Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026

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• Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
• Slate — Slate provides embedded lending services that allow platforms to offer business customers access to capital. The platform manages underwriting, compliance, and operations, so the lending process is integrated without heavy engineering work. Businesses can use Slate’s API or white-label components to include one-click loan applications on theirplatforms. Slate handles automated customer communications throughout the loan lifecycle, including payment confirmations and reminders. The service ensures compliance with federal and provincial lending regulations, anti-money laundering rules, and data protection laws. Slate supports lending across major Canadian markets and manages regulatory requirements for all transactions. Platforms can launch embedded lending quickly, giving customers access to funds while Slate handles risk, licensing, and legal obligations.
• The Intelligent Search Company — The Intelligent Search Company mission to give decision-makers and AI agents.

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• DrugBank — DrugBank augments human intelligence to improve the world’s health. Our suite of products are powered by the world’s most complete and up-to-date pharmaceutical knowledge database. It includes everything there is to know about drugs and how they work in the body. We enable companies to improve healthcare delivery through precision medicine orclinical software applications, as well as uncover insights through data science in drug discovery. Our knowledge base can be integrated into software solutions to help achieve clinical intelligence. Companies can easily scale their usage through our API and launch faster with flexible data modules. By providing users with advanced insights and the right information at the right time, users are empowered to make better health decisions.Our extensive, structured datasets are used to discover novel drug candidates, identify drug repurposing opportunities, and build predictive machine learning models. Companies working with data science can find answers quickly and get drugs to market faster with our evidence-based drug information. Lastly, our publicly available resource, DrugBank Online, is free-to-use with limited datasets available for download for academic and non-commercial researchers. DrugBank has been cited in over 13,000 academic publications and is used by millions of researchers and health professionals globally.
• 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).
• Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

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• Welbi — Boost your resident experience with streamlined administrative processes, personalized programming, and real-time insights powered by Welbi.
• Axonify — Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance.
• SceneDoc — SceneDoc is public safety’s first all-in-one mobile software for data collection and retrieval. By modernizing with SceneDoc, agencies operate with higher levels of clarity and control, with fewer moving parts, capturing data and reporting at the point of need. SceneDoc is saving agencies an hour of paperwork per shift on average, resulting in lesstime reporting and more time in the community so officers can do what they do best.

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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• Shopcaster — Shopcastr Inc ., a Canadian company providing an online and mobile social service for independent local retailers and shoppers.

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• Posh — Event marketing made easy.
• Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
• Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

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• Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
• Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
• Interface — Interface is an AI-native Document Management System for High Hazard Industries.

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• 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.