Top 40 Cannabis Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023

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• Claybourne — Claybourne is a cannabis breeder, cultivator, and retail brand that is known for its broad line of flower, pre-roll, and concentrate products.
• humble+fume — humble+fume is Canada’s leading distributor of cannabis accessories. We offer the largest range of products and accessories to legal dispensaries, head shops and smoke shops of all sizes. We work with over 200 of the leading industry brands and offer more than 10,000 products and accessories. With distributions centres across North America, we arewell positioned to help grow your business. Our team believes pairing cannabis accessories is at the heart of contemporary enjoyment, we look forward to working with you and creating the perfect experience for your customers.
• HC Solutions Holdings — HC Solutions Holdings operates as a distributor of cannabis. HC Solutions Holdings formed as a Joint Venture between Green Acre Capital Distribution Corp. and Humble & Fume.

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• Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
• Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
• PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.

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• Reach — Reach is the premier ecommerce payments partner connecting you to global consumers. Unlock the true power of in-country payment without the complexities.
• PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
• Immigrate Software — Immigration can be complicated. Our unique software and expert consultants make it simple.

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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.

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• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
• Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
• Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision

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• GrowerIQ — Compliance, Cultivation, Manufacturing, Quality Management System, and CRM all in one easy-to-use platform for cannabis operators globally.
• Data Sentinel — Data Sentinel is a sensitive data management platform that provides deep technology to protect, identify, inventory, classify and tag sensitive data for your company.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
• Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
• My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.

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• Koia — Drink Koia Online
• Strands Hair Care — Strands Hair Care delivers custom shampoo & conditioner with full ingredient customization based on accurate, quantified biological data for each customer.
• Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

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• Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
• Engin Sciences — Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited.Saving time and reducing churn, Engin saves companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.
• PreAct Technologies — High-performance flash LiDAR for applications. The ultra-fast edge processing and frame rate make this the perfect sensor for any application.

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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• Bullrider — There's cannabis then there's Bullrider. Legacy in the making since 2004. Cannabis dispensary selling and delivering legal weed in Brampton, Canada from 67 Shelby Road.
• StatusPro — StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products.

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• Curv Health — Modern virtual Training, Physiotherapy, & Rehab Clinic. Computer Vision & Health Coaches for Strengthening & Recovery.
• KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
• 3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.

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• Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

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• Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
• SōRSE Technology — SōRSE Technology is a water-soluble emulsion technology for infusing products with CBD, THC, and terpenes.The SōRSE Technology team is comprised of 150+ years in product development. With of team of over 30 employees dedicated to research and development, quality assurance, and operations, SōRSE supports clients' production efforts fromconception through go-to-market.
• Birchmount Network — Birchmount Network is a gift card and marketing services company that provides comprehensive revenue and brand solutions.

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• Panaxium — We imagine a future where permanent disability from brain injury no longer exists.
• Ora Médical — Real progress for your child, at their own pace.
• Novela Neurotech — Novela Neurotech is medical technology startup with a research legacy in neuromodulation originating in the University of Waterloo in Canada. Novela has developed the Neureka™ smart technology platform to accelerate the discovery & development of new safer treatments for epilepsy, narcotic addiction, depression, Alzheimer's,Parkinson's diseases, and many other neurological disorders

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• Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
• 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.
• Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

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• Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

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• Burb — Burb is a cannabis culture brand with retail stores serving the Greater Vancouver Area. Shop Burb's latest ready-to-wear and accessories online. Secure & Easy Checkout with fast worldwide shipping.
• Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
• Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business

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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.

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• 8base — 8base is the best way to build, run and grow professional-grade web and mobile applications that power your business | Ask us how.
• GrowerIQ — Compliance, Cultivation, Manufacturing, Quality Management System, and CRM all in one easy-to-use platform for cannabis operators globally.
• Safely — Let us help you protect your home with Short Term Rental Insurance & Comprehensive Guest Screening for your Airbnb. Contact us today!

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• Revefi — Revefi builds the next generation of enterprise data observability and monitoring space. The company's product is aimed at helping cloud enterprises get the right data to business delivered on time, detect and fix data issues before they impact downstream users, and reduce data warehouse spending. Revefi has offices in Redmond, Washington andSan Mateo, California.
• SapientAI — Sapient AI Test Coder inspects code systems, predicts problematic issues and automatically writes accurate test code without any manual work. We are the only company that combines contextual insights, code intelligence and a generative AI to automate the full spectrum of software testing
• ControlRooms.ai — This is a custom view from ControlRooms -- an AI-based monitoring and troubleshooting tool for chemical plant operators and engineers to meet their uptime goals.

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• Bridgr — For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help
• ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
• Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

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• Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
• Moneta Porcupine Mines — Moneta holds a 100% interest in 5 core gold projects strategically located along the highly prospective Destor Porcupine Fault Zone.
• Fronsac Real Estate Investment Trust — Canadian Net REIT is a Canadian publicly-traded open-ended real estate investment trust with a focus on triple net and management-free retail properties

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Spiderwort — Spiderwort is an innovator in all-natural, plant-based biomaterials that have the potential to repair spinal cord injuries and promote healing.
• Groupe Evex — Groupe Evex deals with the commercial real estate projects.
• Marmax — Marmax deals with residential and commercial construction, renovation and roofing.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Nimia — Buy Cinematic Stock Footage from Award Winning Filmmakers. Find the perfect royalty-free and rights-managed stock footage for your next project from the world's best filmmakers. Shop creative stock footage, archival stock footage, and editorial stock fooage.
• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
• Root Sciences — Root Sciences provides premium cannabis distillation & extraction equipment and training services. Turnkey and scale-able solution for CBD distillation.

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• Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
• Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
• TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Pop Meals — Expect exciting, locally trending meals at an affordable price! Now with dine-in, pickup and delivery .
• Livescale — Try the Live Shopping solution with e-Commerce and checkout integration. Boost your real-time sales and skyrocket your brand awareness among communities!
• Ludex — A web3 protocol that enables video games to operate on-chain.

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• Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.

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• Epinoma — Epinoma is a diagnostics company that focuses on the multi-omics approach to cancer monitoring. It engineers proteins that control the operating system of biology. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• BluumBio — BluumBio develops next-generation remediation technologies that clean up pollution and restore degraded ecosystems
• Promakhos Therapeutics — A Boston-based biotech startup developing therapeutics.

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• Bevz — Bevz is a software and services (SaaS) platform for local, independently operated liquor/convenience stores. Our vision is to transform the 100,000+ independent liquor stores across the nation with the technology, data, and support
• PayeLoad — PayeLoad's software platform was developed for the blue-collar working class by the blue-collar working class. As professionals in the same field, we realized how much time and money was being lost because of trips to the hardware store. We decided to develop a software platform that would save us time, money and make us more efficient all theway around. In the thick of the COVID pandemic, we thought it would be a great way to help other companies be more efficient while staying safe and limiting contact. There is no delivery too small, so let us know what you need, and we will help your business stay on track in an ever changing world.
• Lynx — Lynx is pioneering a better way to approach venture funding. Get started with the SWEAT equity toolkit today!