity tools including Google Docs and Google Sheets; it also provides advertising solutions through Google Ads, video sharing viaYouTube, and mobile operating systems with Android, while continuously developing innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 234
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OpenSolar — OpenSolar connects homeowners, solar professionals, and partners with free software to design, sell, and manage fast, accurate solar projects.
- Britto's Brainwaves — Britto's Brainwaves is a healthcare company that emerges as a beacon for those seeking in-depth medical insights.
- Power Solutions Solar — Empresa especializada em limpeza e manutenções de usinas Solar, atendemos clientes que possuem usinas solares em todo Brasil, garantindo mais geração e mais retorno do investimento realizado pelos clientes. Elaboramos um pacote de manutenções anual, onde os clientes apenas agendam as datas e nossa equipe realiza todo serviço, zerando os custos commão de obra , compras de equipamentos, manutenções de equipamentos, treinamentos, EPI´S, EPC´S, aquisição de veículos e manutenções. Nossa equipe e equipamentos a disposição dos clientes nas datas certas.
Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
- FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
- Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
First Ascent Ventures was founded in 2015 and invests in emerging technology companies that are building the next generation of disruptive, enterprise B2B software that leverages the cloud, big data, analytics, mobility, AI and machine learning.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Osano — Osano simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program. Become compliant with the GDPR, CPRA, and more.
- Shinydocs — Shinydocs is a leading AI-driven data privacy, compliance, and productivity solutions provider Streamline file analysis and enhance information management.
- Andgo Systems — Andgo Systems is an Absence Management automation platform developed specifically for complex scheduling environments.
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