Top 25 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Canada (October 2026)

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• Efficient Computer — Efficient Computer is ushering in a new era of computing with our ultra-energy-efficient programmable processors.
• prime minute — Prime Minute develops disaster response technology and a platform for emergency operations and critical infrastructure resilience.
• Reframe Systems — Robotic microfactories for building net-zero homes 2x faster, 2x cheaper with 10x lower carbon

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• Arka — Design custom boxes for Ecommerce with Arka! Use our integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce, Square & more! Order your sustainable custom boxes today.
• Particle3D — Particle3D (P3D) is a Danish biomedical engineering company founded in 2017. The company is based on more than 3 years of research and is currently developing patient-fitted bone replacement implants from natural materials through 3D printing. The mission is to revolutionize the treatment of craniofacial patients by providing state of the artsolutions that will optimize the value chain for health care professionals, the health care system and most importantly the patients. Benefits of the technology include better aesthetic and functional outcomes for the patients, faster recovery and fewer complications, less complicated surgery and higher hospital productivity. The company aims at setting new standards in craniofacial reconstruction and will play a major role in a market segment with a very interesting commercial potential.
• Addivation Medical — Addivation Medical develops surgical devices to treat degenerative, trauma, and deformity spinal conditions.

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• Axya — Optimize manufacturing procurement with Axya. Enhance visibility, streamline collaboration, and automate tasks. Say goodbye to spreadsheet chaos and email overload.
• DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
• Nord Quantique — Nord Quantique creates quantum processors based on second-generation technology.

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• Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
• PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
• eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

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• Diamond Kinetics — Helping players get better - and have more fun while doing it. Experience baseball and softball like never before with the Diamond Kinetics Bat Sensor and App.
• The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.
• International Dance League — The Global Professional Dance League Teams: Royal Family, Quick Style, 1MILLION, Jam Republic, Brotherhood, GRV

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• Velox — Velox develops and manufactures industrial-grade direct-to shape digital decoration solutions for the rigid container industry. Their proprietary DTS-Inkjet technology, based on uniquely formulated inks and dedicated deposition architecture, introduces an entirely new approach to digital printing that is poised to disrupt the packaging decorationmarket.Their debut product is the Velox IDS 250 – the first industrial-grade digital decorator for mass production of cylindrical containers available on the market. It delivers superior decoration quality and capabilities that outstrip analog printing solutions, while allowing a more efficient and flexible production process and a low total cost of ownership (TCO).Velox is powered by an expert team with uniquely extensive and wide-ranging experience in digital printing. It is led by veteran executives with proven success in driving company growth.
• Strohm — Strohm is a private supply chain company, focused on the offshore wind-to-hydrogen sector.
• Abolis Biotechnologies — Abolis is a biotech innovator providing sustainable, tailor-made solutions for food, health, cosmetics, and chemicals industries. Embrace biotechnology for a better future.

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• Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?

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• Syntetica — Syntetica is a materials technology and climate technology company that develops chemical recycling technology for synthetic textiles. It uses proprietary green chemistry to convert nylon textile waste into virgin-quality recycled polymers, enabling circular production for the textile, automotive, and industrial materials industries. Its mission isto decarbonize synthetic materials by making high-quality recycled feedstocks commercially viable.The company's proprietary chemical depolymerization process separates and recovers Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from blended textile waste that would otherwise be difficult to recycle. The process operates under low-temperature, low-pressure conditions, removes dyes and finishes, and produces recycled raw materials that can be reintroduced into manufacturing without compromising quality. Syntetica's technology supports textile-to-textile recycling and is designed to reduce carbon emissions, landfill waste, and reliance on virgin fossil-based materials.
• HeiQ AeoniQ — HeiQ AeoniQ is a cellulosic endless filament yarn, innovatively manufactured with a very low environmental footprint.
• HeiQ Materials — HeiQ provides textile innovation, customized manufacturing and consumer branding. The company was founded in 2005 as a spin-off company of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. HeiQ was bestowed with the prestigious Swiss Technology Award.

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• Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
• Loop — Bank on Loop to save time, save money and grow globally. Join thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across Canada to spend, send and grow without fees.
• Unicone Art — Unicone Art is your go-to source for clear casting epoxy resin material for art projects. It is perfect for creating crystal clear pieces with a great finish.

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• Velox — Velox develops and manufactures industrial-grade direct-to shape digital decoration solutions for the rigid container industry. Their proprietary DTS-Inkjet technology, based on uniquely formulated inks and dedicated deposition architecture, introduces an entirely new approach to digital printing that is poised to disrupt the packaging decorationmarket.Their debut product is the Velox IDS 250 – the first industrial-grade digital decorator for mass production of cylindrical containers available on the market. It delivers superior decoration quality and capabilities that outstrip analog printing solutions, while allowing a more efficient and flexible production process and a low total cost of ownership (TCO).Velox is powered by an expert team with uniquely extensive and wide-ranging experience in digital printing. It is led by veteran executives with proven success in driving company growth.
• Organic Meadow — Organic Meadow is a leading organic dairy company which sells organic milk and milk products,
• Algal Scientific — Algal Scientific has two distinct business units that serve the animal feed, human nutrition, and wastewater treatment industries. One unit is focused on the production of their ProGlucan beta-glucan products for animal feeds and human nutrition. The second unit is dedicated to the commercialization of their Hypertrophic wastewater treatmentsystem, which they license to customers in the food and beverage industry.It was acquired by Kemin Industries in March 2017. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Plymouth, Michigan.

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• Kwit — Start your smoking-free life today with Kwit, number 1 stop smoking app. Available on iOS and Android.
• OMORPHO — OMORPHO manufactures and sells Gravity Sportswear™ - revolutionary weighted training gear that helps any athlete reach their goals faster.
• Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

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• Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?

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• The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 1 million who read our entertaining sports newsletter.
• Togethxr — Togethxr is an unapologetic platform that values representation and equality. A meeting place for culture, activism, lifestyle, and sports.
• Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?

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• FORTË (acquired by Echelon Fitness) — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
• Keemotion — Keemotion delivers automated production solutions enhanced with coaching tools for basketball games. The production is professionally created thanks to a proprietary technology. Keemotion’ solution offers a large specter of advantages amongst which : - The ability to capture and produce games at a very affordable price.- The ability tocategorize and retrieve online all games produced.- The ability to tag games manually (based on a personalized iPad application) and get back all video segments instantly.Media companies can produce games from lower leagues and/or stream seamless any video content from a game without any production team to tablets and smartphones.The personalized summary allows a fan to retrieve specific actions according to its own preferences and comment live games building a social sharing of the best highlights of games.
• Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?

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• JetZero — JetZero develops commercial aircraft centered on an all-wing or blended wing body design that integrates the fuselage and wings into a single structure to improve aerodynamics and reduce fuel use. The company is advancing the Z4 airplane, which targets lower fuel consumption and associated emissions compared with conventional tube-and-wing jets,and is working with industry partners on systems like engines, composites, and potential hydrogen fuel adaptations. JetZero collaborates with aerospace suppliers, research organizations, and regulatory bodies to design, test, and prepare full-scale demonstrators with the aim of advancing certification and entry into service. The company’s work includes aerodynamic simulation, structural engineering, and exploring sustainable fuel solutions to address aviation’s environmental goals.
• Zogenix — Therapeutic Solutions for CNS Disorders and Rare Diseases
• Critical Energy — Critical Energy builds modular power plants for geothermal and waste heat recovery, shipped in standard containers and installed in weeks.

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• LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
• Modality.AI — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
• ClaimBuddy — ClaimBuddy acts as one-stop solutions for Health Insurance Claim assistance for Patients and Hospitals. ClaimBuddy are building an ecosystem to ensure Hassle-free insurance claims by leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes and operations.

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• Fairgrounds — Fairgrounds is a sports club offering free-to-join pickleball and padel courts.

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• CAMH — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. We believe that #MentalHealthIsHealth
• Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
• University of Manitoba — The University of Manitoba received its charter on February 28, 1877. Today, the UofM has three main locations: the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.The downtown Bannatyne campus of the university comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave andWilliam Ave in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the university. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the 95,000 sq ft (8,800 m2) Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008. The Brodie Center is known as the "flagship" which connects all three faculties as well as the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library and the Joe Doupe Fitness Centre. It is located on 727 McDermot Avenue.The main Fort Garry campus (located on the Red River in south Winnipeg) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on 233 hectares (580 acres) of land. In addition, Smartpark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development organizations involving university-industry partnerships. The address is 66 Chancellors Circle.The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.The university operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba. The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a 406 acres (164 ha) facility located 70 km (43 mi) from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately 1,000 acres (405 ha) and located 20 km (12 mi) from Winnipeg.

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• Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?

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• MeepMeep — Trackers for seniors that help families quickly locate lost hearing aids, glasses and other essentials. MeepMeep makes everyday items easy to find.
• Superpanel — The digital teammate that manages inbound customer journeys from qualification, follow-up, document collection, and scheduling. Across voice, SMS, and email. Autonomously. 24/7.
• Layers — Layers was created by a team with extensive experience in merchandising, product discovery, suggestions, analytics, and storefront optimization.

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• ChargeHub — ChargeHub EV solutions: Empower your EV business with ChargeHub solutions eMSP, CPO, Plug & Charge, E roaming, EV Charging Map, EV Charging App,EV Chargers
• Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute — Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal), Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence which now rallies 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning, including professors, students, industrial partners and startups.
• Université du Québec à Rimouski — Université du Québec à Rimouski is a public university that offers marine science, regional development and geographic program for students.

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• Icentia — Icentia provides a range of innovative medical tests for healthcare institutions. They are able to offer valuable solutions for major problems in the field of medical testing.
• Solar Uniquartier —
• Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace is more than just an immobilization brace, it's a dynamic and innovative solution.

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• Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?

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• Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
• SageTech — Integrating simply, seamlessly and universally into existing anaesthetic equipment, the practical solution is supported by an easy to use, fully managed...
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• FNZ — We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates technology, business & investment operations all in a regulated financial institution
• Aeroplan — Aeroplan is an Canadian loyalty marketing program that offers incentive programs for air travel, & home improvement.
• Altius — Data Infrastructure Trust is a trust that was created under the Indian Trusts Act of 1882 for the purpose of carrying out investment activities as an infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) in accordance with the InvIT Regulations.