Top 15 Social Impact Startup Investors in Canada (June 2026)
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Active Impact Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, CleanTech | |
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Agriculture, Health Care | $1.5M–$22M |
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Sand Hill North
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.3M–$5.3M |
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Ontario Centre of Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Medical, Software | $7.3k–$3.1M |
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Gate
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Venture - Series Unknown | Consulting, Non Profit, Agriculture | |
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Magna International
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series B, Series A | Automotive, Software, Transportation | $16M–$77M |
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Thin Air Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Medical | $731k–$5.1M |
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Google.org
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Grant, Seed | Non Profit, Education, Information Technology | $250k–$6.8M |
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RBC Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Debt Financing, Series D | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $24M–$600M |
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NorthSpring Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Medical Device, Software | |
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Scotiabank
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Brazil | Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Equity | Mining, Precious Metals, Energy | $10M–$1.5B |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$16M |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Market Readiness
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Robotics, Health Care, Social Impact | |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | |
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- Industry: Software, Agriculture, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $4.8M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $73M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- Mycocycle — Mycocycle transforms waste-to-value in partnership with nature. Bioinspired by fungi, waste materials are efficiently transformed into valuable low-carbon
- Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
Seed and Early-Stage Capital Investments. From pre-seed to seed to Series A, Sand Hill North invests in innovative technology-focused organizations led with integrity, purpose and clarity.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hellohire — Hellohire helps recruiting teams and staffing agencies double recruiter productivity and make hires faster with virtual interviews.
- LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
- Trellis — Trellis is an advertising and automation software for Amazon and Walmart sellers that helps brands increase their profitability and scale their business.
Ontario Centre of Innovation provides a preeminent research-to-commercialization vehicle in Ontario
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $366k–$3.1M; Grant $7.3k–$110k; Pre-Seed $146k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Quthero — Accelerating the ways we treat wounds today - from passive to rapid, & healthy wound management
- Noa Therapeutics — Defying the convention of traditional drug development to revolutionize treatment options for complex inflammatory skin diseases.
- MIMOSA Diagnostics — MIMOSA Diagnostics is an m-health tech startup with a novel handheld device and integrated smartphone app for image visualization of skin health. MIMOSA is bringing medical grade technology out of hospitals and into the hands of patient consumers. The value proposition for MIMOSA’s AI diagnostic data warehouse will provide metadata insightsintegrated with patient EMR/EHR systems. Our first commercial entry launch is in the Diabetes sector, with future expansion to follow into other therapeutic areas.MIMOSA diagnostics puts the future of skin health into your hands. The MIMOSA is one of the few handheld multispectral skin imaging devices in the healthcare industry. Our proprietary algorithms risk profile the skin in various clinical settings. Our technology will allow healthcare to be equitable, efficient, and more personalized for all.
Gate is an important investment in expanding our markets and lowering trade risk, offering global purchasers with trustworthy technical knowledge and skills.
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- Industry: Consulting, Non Profit, Agriculture
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cereals Canada — Cereals Canada is a nonprofit organization providing support in market access, information, and sustainability for farmers and vendors.
Magna is a leading global automotive supplier with 317 manufacturing operations and 83 product development, engineering and sales centres in 29 countries. Magna has over 130,000 employees focused on delivering superior value to our customers through innovative products and processes, and World Class Manufacturing. Magna's product capabilitiesinclude producing body, chassis, interior, exterior, seating, powertrain, electronic, vision, closure and roof systems and modules, as well as complete vehicle engineering and contract manufacturing.
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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Transportation
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Series A $16M–$55M; Series B $21M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yulu — Yulu is a micro-mobility platform that is solving for traffic congestion and air pollution in India by providing human and battery powered micro-light 2 wheelers. Yulu uses IoT, Cloud, and AI to create a vast network of shared dockless vehicles that can be rented easily by an app in pay per use business model.
- Cartken — Launch your robot fleet with us. The AI powering our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today.
- 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.
Thin Air Labs is the leading investment firm in Canada focused on the growth asset class in innovation and technology. We currently have 24 companies in our portfolio. We believe in igniting venture growth for greater human impact.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $731k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Clinify Inc — Medical records are barely digitized in Africa. The lack of digitally centralized health records has led to a large number of preventable deaths as a result of wrong and self diagnosis by patients due to poor to no medical histories, paper record mismatch, long wait times and missed revenue opportunities. There is also a shortage of healthcarepractitioners and a lack of stable healthcare infrastructure.We are building a health information management system that leverages the capabilities of Artificial intelligence. Our solution cuts wait time in half, enables users to easily access, populate, own and centralize their health records. This allows them to control and better understand their encounters, book appointments via a web portal and mobile app, have virtual consultation with healthcare professionals and providers while running it on a low cost infrastructure without affecting system performance.
- PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
- Quickly — The trusted platform to provide valuable discounts on payables, offer trade credit extensions and manage the entirety of your transaction process.
Google.org is a platform that pulls together Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org funds teams with big ideas that have a long-term global impact.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.8M; Grant $250k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ReflexAI — ReflexAI helps teams train, perform, and improve in the moments that matter most
- Wikimedia Endowment — Wikimedia Endowment is a fund supporting Wikipedia.
- Wikimedia Foundation — The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit company focused on empowering and engaging people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free content license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.The Wikimedia Foundation's most prestigious project is Wikipedia, however, they areinvolved in others such as Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiversity.
Whatever you need, RBC Royal Bank has a wide range of personal banking products, services and tools to help you manage your finances, save for retirement, buy a home and much more.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series D
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series D $24M–$63M; Debt Financing $100M–$600M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Celonis — Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users.The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manageevery facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions and automation. Celonis has thousands of customers, including ABB, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Citibank, Dell, GSK, John Deere, L'Oréal, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone and Whirlpool.Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.
- OJO — OJO envisions a world where everyone has what they need to own a home, so they can experience the physical, financial, and emotional haven that home provides.
- RecNation Storage — RecNation offers secure and convenient storage solutions for RVs, boats, and more. Experience exceptional service and peace of mind with us.
NorthSpring Capital Partners provides risk capital to small and medium sized companies with the goal of creating value. Investments range between $250,000 and $1 million in the form of subordinated debt and/or equity across a variety of traditional industries located in Southern Ontario. NorthSpring takes a flexible approach when reviewinginvestment opportunities and tailors its investment structure to fit the unique aspects of the business.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
- Rehabtronics — Rehabtronics devices are proven to help people recover movement after central or peripheral nervous system injury or disease.
- Able Innovations — Able Innovations is developing advanced medical devices to tackle the pressing problem of patient transfer in healthcare.
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Browse database — It's Free!Scotiabankers are committed to helping individuals, companies, and communities to thrive in a changing world. From personal and business banking, brokerage, and insurance, to private wealth, and the most sophisticated commercial, corporate and institutional services, they serve the diverse needs of some 21 million customers in more than 55countries.Founded in 1832 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, their growth has always been fuelled by the success of their customers and their longevity secured by an unshakable commitment to carefully and expertly managing risk and capital.That focus on doing what's right for customers—short- andlong-term—has made us a global financial services leader.Headquartered in Canada, they are over 86, 000 Scotiabankers strong. Each of us are committed to being the best at understanding their customers' needs and all of us working together to deliver practical advice and relevant solutions that help their customers become financially better off.
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- Industry: Mining, Precious Metals, Energy
- Stage:Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Canada, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $121M–$1B; Debt Financing $11M–$1.5B; Post-IPO Equity $10M–$920M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minera Alamos — Minera Alamos is a mining exploration company with a focus on gold production. The company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties located in Mexico and the United States.
- Grenergy Renovables — Entwicklung von Photovoltaik und Speicher Projekten und Speicher Projekten mit Grenergy. Willkommen bei Grenergy
- Elemental Royalty — Elemental Altus Royalties Corp. is a diversified and scalable precious metals royalty company well-positioned for future growth.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 401
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arteria AI — Arteria unlocks the power of your contracts by helping you to generate, negotiate and turn your executed contracts into data that allow you to diagnose problems, identify opportunities and drive value for your organization.
- Augmenta Inc. — Design sustainable, code compliant and fully constructible buildings in hours.
- CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
- ventureLAB — At ventureLAB, we grow globally competitive tech titans that build-to-scale in Canada, for global markets.
- Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology operates as a biotechnology company and develops innovative solutions for plasmid DNA production.
Ontario's leading pre-seed investment fund.
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- Industry: Robotics, Health Care, Social Impact
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Able Innovations — Able Innovations is developing advanced medical devices to tackle the pressing problem of patient transfer in healthcare.
Angel One Network Inc. is a member-based, not-for-profit organization.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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We support environmental resiliency through profitable investment. We provide capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures catalyzing the transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water & products.
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Audette
— Audette transforms your commercial portfolios into intelligent, carbon-free assets. Net-zero planning for commercial real estate portfolios
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Agrology
— The Agrology Platform helps farmers reduce their carbon footprint, be more sustainable, and stay ahead of threats like drought, smoke taint, pest & disease outbreaks, frost, heat, extreme temperatures.
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RailVision Analytics
— Customized data analysis, software solutions, and consulting for the rail industry. RailVision Analytics takes the data available from your fleet equipment, combined with our proven AI algorithms to provide insight on saving fuel, equipment deterioration and improving safety.
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