Top 50 Health Care Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
Top 50 Health Care Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
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- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PhenoTips — Imagine an Electronic Health Record designed for Genetics.
- Damona Pharmaceuticals — Damona Pharmaceuticals is a pre-clinical pharmaceutical company treats and prevents cognitive deficits in a variety of brain disorders and during aging.
- Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities.The E-Fund involvesspecific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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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
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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%.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- NadaMoo — Grab a spoon, you're going to want to try this deliciously dairy-free coconut milk ice cream. Dairy-free, Gluten-Free, Plant-Based, Vegan, Non-GMO, Faire Trade, B-Corp. Our pints are filled with 100% goodness.
- PocketPills — Pocketpills is Canada's best online pharmacy that allows you to conveniently order online, refill, or consult with an online pharmacist and offers free shipping and low prices.
- Just Vertical — Discover the best indoor hydroponic growing system. With Just Vertical, you can easily grow your own vegetables indoors. Shop our beautifully-designed modern hydroponic system!
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
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- 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.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
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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.
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.
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
Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
- LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
- Realize Medical — We're a medical virtual reality start up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform combines novel 3D visualization with the familiar and intuitive input of a hand held stylus. We're creating powerful VR tools to unlock new ways for healthcare professionals to view and interact with medicalimages so they can enhance patient care.
We transform the most promising oncology innovations into highly competitive opportunities that benefit patients, researchers, investors, and Ontario's economy.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- QurCan Therapeutics Inc. — Nanology Labs has designed and is developing Manganescan®, a novel theranostic agent (MRI contrast agent/Radio-sensitizer) that allows detection of brain tumors at early stages using MRI. Simultaneously, it sensitizes cancer cells which improves radiation therapy outcomes. The agent is 3x more sensitive than current Gadolinium contrast agents(GBCAs), can cross the blood brain barrier and enables early and precise detection and targeting of brain cancer.
- CTRL Therapeutics — CTRL Therapeutics is leading the new wave of biotechnology, unleashing the power of cell therapy for solid tumors in the fight to find treatments for all cancers.
- Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
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.
Lumira Ventures, a later stage VC, partners & invests in best-in-class innovative biotherapeutic & medtech entrepreneurs building transformative companies.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Deka Biosciences — Deka BioSciences, Inc. is committed to developing and delivering life-changing medicines to patients with cancer and inflammatory diseases.
- Antiva Biosciences — Antiva Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, localized therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded as Hera Therapeutics in 2012 by Dr. Karl Hostetler at The University of California San Diego. They are now Antiva Biosciences which is headquartered in South San Francisco.
- Cardiac Dimensions — Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. is a medical device company developing novel interventional tools for the treatment of heart failure and the related condition of mitral valve regurgitation. Our product, the Carillon® Mitral Contour System®, is a groundbreaking, non-surgical device developed to treat functional mitral valve regurgitation. Our system uses acatheter based approach to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral regurgitation.
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, Seed, Debt Financing
- Canada, Argentina, United States
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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.
Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
- Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
- Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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.
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.
iGan Partners is the largest venture capital firm investing in Canada providing capital & expertise to help scale healthcare innovations
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- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Okadoc — The quickest way to book from thousands of doctors, manage your appointments and attend video consultations. All online: healthcare in your hands.
- Segmed — At Segmed, our platform Insight democratizes healthcare data. We work with data partners to ensure secured, anonymized medical data for AI developers.
- MolecuLight — MolecuLight is a Canadian advanced wound care solutions company. Proud maker of the MolecuLight i:X handheld wound imaging device for clinicians.
Genesys Capital invests in and builds companies in the high-growth sectors of life sciences. We have a proven track record of identifying emerging bioscience opportunities, and transforming them into commercially successful companies.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Canada, United States
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- Giiant Pharma — Giiant is a preclinical-stage biotech company that, with its proprietary Precision Delivery technology platform, designs gut-restricted, tissue-specific, small molecule, drug therapeutics with various biological targets in gastroenterology. Its lead program GT-2108 is a microbiota-activated PDE4 inhibitor prodrugs, with improved drug tolerabilityand enhanced therapeutic effect.
- Inversago Pharma — Inversago Pharma is a preclinical-stage, biotech company specialized in the development of new therapies focusing on CB1 blockade, based on first-in-class, peripherally-acting, CB1 inverse agonists.
- Veralox Therapeutics — Veralox Therapeutics develops small molecule therapeutics that treat the underlying pathologies of thrombosis and type one diabetes. Based on an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these diseases, these efforts will lead to new treatment paradigms and better outcomes for patients.
TELUS Ventures strives to seamlessly connect millions of people, companies, and communities by strategically investing in the most advanced and innovative solutions that have the potential to drive significant growth, impact and scale and are strategically aligned to the broader TELUS mandate.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
- Swift Navigation — Swift Navigation was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of theprice of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Spain
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- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
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
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- Health Care, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
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- Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
- Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
- EmergConnect — Emergconnect is creating the first ever digital 'front door' for patients seeking same day care.
We angel invest in founders who will improve the lives of millions. Based in Toronto, Canada.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
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- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- Spare — Spare is on a mission to help accelerate the global shift to autonomous vehicles by enabling anyone to plan and launch a smart transportation network in seconds.Spare builds the tools that power the future of mobility services. From the world’s largest transportation companies to small rural transit agencies, our customers use Spare Platform tolaunch innovative and efficient transportation networks.
- Mayday — Time is your most valuable asset. Make sure you're spending it wisely.
Angel One Network Inc. is a member-based, not-for-profit organization.
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- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, Malaysia
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- Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
- Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
- fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.
We stand proudly on a foundation of deep experience and a demonstrable body of success creating, building, and growing break-out companies.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- DrugBank — DrugBank augments human intelligence to improve the world’s health. Our suite of products are powered by the world’s most complete and up-to-date pharmaceutical knowledge database. It includes everything there is to know about drugs and how they work in the body. We enable companies to improve healthcare delivery through precision medicine orclinical software applications, as well as uncover insights through data science in drug discovery. Our knowledge base can be integrated into software solutions to help achieve clinical intelligence. Companies can easily scale their usage through our API and launch faster with flexible data modules. By providing users with advanced insights and the right information at the right time, users are empowered to make better health decisions.Our extensive, structured datasets are used to discover novel drug candidates, identify drug repurposing opportunities, and build predictive machine learning models. Companies working with data science can find answers quickly and get drugs to market faster with our evidence-based drug information. Lastly, our publicly available resource, DrugBank Online, is free-to-use with limited datasets available for download for academic and non-commercial researchers. DrugBank has been cited in over 13,000 academic publications and is used by millions of researchers and health professionals globally.
- Evommune — Evommune is taking a tissue-based approach to advance insights and accelerate the development of transformative medicines in inflammatory diseases.
- Radiant Biotherapeutics — Radiant Biotherapeutics: Transformative, multi-valent, multi-specific antibody platform: Multabody
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.
Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Israel
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- Evozyne — We have a new way of thinking about proteins. We've uncovered Nature's hidden rules to build Natural Machines. With our partners, we are changing the world.
- Adela — Adela is focused on the detection of cancer and other high-morbidity, high-mortality conditions through a blood test.
- Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
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.
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.
GreenSky Ventures is a Toronto-based firm that makes investments in early-stage Canadian technology companies.GreenSky Ventures seeks early-stage B2B technology companies in Canada, emphasizing protectable IP and experienced management. It makes investments in early-stage technology companies through its affiliated venture capital funds, GreenSkyAccelerator Fund I, II and III. Their principals bring a unique combination of experience in technology, law, and finance to high-growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs.GreenSky Capital was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010 by Geoff Simonett and Michael T. R. List.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Direct-C — Remote asset monitoring systems for oil and gas infrastructure that provide rapid leak detection for liquid hydrocarons, produced water and more.
- Captain AI — Captain is the leading delivery management software for restaurant chains. Gain true visibility into your delivery operations while automating dispatch decisions and optimizing delivery times.
- Mission Control Space Services Inc. — Mission Control is a space exploration and robotics company specializing in spacecraft operations, onboard autonomy and artificial intelligence. We are developing a full-stack robotic control solution. Our technology is designed to control and automate robotic assets operating in harsh and remote environments and increase the safety, efficiency andscientific or financial return of missions.
The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Angel, Grant
- Canada, United States
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- Justo — Call Toronto real estate brokerage, agents and MLS listings provider - Justo to sell or buy houses or condos in Greater Toronto Area.
- LabsCubed — LabsCubed manufactures automated multi-sample tensile testing robots that manufacturers use to increase lab efficiency and reduce labor by up to 85%.
- Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.
The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.
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- Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Germany
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- Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
- PowerCo — PowerCo expansion is the next step in expanding the worldwide battery industry while also localizing cell production and establishing a new value chain.
- London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.
Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally.
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- Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, India
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- Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
- 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%.
Thin Air Labs is the leading investment firm in Canada focused on the growth asset class in innovation and technology. We currently have 24 companies in our portfolio. We believe in igniting venture growth for greater human impact.
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- Health Care, Software, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- Clinify Inc — Medical records are barely digitized in Africa. The lack of digitally centralized health records has led to a large number of preventable deaths as a result of wrong and self diagnosis by patients due to poor to no medical histories, paper record mismatch, long wait times and missed revenue opportunities. There is also a shortage of healthcarepractitioners and a lack of stable healthcare infrastructure.We are building a health information management system that leverages the capabilities of Artificial intelligence. Our solution cuts wait time in half, enables users to easily access, populate, own and centralize their health records. This allows them to control and better understand their encounters, book appointments via a web portal and mobile app, have virtual consultation with healthcare professionals and providers while running it on a low cost infrastructure without affecting system performance.
- PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
- Rehabtronics — Rehabtronics devices are proven to help people recover movement after central or peripheral nervous system injury or disease.
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Norway, Denmark
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- Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Connektica — Connektica offers its innovative radiofrequency testing solutions to reduce cost while maintaining quality standards.
Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
- HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.
- SWITCH Materials — SWITCH Materials develops revolutionary new materials based on proprietary organic molecules that "switch" optical properties on command.SWITCH’s molecular switches can be developed for a number of applications, especially in the areas of molecular electronics and health sciences, including optical filters, photochromic inks, paintsand fibers, high-density optical information storage systems, molecular sensors and biomarkers for labeling and tracking of live cells.SWITCH has assembled a team of cutting-edge materials scientists with combined expertise in synthetic chemistry, polymer processing, optics, and molecular & materials engineering. SWITCH conducts its research and development activities in our own laboratories and the state-of-the-art analytical and clean room facilities at 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University's new $40 million materials science research centre.
Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Areto Labs — Areto Labs is a human-focused cyber security company that uses AI to protect people by detecting and counteracting online abuse.
- PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
- Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.
Archangel is the overarching early stage investment fund based in Waterloo Region, the North Silicon Valley of North America.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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- Monark — Monark is an on-demand leadership development platform that offers self-led and expert-facilitated programs to help you transform your career.
- Carbonhound — Credible climate data and carbon management made simple for all businesses. Take your first step to a low carbon future!
- Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.
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.
Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots
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- Health Care, Wellness, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
- Medwise.ai — Medwise.ai is the Google for doctors.
- Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.
Sustainable, Profitable Impact Investing
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Nimble Science — small intestine sampling technology - Nimble Science
- Hyivy Health — Hyivy Health is working on the first smart pelvic health rehabilitation system for patients and the clinicians who treat them.
- FluidAI Medical — Real-Time Monitoring for Anastomotic Leaks with Origin, by FluidAI. Early data shows FluidAI's Origin can detect leaks an average of 1.6 days earlier.
Red Thread Ventures (RTV) is a global investment and advisory firm. We form long term partnerships with early stage companies led by incredible management teams across a variety of industries. Besides capital, Red Thread adds value by leveraging an extensive CFO and capital markets executive network to aid ventures as they scale from idea toPre-IPO and beyond. Red Thread Ventures currently manages two investment funds, a VCC (Venture Capital Corporation) fund focused on pre-seed/seed stage opportunities in British Columbia and a "Global Fund" for follow-on investments and opportunities across different geographies and asset classes.
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- Health Care, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Canada, Israel
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- Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
- ManagingLife — Lowering the human and financial cost of chronic pain with its digital solution, Manage My Pain.
- Minutebook — Simplify corporate records management. The only equity platform you need for lawyers, company builders, employees and investors
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