Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Canada in February 2025

Investor	Social Media Canada investments
Yaletown Partners	6
BDC Venture Capital	5
VA Angels	4
GrowthWorks Capital	4
Real Ventures	4
Ontario Centres of Excellence	3
Panache Ventures	3
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	3
Golden Triangle Angel Network	3
Conconi Growth Partners	3
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund	3
Angel One Network	3
Inovia Capital	3
Export Development Canada	3
Accelerate Fund	3
RRE Ventures	2
Flying Fish Partners	2
Buckley Ventures	2
Wesley Clover	2
Hearst Ventures	2
Killick Capital	2
7 Gate Ventures	2
Pelorus Venture Capital	2
MPGI	2
Byye group	2
The Associated Press	2
Voyager Capital	2
Canada Media Fund	2
Pique Ventures	2
Relentless Pursuit Partners	2
Blumberg Capital	2
Zelkova Ventures	1
Riot Games	1
Paul Olliver	1
LDV Capital	1
William Lohse	1
Northern Ontario Angels	1
Marc Baghadjian	1
TIMIA Capital	1
Two Small Fish Ventures	1
Telefilm Canada	1
BEST Funds	1
Pareto Holdings	1
Flucas Ventures	1
Silicon Badia	1
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
Deepak Jain	1
1843 Capital	1
Abbas Alidina	1
Howard Love	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

Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

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

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.

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 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.

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 ...

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

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.

Working with Ontario talent to develop World Class Companies Learn More

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.

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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

Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.
nue.io — Finally, an easy-to-manage, omni-channel RevOps platform designed to meet the needs of the modern business.
Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VueReal — VueReal is making micro- and nano- technology a reality by developing and commercializing platforms that enable efficient, practical, and scalable production and integration of micro-and nano- devices.
Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
Mangrove Lithium — Mangrove Lithium is a ground-breaking refining platform that redefines the industry standard for battery grade lithium refining

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.

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.
1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.

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

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.
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

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.

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.

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, China

Portfolio highlights

Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.

Paul Olliver is the Managing Partner at Wider Wake.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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.

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.

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.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Content
Angel, Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Viafoura — We partnered with 800+ media brands to engage, convert & monetize their digital audiences. Check out our community engagement solutions!
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.

Marc Baghadjian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lolly. Marc Baghadjian attended Babson College. He has invested in many seed-stage companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
Kadama — 24/7 homework help. Find someone to help write your essay. Subjects like math, science, english, history, and more. Earn money by tutoring on your schedule.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

TIMIA Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing growth capital to B2B and SaaS companies.

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.

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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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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

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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
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.
ChainOpera AI — ChainOpera AI - The Blockchain and Protocol for Co-owning and Co-creating Decentralized AI Apps and Agents for Humanity, Backed by Federated AI OS and Platform
Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.

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

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Analytics, Social Media
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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

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.