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Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Canada in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Travel Canada investments
Real Ventures	10
Inovia Capital	5
Lightbank	4
Peter M. Kern	4
Hedgewood	4
Relay Ventures	3
Accomplice	3
Bee Partners	3
Montreal Start Up	3
Accel	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
Innovacorp	3
Golden Ventures	3
N49P	3
TSVC	2
Globalive	2
Rasool Rayani	2
Titanium Ventures	2
Stuart MacDonald	2
Mikko Nurminen	2
Open Circle Capital	2
Tamarisc Ventures	2
Lasse Järvinen	2
Practica Capital	2
Narrative Fund	2
Brightspark Ventures	2
Neil Wainwright	2
Business Development Bank of Canada	2
Jesse Kaplan	2
TripLabs Limited	2
Visionnaire Ventures	2
Stephen Curry	2
Government of Canada	1
K3 Ventures	1
KB Partners	1
East Valley Ventures	1
Jeffery H. Boyd	1
Atlas Venture	1
Canada Media Fund	1
Desjardins Venture Capital	1
Export Development Canada	1
Andrew Wilkinson	1
Mantella Venture Partners	1
GrowthWorks Capital	1
Silicon Valley Bank	1
BDC Capital Cleantech Practice	1
Framework Venture Partners	1
Rajiv Khaneja	1
CAE Montmagny-L'Islet	1
LP Maurice	1

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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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
Fletch — Fletch - the cybersecurity answer engine. Get ahead and stay ahead of cyber threats.
BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Talent.com — Find jobs, salary & company information on Talent.com. Discover your next career today. Your job search starts here!
GoodFit — Implement & scale any GTM strategy. Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stride — On-demand, confidential micro-coaching for all your employees.
Chariot Claims — We make it easy for you to file your claim and secure your compensation from corporations that violated your rights.
SparkPlug — Award-winning platform specializing in sales gamification for retailers, brands, and restaurants.

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.

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.

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
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.

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Trusty Estate — Trusty helps you create a digital Letter of Wishes, so the things you love end up with the people you love. Securely add assets, documents, and more.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bolo AI — At Bolo AI, we are pioneering the future of knowledge management in heavy industries, starting with Oil & Gas. Our groundbreaking platform combines domain-specific models with cutting-edge AI technology to redefine how millions of heavy industry professionals access and create vital knowledge. Our products, Bolo AI Answer and Bolo AI Writer,streamline access to critical information and documentation processes, setting new standards in productivity, safety, and efficiency.
Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Octave — The context engine for Growth and GTM engineering teams
Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Drafter — Drafter is a faster, cheaper, better way to get the drawings you need

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 VCâ€™s.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Corelight — Corelight helps network defenders reach the high ground where they can see more and react faster.
H Company — H is an AI Research Lab and Product Company

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.
Influitive — Our Customer Advocacy Saas product and professional services allow your company to strategically discover, nurture and mobilize customer advocates.
Shoebox — Clearwater Clinical designs and manufactures innovative, affordable, medical-grade devices that apply the advantages of mobile technology to common clinical practices.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
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.
Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
SkipTheDishes — SkipTheDishes is a North American technology company seamlessly connecting people to local restaurants and food couriers, making great food more accessible. Through the SkipTheDishes network, restaurants gain more business, food couriers earn extra income on their own schedule, and busy customers are able to gain time by ordering from hundreds oflocal restaurants and national chains that never offered delivery before. From the founding of our network in 2012 to our expansion to 20 cities, SkipTheDishes is advancing the future of food delivery.
Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mave — Mave is the AI assistant for real estate, streamlining marketing, market data, and content creation. Built on exclusive insights, Mave helps agents and brokerages scale efficiently. Join the beta to simplify your workflow.
Quil — Quil is the AI assistant helping recruiting agencies eliminate hours of busywork. Automate interview notes, ATS updates, candidate submittals & more.
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.

Founded in 2010, TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) is proud to be a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
Petal Surgical — Petal is a surgical technology company pioneering incisionless surgery through Acoustic Sculpting, a proprietary form of boiling histotripsy. Our platform uses focused sound waves to precisely destroy harmful tissue without cuts, heat, or toxicity offering gentler alternative to traditional surgery.
Carbon Free Energy Cloud — Carbon Credits Simplified

A startup studio and investment firm backing bold founders through capital, operational depth, and 25+ years of company-building experience. Discover what we build and invest in.

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.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Titanium Ventures is the results-oriented VC partner to the most promising technology startups. Accelerating extraordinary companies and fueling growth of standout disruptors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, China, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
OpenSolar — OpenSolar connects homeowners, solar professionals, and partners with free software to design, sell, and manage fast, accurate solar projects.

Stuart MacDonald is a Venture Advisor of Narrative.Fund.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Travel
Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sherpa° — eVisas and travel requirements information for every step of your customer journey.
Swept — Swept is a tech company that develop software solutions for the janitorial industry. Swept was founded by Matt Cooper and Michael Brown in August 2014 and is based in Nova Scotia.

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.

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.

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.

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 — Monimoto develops and manufactures world's easiest to install and use GPS tracker. It's autonomous, powered by battery and controlled by smart phone.
Perfection42 — Perfection42 empowers creators to reach Unlimited Quality with custom Artificial intelligence tools without a single line of code.

Tamarisc invests in and helps build companies that improve the human habitat through innovating at the intersection of real estate, health, and technology.

Investment focus

Software, Hospitality, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bevi — Bevi aims to eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. We envision a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered. It is an ambitious goal, but we are on it!
Lighthouse.io — Lighthouse is a workforce management platform that provides complete visibility of your team, mobile forms and workflows, and powerful reports that improve service delivery and reduce costs.
Concrete Sensors — Hilti's wireless concrete sensors and free mobile app make it easier to keep track of your concrete's temperature, maturity and relative humidity.

Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

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.

Practica Capital

Investment focus

B2B, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Creem — Creem provides Indie Hackers, Micro-SaaS and SaaS businesses with instant financial tools and functionality. As a Merchant of Record our pre-integrated embeddable components tap your existing data, boosting revenue effortlessly. No costs—pure growth potential for your business.
Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.

We invest in high-impact, early-stage founders using technology to leave the world a better place. We lead and follow.

Investment focus

Solar, Smart Home, Air Transportation
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — Bidirectional EVs! Earn extra cash, save money when utility prices peak and save the day during a blackout! Seamlessly orchestrate solar and storage.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jozu — Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments.
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
ShopVision Technologies — AI is reinventing digital selling. Lead the change or risk being left behind.

Neil Wainwright is the Founder and CEO of UpHabit.

Investment focus

Travel, Leisure, Podcast
Seed, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wishroute — Gain, retain and engage customers with conversational text messaging built for wellness apps, products and services. We do the 2-way texting for you and will help you optimize user experiences to increase revenue, engagement, conversion rates, activation rates, retention and more.
LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
Pilot — Social Trip Planner that makes building an itinerary with friends easy. Easily plan trips, and see where friends have been so you can go too.

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dozr — Construction equipment rentals available near you. From compact track loader to aerial work platform rentals, research prices and reserve heavy equipment rentals online.
Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
Spring Loaded Technology — Breakthrough spring technology has delivered the world's first and only knee brace that can reduce pressure across the entire joint and power the legs.

Jesse Kaplan

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.

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).

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

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.

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 characters, fashion, props, and experiences with UGC tools. The Avatar Framework and creation tools enables developers, talent, and IP to generate and deploy engine-ready AI characters.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Step — Step: Borrow, bank, and build credit all in one powerful app. Take control of your finances with smarter tools designed to help you grow your money quickly. No hidden fees. Start your financial journey today.
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.

The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. 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 ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PowerCo — PowerCo expansion is the next step in expanding the worldwide battery industry while also localizing cell production and establishing a new value chain.
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.
London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
NIL FanBox — NIL FanBox is a sports merchandise company that offers curated boxes of autographed collectibles for sports fans.
The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Jeffery Boyd currently works as the founder and managing director for Brothers Brook, LLC. He previously worked at Booking Holdings Inc., formerly The Priceline Group Inc as the Chairman. Jeffery attended Cornell Law School.

Investment focus

Travel, Health Care, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Plannin — Plannin is a travel booking platform that offers travelers tools and resources.
@hotel — Tripscout is the center of the world for passionate travelers. We bring you the best articles and videos to satisfy your wanderlust and help you plan amazing trips.
Cruisebound — Cruising made simple. Cruisebound makes it easy to book your cruise online. Compare cruises from major cruise lines and find the best fit for your vacation needs.

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Disc Medicine — Disc Medicine is led by an experienced team of scientists and industry experts, and supported by a panel of advisors with a strong track record of discovering and developing new and innovative therapies. Disc Medicine was founded by Atlas Venture and Brian MacDonald, with Novo Ventures and Access Biotechnology joining as additional investors.
Pheon Therapeutics — Pheon Therapeutics is an Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) specialist that creates ADCs for a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers. Its lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types.The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London,England.
GRO Biosciences — GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency,stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders, and autoimmunity. The company, co-founded by Dr. George Church, is located at the Harvard Life Lab, shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotechnology startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Virtual Reality
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cegerco — Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc.
Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
Groupe Canva — Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee companyserves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience.

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.

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.

Andrew Wilkinson is the Co-Founder of Tiny. He attended Ryerson University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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

We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

eLeapPower — Learn more about how our technology is revolutionizing eMobility.
Equispheres — All metal powders for additive manufacturing are not created equal - except ours. Make manufacturing AM a reality with our revolutionary powder technology.
FREDsense — Ensure accurate PFAS detection with Fredsense's advanced testing solutions for water quality and safety. Contact us today for more information!

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
Botpress — Botpress is a modern developer stack to build enterprise and open-source chatbots. Learn about our conversational AI platform built for developers.
Castellum.AI — Castellum.AI is the most accurate, reliable and fastest financial crime prevention solution. Don't take our word for it, try it yourself. Search sanctions, PEPs and 1000+ global watchlists in 100+ languages.

Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Travel
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

CAE Montmagny-L'Islet is a non profit organization that offers businesses, financial assistance and consulting services

Investment focus

Rental, Travel, Tourism
Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Camping coop des Érables de Montmagny — Camping coop des Érables de Montmagny offers 270 camping sites for rent to individuals, 60% of which are occupied by seasonal workers. A variety of activities are available to campers. Founded in 1983, the campsite employs about fifteen people.

LP Maurice is the CEO & Co-founder of Busbud, an e-commerce startup focused on intercity bus travel that makes it easy to book bus tickets in 80+ countries. Busbud was named one of the 3 most innovative companies in Canada in 2014 according to PwC. LP holds an MBA from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Corporate Law from theUniversity of Montreal and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from HEC Montreal.

Investment focus