Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social network startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social network companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
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
- Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
- Delos — Delos is a generative AI platform for organizational and business development for companies.
- DIAMO — DIAMO combines automated room pricing, digital marketing, booking engine, and expert revenue support in one intuitive platform.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
- Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
- Pillar Security — Pillar is a unified AI security platform that enables organizations to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across the entire AI lifecycle. By embedding robust security foundations from development through runtime, Pillar accelerates AI initiatives while effectively managing criticalbusiness risks. With capabilities like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails, Pillar streamlines compliance, prevents data breaches, and empowers teams to ship AI-powered applications and agents with confidence.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
Path Ventures is a pre-seed Venture Capital firm investing in technology companies at the earliest stages of their journeys.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Corca — Corca is a collaborative math editor for manipulating equations and exporting to LaTeX or Python.
- Birdwatch — Birdwatch helps busy homeowners save time, money and energy by taking care of the issues that arise in and around your home. From repairs and installations, to preventative maintenance and renovation advising, we bring the convenience of renting to owning. Our team of mission-driven entrepreneurs are passionate about helping you feel safe, cozyand cared for. Birdwatch is a public benefit corporation that promotes equal access to safe, dignified homeownership and the benefits of building intergenerational wealth.
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
- Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
- Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
- NIL FanBox — NIL FanBox is a sports merchandise company that offers curated boxes of autographed collectibles for sports fans.
- The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.
- Vega Security — Vega Security offers cybersecurity services for cyberattack detection.
- Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
- TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.
- Optimal Dynamics — Optimal Dynamics' AI solution provides real answers by using dynamic forecasting models to simulate downstream impacts with confidence.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mombak — Mombak is a carbon removal company that focuses on the reforestation of the Amazon. The company's team combines experts in science, technology, forestry, and carbon markets
- Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
- Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Content, Blockchain
- Series A
- China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ONO Social — ONO is a new type of social network based on blockchain technology that aims to create an ecosystem based on the value of attention with the main principles of freedom, equality and social public governance for users. ONO users can freely share and obtain valuable content, chat for study, communicate, and participate in building the ONO ecosystem.While creating network activity, it will provide users with incentives to earn ONOT as the reward as laid forth by the referendum.
- Stork Healthcare — Stork Healthcare is a company that specializes in the field of ultrasound and provides portable, non-invasive diagnostic ultrasound medical equipment and services. The company has its own original imaging platform, as well as a number of key technologies such as original elastic imaging technology and 3D Doppler spectrum imaging. There are nowhandheld ultrasound products for liver disease diagnosis, cervical vascular screening, and thyroid screening.
- Digital Precision Medical (DPM) — Digital Precision Medical is a provider of high-end medical equipment and innovative medical technology
Shenzhen Green Pine Capital Partners Co. Ltd. (“GPCP”) was established in 2007, with the investment team assembled in 2000. GPCP is one of the most time-honored Chinese VC companies that boast experience in areas such as biotech, new materials, new resources and AI, etc. Currently, GPCP manages assets over 15 billion RMB through 21 special fundsand have invested 7 billion RMB into 388 enterprises among which 14 are listed on NEEQ and 48 of them are either listed or acquired by listed companies, including BGI(300676.SZ), Aurora(600666.SH), Nationz Tech(300077.SZ), Foresee(002530.SZ), Qudian(NASDAQ:QD), etc. GPCP invested in the angel round of BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute), Royole, Kuang-Chi, Appotronics, BMF, C-one, Arrayed Materials and other star enterprises.GPCP is based in Shenzhen, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. GPCP also runs two GPI incubators and an incubator for overseas Chinese scientists who start businesses in China.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Angel
- China, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Neurogin — Neurogin is a bioelectronics company that provides reliable monitoring and auxiliary diagnostic tools for clinical and health institutions and focuses on advanced engineering methods for brain science research and clinical diagnosis.
- Taifang Technology — ## Build Setup
- NAEN Auto Technology — Shanghai NAEN Auto Technology co.Ltd provides automotive electronics products for automobile manufacturers.
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 the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
- Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
- Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.
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?
Mike has a wealth of experience in building and scaling consumer technology companies in private and public markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Art, Apps
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
- Skyscraper — Skyscraper is an all-in-one ad management platform for bloggers. A magical way of running ads on your site that both simple and effective.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- PrePad — PrePad provides advanced software solutions for optimizing capital lifecycle management, execution tactics, and asset development in the oil and gas drilling and completion industries.
- GlitchSecure — Assess your security posture with continuous vulnerability scanning and on-demand pentests. Prevent breaches through year round security monitoring and exper...
- Ces Energy Solutions — CES Energy Solutions is an energy company that provides consumable chemical solutions for the North American oil and gas industry. Its services span the entire oilfield lifecycle, including drilling fluids, completion and stimulation chemicals, production chemicals, and pipeline and midstream treatments. The company offers products such ascorrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, demulsifiers, H₂S scavengers, and paraffin control agents.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Canada, Bangladesh, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Madlipz — MadLipz is the ultimate short-form voice over app that lets you unleash your creativity with hilarious voiceovers, AI characters, parodies, and more! Dive into a world of laughter and storytelling, and join millions of users in creating and sharing your unique voice-over masterpieces.
- Socian Ltd — Let us make your Business Converse by bridging the gap between human and machine communication to ensure better tomorrow. Please stay tuned with us and keep supporting us. Exciting things are on the way!
- OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.
6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- BetHog — BetHog's founding team were the founders of FanDuel.com and think that Betting should be fast, easy and it should reward the players who are risk takers. We want to celebrate the winners, reward them for using our product, and have them help craft the experience we all want to see.
- Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
- August — A new standard for on-chain finance.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
- Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
- Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
We back legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from seed to series A. Funding meets influence.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.
- 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.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Bitmagic — All you need is your imagination and Bitmagic helps you create the game you want to make.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
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
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Investment focus
- Apps, Ride Sharing, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Picap — Picap is a Colombian ride-hailing service provider that connects people who require a means of transportation and people with motorcycles or cars who want to share their vehicle and earn additional income in the process. Founded in 2016, Picap operates in 13 cities including Bogotá, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Neiva, Villavicencio, Cartagena, Popayán,and Ibagué.
- Madlipz — MadLipz is the ultimate short-form voice over app that lets you unleash your creativity with hilarious voiceovers, AI characters, parodies, and more! Dive into a world of laughter and storytelling, and join millions of users in creating and sharing your unique voice-over masterpieces.
Breakout Capital is a fintech company that provides simple and straightforward working capital solutions to small businesses.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Insurance, Chemical
- Series A, Seed, Series E
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Koffie Financial — At Koffie, we believe trucking insurance should be a smooth ride for everyone. Our priority is delivering trusted insurance backed by cutting-edge tools, so that businesses can grow safely and profitably for generations.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
- Beam — Smarter employee benefits including dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health. Our plans are easy to understand, implement, and use.
Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Staris — AI powered white box application penetration testing. Identify, exploit and remediate security vulnerabilities.
- Dash Bio — A modern, automated platform engineered from the ground up to deliver high-quality and dramatically accelerated clinical bioanalysis.
- Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.
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 — 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
Troy Carter is the Founder and CEO of Venice Music. He previously worked at Atom Factory as a Founder and CEO. Troy Carter attended Fairfield University.
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Investment focus
- Social Media, Software, Music
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- NOVA — Connecting creatives with opportunity. Hire top creatives, grow your network, and find your dream jobs all on Nova.
- Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
- MobileCoin — Download the Sentz App to send and receive payments globally from anyone you can text in under five seconds for (basically) free!
Tihomir Bajic is the CEO of LTSE Software.
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Investment focus
- Software, CRM, Sales
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Serbia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tenderly — Ethereum developer platform that enables you to build innovative blockchain products.
- LeadDelta — Take your LinkedIn network to the next level with LeadDelta's CRM. Organize and manage your contacts, and collaborate with your team.
- Orgnostic — Orgnostic is the human capital analytics platform for startups. Orgnostic provides investors and leadership teams with high-quality organizational insights that link organizational dynamics with companies’ bottom lines, creating better and more sustainable businesses for the new economy.
Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Wisdom AI — WisdomAI is a data analytics platform that enables enterprise users to ask natural-language questions and receive answers from both structured and unstructured data sources—even when the data is messy or incomplete. It allows business leaders to quickly drill into insights, replacing the need for time-consuming analyst reports with real-time,accurate responses. The platform avoids hallucinations by using generative AI only to generate queries, not the answers themselves. Early adopters include companies across sectors like oil and gas, who use WisdomAI to query data from documents, telemetry, and databases.
- ClearVector — Completely understand activity in AWS and mitigate risk in a single click.
- True Anomaly — True Anomaly Space
Futurpreneur supports diverse young entrepreneurs ages 18-39 across Canada, offering accessible start-up loan financing, mentorship, experiences and resources.
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Investment focus
- Education, Mobile Apps, Child Care
- Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Periculum — An Alternate Credit Assessment Solution for Underserved Markets
- NONA Vegan — Italian plant-based sauces that bring everyone to the table!
- HopKidz Technologies Inc. — B2B2C marketplace, real-time search & booking engine: parents locate a short notice childcare, book it, pay online and can either drop-off their child in as little as within 15 min or get a sitter over to their place within an hour. All caregivers are 100% screened. B2B application on EAP as back-up care, business-subsidized. First-to-market inCanada, competitors in US and Australia. World market = $200b+. Growth plan to dominate the market.
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
- Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
- Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
- Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
CBGF helps privately-owned Canadian businesses with the capital, talent, and expertise they need to drive growth and realize their potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
- Believeco Partners — Believeco Partners is an owner, operator and builder of the foremost marketing, communications and engagement agencies.
- Specialty Medical Partners — Specialty Medical Partners is a grouping company for independent cardiac, respiratory, and internal medicine hospitals.
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Investment focus
- Social Media, Music, Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Washio — We personally pick up, professionally clean, and hand deliver your clothes to your door. Rinse gives you superior quality and personal service. Guaranteed.
- StyleSeat — StyleSeat is the online destination for beauty & wellness professionals and clients. Professionals can showcase their work, connect with new and existing clients, and build their business. Clients can discover new services and providers, book appointments online, and get inspired
- Misfit Wearables — Misfit is focused on developing great wearable products: things that people would want to wear all the time for a long time. A pioneer in the emerging world of wearable sensor technology, the company is making products and services in the consumer health and fitness space to inspire people to be more active and develop healthy habits. Misfit’sfirst product is the Shine, an elegant personal activity tracker that can instantly sync with a smartphone just by placing the device on the screen. Misfit was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Burlingame, California.
INB is the most influential investment group in the Chinese blockchain space. their partners are among the single largest holders of Bitcoin in the world, with holdings that have increased over nine thousand fold to date.In order to produce outsized returns for theirselves and their limited partners, they run an incubator and product studio.Among the many successful projects to come out of their studio was yunbi.com, which became a top-10 cryptocurrency exchange.Their vertically integrated model is unique in the space and gives us an “unfair advantage” when investing in early-stage projects.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Sia — Cryptography has unleashed the latent power of the Internet by enabling interactions between mutually-distrusting parties. Sia [sigh-uh] harnesses this power to create a trustless cloud storage marketplace, allowing buyers and sellers to transact directly. No intermediaries, no borders, no vendor lock-in, no spying, no throttling, no walled gardens; it's a return to the Internet we once knew. The future is making a comeback.
- Skynet Labs — ROYALTOGEL adalah situs paling ROYAL Bandar toto dengan hadiah promo toto / togel terbesar se Indonesia selain itu, juga terkenal dengan banyaknya pasaran toto terkenal seperti Singapore Pools, Hongkong Pools, Sydney Pools dan juga pasaran terkenal lainnya serta minimal deposit hanya butuh 10 ribu anda sudah bisa betting togel online dan juga live casino
- Tagomi — Tagomi is now part of Coinbase. Find out more.
Valhalla Ventures backs visionary founders at the forefront of movements driven by Gen Z & Millennials.
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- Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Aeon — Aeon develops advanced capabilities at scale for maximum deterrence.
- Deterrence — Deterrence is a defense technology company focused on automating the production of reliable, safe energetics at scale.
- Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
- Foundation Alloy — Foundation Alloy makes better parts, faster, for modern engineering.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Jeff Chang was the Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot. Jeff previously worked at Pastel Labs as a Founder. Attended University of California, Berkeley.
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- Software, Developer Tools, Sports
- Seed
- United States, Canada
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- PopSQL — PopSQL is a developer of collaborative SQL query editing software designed to share queries and visualize data. The company's software stores SQL queries and runs regularly, grouping them into folders that can be kept private or shared among the team, track changes so it can be reverted if or when something breaks, enabling users to workcollaboratively on queries and then distribute among the team.
- Skio — Skio helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out. Easily migrate from ReCharge. Increase conversions by 72% with 1-click checkout (Shop Pay). Reduce customer tickets by 25% with passwordless login.
- Offsight — Factory ready project management software for the modular and offsite construction industry. We solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular, offsite and project based manufacturing.
Your story is your strategy. At Position Ventures, we work alongside founders to help them position their business and tell their story.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Peru
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- Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
- Oyster — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.
- Lavender — Lavender helps thousands of sellers around the world write better emails faster, getting them more positive replies in less time. Rated 4.9/5 on G2.
Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.
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- Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, India, France
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- 10club — 10club acquires small brands that sell their products on e-commerce platforms and scales those businesses.Great businesses are growing on the backs of e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, and more. They get their foundational years right but find it difficult to scale, and understand that competition is hard to curb. That's where10club steps in, allowing entrepreneurs to enjoy an exit and benefit from years of hard work
- Ply — Ply is helping mechanical contracting businesses grow by reinventing the way they source, buy, and manage finished materials for jobs.
- Allocate — Allocate is platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds.
Thirty Five Ventures is a startup founded by basketball star Kevin Durant that invests in tech companies.
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- Software, Sports, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
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- Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
- Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.
Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
- Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
- Halfbrick Studios — Creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and more mobile mega hits!
BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Spain
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- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
- Axonis Therapeutics — AXONIS Therapeutics, Inc. is advancing breakthrough discoveries to develop first-in-class therapies for neurological disorders.
Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, South Korea
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- Blockus — Blockus enables game studios to build fast, reduce costs and laser focus on gameplay. Seamlessly integrated WaaS, first party NFT marketplace, and fiat + crypto payments.
- TMRW — Tomorrow is a social payments app for bitcoiners and their global friends. Enjoy instant, fee-free Bitcoin and USD transactions powered by the Lightning Network. Join the waitlist and unlock the power of seamless, borderless money transfers.
- FINNY — Double down on your niche. Cut out the noise. Grow organically, effortlessly
305 Ventures is an early stage VC fund run by active founders investing in other founders.
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- Financial Services, Software, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
- Manifest — Manifest is an anchor for a generation seeking direction.
- Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.
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- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- AMPY — AMPY is a wearable motion charger that captures its users’ energy from daily activities to charge their smartphones. The wearable device has won numerous awards, and the team was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy. Its team is already scaling down the technology inside of AMPY to power wearable devicesAMPY was founded in 2013 by Tejas Shastry,Mike Geier, and Alex Smith. It is based in Chicago, I.L.
- Selltag — Selltag offers a simple online platform for people to sell and buy items. It brings together buyers and sellers using the power of social networks. That means people can sell goods that is no longer needed or not used anymore, maybe something people have made or even digital contents to friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Pluspeople can get help from those same contacts, if the link is shared to an ad users will get more potential buyers to see it.Selltag was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Valencia, Spain.
- Avail — Avail is a provider of tools and guidance that makes it easy to be a landlord. It offers a platform that helps independent landlords and property managers to navigate the rental cycle, as well as provides rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online payments, and maintenance requests services. Until now, landlords with less than10 units haven’t had access to online tools designed specifically for them. Avail is an intuitive app that helps advertise vacant units, request rental applications and credit reports, sign leases, and collect rent — all online. Today, 70,000 landlords use Avail because it’s the only end-to-end platform that helps in scaling from beginner to professional with tools, support, and education.
Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.
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- Mobile, Apps, News
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
- ePACT Network — ePACT'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.
Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.
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- SaaS, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Moodmate — I will help you learn more about mental health and self-care, fight stress and stay optimistic no matter what
- OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
- Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
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