Top 50 Startup Investors in Canada (August 2026)
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.4M–$68M |
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CFV Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Japan | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $20k–$5.4M |
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$65M |
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Corl
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Men's, Fashion | $200k–$2.4M |
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Conconi Growth Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $500k–$21M |
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GrowthWorks Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1.6M–$21M |
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White Star Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1.4M–$60M |
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Stacked Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $20k–$4.5M |
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Chris Neumann
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Finance, Grocery | $1M–$1.3M |
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Colin Harris
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Industrial Automation, AgTech | $600k–$750k |
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North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.1M–$555M |
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Jeeves
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Debt Financing | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Geoff Entress
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $609k–$9M |
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Alex Norman
Angel
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1 | Canada, Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $350k–$9M |
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RBC Generator Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | EdTech, Finance, Hardware | |
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Connetic Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage | $50k–$3.3M |
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Open People Network
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Marketplace, Food and Beverage | $600k–$4M |
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Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $340k–$13M |
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BY Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $996k–$70M |
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VantagePoint Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Series B, Series C | Software, Manufacturing, Internet | $6M–$111M |
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Doug Atkin
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series D | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.2M–$57M |
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Canaccord Genuity Group
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Australia | Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Mining, Precious Metals, Mineral | $2M–$115M |
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Mike Edwards
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Art | $387k–$5.6M |
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Dave Johnson
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Developer Tools, SaaS | $750k–$2.6M |
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Private Private
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Sagard
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, France | Private Equity, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, Medical | $16M–$414M |
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Agriculture, Health Care | $1.5M–$22M |
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Christopher Bissonnette
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $653k–$20M |
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Navigator Global Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Private Equity, Corporate Round | Financial Services, Mobile, FinTech | |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$49M |
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Patrick Lor
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS | $699k–$20M |
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Afore Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$25M |
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Ryan Pawell
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed | Medical, Biopharma, Biotechnology | |
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Larry Mercado
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $366k–$3.4M |
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David Tedman
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Sports | $692k–$6M |
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G. Scott Paterson
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Marketplace, SaaS, FinTech | |
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Tribune Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Oil and Gas, Software, SaaS | $557k–$24M |
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Chrysalix Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, The Netherlands | Series B, Series A | Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech | $2M–$24M |
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Riley Keohen
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Barney Pell
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | $750k–$14M |
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Government of Canada
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Grant, Debt Financing | Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care | $100k–$30M |
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Social Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, SaaS | $1M–$45M |
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Plaza Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $2.2M–$70M |
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Venture Capital Action Plan
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Series A | Finance, Venture Capital, Angel Investment | |
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$80M |
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Kensington Capital Partners Limited
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Series B, Private Equity | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $131k–$60M |
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HarbourVest Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | $5M–$402M |
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Jonathan Bixby
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software | $750k–$7.5M |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$20M |
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FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1441
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
Early stage venture capital firm focused on Fintech
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $20k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AleFi — AleFi is a social investing app that connects retail investors interested in the financial world to know where and when to invest. Users can connect with other investors on the platform, as well as view other users' investments, profitability, and portfolio composition. It aims to provide its users with a way to follow and view the portfoliosof credible investors. Customers will pay $5 per month to gain access to successful investors' trading portfolios through AleFi's service. The company and the investor split the fees 20/80.
- Konduit — Connecting consumers with 300+ local lenders that are hard-to-find online and offer better deal on loans
- Konduit — Konduit is a no-code fintech infrastructure allowing banks quickly onboard and adopts third-party fintech solutions. It connects banks, fintechs, and other technology in a seamless, no-code platform for financial institutions. The platform delivers real-time pre-qualified rates for consumer loans at a fraction of the cost. Lenders can use theKonduit platform to combine individual fintech solutions to solve end-to-end business use cases.Konduit was founded in 2021 and is based in Reston, Virginia.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 385
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modem — Your dev team's auto-triage Product Manager
- CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
- Routehappy — ATPCO | The foundation of modern airline retailing
Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
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- Industry: Health Care, Men's, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Debt Financing $200k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jack Health — Jack Health is an online clinic that offers health tips and health products for men.
- Bridger — A tech-enabled platform connecting businesses with working professionals to share knowledge, on-demand. Quickly chat over a 1x1 phone engagement :)
- Woof Concept — A premium lifestyle pet brand. Woof Concept builds dog collars, leashes and harnesses for dog and dog parents around the world. All products are made in Canada and backed by our lifetime warranty!
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.7M; Series A $2.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $3.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2006
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.
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$13M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $12M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Fluxco — Procurement, leasing, service and warranty for padmount, substation, and distribution transformers from 100+ global suppliers.
- FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
- Tetrix — Discover Tetrix, the platform that empowers institutional investors with AI-driven insights for smarter decisions in alternative markets. Automate data collection, enhance investment strategies, and streamline operations with cutting-edge technology.
Stacked Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in various technology companies. The firm utilizing a systematic approach for screening and sourcing investment opportunities, including venture accelerators, incubators, seed funds, as well as direct investments. It uses a strict systemic approach to evaluate ventures for strong businessfundamentals and a path to profitability.Stacked Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $20k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $20k–$354k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Avvir — Avvir harnesses the power of reality capture data by automating progress and earned value tracking, quality control, and as-built creations.
- Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- HAAS Alert — HAAS Alert’s mission is to build lifesaving mobility solutions to make vehicles and roads safer and smarter. Our vision is a connected, collision-free world where everyone gets home safely. HAAS Alert’s Safety Cloud service sends real-time digital alerts to drivers, connected cars, and autonomous vehicles via vehicle dashboards and infotainmentsystems, navigation applications, and smartphones to aid drivers earlier in making safer, smarter driving decisions.
Chris Neumann is the CEO and Cofounder of DataHero, the leading platform for visualizing data from online services. Chris was previously the first employee at Big Data pioneer Aster Data Systems, where he helped create Aster’s innovative Big Data platform. Chris holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computing Sciencefrom Simon Fraser University.
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- Industry: Software, Finance, Grocery
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revyl — your app should never break.
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Colin is Chief Operating Officer of PMC-Sierra Inc. Colin is a founder of PMC-Sierra, has served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer since February 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations at PMC-Sierra from July 2004 and Vice President of IC Technology from May1997 to July 2004. Colin is anelected member of the Global Semiconductor Association Board of Directors and serves on the advisory board of the Design for E-Beam (DFEB) initiative. Colin currently also serves on the board of directors for Yaletown portfolio company Redlen Technologies
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- Industry: Software, Industrial Automation, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $600k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
- aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
- Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals builds manufacturing operations software for regulated industries like cannabis, nutraceuticals, food, and beverage. As an alternative to rigid ERPs and fragile spreadsheets, its GMP-ready platform connects inventory, quality & compliance, planning, and costing into one easy-to-use system - empowering teams to plan smarter, actfaster, and scale with confidence.Purpose-built for complex, fast-growing operations, the platform supports vertically integrated producers, white-label and co-manufacturers, and GMP-ready, export-focused facilities that need airtight traceability and flexibility. It's used across teams: operations and QA capture production floor data in real time, while finance, compliance, sales, and planning rely on it for informed decision-making and audit readiness.It provides:- Real-time visibility into materials and processes - Embedded quality assurance and compliance - A structured but adaptable system that supports how manufacturers actually workFeatures available:- Inventory Management - Work Orders & Production Tracking - SKU & Product Management - Vendor & Procurement Management - Production Planning (New Module) - Embedded Quality Assurance (QA) - Traceability & Compliance - Role-Based Access & Permissions - Reporting & Export Tools
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$35M; Series A $4.7M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glow — Glow is an insurance company that aims to transform insurance to better protect people. The company is working toward holistic coverage for work, life and everything in between. Glow was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.
- Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
Jeeves provides multi-currency corporate cards, payments, non-dilutive funding, and free built-in expense management for growing businesses around the world.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $609k–$6.3M; Series A $1.1M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Migo, Inc. — Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.
- Desk — Desk is a human transaction coordinator firm that offers to monitor companies and clients' mail, remind deadlines, and prepare paperwork.
- Potato — Potato builds AI-native software that helps scientific teams move from idea to experimentally validated results. Our agents and tools help researchers design experiments, generate protocols, prepare lab automation-ready outputs, analyze results, and decide what to run next.
Alex is a tech entrepreneur, an active angel investor and community builder who is currently the General Partner at N49P, the Canadian Partner of AngelList and the Managing Director of TechToronto. Previously Alex, co-founded, grew, and sold HomeSav. Before HomeSav, Alex worked at Lehman Brothers, McKinsey and several venture-backed start-ups inNYC, the Valley, and London, including Simply Business which recently sold for $400m+ USD.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $700k–$6M; Series A $8.5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Floqer — Build workflows that leverage 75+ industry-leading data sources and AI-powered web scraping to enrich prospect data, conduct account-based research, and automate sales motion at scale.
- Draft — Get blog posts, social posts, email copy and more from world class writers. Request quality content for your business in a few clicks.
- Draft — Find & work with content creation freelancers in a trustless way, running on Internet Computer
The RBC Generator is a $10-million impact investment venture capital fund raised as part of the RBC Social Finance Initiative. The fund invests in entrepreneurs that are addressing social and environmental challenges while generating financial return, primarily within the thematic sector areas of cleantech, water, energy and employment fordisadvantaged populations.
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- Industry: EdTech, Finance, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sokanu — Sokanu is a platform that optimizes human capital. We started with a website, sokanu.com, that helps people find their perfect career. We are taking the unique science & technology we've built and are applying it to help companies understand & optimize their talent better.
- Binder — Binder helps industrial maintenance teams prevent equipment breakdowns with smart, easy-to-use preventive maintenance software that reduces downtime and ensures reliable operations.
- ArcTern Ventures — ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to cleantech companies.The privately-backed venture capital fund provides early-stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector. The Fund has developed a unique early-stage investment model through its partnership with MaRS, one of thelargest innovation centers in the world.
Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies.The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures wasfounded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $150k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $79k–$1.5M; Convertible Note $50k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pavewise — Revolutionizing Road Construction Management Optimizing Road Construction Projects with Smart Management Tools Pavewise is a management and solution softwar ...
- Abra — Unlock cost savings and vendor accountability with AI-powered automation - working seamlessly with your existing tech stack.
- Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple
OPN (Open People Network) Bringing together Entrepreneurs & Investors. Creating a community of sharing, inclusion & collaboration for growth.
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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TROES — TROES is a Canadian company to develop smart power energy storage technologies, products, and solutions in a 170 Billion market to help middle-market project developers, power distributors, and power consumers to unlock numerous project opportunities with considerable payback which are not existed previously due to high project cost, lack ofexpertise and low development efficiency by using our patented modularized energy storage hardware and software.
- Bright Breaks — Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.
- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Pre-Seed $340k–$2.5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- TACMIND — Tacmind is an AI platform that helps companies understand how AI models perceive, describe, and recommend their brand. It analyzes how large language models and other AI technologies speak about a brand, detecting tone, emotion, and narrative. Tacmind provides insights that allow companies to see their brand's presence and reputation inAI-driven environments, benchmark against competitors, and optimize their brand assets and messages specifically for how AI systems view them. This helps companies influence and improve the narrative AI models generate about their brand to better control brand perception and increase visibility in AI-assisted searches and recommendations. Tacmind’s tools give companies a strategic advantage in the evolving landscape where AI plays a significant role in shaping consumer decisions and brand discovery.
- Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
- Ezra AI Labs — Helping recruiting teams quickly screen and rank hundreds of applicants through customizable voice AI interviews.
Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $996k–$10M; Series A $2.8M–$24M; Series B $5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Flextock — Discover efficient order fulfilment with Flextock. We streamline your inventory, orders, and shipping, ensuring accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
- ChatFeatured — ChatFeatured is a software platform that provides tools for tracking and managing how brands appear in AI search systems. It monitors brand mentions, sources, and visibility across AI platforms. The system analyzes data to identify gaps and content issues. It generates content plans and supports writing and publishing based on search data. Theplatform includes a dashboard that shows performance, citations, and sentiment. It provides site audits with scores and tasks for content and technical review. The service connects with content systems and tools to manage data and updates.
- Infinity Constellation — AI holdco that is focused on launching AI Service products into category defining companies https://t.co/BeuL2aR9AA
VantagePoint Capital Partners (formerly VantagePoint Venture Partners, until 2011) has more than $4.5 billion in capital under management and invests in the cleantech, healthcare, and IT sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- Round size: Series B $6M–$40M; Series C $9M–$111M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- Pica8 — Pica8 is fulfilling the promise of true software-defined networking (SDN) by providing the world's first open, hardware-independent switching system. Pica8's open switches transform the data center by decoupling hardware from software. This new approach provides greater flexibility and adaptability and supports increased automation whiledriving down implementation- and management-related costs of cloud and virtualized applications.It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
- TerraVia — Solazyme is a synthetic biology company that specializes in converting algal biomass into biofuels. Solazyme not only creates biofuels for the the transportation industry, but is experimenting with ways to tailor its products for the cosmetic and food industries.
- IntelePeer — With IntelePeer's conversational ai platform, you'll increase revenue, improve customer interactions & make better business decisions.
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Browse database — It's Free!Douglas Atkin has been an investor, analyst and senior executive in the financial technology industry for over 20 years. He presently manages the GPM-Center Court Fund at Guggenheim Partners. Doug began his career at Instinet where he rose through the ranks to become the company’s CEO, leading its successful $450mm IPO in 2001. He was a Co-founderof Efficient Frontiers, a consulting firm specializing in trading technology, regulation, and market-structure. Doug was also the CEO of Majestic Research which was sold to ITG (NYSE: ITG) in 2010. Doug was selected as one of the Top New Yorkers by New York Magazine for his leading role in redefining the financial marketplace, and Institutional Investor profiled him as one of the top 30 individuals making the greatest impact on e-finance. In addition, Doug sits on the Board of Selerity Financial and the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$15M; Series D $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InvestX Capital — InvestX is an asset manager providing investors and the wealth management industry with the ability to invest in pre-IPO companies in single and multi position funds.
- Abbey Cross — The wholesale marketplace for emerging markets FX. AbbeyCross provides access to real-time, side-by-side, executable pricing from the world's leading providers of emerging markets FX and payment services.
- Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. is a leading independent, full-service financial services firm, with operations in two principal segments of the securities industry: wealth management and capital markets.
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- Industry: Mining, Precious Metals, Mineral
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $2M–$13M; Post-IPO Debt $5M–$110M; Post-IPO Equity $5.2M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TenX — A Digital Asset Treasury Built For The Next Wave of Crypto Growth.
- FireFly Metals — Auteco Minerals provides exploring and ultimately development for mineral deposits. They also process pickle crow gold project, pickle crow gold regional, and limestone well projects.
- North American Construction Group — North American Construction Group provides a range of heavy construction and mining and pipeline installation services to customers in the Canadian oil sands, industrial construction, commercial and public construction and pipeline construction markets.The Company’s primary market is the Canadian oil sands, where it supports the customers’ miningoperations and capital projects. NAEPI provides services through all stages of an oil sands project’s lifecycle, its core focus is on providing recurring services, such as contract mining, during the operational phase. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 (fiscal 2012), recurring services represented 87% of the oil sands business. The Company’s business segments include heavy construction and mining and pipeline. In July 2013, the Company announced that it has completed sale of its Piling businesses to Keller Group plc.
Mike Edwards is a CEO at Pioneer Media. Mike has a wealth of experience in building and scaling consumer technology companies in private and public markets
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Art
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $387k–$5.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Unbounce — Grow your relevance, leads, and sales with Unbounce. Use Unbounce to easily create and optimize landing pages for your small business and boost conversions with AI insights.
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- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Dave Johnson - Director of Engineering, PhoneGap @ Adobe
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- Industry: Software, Developer Tools, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $750k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buddybuild — Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
- StackShare — StackShare is a Tech Stack Intelligence platform and community helping teams to make data-driven technology decisions.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
Sagard is a multi-strategy alternative asset manager building great businesses through capital, culture, and network.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Medical
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $16M–$150M; Debt Financing $43M–$414M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $555M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Novisto — Novisto's sustainability management software empowers global enterprises to create value from their ESG strategy, data, and reporting.
- inKind — It pays to be a regular. inKind House Accounts get you bonus dining credit at top restaurants along with access to exclusive perks. Download the inKind app to explore venues near you.
- Bex Capital — BEX Capital is a pioneering private equity secondaries investment firm with over $500 million in assets under management.
We leverage deep insights from our global business, offering investment partners a pathway to real-world traction and growth, while shaping a friendlier future.
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- Industry: Software, Agriculture, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.9M; Series A $4.8M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$8.9M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $73M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- Mycocycle — Mycocycle transforms waste-to-value in partnership with nature. Bioinspired by fungi, waste materials are efficiently transformed into valuable low-carbon
- Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
Christopher Bissonnette is the President at Pallasite Ventures. Whether it’s as a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer disease therapies, or as an executive in control of investment portfolios and commercial real estate, Christopher has taken an analytical approach throughout his career. This varied experience has given him valuable insightinto Chicago’s most desirable locations for advertisers and a deep understanding of the complex leasing and permitting restrictions involved. As co-founder and CFO of GreenSigns Chicago, Christopher helps ensure that our advertisers and landlords receive the best possible value. As an avid biker and hiker, he helps ensure a high-energy level throughout the GreenSigns’ office.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $653k–$5M; Series A $15M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ViralGains — Optimize your ad performance with ViralGains. Collect zero-party data from interactive ads to understand consumer preferences and deliver customized messaging, boosting brand trust, engagement and sales.
- TradingView — Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.7M–$32M; Series B $14M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
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.
- Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
- Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is building the interoperable command layer for the Arctic
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Browse database — It's Free!Patrick Lor is Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. He attended the University of Calgary.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $699k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $717k–$1.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leankor — Highly-visual, customer-centric, work and project management solution that provides a comprehensive 360-project view, real-time data and collaboration for accelerated delivery.
- Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as aninstitutional investor alongside high value angels.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 237
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
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.
- Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
- Tideshiftai — TideShiftAI leverages AI to provide personalized insights and forecasts for businesses, helping them optimize operations and enhance decision-making.
Ryan Pawell (Founder, Director & Chief Executive Officer) is a Y Combinator alumni, published author and subject matter expert in the areas of fluid dynamics, advanced manufacturing, and biomicrofluidics. Ryan has been invited to present his work by the Australian National Fabrication Facility, White House Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, Air Force,National Institutes of Health, and National Cancer Institute among others.
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- Industry: Medical, Biopharma, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pioneer Fund — 300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups
- Avro — Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly. The core of our technology is a novel biopolymer which is used as a platform for passive transdermal drug delivery of small molecules and drugs.
Larry Mercado
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $860k–$3.4M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SELL IT9 — Get top cash for your tech with SELLIT9, Canada's trusted trade-in service. Free same-day pickups, convenient drop-off locations, and pre-paid shipping labels nationwide. Fast, secure, and hassle-free!
- DropGenie — DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.
- Solving.AI — Solving.AI is an AI training platform that helps in solving business software adoption issues.
David Tedman first honed his digital pioneering inclinations at the Vancouver Film School, earning his degree in Interactive Media in 2002. Soon after, he founded Novare Res, a multi-disciplinary design company that later merged with Invoke and laid the foundations for his serial successes in product development. Tedman's accomplishments, todate, include incubating memelabs, a leading branded contesting and social engagement platform and co-founding HootSuite, an award-winning social media dashboard, which spun off into its own company after Invoke helped build its first one million user base.Tedman happily splits his time between Vancouver and New York, is constantly thinking of new high-performing business models, and is perpetually looking forward to the next basketball game.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $692k–$905k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- Commit — Commit is the professional network for the world's best Startup Engineers.
- Creator.co — Find amazing brands, products and experiences!
G. Scott Paterson is based out of Toronto, Ontario, and is the Founder and Executive Chairman of FutureVault and Chairman of the Board of FUTR Corporation. G. Scott previously worked at Symbility Solutions as a Chairman. G. Scott Paterson attended the University of Western Ontario. G. Scott Paterson has received the Purple & White Award.
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- Industry: Marketplace, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- FUTR Corporation — Our mission is to make consumers financially well.
- InvestX Capital — InvestX is an asset manager providing investors and the wealth management industry with the ability to invest in pre-IPO companies in single and multi position funds.
Tribune Capital is a venture capital firm located in Weyburn, SK.
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- Industry: Oil and Gas, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $557k–$1.9M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HP Capital — HP Capital is a private credit manager that specializes in asset-based lending solutions across a number of industries.
- Pointbreak Resources — Pointbreak Resources develops prime conventional oil assets in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
- Complete Framing Solutions — Complete Framing Solutions specializes in designing, manufacturing, and supplying light steel framing systems.
Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.
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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Series A $2M–$16M; Series B $5.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Luffy AI — Discover Luffy AI's Neuroplastic AI for rapid, adaptive industrial control in robotics, drives, automotive, and more. Enhance system performance and reduce calibration needs. Replace or complement PID loops with Adaptive Control for your Physical AI usecase.
- Geopyörä Oy — Geopyörä is the state of the art in rock breakage characterization testing and it was developed to allow mining companies to test several samples at low cost for geometallurgical, comminution design and control applications
- Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
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Browse database — It's Free!Barney Pell was the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of LocoMobi Inc. Barney has a long history as a leading technology innovator, product visionary, entrepreneur and angel investor based in Silicon Valley. Barney is known for being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield, a top Venture Capital firm, which he left to becomeFounder and CEO of Powerset, which built a natural-language based search engine that read each sentence in Wikipedia and answered user queries in plain English. Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008 to help create its new search engine, Bing. Barney then served Microsoft as Search Strategist, Evangelist, and Chief Architect for Local Search at Bing, until leaving Microsoft in September 2011 to return to the start-up world full-time.Barney also has active investor, board member, and advisory roles with multiple start-up companies and non-profits across a variety of industries. Barney is Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Moon Express, a private company building autonomous robotic lunar landers to enable exploration and commercial development of the solar system. This builds on his earlier career managing advanced software technologies at NASA. Highlights of innovations during Barney’s career at NASA include mission critical software to support planning and collaboration for the Mars Exploration Rovers mission; Clarissa, the first spoken dialog system in space; and the development of the Remote Agent, the first AI system to fly onboard and control a deep space probe. Remote Agent is widely considered one of the top achievements in the history of Artificial Intelligence and was awarded NASA’s "software of the year" award in 1999. Barney is also Associate Founder and Trustee of Singularity University (SU), a new university created to educate leaders for life in a future driven by accelerating technological change.Other recent active angel investments and advisory positions include: Getaround, Robotex, Halcyon Molecular, SpaceX, and CrowdFlower. Recent start-ups that have had successful exits include: Appjet (now Google), Aardvark (now Google), Hot Potato (now Facebook), Etacts (now SalesForce.com), Movity (now Trulia), and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network which recently went public after acquiring its hundred-millionth member.Barney received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar.Barney is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities. These include keynote talks at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computational Linguistics, Search Marketing Expos, International Semantic Web Conference, World Wide Web Conference, the Informational Retrieval Conference, and panels at SXSW Interactive. Barney has also spoken at the NPA and IPI conferences and has been featured in all major Parking industry magazines.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.8M; Series A $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- Ada — Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered inToronto in Canada.
- Careteam Technologies — Innovating solution that enables virtual care coordination and collaboration within and between health organizations, including the patient, family and community. We enable patient medical home care continuity, care transfers, care pathways, patient engagement, and quality improvement methods using data in health.
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.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 514
- Round size: Grant $100k–$22M; Debt Financing $100k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CAMH — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. We believe that #MentalHealthIsHealth
- Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
- University of Manitoba — The University of Manitoba received its charter on February 28, 1877. Today, the UofM has three main locations: the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.The downtown Bannatyne campus of the university comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave andWilliam Ave in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the university. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the 95,000 sq ft (8,800 m2) Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008. The Brodie Center is known as the "flagship" which connects all three faculties as well as the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library and the Joe Doupe Fitness Centre. It is located on 727 McDermot Avenue.The main Fort Garry campus (located on the Red River in south Winnipeg) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on 233 hectares (580 acres) of land. In addition, Smartpark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development organizations involving university-industry partnerships. The address is 66 Chancellors Circle.The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.The university operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba. The Ian N. Morrison Research Farm near Carman is a 406 acres (164 ha) facility located 70 km (43 mi) from Winnipeg, while the Glenlea facility is approximately 1,000 acres (405 ha) and located 20 km (12 mi) from Winnipeg.
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 378
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
- Early is Good — Multi-omic diagnostics that analyze DNA, RNA, and Protein from a single sample for unprecedented cancer clarity.
- Propeller Health — Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management. The HIPAA compliant platform stores users’ data in a cloud computing infrastructure.The Propeller sensor and mobile application help users learn more about and better manage their asthma, COPD, andrespiratory disease. The Propeller sensor attaches to users’ inhalers and wirelessly syncs with their smartphones. It tracks their triggers and symptoms and sends personalized feedback and education to their phones based on the symptoms. Users can see how often they use the medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.Propeller community enables users to share their Propeller data with their physician and family members.Propeller Health is backed by Safeguard Scientifics, The Social+Capital Partnership, California HealthCare Foundation, and other investors. The platform works with organizations such as Dignity Health, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Amerigroup Florida, and the City of Louisville. The system has been featured in The Economist, Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and Scientific American.Propeller Health has received TEDMED Innovation Showcase, White House Champion of Change, and Bluetooth Breakthrough Product awards.Propeller Health was launched by David Van Sickle, Greg Tracy, and Mark Gehring and its operations are based in Wisconsin, United States.
Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$70M; Series B $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
- 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.
- SenseNet Inc. — Wildfire Detection in Minutes. Advanced Integration of Ground Sensors, Cameras, and Satellite Technologies.
Venture Capital Action Plan
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- Industry: Finance, Venture Capital, Angel Investment
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Relay Ventures — We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $6.6M–$36M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
- Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
- Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
Kensington Capital Partners is an investment firm in the business of wealth creation, providing access to high quality investments for over 25 years.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Private Equity
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Series B $6.5M–$60M; Private Equity $131k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Spare — Spare is your all-in-one mobility operations platform, designed to provide an end-to-end platform ecosystem for operating modern paratransit and microtransit systems.
- ProteinQure — Computational protein drug design.
- Plus One Robotics — The fastest and most reliable parcel handing robotics solutions in your warehouse.
HarbourVest is a private markets firm with 40 years of noteworthy insight, interwoven skills across asset classes, and relationships that build futures.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Series B $5M–$125M; Private Equity $24M–$402M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Mimeo — Get fast, high-quality, and customizable printing solutions for your business with Mimeo. Streamline your printing process and order online today.
- Tomorrow.io — Predict, automate, and solve your biggest weather challenges with Tomorrow.io.
- Xpressdocs — Xpressdocs empowers clients with cutting-edge marketing and direct mail solutions, enabling them to effortlessly create, manage, and distribute personalized and branded materials.
Jonathan is a successful serial entrepreneur with two exits under his belt. He is passionate about helping those who are taking the entrepreneurial path to start, build and grow companies. Prior to GrowLab, Jonathan Bixby was the CEO and a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, creator of the first network appliance and cloud service foraccelerating dynamic web applications. Under Jonathan’s leadership, Strangeloop raised over $21M in financing, including a Series A round of $11.5 million, one of the largest rounds of private Series A financing for a technology start-up in Canadian history. Strangeloop was selected the Best Employer in British Columbia for a record five straight years (2008 to 2013). In February 2013 Strangeloop was acquired by Radware (RDWR). Read more here.Prior to forming Strangeloop, Jonathan co-founded IronPoint Technology, the largest content management company in the country. As chairman of the board, Jonathan led IronPoint from start-up to successful acquisition by The Active Network (ACTV) in 30 months. Read about it here.Jonathan also served as vice president of sales, at NTS Internet Solutions and helped that company enjoy a five-year growth rate of more than 600 percent and earn placements on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 and Fast 500 as well as Profit Magazine’s Profit 100 lists.Jonathan sat on the board of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, the final jury for the New Ventures BC competition and is a Social Venture Partner (www.bcsvp.com), Jonathan sits on the board of Energy Aware. He is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 award recipient.
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- Industry: Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CTO.ai — We simplify developer operations using CI/CD workflows that support ChatOps, GitOps, Instant PR Previews, AI Code Review and measure the entire process using DORA metrics, as well.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 440
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WhatsNexx — Sujintoto adalah situs slot online yang memberikan pelayanan deposit yang sat set dan withdraw cepet selama 24 jam
- Optosecurity — PAX CHECKPOINT combines automated screening lanes with a screening software to create a fully integrated checkpoint solution.
- D-Wave Quantum — D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services.
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