Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Canada

Investor	Social Network Canada investments
Golden Ventures	2
KB Partners	2
Union Square Ventures	2
Mo Larbi Bennis	2
Inovia Capital	2
Jim Fletcher	1
Thirty Five Ventures	1
East Valley Ventures	1
Green Pine Capital Partners	1
Tanveer Ali	1
Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)	1
Jon Oringer	1
Steve Olechowski	1
Origins Fund	1
Maple VC	1
Jon Oringer	1
Roger Ehrenberg	1
N49P	1
Purple Cow	1
Business Development Bank of Canada	1
Mike Edwards	1
Position Ventures	1
Jeff Chang	1
Stewart Butterfield	1
BoxOne Ventures	1
Alumni Ventures	1
Antoine Martin	1
Troy Carter	1
Korea Investment Partners	1
ID Capital	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Futurpreneur	1
Rob Glaser	1
AFSquare	1
305 Ventures	1
Dapper Labs	1
Fahim Saleh	1
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	1
Right Side Capital Management	1
Breakout Capital	1
VA Angels	1
Canadian Business Growth Fund	1
Satish Kanwar	1
Menlo Ventures	1
6th Man Ventures	1
Secocha Ventures	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Valhalla Ventures	1
Tihomir Bajic	1
INBlockchain	1

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

Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
Basil Systems — Basil’s SaaS platform leverages machine-learning across product, market and regulatory data to provide analytics and insights for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

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, France

Portfolio highlights

OMORPHO — Weighted Training Gear from OMORPHO helps you burn more calories, build strength and boost your cardio. Lift your training to new heights!
Rypplzz — Through Interlife™, our mission is to advance humanity by spatially engineering the flow of the environment to create optimal efficiency. Interlife™ enables unique location-based experiences and transforms physical spaces into smart environments with precise geolocation and enhanced connectivity. The evolving use and omnipresence of connecteddevices and the increasing demand for experiential content, including mixed reality, are resulting in an exponentially increasing need for Interlife™ and its applications.Rypplzz partners with investors who like to back companies creating breakthrough proprietary tech and are on a mission to build a more sustainable world.
Bookseats — BookSeats.com started with a simple question; with events and travel being obvious complements, why was there no platform that allowed fans to customize sports or event tickets, flights, and hotel packages under one roof?BookSeats.com's mission is to bridge that gap and connect these services that otherwise were only offered by separateproviders

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

Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
Hume AI — The AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion
Residua AI — A selective AI co-presence that you can summon into your digital world.

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.

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
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.
Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.

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

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, News
Seed, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
Summify — Summify offers a service that provides daily summaries of users’ social news feed via email, web or mobile. This service is accessible to individuals via Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader accounts. Summify is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.

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

Priori — Priori is a legal talent platform for corporate counsel to find, hire and manage top lawyers without the costly infrastructure of a firm. Fast-growing enterprises and F500 companies leverage Priori's data-driven RFP process, national and international curated network of boutique firms and temp attorneys, and seamless end-to-end technology platform to manage a full-suite of outside counsel needs and reduce spending.
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.

East Valley is a startup accelerator and angel investor group in Atlantic Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
CIRCLES — You spend 1 hour a month with us on Zoom. We guide your content creation, build your LinkedIn funnel and bring in leads with 10x performing daily video campaigns.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds

Green Pine Capital Partners is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Biodep — Biodep produces probiotics and derivatives, which are used in meals, healthy foods, cosmetics, environmental remediation, contemporary agriculture, and other industries.
Baisios — Baisios is a developer of tumor immune cell therapy technology and is dedicated to the growth of the tumor biotherapy industry.
Guorui Xiechuang — Guorui Xiechuang is a joint venture subsidiary of Betterray New Materials Group Co., Ltd., provides power + energy storage products and system integration solutions for global customers.

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.

Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Trust & Will — Estate planning with Trust & Will is the easiest way to create, edit, store, and share your Trust or Will legal documents. Create an estate plan today!
GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
NextGen Blockchain Technologies — Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Finance

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

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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.

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

Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.
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.
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.

Maple VC is an angel fund that focuses on founders with Canadian roots.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, South Korea

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.
Inference.ai — Inference.ai is an IT company that provides artificial intelligence solutions and manufactures GPUs.
Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.

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

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
FL Newsletter — 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 — Gemini Sports Analytics teams improve operations from top-to-bottom by making each step of the data lifecycle simpler and powerful analytics more accessible. Leveraged expertise supports organizations in the business of improving athlete welfare and enhancing performance.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers and support.
Power Life Science — Discover cutting-edge therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Power helps patients everywhere take control of their care.

Get a Digital Marketing Agency for your Growing Business. We offer a range of digital marketing services in Silicon Valley, Bay Area and San Francisco.

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

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, Series A, Seed
Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

medreddie — medreddie simplifies clinical procurement and market research to drive the future of healthcare.
Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
Terravest Industries — TerraVest Capital Inc. is a publicly traded income trust with a portfolio of diversified businesses and whose stated objective.

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.

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

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States, Peru, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shypyard — Shypyard puts advanced analytics and intelligence in the hands of up-and-coming merchants to accurately forecast and adjust demand, replenish stock, and more.
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.
Oyster Technologies — 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.

Jeff Chang was the Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot. Jeff previously worked at Pastel Labs as a Founder. Attended University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Sports
Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Atreo.io — Atreo.io develop an RTSM solution in the market, revolutionizing the client experience.Atreo’s team has diverse and complementary experience across all aspects of RTSM, Clinical Supplies, and Clinical Trials project delivery and support. Atreo’s team has delivered and supported 1000+ clinical trials for a diverse client pool including emergingBiotechs to top 10 Pharma and CROs.
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.
Venue — Venue is a video conferencing platform that increases engagement and strengthens culture at large team-wide events.

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, Spain

Portfolio highlights

BioLoomics — BioLoomics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that uses evolution in a microscope to develop drug discovery tools and protein drugs. Our VariVolve platform tests millions of protein designs for a targeted activity in hours, enabling efficient mining of the vast chemical space of protein designs. A strong advantage of our approach is theuse of whole intact cells as test vessels that capture complex drug behavior not attainable in conventional assays.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
Century Health — Accelerating access to breakthrough treatments, with the power of AI. Century Health does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.

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.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.

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, Music
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NOVA — Search less. Make more.
Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
MobileCoin — MobileCoin is a cryptocurrency platform that develops P2P payment tokens and digital payment systems for mobile. It combines privacy, security, and distributed trust with a great user experience. MobileCoin is designed so that a mobile messaging application like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Signal could integrate with a MobileCoin wallet.

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

LabInCube — LabInCube develops inCube materials capable of selective drug release, sustained release, and supporting complex raw materials.
StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
Syntekabio — Syntekabio is a Korean biotech firm, developing personal genome map which is expected to enable personalized medical service. The company also provides a technology for collecting and integrating decrypted whole genome data.

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?

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

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.

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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.

Rob Glaser, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of RealNetworks, has long been intrigued with the nexus of media, computing, and communications. Since founding Real in 1994, Mr. Glaser has played an integral role in the transformation of the internet into the next great mass medium. In 1995, under Mr. Glaser’s direction, Real introduced the groundbreakingRealAudio, the first commercial audio streaming solution for the internet. This was followed in 1997 with RealVideo. RealNetworks’ RealPlayer is downloaded millions of times each month and is one of the most popular pieces of software ever created. In July 2012, after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, Mr. Glaser returned as CEO, initially in an interim role, to help revitalize RealNetworks and return the company to sustainable growth. In line with this goal, the company has since launched several new products. By creating innovative technology and services that make it easy for people to connect with and enjoy digital media, RealNetworks and Mr. Glaser are at the forefront of the digital media revolution.Rob is also a Venture Partner at Accel.Prior to founding RealNetworks, Inc., Mr. Glaser worked for Microsoft for 10 years in a number of executive positions, including Vice President of Multimedia and Consumer Systems. Mr. Glaser currently serves as Trustee and Managing Board Member of the Glaser Progress Foundation, which he established in 1993. Mr. Glaser is a graduate of Yale University, with a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Computer Science.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
BLOK London — BLOK is an award-winning fitness studio for all levels. We offer over 20 different classes, designed to create an exciting and sustainable way to work out.
Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.

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.

305 Ventures is an early stage VC fund run by active founders investing in other founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
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.

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, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
Spexi Geospatial Inc. — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
Halfbrick Studios — Creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and more mobile mega hits!

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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.

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, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
Victory Advanced Technologies — Victory Advanced Technologies offers the development and manufacturing of electric motors and drive systems to clean the mobility supply chain by producing powertrain components in a sustainable way.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
Precision Compounding — Precision Compounding compounds customized medications to meet the specific needs of patients and their pets. They benefit patients by providing formulations customized for dosage, taste, and ingredients. Their services include proscripts, concierge pick-up options, and professional delivery. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contactform, and email.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Insurance, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Series E
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Beam — Smarter employee benefits including dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health. Our plans are easy to understand, implement, and use.
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.

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

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.

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.

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, France

Portfolio highlights

Higgsfield — Foundational video model for social media
Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
Brain Jar Games — Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share.

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

Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
Scallop — Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.
Cube Group — Cube is the world's fastest crypto exchange. Built by and for traders, Cube is the most liquid, secure and advanced cryptocurrency exchange.

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.

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

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

FlowGPT — Discover a vast library of ChatGPT prompts uploaded by the FlowGPT community. Browse popular and useful prompts and get personalized recommendations for prompts that interest you. Join a vibrant community of ChatGPT users and discover, share, and discuss different prompts.
Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
Cambio — Quickly Resolve Hurtful Accounts Like Collections and Improve Your Credit Score with The Cambio App. Download Today!

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
Triumph — Triumph is a gaming monetization platform provider. They provide iPhone games on one line of code drop-in SDK. They handle the entire tournament stack by player matching, payment, arbitration, and compliance. They transform the game into money tournaments.
Entendre Finance — Enterprise-grade AI accounting for Web3. Automate the bookkeeping and reporting of digital assets seamlessly. The best crypto accounting software using AI.

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 — Take your business network to the next level with LeadDelta's professional relationships CRM.
Orgnostic — Fast track to the insights behind your people data with Orgnostic, the people analytics platform for strategic HRs.

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 — 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 — Skynet Labs builds uncompromising software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. It is a leader in the burgeoning blockchain and decentralized web ecosystems, and the core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project. Skynet is a revolutionary technology that will be the foundation for a free internet and builds on theteam’s successful creation of Sia, the leading blockchain storage platform.
Tagomi — Tagomi is now part of Coinbase. Find out more.