Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in October 2023
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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
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- 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%.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
- ventureLAB — At ventureLAB, we grow globally competitive tech titans that build-to-scale in Canada, for global markets.
- Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology operates as a biotechnology company and develops innovative solutions for plasmid DNA production.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.
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- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Canada, United States
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- Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
- Soricimed — Soricimed is a privately-held, clinical stage company focused on the development and commercialization of applications originally derived from its unique and proprietary family of peptides found in the paralytic venom of the northern short-tailed shrew
- ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.
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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, France
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- Libro — Elevate Your Guest Experience Our guest experience platform does more than fill tables. Start building a highly personalized and profitable dining experience with Libro. Pricing Features How we help your restaurant thrive Reservations Accept online reservation requests in real-time 24/7/365. Access reservations from anywhere so your entire team is prepared to serve guests. Reputation Management
- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Omy Laboratoires — Omy Laboratoires develops and manufactures personalized cosmetic skin-care products using its AI based skin analysis system.
We support environmental resiliency through profitable investment. We provide capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures catalyzing the transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water & products.
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- Software, SaaS, CleanTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Audette — Audette transforms your commercial portfolios into intelligent, carbon-free assets. Net-zero planning for commercial real estate portfolios
- Agrology — The Agrology Platform helps farmers reduce their carbon footprint, be more sustainable, and stay ahead of threats like drought, smoke taint, pest & disease outbreaks, frost, heat, extreme temperatures.
- RailVision Analytics — Customized data analysis, software solutions, and consulting for the rail industry. RailVision Analytics takes the data available from your fleet equipment, combined with our proven AI algorithms to provide insight on saving fuel, equipment deterioration and improving safety.
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
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- 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.
The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help.They’re based inHalifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.
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- Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
- Arcturus — Make video come alive.
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Canada, United States, Argentina
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- FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
- Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
- Clear Blue Technologies — Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly,less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.
S28 Capital is a venture fund based in San Francisco, run by operators and entrepreneurs who are helping the next generation of founders build their companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
- Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes. After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind. It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
- Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, Australia, United States
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- 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.
- Gaia Refinery — Gaia is developing wind-driven methane-capture technology to produce rocket-grade natural gas.
- Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-ups, early venture, mergers, business acquisitions, management buyouts, market development project or a buyout, financing for new programs, organic growth and cash flow, growth and expansion financings, development capital, business succession,financial restructuring, business transition financing, family and non-family buyout, consolidations, turnaround, and leveraged management buyouts. It also invests in new markets, product and business line developments, market diversification, interim financings, new product marketing, additional working capital, purchase of tangible and intangible assets, equipment modernization, equipment purchases or upgrades, and integrator projects. The firm has regional funds that do not invest in retail, real estate, farming, biotechnology, and financial services. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in small and medium-sized businesses. It typically invests in export projects, forest products, productivity improvement, natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, wood, pulp and paper, chemicals, construction and construction materials, printing, transportation equipment and automobiles, transportation services, furniture and fixtures, combinatorial chemistry and other lead generating technologies, mining and exploration, social economy, textiles, plastics, life sciences, business services, telecommunications, distribution and consumer goods, environment, equipment and machinery, financial services, information and communication technology, metal products, recreational tourism, and culture sectors. Within the culture sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in pre-production and creative projects, production projects, infrastructures and services, post-production projects, distribution, and broadcasting and multiplatform broadcasting. Within the environment sector, it invests in waste management and energy conversion for residual waste; air treatment and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; processes to reduce industrial energy and water consumption; water treatment; and soil rehabilitation and decontamination (metals and organic compounds). Within the life sciences sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ focuses on services for the biopharmaceutical industry; nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; diagnostics and medical supplies and equipment; biopharmaceuticals and generic drugs; biotechnology, and animal health. Within the tourism sector, it focuses on urban tourism, nature tourism, resort type tourism, and local tourism for Quebecers, and in the textiles sector it invests in companies engaged in development and production of specialty textiles as well as development of industrial applications for the construction, transportation, health and safety, and work apparel industries. Fonds de solidarité FTQ prefers to invest in Quebec and in companies impacting the Québec economy. It focuses on investing in the following regions- Abitibi –Témiscamingue, Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches, Côte-Nord, Estrie, Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval, Mauricie - Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Nord-du-Québec, Outaouais, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest in projects of $3 million or more and also provides loans of up to $ 2 million. It invests in companies in business succession sector having minimum capitalization of $500,000 and EBITDA of over $35.5 million in case of majority interest; equipment and machinery sector with average investment in excess of $3 million; environment sector with funding needs of more than $500000; financial services sector having net assets between $20 million and $50 million in equity; metal products sector having annual sales of over $5 million and financing needs of at least $2 million; and printing sector having investment needs of over $1 million. In the information technology sector, Fonds de solidarité FTQ seeks to invest $2 million as initial investments while total investments can be more than $10 million. It invests in the form of equity financing (common or preferred shares) and unsecured debt requiring no collateral (debenture). Fonds de solidarité FTQ can take both a minority interest including an equity stake of up to 49 percent as well a majority interest in its portfolio companies in case of business succession financing. It seeks a minority stake for the portfolio companies in the equipment and machinery sector. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to ten years in case of equity financing and for more than ten years in case of business succession financing. Fonds de solidarité FTQ began operation on June 23, 1983. It has its headquarters in Montreal in Canada with additional offices in the same city and Quebec in the same country.
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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- UgoWork — Lithium-ion batteries are significantly superior for your lift trucks, in addition to taking advantage of our efficient energy management. Learn more.
- WorkJam — The most complete and modular suite of productivity tools for frontline employees. Trusted by global brands and loved by their employees.
- Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.
10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, India
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- enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
- Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Our Venture Capital Fund provides New Brunswick start-ups with the seed investment they need to rapidly grow and delivery their products to customers.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- CareerBeacon — Find new job opportunities across Canada on CareerBeacon. Browse through thousands of job openings from leading employers. Find your ideal fit today.
- Sonrai Security — Sonrai Security delivers an enterprise security platform for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. The Sonrai Dig platform is built on a sophisticated graph that identifies and monitors every possible relationship between identities and data that exists inside an organization’s public cloud. Dig’s Governance Automation Engine automatesworkflow, remediation, and prevention capabilities across cloud and security teams to ensure end-to-end security.
- Drinkable — At Drinkable we're passionate about water autonomy. We believe everyone has the right to know what's in their water, so they have the agency to manage their own risks. We've harnessed that passion into the worlds first effortless, affordable, and accurate handheld testing device, that detects drinking water contamination with thepress of a button. With a simple thumbs up/down display you'll know within seconds if your water requires further attention. You can pair our device with your smart phone to receive an expanded contamination report, risk profile, and a treatment plan that's tailored just for you.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
- 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.
BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round.BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly,Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products..Find out more at www.brandproject.com
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Porta — Restaurant-quality Italian food delivered to your door. Pizza, Pasta, Dessert subscription.
- Acid League — Experiments in acid? Acid League makes flavor-tripping vinegars, drinks, sauces, and condiments to energize your cooking.
- Guaranteed — Guaranteed reimagines hospice care with at-home treatment, cutting-edge technology, and a clinical team that puts the dying and grieving first.
Round13 Capital are different than a typical Venture Capital fund. Round13 are more than just capital, and are a thought partner for management with deep experience in building businesses.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- Kivera — Enforce preventive controls and secure every interaction with your cloud at build and run time -regardless of how you use it.
- System-3 — System-3 is a SaaS-based predictive Leadership Simulation that minimizes bias, and measures whether experienced and emerging leaders deploy the core Leadership Competencies required in today’s complex, business environment.
- SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. Together, with Atlantic Canadians,we are building a stronger economy.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
- ABCO Industries — ABCO Industries manufactures metal products for the food, marine, industrial, and environmental industries. They are expanding and improving our manufacturing process, incorporating automated and advanced manufacturing techniques, and supporting our people through training and education.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- Modular — Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
- Evidence — Evidence is an open source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools. Build polished data products with just SQL and markdown.
M12 are a venture capital fund, by Microsoft. Our investment teams are based globally to support your business from start up funding to Series C investment.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- d-Matrix — d-Matrix takes a clean-slate approach to AI compute efficiency, solving some of the most teething problems for the largest datacenter customers in the world.
- Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
- HiddenLayer — HiddenLayer helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models.
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- Shaktimaan — Empowering UPSC aspirants with Kalam's potential to answer, evaluate & personalise your preparation for World's Toughest Exam.
Radical Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs applying deep technology to transform massive industries.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Reka AI — Reka is an AI research and product company that develops models to benefit humanity and advance the state-of-the-art.
- Pixxel — Pixxel is a space technology startup that builds a constellation of advanced hyperspectral earth imaging small satellites. By capturing images in a 100s of hyperspectral bands, Pixxel is able to see things in 50x richer detail enabling organisations around the world to make better business discussions. Pixxel is leveraging the unique hyperspectralnature of satellite imagery to build a health monitor for the planet.
- Genesis Therapeutics — Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction.The company was founded in 2019and based in South San Francisco, California.
WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- Frontly — Frontly's no-code internal admin tooling platform empowers businesses to build custom applications to solve their greatest business challenges in minutes without writing a line of code.
- Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
- VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Solink — Find what you're looking for in seconds Take a self-guided tour and see how effortlessly you can pinpoint what you're searching for in seconds using
- OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
- Redwood Materials — Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.
Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.
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- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
- 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.
- Elevate Farms — Elevate Farms’ solution uses hydroponics, automation, and photobiology to grow leafy greens in a climate-controlled environment. The solution aims to deliver a product that is larger, tastes better, and is more nutritional, at a lower cost than other methods.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Novisto — Novisto's sustainability management software enables companies to create value from their ESG initiatives. Request a demo today!
- Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
- Plenty — Plenty makes it easy for modern partners to invest and plan for their future together. Effortlessly invest like the 1% and turn your goals and dreams into reality.
Growth Capital for the Clean Economy
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- Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Ubees — UBEES is the first to offer actionable beekeeping initiatives to global consumer brands to accelerate their 2030 sustainable commitments. Thanks to its proprietary technology, UBEES convert any farmer to become a beekeeper in 90 days, boosting significantly any farmer's livelihood.
- Velocia — Velocia is a loyalty platform to reward smart mobility choices. Velocia seeks to decongest roadways by rewarding consumers of mobility services to incentivize smart changes to the way they commute – promoting safe, economical and efficient modes of transportation – that minimize congestion and the environmental costs it brings along. Velocia is ahuman-centered Smart Mobility solution that enables mobility service providers, public partners and other industry stakeholders to reward users for various types of mobility actions and behaviours.
- Copperstone Technologies — Canadian-based engineering firm specializing in HELIX, an amphibious service robot developed for environmental monitoring.
FundingBox Deep Tech Fund provides funding to companies from the technology industry. It offers investment to early-stage organizations. FundingBox Deep Tech Fund was founded in 2020 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.
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- Software, Medical, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Poland, Canada, United States
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- Pergamin — Pergamin is a business tool for creating, closing and managing online contracts dedicated to medium and small enterprises, which in the course of their business operations close many repetitive contracts. Pergamin allows closing the entire contracting process in one, intuitive to use tool. Starting from the initial stage, i.e. creating modulartemplates based on the developed legal structures and working on templates when creating contracts for specific cases. Through the main stage, which includes negotiating a contract with a contractor and signing it online. Up to the stage of management, within which it is possible to monitor the status of individual contracts, create additional derivative documents or simply verify the content of previously concluded contracts thanks to the repository in the cloud. Digitalization of the contract process significantly accelerates the process and reduces its costs. It also generates additional benefits for the enterprise, streamlining many other business processes by identifying and sharing key data from a given contract with other systems operating within the organization.
- Talkie.ai — Ready-for-business AI voicebots for the healthcare industry and custom-built voice automation solutions.
- Gyfted — Discover hidden talent
Intact Ventures
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- Software, Insurance, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- Properly — Properly is your hassle-free partner to buy and sell homes in Canada.
- Ledger Investing — Ledger Investing, Inc. was formed in 2016 to enable insurers to create substantial value by securitizing insurance risk while providing investors with an opportunity to invest directly in a new and growing asset class.The timing reflects the intersection of recent and unprecedented trends.A significant amount of capital has flowed intoinsurance from long-term institutional investors seeking direct access to pure insurance risks that are uncorrelated with broader capital markets.At the same time, technology is being used to drive revolutionary changes in business models across industries, including financial services - in particular, the creation of new marketplaces that efficiently bring buyers and sellers together in many consumer and commercial sectors.Ledger is backed by Y Combinator and operates from Washington DC.
- Urban Jungle — We're doing insurance differently, by shaking up a traditional industry. We make it clearer, easier and more affordable to insure the stuff you love.
As a growth equity investor, They seek out exceptional companies and talented entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their development in new markets or new geographies through internal growth and acquisitions.
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- Railroad, Automotive, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Switzerland
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- Taxelco — Taxelco is to consolidate the interests of the taxi industry to the benefit of its stakeholders and for the citizens of Montreal. With this approach, we can ensure that the economic and social benefits derived from the use of fully electric vehicles, the creation of operational synergies and the efficient use of information technologies will remainin the hands of its constituents. A collaborative and supervised pilot project will start in November 2015 with 50 electric vehicles driving around Montreal. The objective of this project is to optimize the performance of electric vehicles operating as taxis and in Montreal's rigorous weather conditions. This ambitious project will help position Montreal as a green, avant-garde city where public transports are a means to responsible economic and social development, echoing the unique, cultural and innovative personality of its citizens.
- Goracle — Goracle is a oracle network built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to bring real world data to smart contracts.
The Caisse is a global fund manager. Its clients, which it calls its depositors, are mostly Québec public and private pension funds and insurance plans. The funds entrusted to the Caisse are invested in financial markets in Québec, in Canada and around the world to generate a profit.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
- Canada, United States, India
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- Vooban — WE BRING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO LIFE!
- AMB Modulaire — AMB Modulaire is a family-owned space supplier that provides quality modular solutions for classrooms, offices, institutional, and residential spaces.
- Gunn Agri Partners — Gunn Agri Partners is an agricultural investment company that offers advice and services for acquisitions, asset, farm, and fund management.
SAIC Venture Capital Corporation is a venture capital investment arm of SAIC, Inc. It specializes in investments in seed, startup, early stage, and mid stage companies. The firm seeks to hold equity investments in publicly-traded and private emerging technology companies. It prefers to make balance sheet investments. SAIC Venture CapitalCorporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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- Software, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, China, Canada
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- Thinktech — Thinktech is a design and manufacturing company that specializes in producing automotive grade semiconductors.
- GTA Semiconductor — Jita Semiconductor is a semiconductor chip developer focusing on the R&D and design of integrated circuit related technologies. Its main products include power devices, power management, sensor chips, etc., which are widely used in industrial control, automotive, electricity, energy and other fields.
- Tianyu Semiconductor — Tianyu Semiconductor is a third-generation semiconductor silicon carbide epitaxial wafer manufacturer.
Empowering our entrepreneurs to shift the future of aerospace.
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- Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, France, Japan
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- Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
- Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
- Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery
As a global investment manager, we help institutions, intermediaries and individuals across the planet meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
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- Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, India, Canada
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- CeQur Simplicity — CeQur is revolutionizing mealtime insulin delivery to simplify the lives of people with diabetes and help them keep their blood glucose well controlled.
- Forteus — Forteus is an asset manager focused on blockchain technology and digital assets.
- Redcliffe Labs — Redcliffe LifetechRedcliffe Lifesciences specializes in reproductive health testing, rare diseases, and cancer genetic diagnostics. The company offers a wide range of advanced products and services for healthcare companies, research institutions, and other public and private partnerships, such as testing using molecular and gene-based diagnostics,therapeutic molecules and advanced therapies, next-generation sequencing, and all bioinformatics services.
First Angel Network Association (FAN) is a not-for-profit organization formed to bridge the capital gap for companies with extraordinary potential in Atlantic Canada. Created by angel investors for angel investors, FAN provides entrepreneurs and investors with a confidential, disciplined, high-quality private equity investment experience. FAN alsodelivers education and networking opportunities in the areas of investment readiness, angel investing and commercialization.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- WellTrack — WellTrack provides on-demand online therapy for stress, anxiety, and depression.
- Covina Biomedical — Covina Biomedical is a minimally invasive orthopaedics company producing injectable biomaterials that enhance quality of life. The company is developing its first platform product, a glass-based bone cement to enhance the longevity of orthopaedic implants. Using collaborative research approaches, and in partnership with end users, Covina Biomedicalhas created the first technology of its kind in the industry.
- Beauceron Security — Beauceron makes it faster, easier and less complex for organisations to measure, manage and monitor human-centric cyber risk. Their comprehensive, automated cybersecurity platform covers cybersecurity education, social engineering simulations, executive surveys, and dashboards as well as business process, and technology gap assessment and analysis.
Trifecta Capital is a top Silicon Valley based seed fund. We seek to be the best possible partner for founders with the spirited curiosity to be suspicious of convention and the imagination and willpower to build and nurture a meaningful and lasting business. We are industry agnostic and look to support companies starting at seed stage but continueour support until IPO. Current portfolio companies include Equipment Share, Second Spectrum, Upkeep, Human Interest and others.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Debt Financing, Series B
- India, United States, Canada
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- Arzooo.com — We are disrupting $80bn+ electronics retail market in India, largely dominated by fragmented physical retail (90% share), with Arzooo "Go Store" technology, removing barriers of scale and inventory, and making each retail store better than an e-commerce platform with the largest virtual selection and the best prices to in-shop consumers,higher profits to retailers, along with integrated financing and quick delivery capabilities. Arzooo has also become the gateway for fast growing emerging brands to launch into huge untapped offline channel.
- XYXX Apparels — XYXX Apparels, which runs an eponymous innerwear brand. Misfits organization owns teams that compete in League of Legends, CounterStrike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, as well as participating in the game Super Smash Bros.
- Country Delight — Country Delight delivers farm-fresh cow and buffalo milk to your doorstep within a few hours of milking. Order now through the app and get pure dairy and bakery products every day. Available in Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune!
Tech Square Ventures invest in innovative technology startups that have the potential to transform their markets.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Veckta — VECKTA is the Energy Transition Market Platform. VECKTA integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. VECKTA empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energysituation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability and/or emissions) and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably.
- Danti — Danti is a search engine that focuses on allowing both novice and expert users to ask basic inquiries and discover the vast amount of information being generated throughout the world.
- Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
Welcome to Automotive Ventures, founded by Steve Greenfield. We offer fundraising, growth strategy and transaction guidance advice to automotive technology entrepreneurs and strategic buyers. We support the success of automotive entrepreneurs, businesses and investors.
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- Automotive, Software, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Go Eve — Go Eve bring you DockChain, the DC charge point multiplier. Extend rapid charging to every parking space with our robust, reliable system.
- Pitstop — Pitstop is a cloud-based Prognostic Maintenance Platform that enables enterprises to leverage the wealth of information available from their vehicle fleets. Their data engine integrates Connected Vehicles, Dealerships, Fleet Manager, Tier 1 Suppliers, OEMs, Insurance Companies and the Aftermarket Supply Chain.
- BusRight — BusRight is a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to improve student transportation and customer experience by optimizing core processes for route planning, tracking and real-time reporting of School Bus locations, student ridership, and multi-channel communications between all committed stakeholders.
Angel and Pre-Seed Investments
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- Information Technology, Software, Internet of Things
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
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- UTOBO — Join Hundreds of creators from over 50 countries today.
- TROES — TROES Corp. is a Canadian Commercial & Industrial Battery Energy Storage Systems company, specializing in mid-size smart distributed energy storage solutions from 100kWh-10MWh+.
- Vumo — Car Scanner is a automotive company which scans car for automatic parking enforcement and car damage documentation via autonomous robot.
We are enterprise software experts. We look to co-invest with strong leads, bringing our network of coinvestors and next round investors as well as enterprise software expertise to add value. We see ourselves as partners who can fill out a round quickly and be a positive influence, and non-competitive as we don't lead or take significantstakes in our portfolio companies. We generally write a small check into rounds of $750k-$3M that are mostly full, being low pain-in-the-ass to entrepreneurs compared to relatively high value add. Having been entrepreneurs, we know that's the most important part.While we'll invest anywhere in the US, we love "second tier markets" that can still support major exits but attract relatively less venture funding: Chicago, Toronto, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc etc!
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Finofo — Finofo allows you to send and receive money globally, convert currencies, and automate your accounts payables - all from one place.
- Optera — Optera helps corporations measure, manage, and reduce their carbon emissions up and down their value chains, backed by comprehensive and trusted data.
- Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
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- Mobile, Software, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada
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- ImpressView — ImpressView provides personal branding video for staffing firms.
- Cyberspline Games — Cyberspline Games is home to passionate game developers and artists who work together in a non-traditional and stimulating environment.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
CBGF helps privately-owned Canadian businesses with the capital, talent, and expertise they need to drive growth and realize their potential.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, Argentina
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- ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
- Believeco Partners — Believeco Partners is an owner, operator and builder of the foremost marketing, communications and engagement agencies.
- Specialty Medical Partners — Specialty Medical Partners is a grouping company for independent cardiac, respiratory, and internal medicine hospitals.
Natacor Inc. is a firm that provides financial and business advising as well as capital investments.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
- Angel, Seed
- Canada, Australia
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- Viafoura — We partnered with 800+ media brands to engage, convert & monetize their digital audiences. Check out our community engagement solutions!
- Nicoya Lifesciences — World's first personal surface plasmon resonance instruments designed for the individual researcher at the comfort of their own bench.
- Vida Fresh Air — Vita Fresh Air Corp has developed and is set to commercialize a new catalytic converter technology, the Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC), which aims to lower emissions, lower fuel consumption, and lower equipment costs. Vida’s mission is to develop automotive products that genuinely improve engine performance and emission control in anethical, economical and sustainable manner.
Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- Sequel.io — Stellar empowers brands to build unique live experiences to connect with their community in their own digital homes.
- Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
- Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.
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- Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
- FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
- Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
A seed and early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Kenya
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- Acerta Analytics — Your data is complex. Acerta provides integrated insights into part quality that will optimize production and improve throughput using machine learning and AI.
- Diamond — Setup an entire backend system for your online business in a few clicks.
- HiGeorge — HiGeorge allows news publishers to easily create compelling visualizations from public data that are on par with the New York Times. We do this by cleaning and aggregating public datasets so that anyone can instantly use our data visualizations with a simple copy/paste. Think Tableau with all the necessary data attached.
Playground is an early-stage investment firm that helps old and new investors and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of bits, atoms, and AI. It focuses on investment, innovation, connected hardware, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Playground was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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- Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
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- Atomic AI — AI-driven RNA drug discovery, with atomic precision
- Robust.AI — Robust.AI: Creating a New Foundation for the Future of Robotics
- Outpace Bio — Outpace Bio is a biotechnology company that creates smart cell therapies aimed at improving efficacy and safety.It offers a platform that combines custom-designed biological functions with cellular control modalities that program the right response at the right time and place. It creates a mechanism-driven solution tailor-made to improve efficacyand safety. The company collaborates with Lyell Immunopharma to develop and commercialize a potential immune cell therapy for the treatment of cancer, auto-immune diseases, infectious diseases, degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, metabolic disorders, and genetic disorders, enabling healthcare providers to cure a wide range of diseases as per patient's need.
VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Canada, United States, India
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- Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
- PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
- eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Cegerco — Cegerco specializes in the construction of industrial and institutional sectors. They also restore and renovate historic buildings, while maintaining the original materials. They provide services in the mining sector like silos, conveyors, crushers, etc.
- Groupe Canva — Canva Group is a dynamic holding company in the identification and visual communications field with 9 complementary companies acquired over the last 15 years. Operating with 3 different autonomous business units under the names of Idenco Canada (Boucherville), Decalcomanie Artistic (Montreal) and Mirazed in (St-Hubert), the 200-employee companyserves more than 4,000 customers with its complementary serigraphy and digital printing services. Their goal is to create the best customer experience.
- Voilà! Technologies — Learn how Evolia's employee scheduling app can save you time managing schedules and increase employee engagement.
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- SaaS, Banking, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series A, Private Equity
- Canada
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- sMedia — sMedia helps automotive dealership convert more leads and sell more cars by converting dealer's anonymous traffic - without needing their information. Our products and services drive and convert targeted, local, qualified car buyers directly to dealer's VDP's.
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