Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025
Investor | Social Canada investments |
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N49P | 2 |
Goodwater Capital | 1 |
Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
BoxOne Ventures | 1 |
True Capital Management | 1 |
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund | 1 |
David Chamandy | 1 |
Jean-Sebastian Cournoyer | 1 |
BNOTIONS | 1 |
Mantella Venture Partners | 1 |
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
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- Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
- Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
- Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
- Tracelight — Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy.
- Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.
BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
- Seqera — Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io).
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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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.
- runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
- Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile, Social
- Angel, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Akoha — Akoha is a Montreal based developer of a new type of online / offline social multiplayer game. Their website explains the concept using a series of comics. (A screenshot is below.)Akoha Inc. is a Montreal-based social media company that leverages the Web and mobile technologies to encourage people to embrace and share special moments thatmake life a little more awesome. Akoha offers an abundance of real-world activities designed to invite people to discover life's special moments, to capture them, and to share them with friends.
- Playerize — Playerize is a rapidly growing company that specializes in monetization and high quality user acquisition for the social and mobile gaming industry.Our acquisition of [SuperRewards][http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/super-rewards] expands our reach globally and offers customers a complete alternative payments solutionthat any developer of any size can integrate in under ten minutes.
JS is a husband and father of five wonderful children. He co-founded Montreal Start Up and Real Ventures, two seed funds based in Montreal. JS loves working with entrepreneurs and startups. He is an entrepreneur as well, having co-founded and operated a few startups along the way. He tries to live life by giving more than he takes and looksfor people who share this principle. JS' life is a constant (good) struggle to find balance between spending time with his wife and kids, with the entrepreneurs he works with, his friends and taking care of himself, which usually means playing hockey, swimming, running or biking. As such, he tends to work with people he enjoys spending time with.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Akoha — Akoha is a Montreal based developer of a new type of online / offline social multiplayer game. Their website explains the concept using a series of comics. (A screenshot is below.)Akoha Inc. is a Montreal-based social media company that leverages the Web and mobile technologies to encourage people to embrace and share special moments thatmake life a little more awesome. Akoha offers an abundance of real-world activities designed to invite people to discover life's special moments, to capture them, and to share them with friends.
- League — Founded in 2014, League is a technology-focused health company powering the digital transformation of healthcare. Employers, payers, pharmacy retailers and healthcare providers use our award-winning platform to deliver integrated and personalized health experiences that drive consumer engagement. Millions of people across the world use digitalhealth platforms powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care.
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Social, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Shopcaster — Shopcastr Inc ., a Canadian company providing an online and mobile social service for independent local retailers and shoppers.
Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
- Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
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