Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Canada in January 2026

Investor	Social Media Canada investments
Yaletown Partners	6
BDC Venture Capital	5
GrowthWorks Capital	4
VA Angels	4
Real Ventures	4
Angel One Network	3
Export Development Canada	3
Panache Ventures	3
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	3
Golden Triangle Angel Network	3
Inovia Capital	3
Ontario Centres of Excellence	3
Accelerate Fund	3
Conconi Growth Partners	3
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	3
Relentless Pursuit Partners	2
Flying Fish Partners	2
Canada Media Fund	2
The Associated Press	2
Voyager Capital	2
Buckley Ventures	2
MPGI	2
7 Gate Ventures	2
Killick Capital	2
Wesley Clover	2
RRE Ventures	2
Pique Ventures	2
Byye group	2
Pelorus Venture Capital	2
Blumberg Capital	2
Hearst Ventures	2
XDL Capital Group	1
Niagara Angel Network	1
Global Founders Capital	1
boldstart ventures	1
Paul Olliver	1
David Wieland	1
Deepak Jain	1
Two Small Fish Ventures	1
Silicon Badia	1
N49P	1
Jim Fletcher	1
Abbas Alidina	1
Jeff Sagansky	1
BEST Funds	1
Pareto Holdings	1
Fondaction	1
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
Ogden Pond Group	1
CIBC Innovation Banking	1

Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Canada, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Oloid — Frictionless and secure passwordless authentication for frontline workers enabling modern cybersecurity and identity and access management for deskless workers and shared devices.
Inverted AI — Inverted AI, a spinout from UBC, is building a proprietary software system that predicts human driving behavior and is using it to build bots imitating human drivers for simulators where self-driving cars are trained. Its core technology utilizes probabilistic programming and provides a crucial ingredient needed to make self-driving cars'level 4' and above a reality.
Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions

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.

Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.

VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

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.

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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.

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, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GHGSat — GHGSat’s mission is to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse gas (GHG), air quality gas, and other trace gas emissions from any source in the world.In June 2016, GHGSat launched the world’s first high-resolution satellite capable of measuring greenhouse gas (CO2 & CH4) emissions from any industrial facility in theworld. GHGSat is using this unique satellite and its patented technology to provide greenhouse gas emissions monitoring data and services globally,with better accuracy and at at a fraction of the cost of comparable alternatives. Owners of industrial facilities are now able to monitor all of their facilities, local or remote, anywhere in the world, with a common technology, in near-real-time. Significantly improved emissions information is enabling industries to better measure, control, and ultimately reduce emissions of GHGs.Building on lessons learned from its demonstration satellite, GHGSat launched its second satellite in Sept 2020 and a third is scheduled for Q1'21. Three more satellites are under construction for launch in early 2022. GHGSat also uses the same instrument technology from its satellites on aircraft, to provide complementary resolution and performance for customers in shale plays. GHGSat’s technology can also be used to monitor air quality gases, as well as other trace gases, in the atmosphere. Business cases are being developed for key markets, such as measuring SOx from ships.
Hydrostor — Hydrostor, a global leader in long-duration energy storage, pioneers technology to scale carbon reduction with a dedicated professional team.
Torngat Metals — We are a company dedicated to developing the Strange Lake rare earth project in northern Quebec. Through our commitment to drawing on best environmental

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.

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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.

Canada's leading early-stage investor community in Waterloo, funding innovative startups across tech sectors with a strong focus on impact and diversity.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Justo — Cashback. Lower listing fees. Experienced local agents. Advanced technology. Free services. Justo is a new real estate brokerage based on a radical idea: Consumers are paying too much to buy or sell a home. That's why we offer a new model, based on fairness and transparency. Looking to buy a home? We'll split our commission with you50/50. Plus, our all-inclusive model covers home inspections and lawyer fees. Selling a home? Save half the listing fee of traditional brokerages, and thousands more with free staging, 3D virtual tours, professional photography and online marketing. Our experienced agents work closely with you to help find the home of your dreams, or sell your home for best the possible price. It just makes sense to use Justo.
MesoMat — Boost fleet safety, fuel consumption, and operating costs real-time data from your tires.
Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.

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

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.

Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

PulseMedica — PulseMedica is developing a medical device to treat eye diseases that affect over 500 million people worldwide. Our device consists of a state-of-the-art 3D imaging and surgical platform that allows for comprehensive patient treatment.
Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
Care Group — Care Group is revolutionizing mental health with advanced AI and disruptive technologies, empowering individuals and communities by introducing scalable, user-friendly solutions that respect all users.

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Canada, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
Loop — Bank on Loop to save time, save money and grow globally. Join thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across Canada to spend, send and grow without fees.
Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.

Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Trust & Will — Trust & Will is an online service providing legal forms and information that makes creating estate planning easy, fast, and secure. It is not a law firm and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s advice about complex estate planning. The company is backed by some venture capital firms including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Western TechnologyInvestments, Luma Launch, Halogen Ventures, and Techstars, as well as angel investors.Trust & Will was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
NextGen Blockchain Technologies — Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Finance

Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
Orpyx Medical Technologies — Orpyx SI sensory insoles help manage and prevent diabetic foot ulcer recurrence for people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Orpyx SI sensory insoles are custom made for every individual and designed to effortlessly capture plantar pressure, temperature, and movement data throughout the day.

Investing in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TrojAI — The Leading AI/ML Risk Management & Security platform for Enterprises.
Sella — Sella is the safest, easiest way to turn clutter into cash. We list on 5 sites (eBay, Craigslist, etc.) to reach tons of buyers and get the best price for each item.
Augment AI Corp — The AI assistant that actually gets things done for you. Request your early access now.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR

Discover a world of unbiased journalism, in-depth analysis, and real-time updates from every corner of the globe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, News
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Trint — Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.
Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.

Voyager Capital is a leading Pacific Northwest venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience and connections to build successful technology companies. Voyager leads first venture round investments in software, analytics and cloud infrastructure startups, deploying the firm's domain expertise, go-to-market and teambuilding resources help build market leaders. The firm has offices in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Averlon — Averlon brings fresh perspectives to cloud security by going back to the first principles and solving real-world problems with an easily deployable platform.
Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.
Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.

Buckley Ventures is an investment firm with over $1 billion in assets under management and a focus on concentrated investments in transformative technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
Parasail — Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to builders and innovators for secure compute.

MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
inyad — We're on a mission to move the Offline Business to the Online World in Africa & the Middle East
Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.

7 Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups from Seed to pre-Series A in the technology industry, with a sector focus on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps and solutions, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech, and HealthTech. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneursspecializing in tech, operational expertise, and venture capital. 7 Gate Ventures brings key industry connections, decades of international venture-building experience and foresight to effectively strategize, mentor, and scale new businesses. 7 Gate Ventures was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hengam — Hengam is a one-stop Shopify solution that develops apps for Shopify stores and helps them reduce their churn, increase revenue and save time and money.
Roomvu — Helping Real Estate Agents, Loan Officers, Realtors, and Mortgage Brokerages to establish trust through tailored real estate websites, personalized videos, and advanced lead capturing tools. Convert real estate audience to leads with roomvu profile.
Ulab Systems — Take back control of your treatment plan with uLab - the treatment planning software and aligner system designed for orthodontists. Learn more now.

Killick Capital is a leading Atlantic Canadian private equity firm, dedicated to partnering with Atlantic Canadian businesses and Aerospace businesses. Our team of professionals work closely with portfolio companies to maximize success.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
CoLab Software — The only tool purpose-built to simplify design reviews for engineering teams building complex products.
Sparrow BioAcoustics — Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data.

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.

RRE is a boutique venture capital firm with 30 years of experience, backing bold early-stage founders across diverse sectors. We provide deep expertise, AI-driven insights, and committed partnerships to help companies build and persevere for the long term.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

Care/of — Get vitamins and supplements for your health goals and diet, made from the best ingredients, shipped to you each month.
Citizen — Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you.
Pattern Brands — The Pattern family of brands is on a mission to help people better enjoy daily life with products that elevate and enhance their routines. Join us.

Pique Ventures is an impact investment and management company, enabling a diverse community of investors to pursue integrated investing. We manage Pique Fund, an inclusive angel fund focusing on leadership diversity and women-led ventures in BC.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
Beanworks — Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs. Accounts payable (AP) is consistently ranked as the most frustrating and time-consuming part of accounting by finance professionals. As a company built by accountants for accountants, they empower accounting teams tosucceed by automating AP - making it both simple and delightful. Beanworks is modernizing the entire AP process, from the purchase decision to invoice approval with electronic payments included in the experience.
ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.

Their founders, David Martin and Nancy Knowlton, have done it before when they started SMART Technologies Inc. Over 25 years, they grew a two-person start-up into a global market leader with annual revenues just under $800 million. They created products like the SMART Board interactive whiteboard that transformed the way millions of people aroundthe world worked and learned. They are determined to do it again and have assembled a team to begin the task.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Database
Funding Round, Seed
Canada, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Epact — IT-infrastructuur oplossingen en diensten op maat van jouw bedrijfsnoden en -behoeften. Met lokale ondersteuning en expertise als grote meerwaarde.
ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.

Pelorus Venture Capital focuses on investment for seed and early stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Retellio — AI Agents that distill thousands of hours of customer calls into 30 minute podcasts.
CoLab Software — The only tool purpose-built to simplify design reviews for engineering teams building complex products.
Sparrow BioAcoustics — Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data.

Blumberg Capital is an early and growth stage venture capital firm, partnering with visionary technology founders from inception to exit. Learn more.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Ferrum Health — Ferrum Health is a developer of an enterprise IT and AI patient safety platform for health systems. Ferrum Health provides an artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform for health system executives to prevent medical errors across their patient population, serving as a safety net that uses AI algorithms to assist quality teams in the peerreview of radiology studies.
Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.

Hearst Ventures is the global venture capital division of Hearst. Founded in 1995, the group has grown to become one of the most active and successful corporate venture funds with more than $1 billion invested to date. To learn more, connect with Hearst Ventures on Medium or follow on Twitter.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Optable — Data Collaboration - Data Clean Room Platform
Portcast — Our solution improves your supply chain resilience and profitability by accurately predicting arrival times and monitoring valuable container shipments around-the-clock.
Sunthetics — Sunthetics offers a machine-learning platform that combines traditional AI with physical insights to develop new chemical products, processes, and formulations in 20% of the time. The approach leverages small data to reduce development waste, emissions, and resource consumption in the chemical industry by 80%.

XDL is a Ontario-based private equity investor that invests in technology companies. Since 1996 we have supported entrepreneurs building technology related companies in new and growing business sectors. XDL is primarily a private equity investor. They invest their own monies, uniting their interests with each investee. They provide focusedattention on their investments, sharing experience, networks and knowledge to help the entrepreneurs grow and prosper.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Infrastructure
Seed, Series D, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuco — Blockchain networks will redefine the structure, process, and business models of most industries. Nuco is developing production-ready infrastructure to power the future of enterprise software.
Figment — Figment: Staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for investors and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technology.
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.

Connect with Niagara Angel Network to invest in innovative startups and learn about membership opportunities in Niagara's thriving entrepreneurial community.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Content
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

CoHealth — Minitoto dikenal sebagai situs toto 4D resmi dengan reputasi kuat di Asia, cocok buat pemain togel yang cari prediksi akurat, hadiah terbesar dan gampang menang tahun 2025.
Viafoura — Viafoura is the leading audience engagement and community platform trusted by over 800 global media brands. Boost loyalty, grow revenue and activate first-party data.
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wind.app — Pay remote teams, freelancers and just about anyone you can think of instantly! Enjoy zero transfer fees, cash out locally, grow and protect your funds with Wind
Blink — Blink is the best online ordering system for restaurants and supermarkets that helps managers to take their business online providing the most powerful CRM and analytics environment.
Defacto — Never fall behind with defacto's instant financing solution. We also integrate with your accounting systems & scale to your needs. Join our wait list !

Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

env0 — Automate the provisioning of Terraform and Terragrunt workflows and infrastructure as code with env0. Get visibility, predictability & governance on your cloud deployments and design the controls to empower your teams with self-service cloud environments.
Dylibso — Our products help teams take WebAssembly to production & keep it there.
Memphis.dev — When more scale, less troubleshooting, and faster time to production are needed.9x faster development and 46x fewer costs than legacy message brokers.

Paul Olliver is the Managing Partner at Wider Wake.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Content
Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
#Paid — #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms.
Conversion Logic — The givezooks peer to peer technology has been integrated with Salsa Labs. The NEW Salsa now offers a peer to peer module for our Engage customers.

David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hallow — Pray every day with Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert

Investment focus

Art, Gaming, eSports
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anime Universe — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.

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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.

Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Jordan, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.
The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

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.
Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
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.

Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, News
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.

Abbas Alidina is the Founder/CEO at Crowdbabble. He's responsible for Crowdbabble's overall vision and product direction. He focuses on making sure Crowdbabble delights customers by keeping things simple. When he's not dreaming about pie charts, you'll most likely find him watching or playing basketball!

Investment focus

SaaS, Analytics, Social Media
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Crowdbabble — Crowdbabble is the leader in social media analytics, measurement and reporting tools. We track social media performance across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Jeff Sagansky - Chief Executive Officer and President @ Double Eagle Acquisition

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Picklebet — Puntaa is a social daily fantasy sports (DFS) app.
Oddin.gg — Oddin.gg - Esports live odds provider with industry-leading uptime and multiple live markets. B2B Esports data API. Boost volume and profit. Try our demo.
SiBS — Social Bartering System is a platform for community connection and the trade of goods and services. Social Bartering System was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in New York, United States.

Since 1996, BEST Funds has been a leading Canadian venture capital firm, managing Retail VC Funds as well as Private Funds.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zone·tv — Zone·tv is redefining the TV viewing environment by delivering a personalized entertainment experience filled with expertly curated, exciting new content discoveries.
Perch — Buy the right property sooner, find your best mortgage and build wealth.
Perch — Buy the right property sooner, find your best mortgage and build wealth.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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.

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.

Ogden Pond Group is a company that specializes in corporate service solutions.

Investment focus

Training, Education, Social Media
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

sageCrowd — Find out how Online Trainers just like you use our Transformative Learning Methodology to power-up their courses' performance.

CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by the strength of CIBC, Innovation Banking can provide financial capital, rich network of connections, and insightful service that give our clients an edge in the innovation economy.

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.