Top 15 Photography VC Funds & Investors in Canada (May 2026)
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ff Venture Capital
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4 | United States, Canada, Poland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $770k–$10M |
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Angel One Network
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3 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $68k–$5M |
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BDC Venture Capital
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3 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $392k–$16M |
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Harrison Metal
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.4M–$40M |
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Rugged Ventures
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Logistics, Content | $1.8M–$8.8M |
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boldstart ventures
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$67M |
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Mantella Venture Partners
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $250k–$12M |
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SVG Ventures
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1 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Seed | AgTech, Agriculture, Farming | $75k–$6.3M |
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Bedrock c
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1M–$30M |
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Accomplice
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, SaaS | $1.7M–$40M |
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Celtic House Venture Partners
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | $3.3M–$21M |
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Andreessen Horowitz
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.4M–$100M |
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CAA Ventures
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1 | United States, Canada, Iceland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce | $1M–$45M |
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Fierce Capital
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed | Software, Apps, Video | |
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Canada media fund
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1 | Canada | Seed, Grant | Mobile, Software, Augmented Reality | $9k–$1.8M |
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ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 254
- Round size: Seed $770k–$3.8M; Series A $1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.
- PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
- Payscore — Payscore is an automated income verification tool that helps property managers and lenders make the best applicant approval decisions.
Angel One Network Inc. is a member-based, not-for-profit organization.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Angel $68k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 302
- Round size: Seed $392k–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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%.
Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4M; Series A $3.8M–$11M; Series B $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $68M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Crowdbotics — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
- Roboto Games — Founded by Curt Bererton, Mathilde Pignol and Vijay Myneni, Roboto Games is a small scrappy studio made up of plucky game industry vets who, despite common wisdom, cannot stop making games in San Francisco. We ascribe to the time tested Three Musketeers meets Voltron philosophy for making casual and mid-core games.
- Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction uses patient engagement insights & intelligent medical scheduling to improve practice profitability & patient satisfaction
Rugged Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in seed-stage companies. Founded by Dave Lerner, Rugged Ventures has been making seed stage investments since 2001.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $8.5M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KidPass — The best indoor and outdoor kids activities, summer camps, and online classes for kids ages 0-18+ in art, music, dance, yoga, language, STEM, sports, coding, and more.
- Viro Media — Viro Media helps mobile developers to easily add VR to their apps using familiar tools and code bases.
- Homer Logistics — Homer provides efficient, professional last-mile delivery service to local businesses and their customers in Manhattan and in the New York Metropolitan area. Apply within to join our network of businesses or to work as a Homer courier.
Day one partner for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6.1M; Series A $2.5M–$30M; Series B $8.7M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.
- Roadie — Easier, scalable and zero-maintenance. With security, scorecards and customizability built-in.
Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Series A $1.4M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
- Shopistry — Shopistry is a flexible, headless e-commerce platform that gives brands the tools to build any type of buying experience at scale. Custom storefronts. Mobile-first. Endless integrations.
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $100k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $75k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
- Food4All — With the F4A App, you can explore discounted close-to-expiry products at your favourite supermarkets. Act now - save money and say no to food waste.
- Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $5.4M–$15M; Series B $20M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- R-Zero — Find best-in-class hospital-grade biosafety technology solutions with R-Zero's autonomous UV-C disinfection equipment that inactivates 99.9% of microorganisms.
- Atmos — Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen.
- Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 242
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$6.3M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $6.7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $405M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Koverly — Leading B2B global payments solution that provides flexible options to pay over time and saves businesses up to 50% on foreign exchange fees.
- StellarFi — We Pay Your Bills, So YouCan Build Credit. With Stellar your bills are paid on time and on your terms.
- Watershed Informatics — Empowering clients to design, execute, and iterate sequencing analyses using our intuitive, low-code platform. Watershed is where data becomes insight.
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Browse database — It's Free!Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm.Since 1994, Celtic House has been one of Canada’s most active investors in technology and innovation. Capitalizing on the deep domain expertise of its partners, Celtic House has consistently provided superior financial returns to its investors. Celtic House has collaboratedwith management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.Celtic House has collaborated with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to develop technology companies from the inception phase through to exit, generating 25 initial public offerings and successful acquisitions.From offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Celtic House manages in excess of $425 million across three funds. Celtic House is currently making new investments out of Celtic House Venture Partners Fund IV, which closed in 2012.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Series A $3.3M–$12M; Series B $5.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
- FlashIntel — Unlock a network of 1+ billion prospects. Utilize AI-powered workflows for streamlined engagement and faster deal closures with ideal buyers.
- Snappy — Snappy provides technology to run your restaurant efficiently. Increase sales, streamline customer operations and bring your guests back faster with Snappy.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1151
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $6.9M–$45M; Series B $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.
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- Industry: Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $15M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
- Harper Wilde — Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie.The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs andpass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.
- DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
Fierce Capital LLC is developing and investing in early-stage startups, including female-focused businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Locket — Locket is an Android lock screen company. Its product portfolio includes Locket App, an application that enables users to see trending content on the lock screen, and Locket Engage SDK, a re-engagement Android platform that allows app publishers to re-engage users with their content via the lock screen.
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- Flixel Photos — Flixel lets you easily create beautiful living photos, also known as 'cinemagraphs'. Unlike a still photo, a living photo contains a portion of of seamless and infinitely looping motion. Whether it's hair blowing in the wind or a flickering fire in the background of an otherwise still image, the effect can be mesmerizing.
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Augmented Reality
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $86k–$1.8M; Grant $9k–$944k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImpressView — ImpressView provides personal branding video for staffing firms.
- Cyberspline Games — Cyberspline Games is home to passionate game developers and artists who work together in a non-traditional and stimulating environment.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
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