Top 10 Local VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in October 2023

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• SweetIQ Analytics — SweetIQ and Uberall join forces to unlock the full power of location marketing.

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• 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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• 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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• 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.