Top 50 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in December 2024

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

Titanium Ventures provide venture capital investment in lighthouse technology companies that are commencing scale. Leveraging data science for scaling new business.

Globalive fuels innovation by partnering with visionary entrepreneurs. Join our venture studio or explore funding opportunities.

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.

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.

Practica Capital

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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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.

Startup TNT is a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building of investors, entrepreneurs and cheerleaders, who gather every week and build friendships before companies. Previously generated more than $3 Million capital for local startups, TNT aims to transform Alberta into Canada's be

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession,financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.

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.

Positron Dynamics LLC was founded in 2011 by Ryan Weed and Joshua Machacek. Our area of expertise is in the use of ‘cold’ positrons as a diagnostic for materials and in low-energy collisions with atoms and molecules. The company develops positron beam technologies for use in non-destructive testing (NDT) of critical components in the aerospace anddefense markets. At the heart of these technologies is a novel method of producing and moderating positrons, for which several patents were awarded in 2011.

They believe that focus is important to being a good investor. Over the past decade, they have produced a strong investment track record by remaining focused on a handful of industry sectors that they know well and backing founders and management teams in companies with exciting growth potential. When they stick to the sectors, business models andinvestment situations which they know best, they are able to make better investment decisions, be better partners to their management teams, and produce better outcomes for portfolio company employees and investors alike.The founders of Tritium have been successfully investing together for over a decade. During that time, the Tritium team has deployed over $625 million of capital and produced several, notable “wins” for investors, founders and employees alike.The careers of Tritium’s founders began at a global management consulting firm and continued at a well-established venture capital firm, where they shared responsibility for managing several billion dollars of capital. There, the team successfully launched a national, growth practice that grew from a “skunk works” effort to a large component of the firm’s investment strategy. In 2013, Tritium Partners was launched as an independent firm that could focus exclusively on lower middle market growth buyouts.

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.

Pender is a growing, independent, value-based mutual fund company in Vancouver with the goal of creating value by generating superior risk-adjusted returns.

HomeAway operates an online vacation rental property marketplace that enables property owners and managers to market properties for rental to vacation travelers alongside its subsidiaries. Its portfolio includes vacation rental websites, such as HomeAway.com, VRBO.com, and VacationRentals.com in the United States, HomeAway.co.uk andOwnersDirect.co.uk in the United Kingdom, HomeAway.de in Germany, Abritel.fr and Homelidays.com in France, HomeAway.es and Toprural.com in Spain, AlugueTemporada.com.br in Brazil, HomeAway.com.au and Stayz.com.au in Australia, and Bookabach.co.nz in New Zealand. HomeAway also owns travelmob.com, an Asia Pacific short-term rental site as well as operates BedandBreakfast.com, a site for finding bed and breakfast properties. Moreover, it offers HomeAway software for professionals at software and Glad to Have You products. HomeAway operated its online marketplace through 40 websites in 22 languages and included approximately one million paid listings of vacation rentals in approximately 190 countries as of December 31, 2014. Brian Sharples and Carl Shepard founded CEH Holdings in February 2004 that became HomeAway in 2006. HomeAway has its headquarters in Austin in Texas. It operates as a subsidiary of Expedia as of December 14, 2015.

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.

We operate with the speed and rigor of a Silicon Valley VC firm, while leveraging the value-add of BMW as a corporate partner

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

We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships

Good People Ventures is a Business Intelligence company.

We give founders simple exits that protect their team and keep their businesses operating. Offers in 7 days, close in 30.

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

Revolution invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Our mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that offer more choice, convenience, and control in the lives of consumers and businesses.

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.

Jackson Square Ventures is an an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses.

Mistral Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests in startups that solve critical business problems, regardless of the business model– enterprise software, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, etc. It also partners with founders who value experience, commitment, and the higheststandards of integrity and respect.

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

B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.

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.

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.

Cowie Capital Partners is a private equity firm that focuses its investments in real estate properties.