Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- Nomic — The world's fastest & most seamless protein profiling service, with as fast as 1-week turnaround. Multiplexing without compromise.
- BioIntelligence Technologies — Industrie 4.0 - Enabling intelligent biomanufacturing: from R&D to production. Real-time optimization of cell cultures and fermentations.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
- Delos — Delos is a generative AI platform for organizational and business development for companies.
- DIAMO — DIAMO combines automated room pricing, digital marketing, booking engine, and expert revenue support in one intuitive platform.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
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- Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
Peter M. Kern has been a director of Expedia since completion of the IAC/Expedia Spin-Off.Peter Kern is a Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, LP, a private equity firm.Prior to joining InterMedia, Mr. Kern was Senior Managing Director and Principal of Alpine Capital LLC.Prior to Alpine Capital, Mr. Kern founded Gemini Associates in1996 and served as President from its inception through its merger with Alpine Capital in 2001.Prior to founding Gemini Associates,Peter Kern was at the Home Shopping Network and Whittle Communications.Since April 2013,Peter Kern has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc., a publicly-traded Spanish-language media company.Mr. Kern also serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including Televicentro of Puerto Rico, LLC, Luxury Retreats International Holdings, Inc. and Cine Latino, Inc.Mr. Kern holds a B.S. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Busbud — Travel the world by bus. Compare and easily book bus tickets from thousands of bus companies for your next destination with Busbud.
- Snapcommerce — A new way to shop that maximizes savings, benefits and rewards on mobile.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Wendy — Wendy is pioneering a new era of storytelling with its app, designed to bring the excitement back to reading for kids.
- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple
Bee Partners, a preSeed venture capital fund, partners with Founders with the smarts, grit, and humanity to create tomorrow's machines. We invest in three vectors: Human Machine Interaction, Machine-to-Machine Learning, and Biological Machines.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- TensorStax — TensorStax is an AI-powered platform which helps data teams build, optimize, and maintain ETL & ELT pipelines with tools like dbt, Airflow, and Spark. Automate your data workflows and fix issues before they hit production.
- Sourcetable — AI spreadsheet & data analyst — Analyze files, clean data, create charts & graphs, get formula assistance, and have AI do your work for you.
- Infactory — AI Search You Can Trust
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
- 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.
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Neutrl — Neutrl partners with online brands to provide a sustainable shopping experience - allow customers to remove carbon emissions from their orders.
- CodeAnt AI — AI code reviewer that helps teams cut manual code review time and bugs by 50%. Start your 14-days free trial today!
- Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.
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 strongCanadian 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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
- Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
- Planetary Technologies — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
Montreal Start Up provides seed-level financing to entrepreneurs aspiring to establish companies in Montreal, with the focus being on software based services in the internet, wireless and media space. The Fund invests in entrepreneurs with very early stage concepts and ideas that need a bit a financing and some strategic and operational inputin order to help them progress their idea towards being a successful company or at least a company that is fundable by other VC’s.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada
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- StatusNet — Anyone can download StatusNet and run their own microblogging service, much like they can with traditional blogging platforms suchas Wordpress or MoveableType. The company is pursuing a WordPress-like strategy by offering a cloud service for public and private microblogging sites.
- GuestDriven — GuestDriven is a hospitality-focused guest engagement solution. We help hotels directly interact with guests, learn their preferences, build relationships and upsell inventory through personalized, moment-based targeted offers and communications.Guests are empowered with the ability to personalize and take full control of their stay, resultingin higher satisfaction, better reviews and more brand advocates.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, GuestDriven has implementations in over 60 cities worldwide. Our team is dedicated to revolutionizing the most universal industry in the world.
- Beyond the Rack — Montreal-based Beyond the Rack is the largest free Canadian private shopping club specializing in exclusive deals for women, men and kids seeking the latest in apparel, accessories, fragrances, furniture, wall art, home goods, electronics and more.Some 15 million active members in Canada, the United States, and beyond use Beyond the Rack toaccess limited-quantity flash deals. Beyond the Rack partners with some of the biggest fashion brands to deliver discounts of up to 80% on designer and fast fashion merchandise with no retail middleman required. More than 3,000 brands have worked with Beyond the Rack, and the site is constantly seeking new partnership opportunities.Beyond the Rack runs 15-25 sales per day, depending on demand and availability. Members receive notification emails in advance of each sale, based on their stated (customizable) preferences. Each Beyond the Rack flash sale typically starts at 10am EST and lasts no more than 48 to 72 hours—or whenever featured merchandise sells out, whichever comes first. Once each event ends, the featured products are no longer available. Beyond the Rack merchandise reviews help buyers evaluate items and decide whether and how much to buy. There are three easy ways to join Beyond the Rack. First, prospective members can simply request membership on the website. The process takes only a few minutes and requires minimal personal information. Second, prospects can take advantage of special promotions offered by Beyond the Rack’s marketing partners.Third, prospects can sign up with referral links provided by current Beyond the Rack members. All three sign-up options are free, with no ongoing membership fees. Even better, all confer the same benefits and opportunities to save on Beyond the Rack’s exclusive flash sales. At times, Beyond the Rack delays new member admissions when application volumes swell. This is to ensure that all members have equal access to flash sale merchandise. Application holds are temporary and all membership requests are addressed as promptly as possible.Beyond the Rack is renowned for its responsive customer service, speedy shipping times, and deep discounts. Members count on the latest fashions delivered to their doors as quickly as possible. It’s no wonder Beyond the Rack was named the fastest-growing internet retailer by trade publication Industry Retailer in 2011 and has notched more than $150 million in sales as of 2013.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
- OVERGantt — With over 25 years in project management, OVERGantt provides cutting-edge software designed to keep you ahead of the game. Enquire today!
- Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
- Quil — The #1 AI Platform for Recruiting Agencies
- Baseline — Baseline is a full-featured software platform for private lenders to originate and service loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
- Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
- Biostate AI — Biostate AI develops generative AI that benefit all human health.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
- Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
- Pillar Security — Pillar is a unified AI security platform that enables organizations to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across the entire AI lifecycle. By embedding robust security foundations from development through runtime, Pillar accelerates AI initiatives while effectively managing criticalbusiness risks. With capabilities like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails, Pillar streamlines compliance, prevents data breaches, and empowers teams to ship AI-powered applications and agents with confidence.
We invest in high-impact, early-stage founders using technology
to leave the world a better place. We lead and follow.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Smart Home, Air Transportation
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- Sherpa° — eVisas and travel requirements information for every step of your customer journey.
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
Founded in 2010, TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) is proud to be a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Akool — Akool provides a generative AI platform that supercharges business with personalized premium quality visual content for marketing and advertisement.
- Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
- Place Genomics Corporation — Bio Tech
Globalive fuels innovation by partnering with visionary entrepreneurs. Join our venture studio or explore funding opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pibox — Pibox is an all-in-one platform, where music production professionals manage, share, and refine audio. Perfect for project management, audio collaboration, collecting feedback, and seamless communication.
- Appello — Streamline workforce management, health & safety compliance, and resource allocation for construction businesses with Appello.
- Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Optable — Data Collaboration - Data Clean Room Platform
- Brio — Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features
- Coral — Coral is a virtual care platform that elevates women's health through evidence-based personalized support for perimenopause and menopause.
Mikko has 10+ years of experience from managing high-growth online businesses, including that of website platform Kotisivukone.fi, sold to Fonecta in January 2013.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hostaway — Hostaway Vacation Rental Software and Airbnb Management System Helps You Grow Your Vacation Rental Property Management Business By Automating And Streamlining Every Aspect Of Your Business across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and many more.
Triplabs Limited is a Hong Kong based venture capital firm, investing and scaling tech startups specifically related to the travel and hospitality industry.
It was created and spunoff in 2018 from two publicly listed corporations WWPKG Holdings (8069HK) and CTEH Holdings (1620HK).
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Investment focus
- Travel, Hotel, Mobile
- Pre-Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- Canada, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vpon — Vpon AI Big Data group helps companies discover opportunities with the power of data. Reliable Data, Smarter Analysis, Precise Planning for Measurable Results
- Elevate Rooms — Elevate Rooms enables small hotels, motels, and B&Bs to automate operations and drive revenue growth through technology, managed distribution, and OTA management.
- Angle — The easiest way to book a professional photographer! Angle connects customers with professional photographers in 500+ cities worldwide. Hire professional local photographers anywhere, anytime, for every photography need. #FindYourPhotographer #HireAPhotographer
Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Defined — Real-time token prices, charts, wallet tracking & trading terminal for Solana, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Sui, BSC, Tron & many more networks
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
Jesse Kaplan
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Buyosphere —
- GuestDriven — GuestDriven is a hospitality-focused guest engagement solution. We help hotels directly interact with guests, learn their preferences, build relationships and upsell inventory through personalized, moment-based targeted offers and communications.Guests are empowered with the ability to personalize and take full control of their stay, resultingin higher satisfaction, better reviews and more brand advocates.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, GuestDriven has implementations in over 60 cities worldwide. Our team is dedicated to revolutionizing the most universal industry in the world.
Our Investment FocusWe are interested in technology companies in the fields of ICT, robotics and high-tech. We favor teams of professionals comprised or led by serial entrepreneurs with past growth, fundraising and/or exiting experience. We are looking for product building companies that would be high-potential, fast-growth, and ready toconquer foreign markets. Best time to talk us is just after first revenues in the company.Our investment approach1. It all starts with a conversation where we learn about you and your ambition.
2. In the space of few meetings we are targeting to decide whether to look further.
3. We'll discuss particular terms, ask for more information, and analyse further.
4. The legal part - we know everyone loves it, and, finally, we join your venture.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Lithuania, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
- Monimoto — Wire-free, Anti-theft GPS tracker for motorcycles that calls your phone and sends GPS location coordinates if your motorcycle is being stolen.
- Perfection42 — Perfection42 empowers creators to reach Unlimited Quality with custom Artificial intelligence tools without a single line of code.
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- PrePad — PrePad provides advanced software solutions for optimizing capital lifecycle management, execution tactics, and asset development in the oil and gas drilling and completion industries.
- GlitchSecure — Assess your security posture with continuous vulnerability scanning and on-demand pentests. Prevent breaches through year round security monitoring and exper...
- Ces Energy Solutions — CES Energy Solutions is an energy company that provides consumable chemical solutions for the North American oil and gas industry. Its services span the entire oilfield lifecycle, including drilling fluids, completion and stimulation chemicals, production chemicals, and pipeline and midstream treatments. The company offers products such ascorrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, demulsifiers, H₂S scavengers, and paraffin control agents.
Stuart MacDonald is a Venture Advisor of Narrative.Fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Travel
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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Tamarisc invests in and helps build companies that improve the human habitat through innovating at the intersection of real estate, health, and technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Hospitality, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Australia
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- Bite — Bite is the leading intelligent kiosk ordering software trusted by restaurants and C-stores.
- Northspyre — Proactive intelligence platform that empowers real estate development via Northspyre's commercial real estate software
- Tiny Health — Tiny Health is the first at-home gut health test for moms and babies 0-3 years. Detect any gut imbalances early on and prevent chronic conditions.
Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Restaurants, Software
- Angel, Funding Round, Seed
- Finland, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
- Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
- Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
Visionnaire Ventures is a global technology investment firm focused on visionary people and ideas that can become world-class, market-leading companies. Based in San Francisco, California, with unparalleled global access, the team seeks out and funds innovative businesses anywhere in the world that are leveraging technology to evolve and create newInternet and mobile experiences. With the ability to fund companies across all stages from seed to growth, Visionnaire Ventures is focused on key market segments where novel ideas have the ability to become sea changes for people everywhere.The Visionnaire Ventures team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives who have founded and operated global internet, game and online media companies, and thus are able to support entrepreneurs companies as they build globally successful companies.The team is currently seeking and funding companies active in diverse technology market segments including Commerce, Advertising, Mobile, Big Data, IoT.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Japan, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- LeapMind — LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deeplearning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.
- Genies — Genies empowers anyone to create AI Avatars, fashion, props, and experiences with UGC tools. The Avatar Framework uses machine learning and computer graphics to ensure interoperability - providing limitless utility for all creations.
- Bigfoot Biomedical — Bigfoot is changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes through development of a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
Practica Capital
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Investment focus
- B2B, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AMLYZE — AMLYZE Risk Assessment Module is an automated customer AML/CFT Risk Assessment and Management feature for financial companies.
- eany.io — Discover Eany.io, the B2B marketplace for DIY, household, and electronics. Seamlessly connect buyers and sellers with quality products and services.
- Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.
Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Step — Step Mobile offers the best secured credit card to build credit. No credit check, cashback on every purchase, and average score increase of 57 points.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Titanium Ventures is the results-oriented VC partner to the most promising technology startups. Accelerating extraordinary companies and fueling growth of standout disruptors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, China, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- BuildOps — The only commercial management software built specifically for commercial trade businesses. Improve efficiency and increase profitability with BuildOps. seeed home
- Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
- Bedrock Energy — Bedrock Energy is developing drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable geothermal heating and cooling. The company develops autonomous drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to make geothermal heating and cooling more widespread, affordable, and accessible.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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Investment focus
- Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
- Koios Intelligence — MISSIONKoïos Intelligence is on a mission to Improve the insurance value chain using conversational AI.Our platform Olivo is built for insurance customers with the goal of eliminating waiting time, reducing operational costs and offering an unprecedented customer experience. Based on Natural Language Processing and state-of-the-art ArtificialIntelligence, Olivo is made to answer new customer needs and expectations in today’s digital world.
- Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Framework is a top-performing venture fund that discovers, develops and scales the next generation of world-class technologies, through a unique founder-centric approach to active capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
- Resilia — Our mission is to strengthen the capacity of nonprofits and help grantors scale impact through data-driven technology solutions. Our clients are champions for public good. They are big-picture entrepreneurs solving global problems. They are local organizations creating positive dialogue within their community. They found schools and fund the arts.They fight for progress where they work. We are honored and humbled to be a part of their story.Resilia powers the people changing the world. After spending nearly a decade advising nonprofits and grantmakers of all sizes, Founder and CEO Sevetri Wilson set her sights on transforming the nonprofit sector through technology.Resilia was launched in 2016 as a software solution to expedite the incorporation and exemption process of nonprofit organizations across all 50 states. Today, Resilia has evolved to serve nonprofits, foundations, corporations, governments, and other grantmakers. Our methodology is centered on trust-based philanthropy principles. Resilia, a name that represents a commitment to positive impact, is the only SaaS platform solution that enables nonprofits to increase capacity and funders to go beyond the grant with technical assistance, coaching, and capacity-building support. We meet changemakers where they are.Resilia’s mission has always been to strengthen and uplift nonprofit organizations by elevating their stories, driving advocacy efforts, and prioritizing those that are underserved through long-term capacity building. From our team to the organizations we serve, DEI is in everything we do.As of May 2021, Resilia has raised over $11M in venture capital. We are based in New Orleans with an office in New York City.
- ScaleHub — ScaleHub solutions take traditional data extraction to the cloud, enable 99 % automation or greater and get guaranteed ROI while enabling true agility.
Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler
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- SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Seed
- Canada
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- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Checkfront — With over 4000 customers in 120 countries, Checkfront is an Built on the _Saas_ model, Checkfront is a fully managed solution. It includes automated updates, backups, and industry-leading security on a high speed, highavailability network.
Jackson Square Ventures is an an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses.
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- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Chile
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- Clearstory.build — Construction's leading Change Order Communication Platform. We help Subs, GCs, and Owners communicate T&M Tags and Change Order Requests in real-time.
- OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
- Stand — Stand simulates real-world risk using physics and AI.
We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Canada, United States
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- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- VueReal — VueReal is making micro- and nano- technology a reality by developing and commercializing platforms that enable efficient, practical, and scalable production and integration of micro-and nano- devices.
- Silfab Solar — Silfab solar panels are designed and engineered specifically for the North American environment and manufactured utilizing advanced robotics.
Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Carputty — Carputty is a superior way to finance a car. Buying new, used, or refinancing? Carputty's flexible line of credit simplifies the process. Get started now!
- Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
- HawkEye 360 — HawkEye 360 is a space-based RF data analytics company with one-of-a-kind solutions to better spectrum mapping and monitoring on land & water
Lauri Sommarbergis the Co-Founder and Board Member of LVS Brokers.
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- SaaS, Travel, Software
- Seed
- Canada
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- Hostaway — Hostaway Vacation Rental Software and Airbnb Management System Helps You Grow Your Vacation Rental Property Management Business By Automating And Streamlining Every Aspect Of Your Business across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and many more.
Andrew Wilkinson is the Co-Founder of Tiny. He attended Ryerson University.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
- Windsor.io — Windsor lets sales and marketing teams improve conversion with personal videos. Record a single video, hook up your CRM and hit send. Our AI will create and send a personal video to every recipient
Jimmy G.
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- Travel, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- instaHop — Taking care of everything from start to end: Experience + Host + Transportation. We match you with the best available local Host for your desired Experience. No booking in advance is needed! A "Hop" is a Personalized Experience that includes Host and Private Transportation
Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
- ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
- HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.
K3 Ventures provides venture capital for technology startups in various sectors such as finance, education, healthcare, food and agriculture and others. The firm is headed by Kuok Meng Xiong.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Indonesia
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- WIZ.AI — WIZ.AI Talkbot is a leading Generative AI-powered omnichannel customer engagement solution for enterprises to propel business growth.
- Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Sending Network — A super-app that combines chat, socializing, and trade, giving you complete control over your social data, while you build communities and share ideas, seamlessly.
CBGF helps privately-owned Canadian businesses with the capital, talent, and expertise they need to drive growth and realize their potential.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, Argentina
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- FundThrough — Businesses in the U.S. & Canada can get paid in a day by advancing funds from unpaid invoices with online invoice financing and factoring from FundThrough.
- Felix Health — Felix offers on-demand treatment for common health issues such as erectile dysfunction, hair loss, HIV prevention, acne, birth control, and more.
- Specialty Medical Partners — Specialty Medical Partners is a grouping company for independent cardiac, respiratory, and internal medicine hospitals.
A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
- Pallie AI — Pallie AI develops AI-powered companion that supports health and wellbeing.
- The Nuclear Company — The Nuclear Company is a fleet-scale nuclear deployment firm that offers for nuclear sectors.
We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
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- Sports, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
- NIL FanBox — NIL FanBox is a sports merchandise company that offers curated boxes of autographed collectibles for sports fans.
- The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Mexico
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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.
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
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- Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada
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- Incrowd — Incrowd is a livestreaming app that encourages collaboration and makes events more interactive.
- Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
Cowie Capital Partners is a private equity firm that focuses its investments in real estate properties.
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- SaaS, Travel, Software
- Seed
- Canada
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- MinuteBox — Secure legal entity management in the cloud. Minute books, transactions, compliance, document assembly, cap tables, e-signature, automated workflows
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
- Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
- Tembo Money — Need help boosting your budget or accessing lower rates? Voted Best Mortgage Broker 2023 & 2022, our award-winning service is available 7 days a week.
WIND Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm specializing in the new mobility, energy, and retail sectors for startups and scaleups. The firm leverages COPEC's significant resources to accelerate startups and scaleups in realizing new growth. It also invests in entrepreneurs working to build tomorrow’s energy, mobility, and retailcompanies. WIND Ventures aims to build a sizeable investment portfolio of strategic startups and scale-ups where COPEC's significant resources accelerate the exploration or realization of new growth. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
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- Energy, Software, Energy Efficiency
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
- Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
- ClearFlame Engines — ClearFlame's clean engine technology equips diesel engines to quickly and cost-effectively reduce CO2 emissions, lower costs & break free from fossil fuels.
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