Top 5 Social Startup Investors in Canada
A list of 5 angel investors and VC 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 5 Social Startup Investors in Canada
Investor | Social Canada investments |
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BNOTIONS | 1 |
Jean-Sebastian Cournoyer | 1 |
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund | 1 |
Mantella Venture Partners | 1 |
David Chamandy | 1 |
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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.
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 — Payers, providers, employers and consumer health organizations use League's CX platform to deliver high-engagement, personalized health experiences.
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is enabling a new era in AI and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the data center to the edge of the Cloud by co-designing hardware, software, and AI algorithms with their technology.Tenstorrent’sarchitecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by their team with expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.Tenstorrent is backed by Venture Capital firms including Real Ventures and Eclipse Venture Capital, as well as prominent industry luminaries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sibli — Institutional investors leverage our technology to secure an information advantage, reduce blind spots, and improve performance.
- Forcen — Forcen improves surgical safety through force-sensing technology.
- Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.
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.
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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.
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