Top 50 Startup Investors in Canada (July 2026)
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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–$8.8M |
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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–$65M |
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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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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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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | 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 | Canada, United States | Private Equity, Corporate Round | FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital | |
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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–$22M |
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Open People Network
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Solar, Energy, GreenTech | |
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Riley Keohen
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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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 | $329k–$10M |
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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–$47M |
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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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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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Jonathan Bixby
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software | $750k–$7.5M |
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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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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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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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Corl
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing | Health Care, Men's, Fitness | |
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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, FinTech, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$555M |
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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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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 | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $350k–$8.5M |
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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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Doug Atkin
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series D | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1.2M–$57M |
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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 | $951k–$1.3M |
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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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Government of Canada
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Grant, Debt Financing | Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care | $100k–$27M |
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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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Pipe
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Debt Financing | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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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–$23M |
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Four Cities Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$30M |
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Canaccord Genuity Group
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Australia | Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt | Mining, Precious Metals, Financial Services | $5M–$115M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $650k–$50M |
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Private Private
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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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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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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Emergence Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $4M–$120M |
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Mike Edwards
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Art, Apps | $387k–$750k |
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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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Anges Quebec
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $366k–$3.2M |
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8VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$175M |
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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–$54M |
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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: 65
- Round size: Seed $20k–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AleFi — Empowering Finance Content Creators
- 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.
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: 1119
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
- 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.
- Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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 provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
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.
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
- Geography: Canada, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.9M; Series A $4.8M–$22M
- 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 $14M–$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.
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: 27
- Round size: Seed $557k–$1.9M; Series A $4.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Astara Energy Corp. — Astara Energy Corp. is an emerging, private junior oil and gas company with operations in Alberta.
- 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.
OPN (Open People Network) Bringing together Entrepreneurs & Investors. Creating a community of sharing, inclusion & collaboration for growth.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, GreenTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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 offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
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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 Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
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: 73
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Pre-Seed $329k–$2.5M; Series A $1.1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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 — The company emerged from stealth in early 2025, with founder Ophir Samson.
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: 184
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $5.9M–$32M; Series B $14M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Forma.ai — Forma.ai's sales performance management software brings comp strategy and execution into one platform, and acts as a single source of truth for sales performance.
- Event — Meet Buildable - the place where top developers at world-class companies go to achieve microservice maturity. Use our low-code editor to build, test and deploy web apps in a matter of minutes.
- Mangrove Systems — Mangrove Systems helps critical carbon projects track their impact so they can build trust with their partners, customers, and communities using leading carbon measurement and monitoring infrastructure.
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.
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–$1.5M; 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.
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.
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: 105
- Round size: Series A $2M–$16M; Series B $5.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
- Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.
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: 203
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $12M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Himedi — Himedi is an information technology company that provides hospital reservation service.
- Una Brands — Ready to sell your e-commerce business? We'll make the process fair, fast, and fuss-free. Continue to profit as we grow your brand.
- Boostsecurity.io — Boostsecurity.io is a computer software company that assists software developers to discover cybersecurity-related issues. It was founded in 2020 and its headquarters is located in Montreal, Quebec.
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: 66
- Round size: Seed $996k–$10M; Series A $2.6M–$24M; Series B $5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
- NUL — Nul Health Limited offers clinically proven alcohol reduction treatment to support your goals. Nul helps change relationship with alcohol.
- Infinity Constellation — Infinity Constellation is an AI-focused startup holding company and incubator that builds and launches service-based businesses leveraging artificial intelligence. Their mission is to empower visionary founders to create the next generation of impactful, tech-enabled companies, emphasizing long-term growth and sustainable value creation.
Corl is an artificially-intelligent platform that finances businesses in the digital economy and shares in their future revenue. It aims to create regulatory-compliant security and revenue-sharing token designed to support and participate in the growth of emerging companies. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
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- Industry: Health Care, Men's, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elite HRV — Heart Rate Variability (HRV) tracking app for deep insight into your health, stress, recovery and nervous system balance. Elite HRV's heart rate variability insights help you stay in tune with your body and on track toward your goals.
- Jack Health — Jack Health is an online clinic that offers health tips and health products for men.
- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$35M; Series A $4.7M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Algorand — Welcome to Algorand! Discover resources to learn about the technology, to get started building dApps, to connect with the ecosystem and community, and more.
- Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.
- Wilderness Labs — We have built a hard-tech IoT platform called Meadow that enables regular web and mobile developers to build, professional, secure, embedded applications in a fraction of the time and cost as traditional platforms and then manage those solutions in the field at scale with our Meadow.Cloud SaaS. We’re 4.5 years old, with most of that in stealth. Wedropped our stealth blanket last year and ran a breakaway kickstarter, we’re now post-revenue but still in beta, with customer purchase commitments of more than $2MM for 2021.
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 delivers advanced software-defined networking (SDN) solutions for data centers and large enterprises.
- 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.
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 Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
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 helps life science researchers creatively design and execute experiments. Search and synthesize literature, use scientific tools, and collaborate with Tater, our AI co-scientist to run end-to-end experiments.
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: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $700k–$6M; Series A $8.2M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Draft — Get blog posts, social posts, email copy and more from world class writers. Request quality content for your business in a few clicks.
- Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
- Draft — Find & work with content creation freelancers in a trustless way, running on Internet Computer
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.
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, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$15M; Series D $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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!
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–$366k
- 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 $951k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revyl — Revyl is an observability platform that helps teams identify and resolve bugs before they reach production. It offers real-time monitoring and insights, allowing developers to catch issues early in the development process. With features such as error detection and performance analytics, Revyl enhances software reliability and improves the overalluser experience.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 428
- Round size: Grant $100k–$27M; Debt Financing $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Big Mountain Foods —
- Francos de Montréal — Francos de Montréal is a music festival that provides live concerts, cultural performances, and outdoor events.
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: 124
- Round size: Seed $150k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Pavewise — Revolutionizing Road Construction Management Optimizing Road Construction Projects with Smart Management Tools Pavewise is a management and solution softwar ...
- Abra — Agentic procurement intelligence automation layer
- Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple
Grow on your terms with fast, flexible financing. Pipe transforms recurring revenue into up-front capital for growth without dilution or restrictive debt.
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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 Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
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: 217
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Aemon — Aemon builds an AI system that reads code and research, runs experiments, and improves engineering solutions against defined tests.
- 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.
We partner with great teams and invest to help them grow.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Covetly — Covetly is the #1 mobile destination for hobbyists to organize, appraise & trade their collections. This is THE RETAIL DREAM; a marketplace built on top of a daily utility to sort and value the same items sold!
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, Financial Services
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$110M; Post-IPO Equity $5.2M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- LINK Investment Management — Link Investment Management provides business solutions for workplace savings, equity and health plan administration. From our headquarters in Calgary, the Link team delivers group plan solutions with the goal of providing better retirements for all Canadians. Our innovative, fully digital, software-as-a-service (SaaS) business solution empowersplan administrators and plan members with simple, affordable and efficient plan management. We work directly with companies of all sizes and through channel partners in creating the best solutions at an affordable price. For more information on Link Investment Management visit us at www.linkinvestmentmanagment.com.
- 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.
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $2.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
- Canvass AI — Canvass AI empowers industrial workforces to leverage data and create immediate impact in their day-to-day operations.
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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
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- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
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
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- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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- 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
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
Emergence Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on early-stage B2B software. We partner with founders transforming the way the world works.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Series A $4M–$27M; Series B $8M–$106M; Series C $12M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Federato — Insurers can no longer afford to underutilize data. RiskOps means more precise + productive underwriting live in only 8 weeks... yes, seriously. Thinking yet?
- Khoros(formerly Lithium Technologies) — Khoros builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. Brands like Microsoft, HP, Sephora, Virgin and Barclaycard and customers in more than 34 countries rely on Lithium to help them connect, engage, and understand their total community. With more than 100million monthly visits over all Khoros communities and 750 million online profiles scored by Klout, Khoros has one of the largest digital footprints in the world. Using that data and the company’s software, Khoros customers boost sales, reduce service costs, spark innovation, and build long-term brand loyalty and advocacy.
- OpenAI Deployment Company — OpenAI Deployment Company provides artificial intelligence software services. The Deployment Company is a JV formed by OpenAI in partnership with TPG Inc (NASDAQ:TPG), Brookfield Asset Management Inc (NYSE:BAM), Advent, and Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc (NYSE:BCSF).
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, Art, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $387k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
- Skyscraper — Skyscraper is an all-in-one ad management platform for bloggers. A magical way of running ads on your site that both simple and effective.
- 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
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- 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: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $805k–$3.2M; Angel $366k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
- Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
- Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies. The firm focuses on creating long-term economic and societal value through its investments across various sectors, including healthcare and logistics.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 481
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$13M; Series A $7.4M–$55M; Series B $16M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
- Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
- Better Health — Better Health is a Modern Medical Supplier focused on delivering Urology & Ostomy Supplies. Shop the latest Catheters, Ostomy Bags from Hollister, Convatec, Coloplast and many more.
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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: 73
- Round size: Series B $6.5M–$54M; Private Equity $131k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
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