Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Canada in January 2025

Investor	Social Media Canada investments
Yaletown Partners	6
BDC Venture Capital	5
GrowthWorks Capital	4
VA Angels	4
Real Ventures	4
Golden Triangle Angel Network	3
Conconi Growth Partners	3
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	3
Export Development Canada	3
Accelerate Fund	3
Angel One Network	3
Inovia Capital	3
Ontario Centres of Excellence	3
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	3
Panache Ventures	3
Voyager Capital	2
Hearst Ventures	2
Wesley Clover	2
Pique Ventures	2
Relentless Pursuit Partners	2
Canada Media Fund	2
Byye group	2
Blumberg Capital	2
RRE Ventures	2
Killick Capital	2
Flying Fish Partners	2
Buckley Ventures	2
7 Gate Ventures	2
Pelorus Venture Capital	2
MPGI	2
The Associated Press	2
Niagara Angel Network	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Slaight Communications	1
Two Small Fish Ventures	1
Telefilm Canada	1
Jim Fletcher	1
BEST Funds	1
StartFast Ventures	1
Pareto Holdings	1
Flucas Ventures	1
Spice Capital	1
Fondaction	1
Silicon Badia	1
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Deepak Jain	1
1843 Capital	1
Howard Love	1
Stephen Tapp	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

ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
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.
InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.

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

KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

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

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.

The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.

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.
LabsCubed — LabsCubed manufactures automated multi-sample tensile testing robots that manufacturers use to increase lab efficiency and reduce labor by up to 85%.
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.

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.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
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.
Moselle — Automated inventory forecasting, purchasing, and planning for fast growing multi-channel brands.

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, India

Portfolio highlights

e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
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.

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.

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Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

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.

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

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.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Scribenote — Effortless documentation for veterinary professionals.

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.

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 — Estate planning with Trust & Will is the easiest way to create, edit, store, and share your Trust or Will legal documents. Create an estate plan today!
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

Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
Nmbr — Nmbr focuses on streamlining organizations' payroll processes by providing customizable software solutions. Nmbr approach not only simplifies payroll management but also allows businesses to tailor the system to their specific needs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...

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.

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

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%.
Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.

Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.

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 — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.

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's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.

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.

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

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 — Op zoek naar een end-to-end partner die jou kan helpen met IT ondersteuning of managed IT services? Neem contact met ons op!
ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.

Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed & Series A rounds and partnering with founders from inception to exit. Learn more.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Prescient AI — We built our cutting edge MMM from scratch with a team of data scientists, machine learning experts, and growth marketers to meet your paid media needs.
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Avina — Signals-based AI copilot for B2B sellers that's with them from their first meeting to their last email. Extract buying signals, get real-time account alerts, draft the perfect communication, prep for every meeting, and get questions answered.
TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RLcore — Enterprise task learning systems
TrojAI — The Leading AI/ML Risk Management & Security platform for Enterprises.
Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.

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

Archetype AI — Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world.
Symbolica AI — Evolving ML for the Evolving World
Framework — We know consumer electronics can be better for you and for the environment. Unlike most products, ours are open for you to repair and upgrade

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.

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.

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

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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.

The Niagara Angel Network is a privately driven initiative that brings together individual investors from across the Niagara Region. Members of the Niagara Angel Network, or “Angel Investors” combine their wealth of knowledge & experience to collaborate and invest in early stage growth companies. With their combined expertise, investmentknowledge, industry connections and collective due diligence Angel investors are a force to be reckoned with. Angel Networks reduce risk and improve quality of investments by providing both financial stability and mentoring opportunities to qualifying enterprises.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CoHealth — CoHealth is a content creation and distribution platform that helps Health Organizations (like, providers, systems, industry) create, transform and distribute their health-related content to reach health consumers.
Viafoura — We partnered with 800+ media brands to engage, convert & monetize their digital audiences. Check out our community engagement solutions!
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Slaight Communications, Inc. manages the internet radio portal Iceberg radio. The company has strategic alliances with Sirius Satellite Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Investment focus

Music, Retail, Big Data
Series B, Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

SHOP.CA — SHOP.CA is the first multi-merchant marketplace built for Canadians, and managed by Canadians.In June of 2012 the site launched and now has millions of products, across 28 categories, and includes over 5000 brands.SHOP.CA provides Canadians with the brands, products and services they need and want from trusted retailers, manufacturers andservice providers, all through one universal shopping cart and one account. Through a cloud based Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform, SHOP.CA makes it easy for approved partners to list, price and sell their products and services they have online and/or offline to Canadians, through a single destination.By integrating social elements into the eCommerce platform and user experience, SHOP.CA engages and rewards Canadians for every purchase and for social activities that lead to purchases.
LANDR — LANDR empowers musicians to create and get heard. As a pioneer in big data and machine learning for the music industry, LANDR provides millions of independent artists and labels with a single space to learn about, collaborate on, master, release and monetize music online. Since launching in 2014, LANDR has consistently built tools that level theplaying field for musicians, combining into a self-serve platform that is affordable and invaluable at every stage of the music creation lifecycle.
Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.

Add a description for facebook

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Joyride — Make mobility instantly connected, keyless, shareable and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
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.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation reporting to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage. Headquartered in MontrÃ©al, Telefilm provides services to the Canadian audiovisual industry by means of four regional offices located in Vancouver, Toronto, MontrÃ©al and Halifax.

Investment focus

Content, Software, Advertising
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Strutta — Strutta's industry leading technology connects brands with their target consumers through powerful social promotions. Its do-it-yourself tools allow agencies, brands and developers to easily create and manage interactive contests and sweepstakes. Strutta has powered award-winning promotions for top international agencies, Fortune 500companies and small businesses. Clients include Microsoft, AirBNB, Edelman, Comcast, Dove, Coca-Cola and Shutterfly. Strutta is a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, BC, and is a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer. For more information, visit http://strutta.com

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
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.
Summify — Summify offers a service that provides daily summaries of users’ social news feed via email, web or mobile. This service is accessible to individuals via Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader accounts. Summify is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.

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.

StartFast invests in the heartland of America. We have built companies outside VC hubs and know what it takes to succeed. We like… Strong, diverse teams with proven track records and exceptional domain expertise Recurring revenue business models, particularly with a business to business focus Founders based outside venture capital hubs, at theSeries Seed and Series A stageLearn more and partner with us at http://startfast.net.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

KredosAI — Our human centered AI platform drives real engagement with consumers leading to positive payment outcomes for enterprises.
In-Seam — In-Seam. Luxury, Connected.
Blackbird.AI — Blackbird.AI provides organizations with Deception Detection technology to protect against narrative manipulation and disinformation.

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

Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
Quiet — Quiet powers app success through expert publishing, strategic acquisitions, and innovative development. Join us in creating the next generation of market-leading mobile applications.

Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Spice Capital is funding businesses solving problems for the next generation of internet-native consumers.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Jokerace — JokeRace - contests for communities to run, grow, and monetize.
Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.
Symphony — Symphony is the easiest way to grow your views, streams, and subscribers. Smart automated marketing, all on-the-go.

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

Manulift — Manulift EMI specializes in telescopic.
Aquatech BM — Commercial & industrial bottle washer cleaner and sterilizer. Perfect for winemakers, microbrewers, dairy farms, hotels, laboratories and more.
Équipement St-Germain — Équipement St-Germain offers rental of heavy equipment without operator mainly to general contractors in construction, excavation, and landscaping companies.

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

mtion interactive — Redefine play, shape new worlds, and unleash your story. mtion empowers anyone to build interactive experiences and share their creativity.
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.
The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.

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

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

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 !

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.

1843 Capital, venture capital firm founded by Tracy Chadwell focused on early-stage AgeTech and Longevity, FinTech, and Cybersecurity

Investment focus

Health Care, Transportation, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
Rippl Care — Dementia care for seniors, ready when you are
HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers

Howard Love is aFounder and CEO of LoveToKnow, Angel Investor and Author.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
DRAAGU — Draagu create value with images untapped in smartphone. Doing so we simplify the traditional image stock selling process and solve one of the A.I industry bottleneck ; creating image data set.Our Free mobile App onboard A.I running on device. The App analyse image content and quality and notify users when it detect one of their image can sell(for communication or A.I training purposes) because it matches a client need. - No prior image selection, and upload needed : everything is automatic. - Privacy is guaranteed by design : the whole process is done on-device and image become visible only when the user decide to sell.Companies have access to fresh, unpublished images. They can create image libraries on-demand, even from their own employees or clients in a closed community.Draagu is unique because: 1/ effortless process : sign-in, and you are done! No image edition, upload or tagging needed > our App notify when you can sell. That allow us to - serve cheaper images (0,5-1€) as user do not have to "work" to sell - retrieve 600 images by users against 20-30 on average by our competitors (faster growth) 2/ privacy guaranteed by design : the whole A.I image analysis is done on device only. Image become visible and leave the phone only when user decide to sell 3/ our images are available on-demand from our users smartphones : we store 1% only of the image we can sell : low cost structure 4/ Clients can buy images an Engage with image makers (that can be their employees and clients) as they are directly in touch, contrary to other platforms 5/ fake free : clients are guaranteed the image they received match their criteria (content, location, time, author) as the App allow only to submit such images 6/ we serve exclusive, unpublished images.
Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.

Stephen Tapp - Territory Vice President, Head of Canada @ WeWork

Investment focus

Celebrity, Social Media, Enterprise Software
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.