Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Canada in September 2025

Investor	Social Network Canada investments
Inovia Capital	3
Golden Ventures	3
CRV	2
Mo Larbi Bennis	2
Union Square Ventures	2
Path Ventures	2
KB Partners	2
Bessemer Venture Partners	2
N49P	2
Thirty Five Ventures	1
BoxOne Ventures	1
Digital Future	1
Troy Carter	1
Boris Wertz	1
Valhalla Ventures	1
Secocha Ventures	1
Dapper Labs	1
GSF	1
Purple Cow	1
Jon Oringer	1
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	1
Right Side Capital Management	1
ID Capital	1
Mike Edwards	1
Business Development Bank of Canada	1
Tanveer Ali	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Origins Fund	1
Korea Investment Partners	1
VA Angels	1
Fahim Saleh	1
Freestyle Capital	1
Tihomir Bajic	1
Menlo Ventures	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Canadian Business Growth Fund	1
AFSquare	1
INBlockchain	1
Position Ventures	1
Maple VC	1
Jim Fletcher	1
Jon Oringer	1
Satish Kanwar	1
Roger Ehrenberg	1
Antoine Martin	1
Stewart Butterfield	1
Green Pine Capital Partners	1
6th Man Ventures	1
Steve Olechowski	1
Breakout Capital	1

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

Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
Vessel — One platform for all your investor relations needs.
Pillar Security — One platform to identify, assess and mitigate security risks across your entire AI lifecycle.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LanceDB — From agents to models, from search to training, one platform for all your AI data and workloads
Talon.One — The all-in-one promotion software designed for enterprises. Manage all your marketing promotions in one scalable system without stressing developer resources.
Emerald AI — Emerald AI creates a platform that enables AI data centers to adjust power consumption from electricity grids dynamically. This system orchestrates computing loads across data centers to bolster grid reliability. The technology aims to advance AI innovation while ensuring power affordability and electric system stability.

Mo Larbi Bennis

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.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

XMTP — XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
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.

Path Ventures is a pre-seed Venture Capital firm investing in technology companies at the earliest stages of their journeys.

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?

We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.

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.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
Sphinx — Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own.
Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Thirty Five Ventures is a startup founded by basketball star Kevin Durant that invests in tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Sports, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

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.

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
Seqera — Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io).
Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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 on-demand 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.

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.

Investment focus

Social Media, Software, Mobile
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.
Belong Entertainment — Belong Entertainment Inc. is a FanTech company creating the financial layer of fandom. Belong empowers artists and brands to connect directly with truly verified fans through proprietary features like FanScore™, KYF™ (Know Your Fan), and Dropblock™. Fans earn rewards, exclusive access, and unique experiences by engaging, spending, and proving theirfandom.The team consists of experienced entrepreneurs who have held senior leadership positions in global entertainment and fintech companies such as Spotify., Belong is launching first in the U.S. with a college and influencer-focused rollout. Its flagship product, the Belong Card, gives fans access to rewards, exclusive drops, and artist-branded experiences while providing artists and brands with verified engagement and transaction insights.Belong’s mission is to transform how culture is monetized by shifting from customers to fans—unlocking the next generation of loyalty, payments, and pop culture engagement.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Helcim — 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.
NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.

Valhalla Ventures backs visionary founders at the forefront of movements driven by Gen Z & Millennials.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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!

GSF is a tech-focused early stage venture capital firm, providing the first cheque to founders from incubation to seed.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AuraML — AuraML's synthetic data platform helps computer vision teams generate high quality labelled datasets that are better than real data. Users can create datasets that are highly varied and cover all edge cases improving the accuracy of their ML models.
Arivihan — Learn about Arivihan's mission to provide high-quality, personalized online education in vernacular languages for K-12 students across India.
Holiday Tribe — Holiday Tribe provides customizable holiday experiences across various destinations, catering to various groups including families, couples, honeymooners, adventure-seekers, and those seeking new or unexplored destinations.

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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

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for gpt-oss, Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen3 LLMs! Beginner friendly.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Profitual — Profitual is an AI-powered financial modeling platform designed specifically for startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to simplify complex financial planning and forecasting. The platform aims to level the playing field for founders who may lack formal financial expertise, by providing intuitive tools to build, analyze, andcommunicate financial projections that are both compelling and investor-ready
AgroGene Solutions — AgroGene Solutions offers rapid and reliable lab testing for your beehives. We provide diagnostics and monitoring to help avoid colony losses. Order your test today and get a comprehensive hive health report within a few days.
Smart Skin Technologies — SmartSkin helps pharma and beverage manufacturers reduce breakage, optimize line efficiency, and achieve zero-defect operations.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jayla Health — Jayla Health is a virtual clinic for menopause care to test, manage, and treat menopause symptoms from home.
Lab Symplified — Lab Symplified provides software for lab inventory, quality management, maintenance logs, and communication automation.
Naviday Health — Naviday Health is building personalized, AI-guided care pathways—starting with menopause—to help individuals confidently navigate complex health transitions. Our platform empowers daily decision-making through tailored insights, symptom tracking, and holistic support, bridging the gap between traditional care and real-world needs. We’re redefiningwhat it means to stay well every day.

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.

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

LSL Pharma Group — LSL Pharma Group is a manufacturing company that innovates and manufactures life sciences products. Formed to integrate the operations of its Canadian subsidiaries, each boasting over two decades of expertise, LSL Pharma Group excels as a niche manufacturer in the life science industry. The company offers turnkey formulation, development andmanufacturing services.
Conquest Planning — Conquest Planning is a FinTech company that is developing an innovative solution for the financial services industry.
Highwood Asset Management — Highwood Asset Management is an asset management company that manages oil production and oil midstream spaces.

Tanveer Ali - Executive Director @ Olympic Industries

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.

We back legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from seed to series A. Funding meets influence.

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.
LAP Coffee — LAP Coffee is a community-driven specialty coffee brand.
Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.

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.

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.

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

Fahim Saleh

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.

Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dash Bio — A modern, automated platform engineered from the ground up to deliver high-quality and dramatically accelerated bioanalysis.
Stackpack — AI-powered visibility and control for your company's spend and contracts - fully synced with your financial software. Try it risk-free for 30 days today.
Infinity Constellation — Infinity Constellation is an AI-focused startup holding company and incubator that builds and launches service-based businesses leveraging artificial intelligence. Their mission is to empower visionary founders to create the next generation of impactful, tech-enabled companies, emphasizing long-term growth and sustainable value creation.

Tihomir Bajic is the CEO of LTSE Software.

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 — LeadDelta aspires to be a single workspace for your company’s relationships. As B2B professionals, whether you are fundraising, hiring, marketing, or selling, your chances of success grow exponentially when you do it collaboratively across the team to build one integrated and cross-referenced professional network.
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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Relcu — Relcu is an intelligent lead-to-revenue lead management and CRM platform that is transforming the financial services industry. Founded in 2020 and is based in Saratoga, California.
Aurasell — Aurasell is an AI-native platform for go-to-market teams. The platform provides tools for territory management, intelligent quoting, and forecasting. Aurasell consolidates multiple sales tools and provides AI-powered agents to manage various workflows.
Higgsfield — The ultimate AI-powered camera control for creators by creators

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
Tracelight — Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy.
Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.

CBGF helps privately-owned Canadian businesses with the capital, talent, and expertise they need to drive growth and realize their potential.

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.

Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sia — Discover how our decentralized, encrypted network puts you in control of your data storage.
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.

Your story is your strategy. At Position Ventures, we work alongside founders to help them position their business and tell their story.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Peru

Portfolio highlights

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.

Working to build the most durable companies in the world - by backing founders with Canadian roots

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
Argus Systems — Argus Systems scales training data for physical AI.
Daylight Security — Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
ePACT Network — ePACT'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.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for gpt-oss, Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen3 LLMs! Beginner friendly.

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
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.

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

Investment focus

Advertising, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Evertune — Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services
Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
Gemini Sports Analytics — Your Next-Gen Roster Management Command Center

Antoine Martin - Co-founder & CEO @ Zenly

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bleen — Building a new outdoor home brand, starting with lawn care. It’s simple, easy to use, and personalized to your home.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Daze — Daze is a software development company that reinvents the calendar to be more fun, expressive, and social.Daze is the social calendar for friends to plan events and use creative tools to more vividly capture their time spent together. It’s a social calendar with powerful creative tools for scheduling your future and documenting your past withfriends. They hope to unlock creativity, foster intimacy, and inspire self-reflection by reimagining the format of time. Founded by Willem Simons in 2021 and is located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams onmillions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C's XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Noded Ai — Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Noded brings them all together using your notes history and gives you exactly what you needed , when you need it. So you’re always prepared and one step ahead.
ModernLoop — ModernLoop creates software that organizes and manages business interviews. The company offers a software that schedules interviews, sends day-off reminders, and resolves meeting conflicts. ModernLoop was founded in 2020 by Christopher Triolo and Lydia Han.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sunrise — Sunrise is a high-performance GPU developer specializing in GPU research and development.
Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
YolTech Therapeutics — Yaotang (Shanghai) Biotechnology is a high-tech biotechnology company focusing on developing a new generation of mRNA drugs and gene editing drugs by combining mRNA in vivo delivery technology and gene editing technology. Through the continuous development and optimization of CRISPR, base editing and other new-generation gene editing tools, andinnovative improvements to the next-generation mRNA production platform and lipid nanocarrier assembly process, Yaotang Bio is committed to developing treatments for genetic diseases and cardiovascular disease.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
Football.Fun — football. Fun is a fantasy football platform that combines the dynamics of cryptocurrency markets with football player trading.
August — A new standard for on-chain finance.

Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Breakout Capital is a fintech company that provides simple and straightforward working capital solutions to small businesses.

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.