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Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

Investor Social Media Canada investments
Yaletown Partners 6
BDC Venture Capital 5
VA Angels 4
GrowthWorks Capital 4
Real Ventures 4
Accelerate Fund 3
Conconi Growth Partners 3
Golden Triangle Angel Network 3
Inovia Capital 3
Export Development Canada 3
Panache Ventures 3
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV) 3
Angel One Network 3
Ontario Centres of Excellence 3
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund 3
7 Gate Ventures 2
The Associated Press 2
Killick Capital 2
Wesley Clover 2
Relentless Pursuit Partners 2
Pelorus Venture Capital 2
Flying Fish Partners 2
Canada Media Fund 2
Byye group 2
Pique Ventures 2
RRE Ventures 2
Blumberg Capital 2
Voyager Capital 2
MPGI 2
Buckley Ventures 2
Hearst Ventures 2
InnoStart Capital 1
Natacor Inc. 1
Round13 Capital 1
TIMIA Capital 1
Zelkova Ventures 1
Plaza Ventures 1
Northern Ontario Angels 1
LDV Capital 1
Telefilm Canada 1
Craft Ventures 1
Twin Apex Capital 1
Jon Oringer 1
Slaight Communications 1
Stephen Tapp 1
Howard Love 1
Fondaction 1
Visionnaire Ventures 1
Espresso Capital 1
ID Capital 1
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Yaletown Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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 VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Xaba — Xaba develops intelligent automation solutions, materials and processes to enable a world of sustainable manufacturing.
  • Blumind — Blumind provides analog machine learning inferencing engines for edge smart sensors and smart devices.
  • 4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.
VA Angels VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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.
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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
GrowthWorks Capital VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
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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.
Real Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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
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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.
  • Nomic — The world's fastest & most seamless protein profiling service, with as fast as 1-week turnaround. Multiplexing without compromise.
  • BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
Accelerate Fund VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.
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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 VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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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.
Golden Triangle Angel Network VC Fund · Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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.
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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.
Inovia Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 21 investments in the past 12 months
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
  • Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
  • Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.
Export Development Canada VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 22 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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
Panache Ventures VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
  • Ranger AI — Discover how Ranger RFX simplifies proposals with innovative tools designed for manufacturers. Improve accuracy, reduce downtime, and achieve cost savings today.
  • Featherless.ai — Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system.
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV) VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.
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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
Angel One Network VC Fund · Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Join Angel One Investor Network: Your Path to Profitable Investments. Curated ventures, expert angel investors, and more. Take action now!
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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.
Ontario Centres of Excellence VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
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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.
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
  • runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
  • Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
7 Gate Ventures VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
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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.
The Associated Press VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Discover a world of unbiased journalism, in-depth analysis, and real-time updates from every corner of the globe.
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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.
Killick Capital VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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.
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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 VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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.
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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.
Relentless Pursuit Partners VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.
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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.
Pelorus Venture Capital VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Pelorus Venture Capital focuses on investment for seed and early stage companies.
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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.
Flying Fish Partners VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
  • Variational AI — We are a team of AI/machine learning and business specialists using advanced generative AI for drug discovery. We collaborate closely with biopharmaceutical partners to develop new therapeutics across disease areas, aiming to positively impact lives.
  • Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
Canada Media Fund VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
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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
Byye group VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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.
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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 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.
Pique Ventures VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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.
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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.
RRE Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, China
Portfolio highlights
  • TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
  • Farsight — Farsight develops AI automation tools tailored for financial services and insurance workflows. The company provides document synthesis and autonomous workflow agents that process unstructured data within native tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF viewers. It supports use cases including investment banking analysis, private equity deal screening,hedge fund research, and underwriting automation, integrating AI into existing workstreams. The company pursues open-source contributions and collaborates with major financial institutions through customizable enterprise AI services.
  • Foundation EGI — The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively.
Blumberg Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Blumberg Capital is an early and growth stage venture capital firm, partnering with visionary technology founders from inception to exit. Learn more.
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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.
Voyager Capital VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
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.
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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.
MPGI VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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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.
Buckley Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Buckley Ventures is an investment firm with over $1 billion in assets under management and a focus on concentrated investments in transformative technology companies.
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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.
Hearst Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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%.
InnoStart Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
  • Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
  • Ludex — A web3 protocol that enables video games to operate on-chain.
Natacor Inc. VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Natacor Inc. is a firm that provides financial and business advising as well as capital investments.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Angel, Seed
  • Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Nicoya Lifesciences — Get binding kinetics & affinity data on your benchtop. 600+ innovative researchers worldwide are using OpenSPR to publish faster.
  • Vida Fresh Air — Vita Fresh Air Corp has developed and is set to commercialize a new catalytic converter technology, the Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC), which aims to lower emissions, lower fuel consumption, and lower equipment costs. Vida’s mission is to develop automotive products that genuinely improve engine performance and emission control in anethical, economical and sustainable manner.
Round13 Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada. The firm invests in high-potential companies across a range of sectors, with a focus on supporting their growth and development over the long term. Round13's team of experienced investors and operators bring a wealth ofexpertise and insight to every investment, helping portfolio companies to realize their full potential. With a commitment to building an enduring 100-year firm, Round13 is dedicated to creating long-term value for its investors and the companies it supports. For more information, please visit www.round13.com.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Puerto Rico
Portfolio highlights
  • Mysa — Get Mysa Smart Thermostats to save money and energy with the free Mysa app! Best wifi thermostats for electric baseboard heaters. Remote access. Easy install. Utility rebates. Designed in Canada. Free shipping.
  • WOMBO — WOMBO is the world's best AI-powered lip sync app. Take a selfie, pick a song, and let WOMBO work its magic. Available for early access.
  • TITAN — Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token.
TIMIA Capital VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
TIMIA Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing growth capital to B2B and SaaS companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • EnergyWatch — Sustainability and energy data management are fully integrated to track all energy, water, waste, and emissions data on your journey towards net-zero emissions.
  • Agentis — Agentis is a Chicago-based technology company revolutionizing the way utilities engage and empower businesses to manage energy usage, saving money and increasing competitive advantage.Agentis is driven by the belief that utilities hold valuable data that can catalyze a new energy future. The success of the Agentis platform is driven by ourunderstanding of the unique voice and needs of the utility customer managing complex energy challenges. Our employees are united through their ability to transform these challenges into a solution while working in a fun and dynamic environment.
  • Lasso MD — Elevate your dental practice with Lasso MD's all-in-one marketing and software solutions. From lead generation to patient scheduling, we've got you covered.
Zelkova Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Vitally — Vitally enables forward-thinking Customer Success teams to increase revenue growth, reduce churn, and provide a proactive, world-class customer experience at scale.
  • myPocketCFO — Automated data ingestion, AI-powered bookkeeping, prequalification for working capital financing, and on-demand expert advice. $10/day for complete financial control. Try it free today.
  • Respondology — Instantly remove spam, bots, and brand-damaging comments. Learn what your audience is talking about in 30-seconds or less at any scale.
Plaza Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
  • KERV Interactive — KERV is an AI-powered video creative technology that creates shoppable & immersive experiences within any video content. Learn what KERV can do for you.
Northern Ontario Angels VC Fund · Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Northern Ontario Angels specializes in structuring various customized car leases and car loans. They offer car financing with simple and affordable payment schedules that are tailored to your preferences. You can either opt to pay variable interest rates or fixed rates on the financial arrangement of your choosing. Along with personalizedamortization period, they offer spreads that are one of the lowest in the industry. They don't incorporate high credit risk premiums even if your credit score is bad. On the other hand, if your credit is good, you can enjoy a ride with negligible risk premiums in their financing arrangement.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Content
  • Angel, Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Rna Diagnostics — Rna Diagnostics is a clinical-stage molecular diagnostics company improving cancer care with the Veridapt DX predictive biomarker.
  • Flosonics — Flosonics Medical is improving patient care through technology-enabled solutions and services that clinicians, and patients, love.
LDV Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Luma AI — Building visual AI to expand human imagination and capabilities
  • Dannce.ai — dannce.ai uses AI-driven 3D-aligned neural networks to automate behavioral analysis for faster, more accurate drug development and clinical care.
Telefilm Canada VC Fund · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation reporting to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage. Headquartered in Montréal, Telefilm provides services to the Canadian audiovisual industry by means of four regional offices located in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal and Halifax.
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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
Craft Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Unframe — Unframe solves all your AI use cases with secure, scalable solutions on one unified platform. Say goodbye to generic software and complex implementations. Get tailored AI solutions in days, not months.
  • Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.
  • Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.
Twin Apex Capital VC Fund
Twin Apex is a blockchain-centric private equity firm that provides smart money to nascent crypto assets and digital currency-related projects. Our core competency as investors remains in investing in the right people and providing rocket fuel through our network to get to the moon and beyond.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • Singapore, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Vodra — Redefining the future of creator monetization.
  • Polygen — Polygen provides a breath of fresh air in the world of blockchain launchpads. Current solutions all foster innovation on a specific blockchain, but they also look and operate the same. Fueling innovation in this industry requires the removal of all intermediaries and gatekeepers. Additionally, there is a need for more transparency, automatedprocesses, and post-launch support.
  • Good Games Guild — Good Games Guild is a gaming hub for play-to-earn games based on NFTs and collectible tokens.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Slaight Communications VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Slaight Communications, Inc. manages the internet radio portal Iceberg radio. The company has strategic alliances with Sirius Satellite Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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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.
Stephen Tapp Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stephen Tapp - Territory Vice President, Head of Canada @ WeWork
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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.
Howard Love Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Howard Love is aFounder and CEO of LoveToKnow, Angel Investor and Author.
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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.
Fondaction VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Can-Explore inc — Founded in 2014, Can-Explore analyzes and disseminates urban, roadway and building infrastructure data. The company is committed to innovation and cutting-edge technology including artificial intelligence to excel in geomatics and structural and infrastructure inspection services. The Québec City-based company employs close to 70.
Visionnaire Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Visionnaire Ventures is a global technology investment firm focused on visionary people and ideas that can become world-class, market-leading companies. Based in San Francisco, California, with unparalleled global access, the team seeks out and funds innovative businesses anywhere in the world that are leveraging technology to evolve and create newInternet and mobile experiences. With the ability to fund companies across all stages from seed to growth, Visionnaire Ventures is focused on key market segments where novel ideas have the ability to become sea changes for people everywhere.The Visionnaire Ventures team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives who have founded and operated global internet, game and online media companies, and thus are able to support entrepreneurs companies as they build globally successful companies.The team is currently seeking and funding companies active in diverse technology market segments including Commerce, Advertising, Mobile, Big Data, IoT.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Japan, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • LeapMind — LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deeplearning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.
  • Genies — Genies empowers anyone to create AI companions, fashion, props, and experiences with UGC tools. The Avatar Framework uses machine learning and computer graphics to ensure interoperability - providing limitless utility for all creations.
  • Bigfoot Biomedical — Bigfoot is changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes through development of a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
Espresso Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Espresso Capital empowers companies in technology, healthcare, and other high-growth verticals with innovative venture debt and growth financing solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Thentia Cloud — Thentia Cloud is a highly configurable, low-code government technology platform built for regulators, by regulators.
  • Teampay — Empower employees with software that requests, approves, and tracks company spending in real-time. Integrations with QBO, Intacct, Netsuite, Xero & Slack.
  • App Orchid — Get instant answers from all your data, get AI-generated insights, and simplify business decisions with Decision Intelligence powered by Easy Answers.
ID Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
ID Capital is a venture capital management firm which invests in innovative start-up businesses located in Quebec. The companies targeted by ID Capital must have developed an innovative technology or product that has strong intellectual property content and meets a specific need with a large potential market.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Social Media, Social Network
  • Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Woozworld — Woozworld, Inc. develops and operates gaming website. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Montreal, Canada.Welcome to Woozworld, a fun, unique and free virtual world for kids, tweens and teens! Our massive multiplayer virtual world is free to join. And it's easy! Create an avatar (Woozen), play online and join a communityof millions of players. Our virtual world is the coolest place to hang-out and make new friends. You can create your own world, design your virtual space (Unitz), dress-up your avatar with the coolest and most stylish clothes and accessories ever, become a top-model, throw parties and events, chat, invite friends, make new friends, join exciting contests, express your creativity and become rich and famous ! Do you have what it takes to become an icon in the coolest virtual world ever? Come play online and find out! If you want to play online, have fun, exploit your creativity to the max and show the world what you are made of, Woozworld is the right virtual world for you! So what are you waiting for?
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