# Top 25 Beauty Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026 ## District Ventures Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies. ## Pierre Lortie - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Beauty, Cosmetics, Manufacturing Pierre Lortie ## Hedgewood - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity. ## Inovia Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society. ## Maple Leaf Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Software, SaaS Maple Leaf Angels are an experienced group of private investors looking for great entrepreneurs, great products and great companies. Bringing together investment, experience and knowledge, we help accelerate companies to become market leaders in their industry.We focus on four main investment areas as follows:- Information Technology- CleanTechnology- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials- Special Opportunities ## BDC Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet 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. ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Accelia Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Beauty, Wellness Accelia Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in innovative companies with high technological potential. We aim for diversity, performance, and impact by favoring businesses owned or led by women. They invest in the most promising start-ups that have completed the development of a product or service and have gained some market validation.Their portfolio companies also benefit from the support of renowned female investors who contribute their network of contacts and expertise in various fields. ## Storytime Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps We believe that work is being completely redefined in subtle and significant ways. Storytime capital has launched its inaugural fund of CAD$17.5m to invest globally in pre-seed or seed stage companies and the entrepreneurs that are influencing and writing the future of work story. ## Longitude Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Longitude Capital is a healthcare venture capital firm that invests in transformative healthcare companies to unlock value and enable growth. ## Oxford Finance LLC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Providing Flexible and Creative Financial Solutions to Life Sciences and Healthcare Services Companies. ## BKR Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Beauty, Wellness BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space. ## Fatima Yusuf - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software Fatima Yusuf ## Harbinger Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Organic Food, Food and Beverage, Beauty Harbinger Ventures Provides venture capital and strategic resources to the next generation of female leaders. Harbinger Ventures identifies, invests in, and supports exceptional female entrepreneurs that have demonstrated proof of concept in an attractive natural products category. Harbinger’s focused investment strategy is designed to support itsprimary objective: driving outstanding, risk-adjusted returns for its investors. Their focused investment strategy is fundamental to their success. They exclusively invest where they have deep experience. ## Fondaction - Type: VC Fund - Location: Clarke City, Quebec, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing - Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software 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. ## Desjardins-Innovatech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing Desjardins-Innovatech is a Canadian venture capital company that funds innovative businesses in diverse sectors across Quebec. ## Dundee Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Omaha, Nebraska, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Dundee Venture Capital invests $250,000-$1M in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. DVC invests across industries in founding teams they believe in. Most of DVC's investments are in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or consumer networks.Dundee VC formally began in 2010. The root of the idea started much earlier when Mark Hasebroock, DundeeVC’s founding, and managing partner, was raising money for his two e-commerce companies, giftcertificates.com and Hayneedle.com, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively. ## Sherbrooke Innopole - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology Sherbrooke Innopole is the economic development organization of the City of Sherbrooke which serves the industrial and tertiary-engine sectors. We provide free support to entrepreneurs in the industrial and technological sectors in Sherbrooke towards success. ## Crédit Mutuel Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Energy Crédit Mutuel Equity is the Private Equity branch of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale. ## Jim Estill - Type: Angel - Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Beauty, Mobile Jim Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800,000,000 to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was one of the founding board members of RIM where he served for 13 years. ## Thunder Road Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Digital Media, Advertising Platforms, News Thunder Road Capital, an Ontario-based venture capital firm, provides advisory and investment services to early stage technology companies. ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings ## Chelsea Handler - Type: Angel - Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Angel - Focus: Fashion, News, Beauty Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer. ## David Ceolin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Beauty, Wellness, E-Commerce David Ceolin ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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