Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Canada (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Jeffrey Howe
Angel
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8 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Fantasy Sports | $950k–$5.2M |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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8 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $400k–$11M |
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Fondaction
VC Fund
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7 | Canada, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $276k–$150M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $592k–$47M |
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Spain | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $150k–$7.1M |
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Peter Wilson
Angel
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6 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Fantasy Sports | $1.2M–$5.2M |
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Innovacorp
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Australia | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $19k–$3.1M |
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Amplify.LA
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $120k–$10M |
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VA Angels
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $108k–$1.5M |
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Government of Canada
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Kenya | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Non Profit, Manufacturing, Education | $100k–$38M |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $68k–$7M |
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Dan Plashkes
Angel
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5 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Fantasy Sports | $950k–$3M |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $182k–$35M |
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Golden Triangle Angel Network
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, China | Angel, Seed, Grant | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $400k–$2.2M |
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CEED - Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Consulting, Wellness | |
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, Nigeria | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $100k–$78M |
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Concrete Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $250k–$9.4M |
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Lance Priebe
Angel
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | eSports, SaaS, Gaming | $75k–$579k |
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E-Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, China, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical, Medical Device | $279k–$43M |
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Eclipse
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics | $2M–$105M |
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$40M |
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Broad Street Bulls
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, Isle of Man, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $250k–$2.6M |
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Build Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.4M–$15M |
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Sharp Alpha
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Sports, Gaming, Fantasy Sports | $1M–$42M |
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Tidal Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Fitness, EdTech, Sports | $949k–$1.1M |
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Asimov Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Robotics | $15k–$12M |
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Alate Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Real Estate, Software, SaaS | $753k–$100M |
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Nimbus Synergies Inc.
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Non-Equity Assistance | Health Care, Software, Medical Device | $750k–$7.3M |
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Origins Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Sports, Health Care | $1.5M–$25M |
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John W Tomes
Angel
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3 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Fantasy Sports | $1.2M–$3M |
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.2M–$42M |
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KB Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Sports, Software, Information Technology | $1.5M–$12M |
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xiVENTURES Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | $110k–$364k |
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Elysian Park Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Sports, Software, Health Care | $100k–$28M |
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Volta Labs
VC Fund
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3 | Canada | Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $19k–$559k |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $50k–$1.5M |
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, France | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Manufacturing, Software, Health Care | $25k–$2M |
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Two Small Fish Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $2M–$25M |
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Whitecap Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Spain | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software | $1.9M–$33M |
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Jean-François Grenon
Angel
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3 | Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Computer, Software, Machine Learning | $744k–$5M |
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Jill Denham
Angel
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3 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Fantasy Sports | $1.2M–$3M |
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Eberg Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Sports, Gaming, Fantasy Sports | $360k–$35M |
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail | |
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Courtside Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Sports, Gaming, Fitness | $1.3M–$45M |
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $10k–$2.7M |
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TELUS Global Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series C, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $2.4M–$128M |
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Rebel Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$20M |
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iGan Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Medical | $1.9M–$17M |
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media | $1.5M–$37M |
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $950k–$3M; Angel $3M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4M; Pre-Seed $409k–$1.5M; Series A $2.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.5M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
- Sprout Family — Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience.
- Daedal Systems — Daedal Systems delivers instrumentation integration and contract development services for the clean tech nuclear sector. The company focuses on fusion energy and small modular reactor projects that require specialized plasma and reactor diagnostics. Its teams design and integrate diagnostic suites that provide parametric, temporal, and spatial coverage of plasma behavior to support measurement and validation. Offerings include neutron-hardened instrumentation, temperature sensing, and coolant analysis tailored for next-generation nuclear systems. Daedal Systems supports reactor developers by acting as an outsourced partner for diagnostics architecture so customers can concentrate on core power plant systems. The company also provides neutronics modeling and engineering services for both fission and fusion hardware design.
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity. Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec. This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy. Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy. Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers. Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability. In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level. In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 223
- Round size: Debt Financing $276k–$10M; Private Equity $750k–$103M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Solar Uniquartier —
- Turtlebrace — Turtlebrace is more than just an immobilization brace, it's a dynamic and innovative solution.
- Assembler AI — Assembler AI is an industrial AI company that focuses on improving manual manufacturing operations.
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance, mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 309
- Round size: Seed $592k–$5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $2.9M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $140M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Axya — Axya is a procurement execution platform for manufacturers. Use AI to run sourcing, purchase orders, and supplier follow-up alongside your ERP.
- 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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $755k–$3.3M; Angel $150k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $915k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scopia Surgical — Revolutionizing the operating room with our real-time artificial intelligence image processing technology. Scopia Surgical is a co-pilot for the human body, guiding surgeons with unprecedented accuracy and confidence.
- Galaxia — GALAXIA Mission Systems designs and develops intelligent satellites and edge computation platforms for space.
- Bia — Bia Education provides continuing education resources for healthcare professionals in rehabilitation fields. Their offerings include online self-paced and live courses, scientific memberships with access to webinars and publication summaries, and corporate training packages. The company also hosts networking events to connect students with employers. Bia Education aims to support professionals in staying current with clinical knowledge and enhancing their skills. Their platform is designed to be user-friendly and accessible for ongoing professional development.
Peter Wilson is the Managing Director of HarbourVest Partners. Peter Wilson attended the Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M; Angel $3M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3.1M; Grant $25k–$100k; Pre-Seed $19k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Bright Breaks — Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.
- Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
- Planetary — info@planetarytech.com
Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing the strongest technical and product-obsessed teams at the earliest stages, supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed over one hundred companies to-date, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and public markets.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.6M; Series A $3.1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Loamy — Loamy is the modern alternative to legacy Food ERPs. Our operations hub unifies inventory, quality, and sales to help food companies scale with confidence.
- Battlefy — Battlefy is the simplest way to start, manage, and find esports tournaments | Create. Compete. Conquer.
- Mogul — Your path to financial success in the music business.
VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 124
- Round size: Seed $108k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
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
Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets or mobile phones. Its portal shows how the government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Education
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 545
- Round size: Seed $293k–$4.7M; Grant $100k–$25M; Debt Financing $100k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- CAMH — Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world's leading research centres. Where Mental Health is Health.
- Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.
- 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.3M; Angel $68k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
- Coldblock — Coldblock delivers short-wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy, and safety. They offer services that include mining assays, environmental testing, food testing, metal assays, laboratory technology, and sample digestion.
- fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
Dan Plashkes is the Chairperson / Early Stage Investor at OwnersBox. Dan Plashkes attended Schulich School of Business - York University.
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $950k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
- FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
- Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology is building high-throughput bacterial platforms for the biotech industry, with a focus on plasmid DNA manufacturing.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 628
- Round size: Seed $182k–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
- TechInsights — TechInsights is a technology company that offers intellectual property consulting, patent brokerage services, and technical analysis.TechInsights offers IP advisory and consulting services; technical investigation and reverse engineering; market intelligence and device teardown and analysis; patent management software and tools; andmore.TechInsights is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Ottawa, Canada; Austin, U.S.A.; Tokyo, Japan; Shanghai, China; Warsaw, Poland; Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, Korea; and Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Gemin X Pharmaceuticals — Own Geminx.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
Canada's leading early-stage investor community in Waterloo, funding innovative startups across tech sectors with a strong focus on impact and diversity.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.2M; Angel $400k–$762k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MesoMat — Boost fleet safety, fuel consumption, and operating costs real-time data from your tires.
- YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
- Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.
CEED helps entrepreneurs in Nova Scotia with financing, education, business growth, engaging with youth and more.
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- Industry: Health Care, Consulting, Wellness
- Stage:Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 314
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Greenii — Sustainable & eco-friendly packaging solutions for small businesses in Canada. Greenii offers custom-printed paper bags, recycled gift bags, mailer boxes, tissue paper, napkins, labels, tags, packaging fillers, candle jars, alcohol bottles & custom printing for retail, food, e-commerce & hospitality brands.
- Apie The Wigologist — Apie The Wigologist offers natural hair extensions and wigs for enhancing natural beauty.
- Root & Branch Workplace Conflict Resolutions — Creating more functional, and healthy workplace communities through external assessments and investigations.
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 369
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Debt Financing $100k–$78M; Venture - Series Unknown $789k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Quadshift — Quadshift provides software solutions to thousands of businesses in a variety of vertical markets by acquiring and building great B2B software companies and holding them for the long term.
- Vimy Forge — Vimy Forge is a public-private partnership that aims to bridge the gap between defense procurement and Canadian innovation.
- TickTrade Systems — smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider with multi-asset electronic trading platforms, helping buy-side & sell-side institutions
Concrete Ventures finds great ideas and founders in Atlantic Canada that are ready to build massively scalable businesses and work with them to grow their businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $250k–$878k; Venture - Series Unknown $750k–$9.4M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Verna — Verna is a business using geospatial data science to address the climate and nature crises.We help landowners, investors, and policymakers to use land in ways that draw down carbon, enhance biodiversity and generate sustainable returns – e.g. through woodland creation, habitat creation and enhancement, and regenerative agriculture.Verna wasestablished in Borehamwood, Hertford.
- VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
- 3D BioFibR — 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications.
Lance Priebe is the Founder of Hyper Hippo Entertainment.
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- Industry: eSports, SaaS, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $236k–$579k; Angel $75k–$423k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
- 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!
- Nurture — Nurture transforms screen time into interactive stories that build curiosity, resilience, creativity, and empathy.
The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities. The E-Fund involves specific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $474k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $279k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $913k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qase — Qase helps law firms and legal referral organizations streamline referrals, automate intake and booking, and collect forwarding fees online.
- ViewsML — ViewsML leverages artificial intelligence to enhance virtual diagnostics and precision medicine. The company focuses on transforming spatial biology and translational research by utilizing virtual biomarkers. Their technology aims to improve patient outcomes by providing deeper insights into healthcare diagnostics. ViewsML is involved in developingimmunohistochemistry technology to streamline the diagnostic process and support research objectives efficiently.
- CereCura Nanotherapeutics — CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the therapeutic use of RNA nanomedicine to treat disorders of the central nervous system.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 283
- Round size: Seed $2M–$24M; Series A $7.4M–$50M; Series B $15M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $51M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Stand — Full homeowners insurance priced for your home, not your ZIP code. Make it safer and your premium drops. Concierge protection and coverage for high-value homes in California and Florida.
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
- Bedrock Robotics — Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $4.7M–$14M; Series B $5.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Endo — Endodeals is the first platform designed to value endorsement deals, giving you a credible, defensible estimate of a deal’s worth before negotiations begin.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
- Leonardo Worldwide —
Broad Street Bulls VC invests in companies, ideas, and founders in Saskatchewan and the prairies at the pre-seed and seed stage. It offers capital, mentorship, and support to founders of early-stage technology and high growth start-ups in industries ready for disruption.The company is driven by a vision to become a valuable partner forearly-stage tech companies and support them as they scale up beyond the prairies. It hopes to create an outsized impact on the ecosystem and economy.Broad Street Bulls was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, Isle of Man, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.
- Virtuo — The Complete Platform for Modern Homeownership
- Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help. They’re based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- 3D BioFibR — 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications.
- Musical AI — Musical AI provides scalable, auditable attribution and rights compliance infrastructure for generative music platforms and AI companies.
Sharp Alpha Advisors is a venture capital firm specializing in sports betting and online gaming
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- Industry: Sports, Gaming, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Packz — Open premium digital sports and Pokemon trading card packs, win rare collectible cards, and get them shipped to your door or cash them out instantly
- Courtyard — Turn your trading cards, sneakers, watches, and more into tradable Connected Collectibles and earn a percentage of all future sales.
- Prophet Exchange — Prophet Exchange is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange where users can set prices for others to bet on, or place bets on the prices already available.
Tidal Venture Partners is a pre-seed to seed + fund focused on the emerging ecosystem of Atlantic Canada.
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- Industry: Fitness, EdTech, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $949k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Innerlogic — Innerlogic is an AI operating layer for managing enterprise feedback.
- Bright Breaks — Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.
- Wellnify.ai — Wellnify.ai helps governments, health systems, and organizations launch preventative wellness at scale. Daily habits, community challenges, and real-time population health data.
Venture Capital for 3D Printing and Robotics
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- Industry: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $15k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $430k–$500k; Series B $1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Alate Partners empowers entrepreneurs who are rethinking real estate. Founded through a partnership between Dream and Relay Ventures, Alate focuses on innovative technology companies that enhance how commercial, residential, and industrial real estate is designed, built, and managed. In addition to capital, Alate provides unique access to expertiseand customers through its network of influential real estate owners, operators, and managers.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $753k–$5M; Series A $4.3M–$20M; Series B $21M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the trusted AI partner for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation.
- Ownright — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
- Uniti AI — Uniti's AI agents answer every call, text, chat, and email in seconds inside the PMS/CRM you already run. Built for real estate operators focused on growth, profitability & scale.
Nimbus Synergies leads early-stage financings in innovative and complementary digital health companies in British Columbia. By bringing these companies together to share resources, industry specific knowledge, and relationships, Nimbus is accelerating their growth and increasing their likelihood of success. Nimbus is significantly impacting theburgeoning yet underserved digital health sector through its leadership as investor, partner, and mentor. It is one of the most exciting additions to the province’s technology industry and the newest member of Discovery Parks’ group of companies. By investing Discovery Parks’ assets in startups focused on the intersection between life sciences and technology, Nimbus aims to improve health through BC-led innovation.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $750k–$5.5M; Series A $5.9M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
- EmergConnect — Home page - Localized information, services, and support for Canadian visitors.
- Variational AI — We are a team of AI/machine learning and business specialists using advanced generative AI for drug discovery. We collaborate closely with biopharmaceutical partners to develop new therapeutics across disease areas, aiming to positively impact lives.
We back legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from seed to series A. Funding meets influence.
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- Industry: Gaming, Sports, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$21M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.5M; Series A $10M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Upway — Upway offers an online platform focused on refurbished electric bicycles, providing consumers with access to inspected, repaired, and certified e-bikes from a variety of categories, including city, cargo, mountain, and folding models. The company acquires used or excess bikes from individuals, retailers, and fleets, performs comprehensivemechanical and electrical reconditioning, and then resells the bikes with a one-year warranty and delivery service. Upway also offers a trade-in option for owners looking to sell their e-bike, and supplies accessories like locks, lights, and bags to complement the purchase. The business emphasizes sustainable mobility by extending the life of existing e-bikes and delivering them at a lower cost than typical new bike retail.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Le Walk — Explore any city in real time with Routes. Press play or choose a tour and let your AI guide narrate the streets, stories, and hidden corners around you.
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 728
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $8.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- ShareWillow — ShareWillow is a SAAS company that offers a profit sharing software for companies to manage profit sharing plans.
We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.2M; Series A $3.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $127M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- SportIQ — World's only officially approved by FIBA smart basketball is available here to buy. Start tracking your shots, makes and misses to improve your game as basketball player. Works on Android and iOS devices and you will get a free smart basketball every 12 months you've been a paying Pro subscriber.
- NIL FanBox — FanBox turns college sports seasons into lasting experiences you can keep. Built for the fans who can't always be there; but never stop showing up.
- International Dance League — 6 Pro-Teams. 5 global stages. 1 champion. The IDL is the world's first professional dance league where elite teams compete head-to-head for the title.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $110k–$350k; Pre-Seed $117k–$364k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PsyMood — Ipo138 destinasi utama para pemburu jackpot di dunia maya bukan sekadar situs game online biasa melainkan platform yang didedikasikan untuk memberikan pengalaman bermain terbaik dengan peluang jackpot yang tak tertandingi.
- Tr3dent — Create your business ecosystem model and accelerate your digital transformation strategy with an easy to use, collaborative software platform you can use with internal and external stakeholders. See more.
We invest where sports intersect with life.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8M; Series A $5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.3M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — 6 Pro-Teams. 5 global stages. 1 champion. The IDL is the world's first professional dance league where elite teams compete head-to-head for the title.
Volta is Halifax's premier AI startup incubator, dedicated to transforming innovative ideas into market-ready products. Join our community to validate your AI concepts swiftly, secure your first customers, and scale confidently to $1M ARR.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $19k–$559k; Grant $25k–$78k; Pre-Seed $19k–$238k
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloxo — Bloxo is a social marketplace that provides on-demand recreational sports opportunities to individuals based on their interests and skill level. Bloxo platform operates by matching users with recreational games happening near them, enabling them to join in at their convenience without the need for long-term commitments or rigid schedules.
- Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
- Smooth Meal Prep — The easiest way to eat healthier and achieve your fitness goals - Easy prep, healthy choices delivered to your doorstep in Halifax and Dartmouth area! Select your plan, pick your menu and receive freshly cooked meals in the safety and comfort of your home!
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2192
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Athel AI — Athel AI provides an AI-powered clinical intake platform for physicians and healthcare teams. Its tools conduct patient interviews through voice, chat, and video, capture clinical histories, and generate structured summaries for physicians. The platform also supports AI-assisted reception, dictation, multilingual interviews, and automated clinical workflows. Athel AI provides clinical decision support while keeping diagnosis and treatment decisions under the physician's authority.
- 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.
- TasksMind — tasksmind turns urgent but ambiguous bug reports into fixed code and customer follow-up, so bugs don't become churn.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians, we are building a stronger economy.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $36k–$981k; Debt Financing $111k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M&M Service — M&M Service is an industrial service provider specializing in comprehensive mechanical repair and precision metal fabrication. The company operates dedicated service divisions to support heavy industries, including transportation, construction, manufacturing, and utilities.
- Ann-Lab Sucrerie — Ann-Lab Sucrerie Ltée is a commercial maple syrup harvesting and production company. The enterprise focuses on modernizing traditional agro-forestry practices through technical automation and sustainable structural expansions
- Eagle Falls Campground — Eagle Falls Campground is a rustic, family-owned nature retreat designed as a peaceful getaway to help travelers reconnect with nature, soak in scenic views, and get quality rest. Operating seasonally from late spring through autumn, the property balances a wild, nature-first environment with highly attentive customer service.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $5.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Haply — Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance.
- YScope — YScope is a software development company that provides log management and troubleshooting tools for automated failure prediction.
- Qubic Technologies — Qubic Technologies is a manufacturer of quantum microwave transmitters and receivers for remote sensing and communication.
Whitecap Venture Partners is a Canadian-based Venture Capital fund investing in early stage technology companies. Whitecap is headquartered in Toronto and invests across Canada and the Northeastern US. Since Whitecap’s inception the early 1990s, Whitecap recognises the power of real collaboration between entrepreneurs and investors. This rapport enables them to provide significant value to companies along with strong returns across investment cycles. Whitecap specialises in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and Medical Technologies. Whitecap is continually searching for upcoming ventures to support as the next generation of exceptional enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.4M; Series A $4.1M–$17M; Series B $8.9M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- thri5 — Thri5 develops software that connects retail data, people, and AI agents through a System of Actions. The platform monitors sales, margin, inventory, availability, and other operational data to identify exceptions and opportunities. It prioritizes signals, assigns ownership, coordinates workflows across retail teams, and supports execution through copilots and automation. The system also provides traceability and measures outcomes such as sales, margin, and inventory accuracy.
- Branch Energy — A tech-powered, green energy provider focused on helping consumers reduce their energy bills and carbon footprints
- Future Fertility — Future Fertility is a fertility technology company focused on AI-enabled and non-invasive diagnostic solutions to optimize decision making throughout the IVF journey, maximizing the probability of positive outcomes in IVF workflows. The first product is an egg assessment software, which uniquely provides insights in egg quality and has thepotential to improve success rates of IVF, egg freezing and egg donation cycles.
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Browse database — It's Free!Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ. Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and holds a Harvard Business School MBA. He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.
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- Industry: Computer, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.5M; Series A $744k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness app that motivates everyone to achieve small daily movement goals whenever and wherever they want. PlayFitt employs gamification and machine learning to assist players in moving more. PlayFitt uses video game mechanics to get players hooked on living a healthier lifestyle. PlayFitt is focusing on digital wellness by developingtechnology that is actually beneficial to people's health.
- IntelliSports — Fitness works great if you are already fit. Unfortunately, this represents a very slim band of people. For everyone else moving more would make a huge difference. And there are far more people who are willing and able to move a little more, than there are people who will ever "work out".That’s why PlayFitt isn’t a fitness app. It’s auser engagement machine that gets everyone moving!!!We use the same gaming addictive engagement strategies that drive massive user engagement. We help our users do something that is good for them - just move more.
- Sollum Technologies — The only lighting solution that can be tailored for growing any crop, anytime, anywhere. Discover the most advanced programmable LED grow lights for commercial greenhouse growers.
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Eberg Capital is a crypto, NFT investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Gaming, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $360k–$1M; Series A $3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kero Sports — We help sports organizations provide real time predictive gaming and build digital communities inside their current apps.
- Fantasy Life — Your league is unique. Your advice should be too. Fantasy football rankings, start/sits, tools and analysis from Matthew Berry and the Fantasy Life team.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
- Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
- Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Sports, Gaming, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.7M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Packz — Open premium digital sports and Pokemon trading card packs, win rare collectible cards, and get them shipped to your door or cash them out instantly
- System Labs — System is a modern longevity and preventative care platform that delivers science-backed treatments and support - entirely online. From hormone health to metabolism, we help you take control of your long-term wellness with expert-led care and convenient delivery.
- Rythm Health — Rythm is the world's easiest blood test.
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.7M; Angel $10k–$2M; Pre-Seed $188k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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.
- RainStick — The RainStick shower is a recirculating shower that saves 80% energy and 80% water but still feels like a luxurious shower.
- Afynia Laboratories — Keluaran sgp hari ini dan pengeluaran sgp tercepat menyediakan hasil togel singapore pools melalui tabel data sgp prize. Angka keluar sgp terbaru ditampilkan melalui siaran live draw sgp.
We leverage deep insights from our global business, offering investment partners a pathway to real-world traction and growth, while shaping a friendlier future.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series C, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$20M; Series B $5M–$43M; Series C $6.7M–$128M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
- Alithya — Alithya offers a full range of consulting services in information technology and organizational management. They help all their clients at both a strategic level and in the implementation of the resulting initiatives.With the acquisition of Groupe conseil OSI, Alithya expanded its range of services and now offers personalized hiring solutionsthat meet their customers’ highest standards. With a recruitment approach that is both human and distinctive, Alithya provides a pool of professional and experienced consultants who can successfully execute the projects you assign to them.
- Photonic — We are building a new world through scalable, fault-tolerant quantum technologies.
Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 420
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.9M; Series A $7.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Minicor — Minicor agentically builds self-healing automations on any no-API system, then hands you an API endpoint to call.
- Hop Aero — Hop Aero develops hypersonic rocket cargo systems that provide rapid point-to-point delivery across long distances. The company focuses on rocket cargo vehicles designed to transport supplies to austere and contested locations within minutes. Its systems aim to support logistics operations that require fast response times and resilient supply chains. Hop Aero positions its technology as part of a broader physical internet concept, enabling high-speed movement of physical goods similar to data on the internet. The company targets users that need time-critical delivery capabilities in challenging operational environments.
- Lightsprint — LightSprint is the software factory for product teams. PMs, designers and ops build in a shared cloud workspace while engineering controls every merge.
iGan Partners is one of Canada's largest healthcare-focused venture capital firms, investing across North America. We provide capital and expertise to scale innovative healthcare solutions.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5M; Series A $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Docsi — DOCSI provides preference card optimization, surgeon engagement and supply chain cost reduction through novel digital solutions.
- Exact Imaging — Exact Imaging is the developer of the ExactVu™ system, the first micro-ultrasound operating at 29 MHz that provides unmatched resolution. The system enables visualization and targeting of suspicious regions, in addition to performing systematic TRUS biopsies for prostate cancer imaging.
- Adenocyte — Adenocyte is a privately held medical technology business that focuses on early diagnosis of adenocarcinoma and its precancerous precursor.
Advancit Capital is a venture firm investing in media, technology and web3 startups. We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $4M–$18M; Series B $6.5M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
- worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
- Kairos Labs — Kairos Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem interest rate swap protocol
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