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Top 10 Local VC Funds & Investors in Canada (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Canada Local startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Local startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Haywood Securities Inc.
VC Fund
1 Canada, Japan Post-IPO Equity, Angel, Post-IPO Secondary Mining, Mineral, Mining Technology $1M–$52M
Desjardins-Innovatech
VC Fund
1 Canada, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $850k–$28M
Real Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $581k–$145M
Structure Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, Marketplace $365k–$12M
StartFast Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note SaaS, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$913k
Otimo Retail
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Retail Technology, Retail $581k–$8.5M
Hardy Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Canada Angel Communities, Local, Internet $1M–$1M
Plaza Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Analytics $2.2M–$30M
Retail Group
VC Fund
1
Rothenberg Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce $770k–$60M
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Haywood Securities Inc.
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

Haywood Securities is an investment firm that invests in the institutional and retail markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mining, Mineral, Mining Technology
  • Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Angel, Post-IPO Secondary
  • Geography: Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Angel $1M–$1M; Post-IPO Equity $2.1M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • K92 Mining — K92 Mining Inc is focused on advancing the Kainantu Gold Mine, located in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, towards production. The Kainantu property covers a total area of approx. 410 km2 and was previously mined by Highlands Pacific and Barrick Gold from 2006-2009. K92 Mining Inc. was purpose built for the acquisition of theKainantu Gold Mine. In addition to targeting a move towards production, K92 will focus on ‎both expanding known areas of mineralization and drilling high priority exploration targets.K92 is led by an experienced team of industry professionals with substantial international expertise in mining, production start ups, production re-starts, mineral exploration, and finance.
  • Nomad — Nomad is a co-working space that also engages in investment and support for start-up companies.
  • Nomad Royalty Company — Sandstorm is a gold royalty company with hundreds of royalty and streaming assets in a single investment. Since 2008, our leading growth profile has been an attractive opportunity for investors seeking exposure to gold.
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Desjardins-Innovatech
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

Desjardins-Innovatech is a Canadian venture capital company that funds innovative businesses in diverse sectors across Quebec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$2.7M; Series A $2.2M–$3.1M; Series B $8.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Concentric Agriculture — Concentric produces high-performance specialty biological products that naturally improve crop yields and replenish soils.
  • LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
  • A3 Surfaces inc — A3 Surfaces Inc. offers a surface treatment service incorporating various antimicrobial agents directly into the anodized aluminum layer. The antimicrobial effect of these surfaces prevents the transmission of hospital-acquired infections. The technology used by A3 Surfaces offers antibacterial products that eradicate pathogens and can be used onall commercial, industrial or institutional surfaces. Founded in 2015, this Chicoutimi company employs 5 people.
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Local startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $581k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $7M–$145M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2017

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.
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Structure Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $365k–$5.5M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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StartFast Ventures
VC Fund · Syracuse, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

StartFast invests in the heartland of America. We have built companies outside VC hubs and know what it takes to succeed. We like… Strong, diverse teams with proven track records and exceptional domain expertise Recurring revenue business models, particularly with a business to business focus Founders based outside venture capital hubs, at theSeries Seed and Series A stageLearn more and partner with us at http://startfast.net.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $12k–$25k; Pre-Seed $25k–$913k; Convertible Note $75k–$150k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • In-Seam — IN-SEAM. LUXURY, CONNECTED.
  • Blackbird.AI — Blackbird.AI provides organizations with Deception Detection technology to protect against narrative manipulation and disinformation.
  • Patient Pattern — Patient Pattern is a provider of a cloud-based clinical software designed to to improve the lives of geriatric patients and those in need of complex care. The company's clinical software uses data science and offers clinical decision support as well as formulates comprehensive care plans that summarizes the patient's current situation andgives recommendations, enabling healthcare providers to treat elderly patients efficiently and lower utilization costs.
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Otimo Retail
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

We invest in retail focused technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $581k–$800k; Series A $3.1M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiwa — Warehouse software and 3PL Software - empower companies to run a digital fulfillment network & grow their DTC business.
  • XCCommerce — XCCommerce is a leading software development and implementation company that specializes in retail specific solutions.XCCommerce’s team has a proven track record of developing and deploying Promotion Management Solutions, implementing projects on time and on budget, and generating optimal ROI for their customers.XCCommerce has a strong marketpresence and their capabilities in delivering applications are rooted in best practices. Their solutions enable retailers to transform the customer experience and allow seamless interaction with the consumer on their terms.They are trusted with providing focused solutions and dedicated expertise to the retail industry, ranging from Tier 1 retailers to organizations who are growing their brands.
  • Trendalytics Innovation Labs — Your personal data scientist. Trendalytics retail intelligence platform helps retailers drive more profitable decisions through data-driven forecasting.
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Hardy Capital Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

Hardy Capital invest in high growth companies with the potential to out execute the competition.Hardy Capital is a Canadian merchant bank established to foster the growth of young businesses. With a history of international transactions including; acquisitions throughout Northern Europe ( Sweden, Holland, Germany and the UK ) the United Statesand Asia ( Japan, Singapore ). Public company listings on the OMX: Europe, TSX: Canada and the NASDAQ: Usa. Along with both public and private financings throughout Europe, Asia and North America.With dedicated assets of over $100M, Their mission is to help build and grow businesses that have the potential to achieve market leading positions primarily in the consumer space. They are especially interested in businesses that are disruptive to large very profitable incumbent monopolies and use new technology to improve customer experiences. With acute interest in transactions focused around Optical, Fin-tech, Real estate and Insurance disruption. They understand and can support businesses by helping them navigate the complex nature of growth in the global marketplace and fast track the company to the right investor or mentor groups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Local, Internet
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Angel $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Plaza Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$4M; Series B $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
  • KERV Interactive — KERV is an AI-powered video creative technology that creates shoppable & immersive experiences within any video content. Learn what KERV can do for you.
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Retail Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

Our business is to improve our clients business throught our understanding of shoppers, their shopping habits, retailers and skills of retailing.

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SweetIQ Analytics — SweetIQ and Uberall join forces to unlock the full power of location marketing.
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Rothenberg Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Local startups

Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $770k–$3M; Series A $2.8M–$10M; Series B $8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • VRChat — VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and bewalking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place.It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Wave — Wave focuses on interactive virtual experiences with a mission to help artists make money at the intersection of gaming and entertainment. Wave’s technology enables musicians to create lifelike avatars of themselves that can “perform” their music on a virtual stage. Most of these virtual shows take place either on the company’s YouTube channel, butWave’s apps let users tune in on gaming consoles, phones or even the Oculus Rift VR headset. While watching a Wave, viewers can log in to comment in a chat function and give live feedback to the avatar performers.
  • InsiteVR — InsiteVR helps architects and 3D designers easily create immersive virtual reality experiences. At InsiteVR.com architects and 3D designers can upload existing 3D models, which are then converted and optimized for viewing in virtual reality devices like the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or simply on mobile devices.Trying to understand 3D spacesby looking at static two-dimensional pictures is not intuitive. Communicating those 3D designs to a client, friend or colleague who isn't trained to understand 3D space isn't always trivial either. With virtual reality, architects and designers can effortlessly communicate the essence of their designs, save time and feel confident their viewer understands the design.
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Local VC funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 10 deals from 19 investors.

19
investors
in Canada Local startups
10
deals
in Canada Local startups
$1M
median round
in Canada Local startups
16%
lead investors
lead at least one round
10%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage

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