Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
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Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
- Reworkd — Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.
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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Belgium
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- ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
- GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
- 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.
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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- Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
- Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
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.
Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
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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.
Green Acre Capital is a private investment fund dedicated exclusively to the Canadian medical and recreational cannabis industry. The fund invests in sectors across the cannabis value chain including production, research, consumer products and retail.
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- Cannabis, Consumer Goods, Marketing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States
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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.
Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.
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- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Kibbi: Job Search — Kibbi is a mobile app and online job board that provides job seekers with the best opportunities in their local area.
- Monark — Monark is an on-demand leadership development platform that offers self-led and expert-facilitated programs to help you transform your career.
- Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.
ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Poland
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- Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.
- PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
- Payscore — Payscore is an automated income verification tool that helps property managers and lenders make the best applicant approval decisions.
Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.
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- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
- Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
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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.
Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- Recovo — Textile SaaS platform that drives circularity in the industry by facilitating the transformation of waste into valuable resources.Our platform connects businesses with circular fabrics and sustainable solutions, fostering material reuse, recycling, and the utilization of recyclable materials for circular design.
- Leya — Leya, a pioneering digital platform, redefines the landscape of online collaboration and communication. With a commitment to seamless interaction and connection, Leya empowers individuals and businesses to transform the way they work and engage in the digital realm.
- Streamforge — Streamforge is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.
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%.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- Quilt — Quilt's mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating, starting with the home. 20% of US global warming emissions come from homes (that’s more than cars!). The largest driver of home emissions is burning fossil fuels for heat. Quilt's first product is a next generation heating and cooling system that makes homes more comfortable,healthier and more efficient, based on all-electric heat pump technology.
- Finta — Finta lets founders and operators easily manage taxes, bookkeeping, and financial insights - all in one platform.
We back visionary founders who are building technologies of the future.2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven earliest stage venture capital firm. We are founders, experienced operators, nerds and dreamers obsessed with the future. We've backed over 200 startups and have the experience and conviction to lead your pre-seed.We are systemsthinkers, engineers, and product junkies. We think about the future non-stop and are ready to understand and back you before anyone else. When we decide to invest, we write you a check and then help you close the rest of the round. If you are a mission-driven team, with strong founder market-fit and a vision for what the future should look like, then we would love to meet you. We love serial founders, but we are also very excited about being the first to believe in underdogs, immigrants, and diverse founders who are going on their first founder journey.2048 Ventures is the earliest stage venture capital firm. They are a team of founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. They provide capital and hands-on help for founders at the earliest stage.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Peru
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- BioLM — BioLM is a bioinformatician, data scientist, laboratory scientist, researcher, and software developer. They offer biological algorithms, AIPs, and modeling. On amino acids and DNA, their platform enables the training and serving of SOTA models for secure tokenization, regression, classification, de novo generation, folding, and other applications.
- Persist AI — Persist AI develops PLGA microspheres for long-acting injectable formulations 50% faster using automation and AI.
- H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.
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- Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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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.
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.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
- Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
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- MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.
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- Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Malaysia
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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.
Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.
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- FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
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- Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
- Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
- MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, Mexico
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- OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
- Oneinvest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
- Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
Globalive Capital is an investment company based in Canada. The Firm makes investments primarily in the telecommunications and real estate with co-investment activities alongside venture capital funds.
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- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
We invest in founders who are driven to push the limits of what is possible
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Portugal
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- Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
- Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
- Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
Diplo is an investor of Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Amongother jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source:
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- Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada
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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.
- CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
- Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
If you want to start a business in Canada, Futurepreneur will give mentorship, financing, and resources. Learn about our impact across Canada.
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- Education, Mobile Apps, Child Care
- Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
- Canada
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- Periculum — An Alternate Credit Assessment Solution for Underserved Markets
- NONA Vegan — Italian plant-based sauces that bring everyone to the table!
- HopKidz Technologies Inc. — B2B2C marketplace, real-time search & booking engine: parents locate a short notice childcare, book it, pay online and can either drop-off their child in as little as within 15 min or get a sitter over to their place within an hour. All caregivers are 100% screened. B2B application on EAP as back-up care, business-subsidized. First-to-market inCanada, competitors in US and Australia. World market = $200b+. Growth plan to dominate the market.
A voice in setting the standards, best practices and processes in health technologies ; a privileged access to 190+ members
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada
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- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- HALEO Clinic — HALEO is an online insomnia clinic that fits in your pocket
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.
ScaleUP Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports creative entrepreneurs and assists with investments. It is focused on early-stage venture capital with a preference for Business-to-Business opportunities. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States, Egypt
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- Canalyst — 4,000+ financial models with every KPI that matters, built and updated by our team of analysts.
- Penny — Discover Penny. Transforming sellers' lives. Providing tailored corporate solutions. Try the best social selling app today.
- Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.
Innovate Calgary is a central innovation hub at the University of Calgary. See our programs and fundings and learn more about our innovation hubs here.
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- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- MACH32 — MACH32 is a medical device startup that develops innovative solutions for new and longstanding medical problems.
- InventoRR MD — InventoRR MD focuses on commercializing groundbreaking trauma and general surgery devices that improve patient recovery outcomes, simplify procedures for doctors, and reduce costs for healthcare organizations.
- Difinity Solutions — Difinity Solutions is specializing in the development of medical devices and technology solutions.
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Felix Health — Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you.
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.
Bedrock: In Search of Narrative Violations
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
- Atmos — Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen.
- Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
Clearco is the fastest, most affordable way for founders to fund their business. Connect your sales and marketing accounts to get started.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Women's
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Mobobaby — The Mobobaby Nursing Cover + Hat is the only breastfeeding cover up worn by baby. The innovative, breathable nursing cover is a great hooter hider so you can enjoy covered goods. Recommended by lactation consultants, baby sleep consultants, and sleep trainers, it is one of the best, unique baby gifts.
- Better Rhodes — Curated Collection of Alcohol-Free Beer, Wine, and Spirits. We host the best in non-alcoholic beers, wines, spirits, mocktail kits, gift boxes, and more.
- Everlasting Adult Pleasure — Everlasting Adult Pleasure focuses on top-tier, personalized customer service.
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
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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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.
For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.
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- Software, IT, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, IT, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- BRXS — Real Estate investing
- Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
- Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships
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- Mobile, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, France
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- Food.ee — Foodee delivers flexible breakfast, lunch and dinner catering solutions from top local eateries in your city. Order online today.
- ShearShare — Reimagining how, when, and where you work. The #1 Salon and Barbershop Booth Rental App. List your space, or find rental locations near you now!
- Artera — Well Health provides a communication platform that connects patients to healthcare organizations through text, email, phone, and live chat. WELL is a communication tool that allows front offices to have two-way text conversations with patients, using existing office phone numbers. The platform is designed from the ground up to make patientcommunications more intuitive across the enterprise. Well Health's mission is to make going to the doctor as easy as meeting up with a close friend.
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
We provide a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment.
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- Software, Wellness, Productivity Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SiftMed — SiftMed is an AI-first company that uses AI to help law firms, insurance companies, and Independent Medical Examiners efficiently organizse and review complex medical files.
- QuickFacts — QuickFacts is an application that offers training, customized workflows, SaaS, insurance, digital, and software solutions.
- Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.
Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack
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- Software, Internet, Community/Lifestyle
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
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- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers. Partnering with Harvard University and others of the world’s preeminent universities, Xfund looks beyond the stereotypical technical pedigrees to seek out extraordinary people who are being systemically ignored by traditional venture capital: technically-gifted liberal artsentrepreneurs. We believe it’s our responsibility to help these unconventional, high potential founders align their ambition and passion with opportunity we help them create, to build the sort of ground-breaking companies that can create a better tomorrow. Xfund has offices in Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more about Xfund, please visit http://www.xfund.com.
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- Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Tingono — Learn how Tingono makes it easy for your Account Managers & Customer Success Managers to both retain revenue and grow revenue from existing customers.
- Pomelo — Need to send money to the Philippines? Send a Pomelo Card. Never again think about transfer fees or where your money is. No more sending money again and again.
- Tingono — Tingono
Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages "moments of achievement" in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by Relay Ventures,Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, True Ventures, Digital Garage and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date.Kiip has been named one of the world's 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List and included on the Dow Jones FasTech50 List. After skipping four K-12 grades, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, and shortly after became one of the youngest people to ever receive venture capital funding.He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: the Top 20 Under 20 awards for all of Canada; Business Insider's Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2011 and 2012; Mashable's Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; One of AdWeek's Seven Would-be Mobile Titans; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.
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- Communities, Local, Internet
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
Grace Chou is a Partner at Maveron.
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- Other, Health Care, Community/Lifestyle
- Seed
- Canada
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- Blume — Hi, we're Blume and we're all up in your bathroom with products that are good for you, and the environment. Skin care, period care and body care made clean, cruelty free & vegan in North America.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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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.
Lance Priebe
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- eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada
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- WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
- 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!
- Two Hat Security — Our intelligent Content Moderation Platform and Profanity Filter help online communities scale and automate the moderation of all user-generated content.
Mo Larbi Bennis
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- Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
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- bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
TIMIA Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing growth capital to B2B and SaaS companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- EnergyWatch — Sustainability and energy data management are fully integrated to track all energy, water, waste, and emissions data on your journey towards net-zero emissions.
- Agentis — Agentis is a Chicago-based technology company revolutionizing the way utilities engage and empower businesses to manage energy usage, saving money and increasing competitive advantage.Agentis is driven by the belief that utilities hold valuable data that can catalyze a new energy future. The success of the Agentis platform is driven by ourunderstanding of the unique voice and needs of the utility customer managing complex energy challenges. Our employees are united through their ability to transform these challenges into a solution while working in a fun and dynamic environment.
- Lasso MD — Lasso MD is a martech platform for SMB healthcare practices. The platform offers first-rate marketing services such as website design, video production, SEO, Paid Ads, Social Media, and ROI Software. It transforms patient lead flow into effortless revenue. Through marketing services, communication software, and patient analytics, Lasso is aservice-based platform that enables simple and repeatable patient growth. Its suite of services develops a sustainable growth model for your practice by managing all stages of patient acquisition, from website design to ROI analysis.
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