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Top 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) 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 (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in January 2026

Investor	Retail Canada investments
District Ventures Capital	20
Hedgewood	5
White Star Capital	4
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	4
Otimo Retail	3
Bedrock	3
Panache Ventures	3
Fondaction	3
ff Venture Capital	3
Mistral Venture Partners	2
Heron Rock Fund	2
Angel One Network	2
Valor Siren Ventures	2
Sandpiper Ventures	2
True.	2
Brightspark Ventures	2
Portage Ventures	2
HOF Capital	2
Banana Capital	2
Wesley Clover	2
Export Development Canada	2
CIBC Innovation Banking	2
ChileGlobal Ventures	2
RFI	2
Framework Venture Partners	2
West Quad Ventures	2
Two Small Fish Ventures	2
FundersClub	2
SaskWorks Venture Fund	2
ClearAngel	2
Sierra Ventures	2
Backbone Angels	2
Golden Ventures	2
Real Ventures	2
Acton Capital	2
37 Angels	2
BDC Venture Capital	2
Origin Ventures	2
Inovia Capital	2
ScaleUP Ventures	2
Impression Ventures	2
Desjardins Venture Capital	2
Plaza Ventures	2
Ontario Centres of Excellence	2
Rho Canada Ventures	2
Extuple	1
Blank Slate Ventures	1
Operative Capital	1
Capital Angel Network	1
Springdale Ventures	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 — 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aire — The income assessment platform that leverages first-party data. Access real-time confidence in the stated income of any consumer.
Questflow — Questflow Labs seeking to give customers with an all-in-one solution for user intent perception and distribution, AI agentic workflow automation, and human-AI cooperation. Questflow Labs is pioneering a novel approach to decentralized AI agentic workflow.
Flare — Flare equips your team to shut down cybercrime before it escalates. Detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats with automated Threat Exposure Management.

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Investment focus

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

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.
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.
Verto Health — Go from managing to mastering population health data with Verto's patented, AI-enabled digital twin. Trusted by 100+ health systems.

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 — 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

Investment focus

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

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.

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

Flinks — Allow your users to easily connect their bank accounts to collect data, turn data into actionable insights, seamlessly process payments, and deliver a winning open banking program.
Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DimOnOff — Smart Control Solutions to Manage Connected Assets Smart Street Lighting Increase the sustainability of your street or commercial lighting infrastructure,
Mechasys — Project your construction plans on-site with the all-new FramR. Get unmatched accuracy and achieve laser speed layout.
Strato Automation — Based in the heart of Montreal, Strato Automation’s mission is to develop and market the most simple, open and smart building control products on the market, to benefit building owners and their occupants.

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

Portfolio highlights

Moveline — Moveline provides multiple moving quotes from quality moving companies, all from one form. Get up to four quotes now.
ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.

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

Portfolio highlights

Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
Ready Plan Go — Automate your tax preparation workflow with AI-powered document handling and data integration.
Trusty Estate — Trusty helps you create a digital Letter of Wishes, so the things you love end up with the people you love. Securely add assets, documents, and more.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

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

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.

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 — 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.
The Desire Company — Drive conversions with trusted product reviews from verified experts.
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.

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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.

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

Jozu — Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments.
Brio — Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features
ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.

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

Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
Agio Ratings — Agio enables firms that trade and invest in digital assets to protect capital, underwrite credit, and secure long-term success
Elysian — The first AI-native TPA built for superior outcomes in commercial insurance. We combine AI-orchestrated claims processing with elite adjusting talent to handle complex commercial claims with unprecedented efficiency and insight.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cassidy — Create customized AI-assistants to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and adopt AI across your entire organization.
Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.

Banana Capital is an early stage investment firm

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

BinStar — BinStar is an e-commerce and retail company that offers users a shopping experience in the form of treasure hunt.
Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.

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

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 — 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.

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

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.

CIBC Innovation Banking provides strategic, scalable funding, growth capital and recurring revenue financing to all stages of a startup company, worldwide.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
Clariti — Clariti is your mission control for efficient permit and license management - from application to review to inspection to issuance.
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.

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

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.

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.

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

CarDoor — CarDoor is a Toronto-based technology company that is transforming the way people buy cars. CarDoor offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At CarDoor.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that's right for them, trade in their current vehicle, and enjoy effortless at-homedelivery. CarDoor is committed to making car shopping easy for all Canadians.
PAPER — Give every student an equal opportunity to excel academically. Paper delivers unlimited, 24/7, personalized learning help from expert tutors.
ScaleHub — ScaleHub, a Managed Service Hub for AI data labeling and data processing best practices delivers super-human quality data - at scale. ScaleHub's solution is HIPAA compliant, ISO 27001:2013 certified and GdPR compliant.

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 — Discover powerful Shopify apps designed to boost sales and streamline operations. Trusted by 50,000+ merchants for supporting growth on Shopify.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

enVgo — Discover ENVIGO, where cutting-edge hydrofoiling technology meets electric performance. Experience effortless, exhilarating, and sustainable boating with the exclusive NV1 design.
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.
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.

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

Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
SuperKalam — SuperKalam is an AI-backed Super Mentor, offering personalised learning, instant doubt resolution, and evaluation by focusing on discipline-based learning to help you clear UPSC exam.
SubImage — SubImage provides cloud mapping for security teams, offering visibility and risk reduction through Cartography's open-source tech.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sedai — Sedia is an autonomous cloud management platform for SREs that can act independently and proactively manage production environments.
Advekit — Advekit is a healthcare platform used to make the process of finding a mental health support therapist easy, empowering, and encouraging. The platform helps patients find the right therapist and use their insurance to pay for therapy. It improves access to quality treatment and helps individuals better utilize their mental health benefits andoffers a sliding-scale fee structure, which is a variable rate based on a person's ability to pay for treatment, thus helping users in simplifying the process of finding therapists based on their needs, availability, and insurance.
ArmorCode — ArmorCode is redefining Application Security.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Bahamas

Portfolio highlights

Ceremonia — Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

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.
SkipTheDishes — SkipTheDishes is a North American technology company seamlessly connecting people to local restaurants and food couriers, making great food more accessible. Through the SkipTheDishes network, restaurants gain more business, food couriers earn extra income on their own schedule, and busy customers are able to gain time by ordering from hundreds oflocal restaurants and national chains that never offered delivery before. From the founding of our network in 2012 to our expansion to 20 cities, SkipTheDishes is advancing the future of food delivery.
Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

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

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.

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

Portfolio highlights

remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Stotles — Get instant access to public sector tenders and activities. Monitor early buying signals tailored to your business. Connect with key stakeholders in just a few clicks.
Metalshub — Metalshub is one of the pioneers of digital transformation in the metals industry. The software start-up was founded in 2016 in Düsseldorf by Dr. Sebastian Kreft and Dr. Frank Jackel with the mission to connect companies in the industry with a digital platform. Digital supply chains can help reduce costs and CO2 emissions. More than 1,100 companiesare already using Metalshub, including more than 200 foundries and steel mills that have digitised their purchasing processes with Metalshub. Since the launch of the platform in 2017, more than 750 Million USD in trading volume was concluded through Metalshub.

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, France

Portfolio highlights

Liberare (Formerly Intimately) — Intimately sells adaptive bras and underwear for women with disabilities. We sell the easiest bras to put on that are also fashionable. Front opening bras with the newest technology allow for easy dressing for everyone.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is the fastest growing on-demand delivery management software for restaurants and beyond. We help businesses to launch a delivery program in-house or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure.
Just Enough Wines — Just Enough Wines is a producer of premium, great-tasting canned wines. It creates a wine that enables people to enjoy canned beverages that are more portable, convenient, and sustainable. The company was co-founded in 2020 by Jessica Hershfield and Kaitlyn Lo and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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

Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.
Influitive — Our Customer Advocacy Saas product and professional services allow your company to strategically discover, nurture and mobilize customer advocates.
Shoebox — Clearwater Clinical designs and manufactures innovative, affordable, medical-grade devices that apply the advantages of mobile technology to common clinical practices.

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

Medmo — Medmo is an all-encompassing solution for providers to order, schedule, and track medical imaging appointments for their patients. Improve completion rates with less staff burden and lower costs.
Silkline — Silkline combines seamless integrations, enterprise-grade security, and advanced workflow automation to orchestrate every step of the supply chain.
Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.

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

Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
Talent.com — Find jobs, salary & company information on Talent.com. Discover your next career today. Your job search starts here!
GoodFit — Implement & scale any GTM strategy. Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice

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.

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

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.
Ned — Ned develops and creates a platform that provides revenue based financing solutions and services. It is based in New York, USA.
Goose Insurance Services — Mobile First B2C Insurance Platform

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.
Vosker — Vosker provides remote area monitoring tech enabling you to take things further
Local Logic — Since 2015, Local Logic has helped you connect with real estate buyers, sellers, renters, and borrowers at every stage of their journey.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Blank Slate Ventures is a seed fund designed specifically for pre-revenue startups in the Chattanooga region. They are looking to invest in teams of entrepreneurs who are building companies that have the potential to disrupt their respective industries.In June 2011, Blank Slate Ventures Fund 1's first investment was made in Quickcue, LLC.They helped the founder take his idea "off of a napkin" and turn it into a real business. In December 2013, Quickcue was sold to OpenTable, Inc.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Nilus — Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.
Escadrille — Escadrille is an apparel brand that offers a range of high-end cycling and lifestyle apparel items. Its apparel include jersey, aero suit, sorts, vest, and arm warmers that enable cyclists to get the prefect fit product and enjoy the ride. It was launched in January 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Advanced Catheter Therapies — Advanced Catheter Therapies, an early stage research and development medical device company, has a portfolio of innovative catheter technologies targeting vascular disease including thrombosis, inflammation, occlusions and restenosis. ACT is developing a revolutionary device for restenosis (re-blockage of blood vessels) and as well as catheters forendovascular debulking (clearing of blocked blood vessels).

Operative Capital is an early stage investor specialized focused on disruptive financial technology startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Extole — Boost revenue with our enterprise platform. Build referral, engagement, loyalty, influencer, and ambassador programs for retail, banks, telecoms, and more.
SharesPost — Accelerate your future with Forge's private market solutions. Get access to pre-IPO investment opportunities and liquidity for your private company shares.
Forge — Accelerate your future with Forge's private market solutions. Get access to pre-IPO investment opportunities and liquidity for your private company shares.

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
Virica Biotech — Viral Sensitizers (VSE) for drug developers and manufacturers are small molecules that improve viral yields and effectiveness by reducing the antiviral defences on a cellular level.
Afynia Laboratories — Aima Laboratories is a women's health healthcare company that provides innovative solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. AIMA is working on the first non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic tool for the market. If you have chronic pelvic/period pain or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, you may have endometriosis.

Springdale Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on consumer packaged goods. It partners with resolute founders, who are pursuing their passions, and helping them create meaningful, sustainable brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, 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.
TBD Health — TBD Health makes at-home STD/STI screening kits that are accurate, easy to use, and built for women.
SpeakeasyCo — Speakeasy Co. provides an integrated direct-to-consumer solution for beverage alcohol brands that remains three-tier compliant.

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