Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023
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Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund is one of the world’s largest venture capital funds
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Canada
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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.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Felix Health — Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
- Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.
Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers. Partnering with Harvard University and others of the world’s preeminent universities, Xfund looks beyond the stereotypical technical pedigrees to seek out extraordinary people who are being systemically ignored by traditional venture capital: technically-gifted liberal artsentrepreneurs. We believe it’s our responsibility to help these unconventional, high potential founders align their ambition and passion with opportunity we help them create, to build the sort of ground-breaking companies that can create a better tomorrow. Xfund has offices in Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more about Xfund, please visit http://www.xfund.com.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
- Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
- Pomelo — Need to send money to the Philippines? Send a Pomelo Card. Never again think about transfer fees or where your money is. No more sending money again and again.
We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.
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- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- FCTRY LAb — Fctry lab combine traditional manufacturing methods with modern technology, allowing us to redefine techniques and invent new construction methods
- Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
- Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
Investing over $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, India
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- Litebulb — Use Litebulb to save hundreds of engineering hours, get better candidates, and reduce bias. Litebulb interviews are simulations of regular dev work in familiar environments. We extract data about a candidate's production readiness, code quality, and scalable design.
- Airwork — Airwork is a platform that connects workers with warehouses in the Greater Toronto Area to fill shifts. Workers can pick up shifts from any of the warehouses on our platform, whenever they like. No resumes, no interviews, and get paid within the same day.
- Arcana Network — Arcana Network builds tools that make it easier for developers to make the adoption of Web3 dApps simple. Arcana Auth is the first of such tools. Boost your customer conversion rates by 90% with our social and email login solution.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- Quilt — Quilt's mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating, starting with the home. 20% of US global warming emissions come from homes (that’s more than cars!). The largest driver of home emissions is burning fossil fuels for heat. Quilt's first product is a next generation heating and cooling system that makes homes more comfortable,healthier and more efficient, based on all-electric heat pump technology.
- Finta — Finta lets founders and operators easily manage taxes, bookkeeping, and financial insights - all in one platform.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
- OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
- Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in companies driving positive impact in economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.
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- Health Care, Education, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Kenya
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- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Cloverly — Integrate sustainability into every transaction with carbon estimates. Neutralize the impact in real-time with carbon reduction solutions from Cloverly.
- Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.
N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.
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- Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
- Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.
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- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- Kibbi: Job Search — Kibbi is a mobile app and online job board that provides job seekers with the best opportunities in their local area.
- Monark — Monark is an on-demand leadership development platform that offers self-led and expert-facilitated programs to help you transform your career.
- Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.
Matthew Cowan is The Corporate Director At BitGo.
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- Mobile, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Hoodline — Get breaking news from Hoodline's local reporters with stories to inform you about politics, weather, real estate, business, dining, crime, & more.
- LUUM — LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costsand safety risks associated with human application.
GCI Capital is a Toronto based early stage Private Equity firm.
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- Analytics, Enterprise Software, Software
- Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Canada, United States
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- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
- Repable — Repable is an analytics company that is focused on the gaming industry.Repable provides broadcasters, teams, and enterprises with analytics and insights about the gaming and streaming industries to understand the financial and social impact of their interactions with their fans and public.Repable was founded by Sean Power and Heather AnneCarson in September 2015. And it is based in Toronto, Ontario.
- TritonWear — TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique positionin the market.
Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho's four operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Rho Fund Investors and Rho Acceleration.
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- Software, Information Technology, Advertising
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Toothio — Dental offices gain access to high-quality dental professionals, on-demand, while dental professionals can pick up work that fits their schedules.
- evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community
- Pawlicy Advisor — Pawlicy Advisor provides free quotes, comparison charts, and help from licensed agents to get you the best pet insurance for your breed at the lowest rate.
Cabot is an offshore software development company crafting smart solutions in Mobile, Web, and Enterprise sectors in the Unites States,Canada, and other regions of the world.
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- Employment, Recruiting, Video Conferencing
- Seed
- Canada
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- Interview Rocket — Interview Rocket is a revolutionary new online service that allows recruiters to pre-screen job candidates independent of busy schedules, time zones or geographies.
Howard Stotland - President @ Otimo Retail
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- Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Canada
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- Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.
Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.
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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation
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- Snipfeed — Launch your own social storefront and make money online with ease! Our platform allows creators to easily create and manage their online store.
- Ondaka — Ondaka makes Industrial Knowledge Accessible for critical infrastructure & heavy industry.
- Cattle Care — Cattle Care is a revolutionary dairy management software using your existing parlor cameras and artificial intelligence to save money.
The BDC Capital Women in Technology (WIT) Fund has a bold vision: Foster the creation of the next generation of millionaire Canadian women technology entrepreneurs. With $200 million to be invested, it is currently the world’s largest venture capital fund dedicated solely to investing in women led technology companies across sectors.
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- Software, SaaS, Smart Building
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada
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- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Manifest Climate — Manifest Climate: Building Climate Confidence & Navigating Risks through Reporting & Disclosure. Achieve Net Zero for your Business with our expert solutions.
- 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.
SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.
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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
- Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Rand Lockwood joined Recruit N Refer as Co-Founder.
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- SaaS, Accounting, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Recruit N Refer — Recruit N Refer (RNR) is a Vancouver-based recruitment platform specializing in connecting companies with vetted recruiters to find quality candidates.
At Strada, we collaborate with students, policymakers, educators, and employers to ensure education provides equitable pathways to opportunity.
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- Education, Higher Education, Universities
- Grant, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Rio Salado College — Rio Salado College has over fifteen physical locations in Maricopa County, most of which are devoted to GED, ABE, and ELAA classes. Its academics are mainly concentrated online, with over 50 programs of study leading to certificates and associate’s degrees.Though many colleges nowadays offer courses online, Rio Salado is almost completelyinternet-based. Its library and even its student union exist online, with technical support and librarian chat available 24/7.Rio Salado uses the “term block” method of scheduling, in which students can choose from one of 16 blocks per terms. This gives you some flexibility in scheduling, as each block is spaced a week apart. With three terms per year, Rio Salado offers 48 different start dates for its students.The school also seeks to help its graduates find jobs in a shifting economic environment. Rio Salado currently has four classes related to educational and career success: * Career Exploration * Creative Job Hunting * Creating College Success * Strategies for College SuccessBy providing strategies for professional and educational development, these courses can help you succeed at the college level and beyond.
- University of Utah — University of Utah in Salt Lake City is the state’s leading public university and houses the only medical school in Utah. Undergraduate and graduate academics are abundant as are student life opportunities.More than 100 undergraduate majors exist in such disciplines as:*Architecture*Business *Education *Engineering *Fine Arts*Health Careers *Humanities *Social WorkUniversity of Utah also awards more than 90 graduate degrees. In addition to having a medical school, University of Utah has a Law and Pharmacy school.Students can also find a lot of ways to participate in University of Utah’s college life. There are more than 400 student clubs and organizations as well as an Outdoor Recreation program and film festivals.Undergraduates seeking admission will need to submit an application with a fee, along with transcripts and SAT or ACT scores. A high school grade point average of at least 2.6 is expected and the minimum ACT and SAT scores are usually around 18 and 860 respectively.With the exception of academic scholarships, which are based on academic performance, the decision to award financial aid is usually based on financial need. In addition to scholarships, types of aid could include federal and private loans, grants and other sources.For most types of aid, students must fill out a FAFSA, at which time the Department of Education and the school will decide what their financial aid award will be.
Get to know who we are and what we have to offer. Our mission is simple, to help people make progress in their lives through learning.
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- Education, Enterprise Software, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series D
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
- Smashcut — Smashcut is a next generation learning platform built for real time, media-based education.
Funding technologies that build a more inclusive future of work.
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Convertible Note
- Canada
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- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
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.
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, India
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- 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.
Amplify Partners invests in technical founders solving technical problems for the enterprise. They invest in early-stage companies pioneering novel applications in machine intelligence and computer science.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- MotherDuck — Making analytics ducking awesome with DuckDB. Sign up to stay in touch.
- Hightouch — Hightouch is the fastest way to sync live customer data into the tools your teams rely on. Get started for free, no credit card required.
- Sonera Magnetics — Sonera Magnetics develops a technology for high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces to democratize access to the brain.Its core technology enables them to detect signals from the brain at performance levels comparable to the best diagnostic tools that rely on superconducting sensors. It can detect high-quality magnetic signalsfrom neurons firing in the brain using a non-invasive, low-cost, and low-power system - enabling a practical brain-computer interface. Sonera’s portable brain imaging systems can be used to provide concordant evidence for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and dementia.The company was founded in 2018 by Nishita Deka, Dominic Labanowski, and Sayeef Salahuddin in Berkeley, California.
Rob Chaplinsky is the Co-Founder and Managing Director Link Ventures. Rob previously worked at Bridgescale Partners as the Managing Director. He Harvard Business School and the University of Waterloo.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Caribou — Refinance your car loan. See if you can save money. Get pre-qualified offers in seconds with no Social Security number required and no impact on your credit.
- Trust & Will — Estate planning with Trust & Will is the easiest way to create, edit, store, and share your Trust or Will legal documents. Create an estate plan today!
EduLab Capital Partners is seed-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on the education market, investing in business models that transcend the traditional education landscape. The Company’s Boston- and Tokyo-based team provides foundational support to entrepreneurs to help expand their customer base, make key early-stage hires, and raiseadditional capital for profitable and sustainable growth. EduLab’s education market savvy and artificial intelligence expertise provide unique leverage points for its investments, while the Company’s network of global partnerships and distribution channels provide its portfolio companies with the depth and reach to quickly accelerate product integration and impact.
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- Education, Software, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Singapore
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- Ceresa — Setting the new standard for leadership development with equitable access for all.
- Schola — Schola helps families find and enroll in the ideal PreK-12 schools.
- Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
GrandBanks Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in wireless and mobile technologies, digital media, web-based commerce, cloud-based services, storage, and financial technologies.The GrandBanks team and its partners collectively have more than 100 years of venture capital investing and senior operating experience, a proofpoint to their insight and expertise that helps entrepreneurs build the next wave of premier companies in emerging markets. Comprised of recognized business builders within targeted investment sectors, the investment team possesses a sought after reputation within the venture capital community for actively building successful companies.Recognizing new technologies with the potential for significant impact, GrandBanks Capital team members and partners have been lead investors and senior executives for some of the most successful companies in their respective sectors, including Yahoo!, E*Trade, Art Technology Group, GEAC, GeoCities, Multex Systems, 1800Flowers.com, GSI Commerce, SOFTBANK, EMC Corporation, Thomson Financial, First Call, CCBN, Lycos, The Learning Company, and Phoenix Technologies LTD.Current portfolio companies include Where Inc., I Love Rewards, Glasshouse Technologies, KnowledgeVision, Vela Systems and Nexage.
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- Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Mavrck — Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur.
- Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
- Dispatch — Dispatch is the only software platform to help enterprises successfully unlock the potential of flexible service provider networks to provide world-class customer experiences.
Technologies HumanID is a venture capital company that contributes to the technological and financial development of the company.
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- B2B, Software, Consulting
- Series A
- Canada
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- Standout Jobs — Standout Jobs provides a [Recruitment Communication Platform] (http://www.standoutjobs.com), to power companies' online recruiting efforts. The core is a do-it-yourself, interactive Career Site that helps engage and attract candidates, and build on-going relationships with them. As well, the Standout Jobs platform provides acandidate tracking tool, easier job marketing and candidate sourcing functionality.
East Valley is a startup accelerator and angel investor group in Atlantic Canada.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, United States
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- Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
- CIRCLES — You spend 1 hour a month with us on Zoom. We guide your content creation, build your LinkedIn funnel and bring in leads with 10x performing daily video campaigns.
- Picketa Systems — Picketa Systems equips agribusinesses with Analysis Stations to perform plant tissue analysis in seconds
Jim English, President, CEO states; "Since I joined the business out of college in 1974, 'Our Mission' has been to aggressively grow our business through Complete Customer Satisfaction. I understand the value of each customer over a lifetime.
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Funding Round
- Canada
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- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- Novisto — Novisto's sustainability management software enables companies to create value from their ESG initiatives. Request a demo today!
- Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
- Plenty — Plenty makes it easy for modern partners to invest and plan for their future together. Effortlessly invest like the 1% and turn your goals and dreams into reality.
True 0 to 1 specialists, laser focused on helping you cut through Seed and get to Series A and beyond with velocity.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- EasyCode — AI that understands your codebase. Powered by GPT-4, EasyCode unlocks developer productivity by answering their questions instantly.
- Masthead Data — Identify and fix data errors before they impact the business. Masthead gives data teams and data users full confidence in data quality for decision-making.
- Prescient AI — Prescient is your premier state-of-the-art automation software that provides transparency and precise data insights for marketers and digital DTC brands alike. With the onset of a major shift toward a privacy-first internet, Prescient is the answer to fueling a brand’s success. Our tech helps you measure, forecast, optimize, and continuouslybacktest your marketing funnels with such meticulous accuracy that it saves you the two most important things in business: time and money.We know that the e-commerce space is changing and the internet is evolving. We’re here to set a new tone for the future of tech: predicted profitability. What if you could predict the success of your campaigns with such accuracy that you know your profit margins before advertising your product? Now, what if you could do that while maintaining the privacy of your customers? This is Prescient, and we’re changing the game with novel AI.We are rebuilding a sense of “trust in tech” through transparency in our partnerships and the software that we use every day in business. Have no fear — Prescient has your back, and together, we’re optimizing your business for long-term profitability.
Michael Hyatt is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of BlueCat Networks and a recipient of the Top 40 Under 40™ Award. BlueCat is a four-time winner of “Deloitte’s Fast 50” and has received Gartner’s highest “Strong Positive” rating. Michael also co-founded Dyadem, a highly successful software company that was acquired by IHS (NYSE: IHS).Michael is a weekly business commentator on CBC Newsworld and has been featured on the cover of Canadian Business Magazine. He is also a finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and an active participant and lender for three special charities: Kiva.org, OneProsper and Future Possibilities for Kids.
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- Software, SaaS, Self-Storage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
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- MinuteBox — Secure legal entity management in the cloud. Minute books, transactions, compliance, document assembly, cap tables, e-signature, automated workflows
- Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
- GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
Gerry Pond is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Mariner Innovations. Gerry Pond The University of New Brunswick.
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- Software, Human Resources, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- R17 — R17 (was RUMAnalytics) measures, monitors, diagnosis and optimizes websites for speed. Faster websites have higher conversion rates, lower bounce rates, higher search engine rankings, lower bandwidth costs and a better user experience on personal computers and mobile devices.They created R17 to make the internet faster. R17 combines theworld's foremost experts on performance optimization with easy-to-understand analytics, actionable recommendations and mind-blowing CDN technology.
- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
- Porpoise — Porpoise is an employee engagement platform for companies that have corporate responsibility initiatives and are looking to automate involvement, measurement and reporting. Porpoise makes it simple to recognize, capture, and amplify the social impact that employees are making on behalf of your company, finally giving your marketing departments thecontent they need to deliver great campaigns, and HR managers the data to track and manage employees engagement programs and targeted initiatives.Spend less time managing your impact and giving programs, and more time accelerating the impact!
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
- Eyeball Games — Eyeball Games operates as a gaming studio set up by the original creators of 8 Ball Pool, serial entrepreneurs and degens.
- Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
- Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.
Richard Hyatt co-founded BlueCat Networks, Inc. in 2000 and has been its Chief Scientist since January 2014. Mr. Hyatt served as Chief Technology Officer and as Vice President of Engineering at BlueCat Networks, Inc and serves as its Director.
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- SaaS, Software, Commercial
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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- MinuteBox — Secure legal entity management in the cloud. Minute books, transactions, compliance, document assembly, cap tables, e-signature, automated workflows
- Ideal — Ideal is a talent intelligence system that helps enterprise teams make more accurate, efficient, and fair decisions. Discover our product!
- GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
LongShot Capital invests in pre-seed and seed stage technology companies alongside other angels, strategic investors, and VC.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
- Kiira Health — A smart virtual clinic for women. Kiira provides personalized primary care, mental health, and women's health resources all from your phone. Get access to doctors and providers, virtual appointments, prescriptions, health tracking, and answers via chat 24/7.
- Ash Wellness — Ash Wellness is paving the way for more inclusive and accessible healthcare by enabling organizations to provide at-home diagnostics care to their patients.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence invests in projects and people to accelerate industry R&D to impact the Ontario economy through the commercialization of leading edge research.OCE invests in- Industry-Academic collaborative research- Commercialization of academic research through licensing and spin off companies- Early stage seedfinancing of start-ups- Skills development for high quality personnelThe Ontario Centres of Excellence is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1987. Core funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
- ventureLAB — At ventureLAB, we grow globally competitive tech titans that build-to-scale in Canada, for global markets.
- Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology operates as a biotechnology company and develops innovative solutions for plasmid DNA production.
Kirk Simpson is the co-founder and CEO of Wave, a provider of cloud-based, integrated software and tools for small businesses. He has spent his career working in digital media with some of Canada’s largest media companies. Prior to Wave, Kirk started two other companies and through this, realized the pain of handling back-office tasks first-hand,which led him to create Wave. Since founding Wave, Kirk has helped the company grow to over 2 million total users, with over $25 million raised in capital.
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- Finance, Sales, Banking
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada
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- Every — Manage your small business money with ease. Wave Money is a free business bank account with built-in bookkeeping.
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
First Angel Network Association (FAN) is a not-for-profit organization formed to bridge the capital gap for companies with extraordinary potential in Atlantic Canada. Created by angel investors for angel investors, FAN provides entrepreneurs and investors with a confidential, disciplined, high-quality private equity investment experience. FAN alsodelivers education and networking opportunities in the areas of investment readiness, angel investing and commercialization.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- WellTrack — WellTrack provides on-demand online therapy for stress, anxiety, and depression.
- Covina Biomedical — Covina Biomedical is a minimally invasive orthopaedics company producing injectable biomaterials that enhance quality of life. The company is developing its first platform product, a glass-based bone cement to enhance the longevity of orthopaedic implants. Using collaborative research approaches, and in partnership with end users, Covina Biomedicalhas created the first technology of its kind in the industry.
- Beauceron Security — Beauceron makes it faster, easier and less complex for organisations to measure, manage and monitor human-centric cyber risk. Their comprehensive, automated cybersecurity platform covers cybersecurity education, social engineering simulations, executive surveys, and dashboards as well as business process, and technology gap assessment and analysis.
We're a growth stage venture capital fund investing across all industries.
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- Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- FCTRY LAb — Fctry lab combine traditional manufacturing methods with modern technology, allowing us to redefine techniques and invent new construction methods
- Kompliant — Kompliant’s configurable, purpose-built workflow is fully integrated with best-in-class data providers to address the entire compliance lifecycle through embedded compliance management.
- Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
Thomvest is a cross-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage, growth stage, start-up, and mid venture investments. The company primarily focuses on opportunities with early-to-mid stage companies in the fields of financial technology, marketing technology, cybersecurity, sales, and cloud infrastructure sectors. As part of their focuson these areas, they are committed to helping their companies become leaders in their fields through their work with them and through the focus on understanding where value can be created in these industries, as can be seen from the research they publish regularly.Thomvest Ventures was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bolster AI — Automatically detect & remediate threats across web sites, domain, social media, mobile app stores, marketplaces & the dark web.
- Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
- Traction Complete — Optimize your RevOps stack with our Salesforce lead management, account hierarchy, deduplication, and relationship mapping apps.
Europe's first startup prize for the Circular Economy encourages entrepreneurs to step forward with their ideas around recycling and prevention of waste.
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
Leslie MaGee
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, India
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- Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
- Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
- Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
David Henning - Partner @ Otimo Retail
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- Mobile, Software, Commercial
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.
- Logiwa — Warehouse software and 3PL Software - empower companies to run a digital fulfillment network & grow their DTC business.
Garage Technology Ventures Canada is currently not investing. If you have further information, please update this profile.
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Series A
- Canada
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- Iscopia Software — Headquartered in Montreal, Iscopia provides on-demand online hiring solutions (delivered over the web as Software as a Service) that enable organizations of all sizes to recruit the best candidates and promote the most deserving employees. Iscopia's award-winning online hiring solution, AQSâ„¢, enables small and medium-sized businesses(SMB) to hire better employees and reduce turnover quickly, simply and economically. Our customer base ranges from industry leading test publishers and HR consultants to companies large and small.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
- Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario
- InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
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