Top 15 Android Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
Top 15 Android Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
| Investor | Android Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Relay Ventures | 3 |
| Amazon Alexa Fund | 2 |
| Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments | 2 |
| Export Development Canada | 1 |
| Kensington Capital Partners Limited | 1 |
| GREE | 1 |
| Marc Morin | 1 |
| Creative BC | 1 |
| Hello Ventures | 1 |
| Capital Angel Network | 1 |
| Laurence Capital | 1 |
| Greenangel Energy | 1 |
| BDC Venture Capital | 1 |
| Revolution | 1 |
| Tobyn Sowden | 1 |
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- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FCTRY LAb — Fctry lab combine traditional manufacturing methods with modern technology, allowing us to redefine techniques and invent new construction methods
- Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
- Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Span.IO — Span reinvented the electrical panel. Control every circuit in your home from your phone. Contact us!
- Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
- Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
- Helium — Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
- Koios Intelligence — MISSIONKoïos Intelligence is on a mission to Improve the insurance value chain using conversational AI.Our platform Olivo is built for insurance customers with the goal of eliminating waiting time, reducing operational costs and offering an unprecedented customer experience. Based on Natural Language Processing and state-of-the-art ArtificialIntelligence, Olivo is made to answer new customer needs and expectations in today’s digital world.
- Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Humi — Your all-in-one HR, payroll, insurance, and benefits solution. Give all your employee data a home, pay employees with ease, and streamline your group benefits experience.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Plus One Robotics — The fastest and most reliable parcel handing robotics solutions in your warehouse.
Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.
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- Mobile, Gaming, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
- AppBrew(Lips) — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Bankers Holding — Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet.
Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy. Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.
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- Software, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
- Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
British Columbia's creative industry catalyst supporting the province's creative sector to reach its economic, social, environmental and creative potential.
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- iOS, Music, Android
- Seed, Grant
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hidden Bands — We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
Hello Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Skygauge — The Skygauge takes ultrasonic testing to the skies. Conduct faster, safer industrial asset inspections by drone.
- Qohash — Qohash provides modern data solutions with a focus on data discovery, classification, and integrity assurance. Its core solution, the Qostodian data security platform, monitors data across the enterprise, and implements an integrity assurance regime to protect your most precious data and business process.
- Hidden Bands — We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way.
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
- LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
- Realize Medical — We're a medical virtual reality start up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform combines novel 3D visualization with the familiar and intuitive input of a hand held stylus. We're creating powerful VR tools to unlock new ways for healthcare professionals to view and interact with medicalimages so they can enhance patient care.
Laurence Capital applies its investment philosophy to the travel and financial industries through the creation of Kognitiv Corp and Langhaus Financial.
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- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Series B, Series D
- Canada, United States
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- BigRoad Inc. — BigRoad - A Fleet Complete Company, Specializes In Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) For Compliance. FMCSA Registered, Award-Winning And Built For Drivers.
- Achievers — Achievers' award-winning employee engagement software creates a workplace of recognition that accelerates performance and retention.
- QuickPlay Media — Quickplay is a global team of engineers and video enthusiasts. We are OTT Experts delivering passion and engagement. Our platform supports the world's largest media companies. Designed to provide AGILITY, SCALABILITY, and EXTENSIBILITY, to FUTURE PROOF your business, and innovate on the customer experience.
A Technology Investment Fund
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- iOS, Apps, SaaS
- Series A, Seed
- Canada
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- Mojio — Mojio designs, develops and delivers connected car solutions that transform data into scalable services for our partners and their customers.
- 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.
- Light-Based Technologies — Light-Based Technology delivers disruptive linear technologies for the control of solid state lighting products. Their solutions are easy to implement and very efficient. They can help you reduce the strain on natural resources from the materials required to manufacture your products while adding beneficial features.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
- Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.
Revolution invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Our mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that offer more choice, convenience, and control in the lives of consumers and businesses.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- zMatch — zMatch is a novel idea for maintaining, purchasing, and selling cars that combines the greatest aspects of the virtual and physical worlds. Founded in 2021 and is based in São Paulo, São Paulo.
- WorkTorch — QuickHire is a career discovery platform for the service economy workforce. We partner with job seekers to find career fulfillment by finding the right job and advancement opportunities. This unique approach helps us provide a better engaged and aligned talent pool for employers.
- Bionaut Labs — We developed microscale robots to deliver biologics or small molecule therapies locally to targeted disease areas to help patients suffering from severe brain disorders.
Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.
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- iOS, Music, Android
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Hidden Bands — We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
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