Top 40 Organic Food Startup Investors in Canada (May 2026)

Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 73
Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$225k
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

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!

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InvestEco invests in innovative companies in the Food & Agriculture Sector. Learn More about our process, people, and companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
Stage:Seed, Series B
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 41
Round size: Seed $250k–$4M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

LesserEvil — From source to snack, LesserEvil is dedicated to creating clean, healthy snacks that are as tasty as they are guilt-free. Start your journey to better snacking!
Acid League — Experiments in acid? Acid League makes flavor-tripping vinegars, drinks, sauces, and condiments to energize your cooking.
Mara Renewables — Mara Renewables Corporation (Mara) is the leading Canadian biotechnology company focused on the research, development, and commercialization of sustainable fermentation algal biotechnologies for nutritional and renewable energy industries.

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Cycle Capital is a pioneer in Canadian Cleantech venture capital fund management investing in companies at the development and commercialization stages in North America. Founded in 2009 by Andrée-Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital’s Platform has become an important venture capital investor of the Cleantech industry with its 3funds totaling $230M Assets Under Management (AUM). Cycle Capital is looking to invests in promising ventures that are not capital intensive and/or that can benefit from the leverage brought by Cycle Capital extensive network of investors, strategic partners and advisors.In addition to its core investments, Cycle Capital targets companies with high growth potential – especially those with strong intellectual property, leading edge technologies and with exceptional management talent that would benefit from the firm’s network of strategic industrial partners and expert advisors. With its core investment and business expertise, Cycle Capital plays an active role adding meaningful and tangible value to its portfolio companies at all stages of their life.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
Stage:Series B, Seed
Geography: Canada, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 67
Round size: Seed $54k–$2.7M; Series B $5.8M–$20M
Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $145M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

VueReal — VueReal is engineering the next electronic systems by mass integration of high-efficiency nano/micro-devices into large-area substrates (e.g., displays, sensors, system on panel, and more). They have started by making the true-life experience of micro-LED displays affordable for all applications (TV, laptop, smartphone,virtual/augmented reality, etc.). VueReal technology platform is based on the interplay of cutting-edge micro/nano-device processing, sophisticated integration technologies and advanced system design (hardware and software). VueReal technologies can enhance the experience of existing electronic systems and enable new applications by integrating millions of highly efficient micro-devices (micro-LED) into system substrate. As our Solid Printing (TM) technology works across all substrate sizes, it can develop displays ranging from super high ppi (>4000 ppi) to very large.
Airex Energy — Airex Energy provides solutions for a sustainable future. Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
SPARK Microsystems — Discover SPARK Ultra-wideband: Revolutionizing AR, VR, audio, gaming, and IoT with responsive low-latency, high-speed wireless transceivers.

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Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Stage:Series B, Series A
Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 134
Round size: Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $4.4M–$20M
Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
Koios Intelligence — MISSIONKoïos Intelligence is on a mission to Improve the insurance value chain using conversational AI.Our platform Olivo is built for insurance customers with the goal of eliminating waiting time, reducing operational costs and offering an unprecedented customer experience. Based on Natural Language Processing and state-of-the-art ArtificialIntelligence, Olivo is made to answer new customer needs and expectations in today’s digital world.
Vive Crop Protection — Vive makes effective and sustainable pesticides for organic and non-organic production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Mike Fata is the Founder at Manitoba Harvest. He attended Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Investment focus

Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Snack Food
Stage:Seed, Series B
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
Mid-Day Squares — Mid-Day Squares: Perfectly designed to stop your hunger or cravings in between meals. Each Square is packed with Clean Plant Protein, Real Chocolate & Superfoods.
Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.

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Avrio Capital is a venture capital and private equity investment firm specializing in commercialization to growth-stage companies with a focus on later-stage, early stage, mid venture, middle market, and emerging growth businesses. It also provides mezzanine financing. Avrio Capital prefers to invest in food technology, advanced agriculture,industrial bioproducts, and nutraceutical ingredients and innovative companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability. It invests in companies based in Canada and North America. Avrio Capital seeks to invest between CAD $1 million $0.77 million to CAD $10 million $7.70 million, with significant capital reserved for subsequent financing rounds over the life of the portfolio company. It seeks to invest in companies with sales value between CAD $1 million $0.77 million and CAD $20 million $15.40 million. Avrio Capital prefers to take an active role in each investment it makes. It began operation in 2006, with its headquarters in Alberta in Canada and additional offices in Ontario and Quebec therein.

Investment focus

Industry: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Hospitality
Stage:Series B, Series C
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hortau — Hortau provide to growers real time field and soil data to help them make decisions around irrigation and fertilizer applications.
SOL Cuisine — Contact us Question about our products? Want to tell us you love one of our recipe? Need to bring something to our attention? We're always delighted to hear from you. Select your optionWhere to buy our productsProduct Questions, Praise or SuggestionsProduct Issue or ComplaintInvestorsBusiness Partners & WholesaleMedia & EventsCoupon RequestsCareers InquiriesOther To report a product
Enterra Feed — Enterra is a Vancouver-based company commercializing a natural system that uses a common beneficial insect to rapidly recover nutrients from recycled food waste; sourced from grocery stores, markets, food distributors and food processors, to up-cycle the nutrients into sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture, animal feed and pet food, as wellas a concentrated natural fertilizer product for use in agriculture.

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Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 116
Round size: Debt Financing $271k–$5M; Private Equity $750k–$103M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

Libro — Elevate Your Guest Experience Our guest experience platform does more than fill tables. Start building a highly personalized and profitable dining experience with Libro. Pricing Features How we help your restaurant thrive Reservations Accept online reservation requests in real-time 24/7/365. Access reservations from anywhere so your entire team is prepared to serve guests. Reputation Management
Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
Omy Laboratoires — Omy Laboratoires develops and manufactures personalized cosmetic skin-care products using its AI based skin analysis system.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 126
Round size: Seed $799k–$5.2M; Series A $4.7M–$18M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Forage Capital Partners is a growth equity fund for Ag & Food Business Solutions. Forage Capital is an investor in the agriculture and food industry, who invests in uncertain times to help Canadian companies grow profitably and compete on the world stage.

Investment focus

Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Water
Stage:Series A, Series B
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Series A $3.5M–$18M
Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ostara — Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. helps protect precious water resources by changing the way cites around the world manage nutrients in water streams
Vytelle — Vytelle is a company with a deeper purpose and revolutionary technology that helps to advance bovine, deer and buffalo genetics faster by redefining reproduction.
Croptimistic Technology Inc — Soil, water, and topography (SWAT) MAPS are built from layers of field data for zone management, variable rate fertilizer & seed applications

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Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Stage:Seed, Grant
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 47
Round size: Seed $120k–$3M
Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

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.

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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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 145
Round size: Seed $38k–$2M; Grant $11k–$800k; Pre-Seed $38k–$1M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Canada, United States, Argentina

Investor stats

Total investments: 195
Round size: Seed $22k–$4M; Series A $3M–$15M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Flojoy — Flojoy is the leading open-source platform for AI-enhanced test, measurement, and control and the leading Python-based alternative to LabVIEW. Download Flojoy Studio today to connect to over 700 supported benchtop instruments, sensors, motors, cameras, DAQ boards, and DMMs.
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.
Northstar Clean Technologies — Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver-based clean technology and recycling company focused on the recovery of components from asphalt shingles.

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Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food and Beverage
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.

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Dror Balshine is the President at Sol Cuisine Inc. Dror Balshine attended The University of British Columbia.

Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.

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Terry Tierney

Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

SmartSweets — At SmartSweets, they're tackling one of the largest and most concerning problems hidden in their every day foods sugar. It's about kicking sugar but keeping candy and creating a movement based on smaller, smarter choices.

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Mohamed Hage is a young entrepreneur with a demonstrated track record of success and over 10 years of experience running software and real estate companies. He has a talent for inspiring passion in employees and an incredible knack for forging connections with experts from a diverse range of specialties. He conceived of Lufa Farms in the early2000s based on his childhood experiences with agriculture and fresh produce in a village just outside of Beirut.

Investment focus

Industry: Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.

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Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food and Beverage
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.

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Whitecap Venture Partners is a Canadian-based Venture Capital fund investing in early stage technology companies. Whitecap is headquartered in Toronto and invests across Canada and the Northeastern US. Since Whitecap’s inception the early 1990s, Whitecap recognises the power of real collaboration between entrepreneurs and investors. This rapportenables them to provide significant value to companies along with strong returns across investment cycles.Whitecap specialises in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and Medical Technologies. Whitecap is continually searching for upcoming ventures to support as the next generation of exceptional enterprises.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 39
Round size: Seed $726k–$6M; Series A $4.7M–$17M; Series B $8.3M–$20M
Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
Mash — The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.”Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet.We are unlocking this withfriction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized.It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.
InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.

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Dux capital Invests in the new generation of Latinx heroes

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Mexico, United States, Spain

Investor stats

Total investments: 21
Round size: Seed $40k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.4M
Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

Zubut — On-Demand B2B last mile delivery. Doing same day delivery for e-commerce, savings for restaurantes and last mile delivery for enterprises.
Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
Innovare — Innovare is the edtech and data strategy app helping education leaders visualize, analyze, and use data to positively impact the communities they serve.

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Andrew has held a number of director and executive positions for large multinationals and has 30 years of experience in international business. He has a strong background in growing businesses including 17 years as a CEO.From 2003 to 2011, Andrew was CEO of Fonterra Co-Operative Group, New Zealand's largest company. Prior to Fonterra,Andrew served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and director of GSW of Toronto, a manufacturer of consumer durable products and, prior to GSW, Andrew was President and CEO of Tate & Lyle North America Sugars of New York and President of Redpath Sugars in Toronto.Andrew currently runs his own investment company, Canz Capital, is Chairman of the New Zealand Government's economic development agency New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, sits on the Council of the University of Auckland and, in addition to Orion Health, sits on the boards of Bunge Ltd. in New York and Lufa Farms Inc. in Montreal, as well as other advisory and charitable boards.Andrew holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Business Administration from Concordia University.

Investment focus

Industry: Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada, China, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 52
Round size: Seed $150k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $363k–$1M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 104
Round size: Seed $25k–$2M; Grant $25k–$2.8M; Debt Financing $153k–$1M
Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
Geography: Canada, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 107
Round size: Grant $38k–$57M; Debt Financing $100k–$2.5M
Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

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.

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An investing firm.

Investment focus

Industry: Marketing, Ad Exchange, Advertising
Stage:Series C
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Sharethrough — Sharethrough is an omnichannel supply side platform underpinned by advanced RTB tech & enhanced ad experiences. We bring human-centric technology to programmatic advertising.
SOL Cuisine — Contact us Question about our products? Want to tell us you love one of our recipe? Need to bring something to our attention? We're always delighted to hear from you. Select your optionWhere to buy our productsProduct Questions, Praise or SuggestionsProduct Issue or ComplaintInvestorsBusiness Partners & WholesaleMedia & EventsCoupon RequestsCareers InquiriesOther To report a product
Composites Vci — Composites Vci is a transportation environmental consulting company located in Saint-lin-laurentides.

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Rathmell, a trained biochemist, started working with Lufa Farms as a researcher at McGill’s MacDonald campus. She played a large role in the development of the plant science and growing science that Lufa eventually implemented, including the NFT and drip irrigation systems, the use of biological pest controls, the microclimate and crop rotationsystems, and the selection of crop varieties. Rathmell currently supervises all greenhouse operations as well as research and development

Investment focus

Industry: Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

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Natural Products Canada provides insight, introduction, and investment to help entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors leverage the growing demand for naturally-derived products. It connects industry, investors, researchers, and others to help innovative natural products reach their full potential in the market. The company works with smallcompanies, large and multinational corporations, research institutions, investors, innovation and economic development agencies, and business, and commercialization experts such as IP, marketing, and regulatory consultants. Collaborating with these many stakeholders, the company evaluates products and technologies, helps companies overcome commercialization hurdles, and invest in the opportunities that show the most promise.

Investment focus

Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $500k–$3.3M
Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
Partake Brewing — Partake Brewing is the craft non-alcoholic beer brand that focuses on flavor, health, socializing, and inclusivity for people who choose not to drink alcohol whether as a need or increasingly as a lifestyle choice.
Impactful Health R&D — Impactful Health R&D is a developer of compostable active packaging materials designed to prolong the shelf life of fresh foods, starting with fresh fish as an entry market. The company's active packaging materials are made of naturally-derived resources and helps in preserving the texture of a fish by maintaining its water content andtargeting bacteria, enabling fish processing companies to reduce wastage of fish.

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Eric Patel was first elected to the Ritchie Bros. Board in 2004. Mr. Patel has extensive business and financial experience, most recently as CFO of Pembrook Mining Corp. (formerly Paget Resources Corporation), a private mining company that he left in 2010. Prior to that Mr. Patel acted as the CFO of CrystalDecisions, Inc., a privately heldsoftware company. Mr. Patel joined Crystal Decisions in 1999 after holding executive level positions, including that of CFO, with University Games, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of educational toys and games. Before 1997, Mr. Patel worked for Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream as Director of Strategy, for Marakon Associates strategy consultants and for Chemical Bank. Mr. Patel sits on the Advisory Board of ACL Services Ltd, the board of Daiya Foods Inc. and is treasurer of B.C. Social Ventures Partners, a not for profit-organization. Mr. Patel holds an MBA degree. Mr. Patel is currently a member of the Audit Committee and is Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.

Investment focus

Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Seed $2.6M–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

TMRW Foods — TMRW Foods is a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, producing out of their wholly owned HACCP certified facility in British Columbia, Canada. TMRW products can be found in retailers across Canada, and a local delivery platform is available for Lower Mainland Vancouver. TMRW has tripled their distribution points from the end 2020 to Q2 2021.
Apothékary — Apothékary is a global plant-based farmacy that offers clean alternatives to over the counter synthetic supplements & beauty products.
Eclipse Foods — Eclipse Foods is the sweet tooth for all food lovers of plant-based, vegan ice cream. We offer delicious, cruelty-free vegan ice cream. Learn more today!

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New Acres Capital is an investment company that supports companies that contribute for future food.

Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

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SOL Cuisine — Contact us Question about our products? Want to tell us you love one of our recipe? Need to bring something to our attention? We're always delighted to hear from you. Select your optionWhere to buy our productsProduct Questions, Praise or SuggestionsProduct Issue or ComplaintInvestorsBusiness Partners & WholesaleMedia & EventsCoupon RequestsCareers InquiriesOther To report a product

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John Flanagan

Investor stats

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

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SOL Cuisine — Contact us Question about our products? Want to tell us you love one of our recipe? Need to bring something to our attention? We're always delighted to hear from you. Select your optionWhere to buy our productsProduct Questions, Praise or SuggestionsProduct Issue or ComplaintInvestorsBusiness Partners & WholesaleMedia & EventsCoupon RequestsCareers InquiriesOther To report a product

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 65
Round size: Seed $77k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $363k–$1M
Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

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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Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food and Beverage
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.

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Chris Adams - Founder & Managing Director @ Adams Hamilton

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Farming, Nutrition
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

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FreshSpoke — Wholesale buyers from restaurants, retail and institutions place orders using FreshSpoke's mobile or web app. Delivery is then arranged using FreshSpoke's shared delivery system that leverages the excess capacity that already exists in the food delivery system, giving commercial drivers, including local food producers, the ability to earnextra income delivering local food. The entire transaction is paperless; every aspect of the delivery from dispatch and routing, to arrival notification and order acceptance is handled on the driver’s smartphone. FreshSpoke is in the market and commercialized in Canada and the USA with a web app and three mobile apps. These include FreshSpoke buyers’ app, FreshDispatch app for Drivers and a consumer facing app called Local Food Champion that authenticates the source of local food served or sold by FreshSpoke buyers.

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Scott Elaine Cas

Investment focus

Industry: Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

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SmartSweets — At SmartSweets, they're tackling one of the largest and most concerning problems hidden in their every day foods sugar. It's about kicking sugar but keeping candy and creating a movement based on smaller, smarter choices.

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Kubo is a company that manages complete greenhouse projects.

Investment focus

Industry: Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.

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A Technology Investment Fund

Investment focus

Industry: iOS, Apps, SaaS
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Series A $2M–$8M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Mojio — Mojio designs, develops and delivers connected car solutions that transform data into scalable services for our partners and their customers.
Mazza Innovation — From the ingredients we produce to how we give back to the planet, we reflect health in everything we do. Simplicity is key to our method; water & plants.
Light-Based Technologies — Light-Based Technology delivers disruptive linear technologies for the control of solid state lighting products. Their solutions are easy to implement and very efficient. They can help you reduce the strain on natural resources from the materials required to manufacture your products while adding beneficial features.

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Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Canada, Spain, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 132
Round size: Seed $726k–$2.9M; Angel $363k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Software
Stage:Series A, Series B
Geography: Canada, United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 164
Round size: Series A $2.2M–$38M; Series B $5.4M–$30M
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Gouvernement du Québec helps to shape the Québec of tomorrow by working on significant projects in all major sectors of Quebec society such as economy, environment, infrastructure, support for individuals and families, public safety and justice, education and culture, health, and social services. Its services offered to play a decisive role in theability to prosper and the quality of life of the people of Quebec. This diversity is reflected in a career offer that is as enriching as it is varied. It has 60,000 employees in some 20 departments and some 60 organizations across Quebec.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Wood Processing
Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 14
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.5M; Debt Financing $2.5M–$142M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Oatbox — From organic granola and gluten-free oatmeal to vegan and nut-free kids bars, we offer tasty, nutritious and canadian oat-based snacks. Subscribe or order a box delivered to your door in Quebec, Canada and United States.
Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
Equisoft — Equisoft is a business-first technology company dedicated to helping insurance and wealth management organizations reach their goals.

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Furneaux Capitalis is a capital investing company in breakthrough markets and ideas.

Investment focus

Industry: Events, Lead Generation, Information Technology
Stage:Series B
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

ScoreBig — Last minute sports, concert, and theater tickets. Interactive seat maps, secure checkout, and a 100% money back guarantee.
WhoKnows — WhoKnows is the first omni-channel lead gen platform driven by AI and specifically optimized for startups. We have a unique combination of data (over 370M AI-enriched profiles) and lead gen services (email marketing, paid ads, SEO, telemarketing, etc) that allows startups to experiment rapidly in order to build and scale their specific growthengine. The best part is that after an initial discovery period, our pricing is based on performance, so you only pay for the leads that are generated and can fix your acquisition costs.
Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.

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