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Top 50 Retail VC Funds in Canada

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Retail startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail VC Funds in Canada

Investor	Retail Canada investments
District Ventures Capital	20
Hedgewood	6
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	4
White Star Capital	4
Bedrock	3
Fondaction	3
Otimo Retail	3
Panache Ventures	3
ff Venture Capital	3
FundersClub	2
Mistral Venture Partners	2
CIBC Innovation Banking	2
Wesley Clover	2
Sierra Ventures	2
Framework Venture Partners	2
Heron Rock Fund	2
Real Ventures	2
True.	2
Valor Siren Ventures	2
Sandpiper Ventures	2
Plaza Ventures	2
SaskWorks Venture Fund	2
Portage Ventures	2
Desjardins Venture Capital	2
37 Angels	2
Brightspark Ventures	2
RFI	2
West Quad Ventures	2
BDC Venture Capital	2
Inovia Capital	2
Angel One Network	2
ScaleUP Ventures	2
ClearAngel	2
Export Development Canada	2
HOF Capital	2
Impression Ventures	2
Ontario Centres of Excellence	2
Rho Canada Ventures	2
Acton Capital	2
Origin Ventures	2
Two Small Fish Ventures	2
ChileGlobal Ventures	2
Extuple	1
Madrona	1
Early Light Ventures	1
Context VC	1
Celtic House Venture Partners	1
CRCM	1
Brookfield Asset Management	1
Canadian Business Growth Fund	1

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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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ecomtent — Ecomtent enables brands to create eCommerce content with Generative AI. Using Ecomtent's self-service tools, customers can generate their entire optimized Amazon listing, using our AI product photo generator, AI Generate infographics at scale, a+ content, and generate optimised copy.
ReliON — End-to-end EV charging infrastructure Operation and Maintenance solution, integrated experience from problem detection to resolution.
Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
Blueberry Protocol — Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market.

Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
Rcm Modulaire — Rcm Modulaire is engaged in the designs and manufactures quality modular buildings.
Recharge Véhicule Électrique inc. — RVE offers electric vehicle home charging solutions: unique technologies, specific expertise and free resources for all types of home.

We invest in retail focused technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Retail Technology, Retail
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Paraspot AI — Paraspot enables companies in the field of real estate to conduct automatic inspections free of human error, by using computer vision. Moving the physical visits, online.
ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Malibou — Malibou is developing the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for all French startups and SMBs. Malibou is committed to simplifying complex processes so that you can focus on your business.
Quindar — Satellite Mission Management for startups. Operate faster than your competition.
Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.

Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Armilla AI — Discover how Armilla AI is revolutionizing AI governance with cutting-edge warranty and insurance solutions. We provide 2-week AI assessments that guarantee performance, transparency, and fairness for enterprises and AI vendors alike. Partner with us to innovate with confidence and trust.
Cookin — Cookin is the all-in-one platform to build a site to sell food with delivery, pick up, order processing and more. We help creators by providing easy to use tools and apps to run and market their business online.
Axle Automation — Axle provides a valuable solution for compliance operations teams. Axle AI agents could be instrumental in streamlining workflows, reducing manual effort, and enhancing accuracy in compliance-related tasks.

CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by the strength of CIBC, Innovation Banking can provide financial capital, rich network of connections, and insightful service that give our clients an edge in the innovation economy.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VEDA GmbH — VEDA GmbH is an agency offering flexible HR software and services for over 40 years that effectively support companies in HR management.
Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.
The Learning Internet — Explore Learning.com's digital literacy & coding curriculum for K-12 students. Learn more, try EasyTech for free, or talk to a specialist today.

Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
Quintessent — Quintessent is developing optical connectivity solutions to scale computing and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).
Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
Maxa AI — Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions.
FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.

Tom Williams | Heron Rock. Angel investments.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Fieldcraft — Fieldcraft is the ingredient marketplace for food and beverage companies. Search, sample and simplify bulk industrial ingredient sourcing.
Henry Meds — Our mission is making treatment fast, easy, and affordable for all. Programs include provider and medication without hidden-fees or office visits.
Heard Technologies — Heard combines smart software with real humans to handle accounting, payroll and taxes. We act as a trusted financial advisor for your private practice.

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

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.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

David — Rigorously perfected protein.
The Desire Company — In a world of fake influencers, anonymous reviews, and misleading information, honest advice matters more than ever before. Through our video-led platform, The Desire Co. gives consumers access to hands-on classes, easy to follow how tos and authentic product reviews from experts at the top of their game. Through access to Pro wisdom and advice wegive consumers the confidence to learn new skills, and make more informed purchase decisions.
The Cumulus Coffee Company — The Cumulus Machine brings premium cold coffee home. Enjoy nitro cold brew, cold brew, and cold espresso on demand, at the touch of a button. Upgrade to cold coffee perfection, with the ideal system for enjoying exceptional cold coffee at home.

We provide a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Productivity Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiftMed — SiftMed is an AI-first company that uses AI to help law firms, insurance companies, and Independent Medical Examiners efficiently organizse and review complex medical files.
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.
Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Symend — Symend helps top enterprises deliver digital experiences that are hyper-personalized based on the science behind consumer behaviour.
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 is an AI-powered video creative technology that creates shoppable & immersive experiences within any video content. Learn what KERV can do for you.

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.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
Ground Truth Agriculture — Ground Truth Ag revolutionizes precision farming with automated grain grading solutions. Our cutting-edge technology provides real-time, accurate grain quality monitoring, optimizing productivity for farmers and agribusinesses. Discover the future of agtech with us.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Benepass — Give your employees flexible benefits.
Agio Ratings — Agio enables firms that trade and invest in digital assets to protect capital, underwrite credit, and secure long-term success
Ansel Health — Give your employees peace of mind with supplemental health insurance from Brella. Our plan offers more coverage, less hassle, and a faster, simpler claims experience.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides industry-leading location intelligence technology. Helping the real estate industry make better decisions since 2015.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
Pulp Pantry — Pulp Pantry transforms upcycled ingredients from the overlooked, nutritional byproducts of fruit and vegetable processing into a wholesome, better-for-people-and-better-for-the-planet pantry staple. From upcycled ingredients like organic kale, celery, and okara, pulp chips provide nearly a full day's serving of gut-healthy fibre.
ChalkTalk — Using results from a student placement test, ChalkTalk’s machine-learning software generates standards-aligned curriculum customized to fit within the existing class schedule. Lesson plans, instructional materials, and small group activities are adaptively generated for the teacher, while personalized practice problems and review exercises areadaptively generated for each student. In this way, ChalkTalk acts as the ultimate teacher’s assistant - scaffolding instruction for each student while using class progress to shape future instruction.After just 15 weeks, every school who used ChalkTalk had their students experience 2-6x more growth on state test scores compared to their peers after a full year of traditional instruction.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Canada, Austria, United States

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.

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!

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, India

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 — Results-driven software, merchant-focused support, and an experienced team.

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Manac — Manac manufactures and designs aluminum semi-trailers. They provide vans, flatbeds, and trailers such as dumps, low beds, grain hoppers, chassis, and chip and logging trailers. They serve the transportation, construction, energy, mining, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation — Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issuesthat arise from creating human-like machines.

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Inscora — Inscora provides automated cyber risk assessment and sales enablement tools for cyber insurance brokers.
Not Diamond — Not Diamond is the world's most powerful AI model router.
Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States, Egypt

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Women's
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, India

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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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

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xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

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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.
Symend — Symend helps top enterprises deliver digital experiences that are hyper-personalized based on the science behind consumer behaviour.
Goose Insurance Services — Mobile First B2C Insurance Platform

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Italy

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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 — Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agriculturaloperator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area.Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

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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.
Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
ECO Group — Eco is a supplier of consumer products. They create structures for increased growth and profitability within the group companies.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hoop — Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat.
TiLT — Tilt's leave management system makes navigating critical life moments easy with our tech, and more human with our hearts.
Torus — Torus is the most environmentally friendly residential battery in the world made with 95% recyclable materials and up to 3 times the life of a chemical battery.

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Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

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Joyride — Make mobility instantly connected, keyless, shareable and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
Viggle AI — Viggle AI is a pioneering Canadian firm that uses artificial intelligence to enable people of all skill levels to easily create high-quality animated video using simple text instructions.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

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

Investment focus

AgTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Chile, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

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
AgroUrbana — Agrourbana is the Vertical Agriculture company. It produce the best vegetables by applying advanced technology and responsible processes with the environment and people.
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.

Extuple manages the Extuple Cloud Fund, a liquid, concentrated investment fund focused on companies taking advantage of the Cloud to transform businesses worldwide.

Investment focus

Retail, Computer, Software
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arcestra — Arcestra offers a real time commercial real estate marketing platform that integrates seamlessly with existing marketing channels and services. Designed to efficiently manage, track, and promote an organization’s entire leasing portfolio, the platform centralizes all promotional information and creates a new standard for measuring marketingeffectiveness.

A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, Spain

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Vilya — Vilya is a biotechnology company developing a novel class of drugs that precisely target the biology of disease. The company aims to create new medicines to leverage computing to make high throughput screening obsolete and cure diseases.
Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
Aerial — Leverage the power of machine learning to prepare for and complete due diligence in a fraction of the time.

A VC firm that's tenacious as you are. We provide capital, connections, and counsel for entrepreneurs with grit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

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Pendella — Pendella is an on-demand insurance agency that offers employee benefits, business and business owner protection, and HR solutions to businesses. Pendella was founded in 2018 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida.
Wove — Wove works with you to create a custom engagement ring and provides an exact replica for at-home try-on. Take our quiz to get started creating your own ring.
Sunstone Credit — Democratizing Access to Solar for Businesses

Context VC is a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm.

Investment focus

Retail, Jewelry
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wove — Wove works with you to create a custom engagement ring and provides an exact replica for at-home try-on. Take our quiz to get started creating your own ring.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

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UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.

CRCM is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Venteur — Venteur is a digital benefits marketplace for independent workers. We make health insurance more transparent and give you back control over your benefits.
Inso Biosciences — Inso Bio (formerly Tico Bio) is an early-stage biotechnology startup out of Cornell University developing platform technologies for biological sample preparation.
ClearBlue Markets — ClearBlue Markets offers specialization in carbon sales, consulting, project development, solutions and services.

Brookfield Asset Management is an asset management firm focused on property, renewable energy, infrastructure, and private equity.

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Oil and Gas
Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Avaada Ventures — Explore Avaada's transformative energy solutions harnessing solar, wind, and green hydrogen technologies. Join us in our mission for a sustainable future.
Fidelity Canada — Fidelity Canada is a leading provider of financial services.
Canary Wharf Group — Canary Wharf Group has already achieved one of the greatest ever feats of civic engineering, turning a once derelict Docklands into 97 acres of London’s, and the world’s, most sought after office and retail space.The Group’s workforce comprises more than 950 people who are dedicated to one of the three sub companies. Canary Wharf Limited,Canary Wharf Contractors Limited and Canary Wharf Management Limited.

CBGF helps privately-owned Canadian businesses with the capital, talent, and expertise they need to drive growth and realize their potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

FundThrough — Businesses in the U.S. & Canada can get paid in a day by advancing funds from unpaid invoices with online invoice financing and factoring from FundThrough.
Felix Health — Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you.
Specialty Medical Partners — Specialty Medical Partners is a grouping company for independent cardiac, respiratory, and internal medicine hospitals.

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