Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Canada (May 2026)
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Yaletown Partners
VC Fund
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6 | Canada, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $1.2M–$20M |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $392k–$16M |
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GrowthWorks Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1.6M–$20M |
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VA Angels
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Debt Financing | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $109k–$1.5M |
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Real Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $581k–$145M |
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Golden Triangle Angel Network
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Grant | Software, Health Care, Medical | $10k–$2.4M |
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Dream Maker Ventures (DMV)
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Fashion | |
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $363k–$15M |
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Conconi Growth Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $500k–$11M |
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Accelerate Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $91k–$12M |
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Export Development Canada
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing | $4M–$20M |
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Panache Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $436k–$22M |
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Angel One Network
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, Malaysia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $68k–$5M |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $11k–$2M |
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $581k–$85M |
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Pique Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Wellness, SaaS | |
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Byye group
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Belgium | Seed | Software, SaaS, Database | |
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The Associated Press
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Series A, Seed | SaaS, Video, News | $872k–$6.4M |
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $307k–$8M |
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, China | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Internet | $750k–$32M |
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Hearst Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Advertising, Internet | $3M–$70M |
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7 Gate Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $60k–$4.9M |
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Canada media fund
VC Fund
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2 | Canada | Seed, Grant | Mobile, Software, Augmented Reality | $9k–$1.8M |
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MPGI
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $125k–$120M |
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Flying Fish Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.3M–$6.7M |
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Voyager Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.5M–$18M |
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Blumberg Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$40M |
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Relentless Pursuit Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1M–$2.5M |
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Killick Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $436k–$3.3M |
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Pelorus Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Computer | $525k–$2.3M |
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Zelkova Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $635k–$6.5M |
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Pareto Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5M |
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Acequia Capital (AceCap)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$19M |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $80k–$9.3M |
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LDV Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $800k–$50M |
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Flightpath Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | News, Security, Social Media | |
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Craft Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.7M–$100M |
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boldstart ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$67M |
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CIBC Innovation Banking
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.5M–$50M |
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Telefilm Canada
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Content, Software, Advertising | |
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Plaza Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | $2.2M–$30M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5M |
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Ogden Pond Group
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Seed | Training, Education, Social Media | |
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Silicon Badia
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $500k–$8M |
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Marc Baghadjian
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Apps, EdTech | |
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BEST Funds
VC Fund
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1 | Canada | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $5M–$6M |
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Buckley Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Pakistan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $5M–$50M |
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Founderpath
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Debt Financing, Seed | Advertising, Software, Marketing | $71k–$799k |
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Visionnaire Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $350k–$37M |
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StartFast Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | SaaS, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$913k |
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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%.
Invest in our experienceGrowthWorks* offers you more: more accountability, more experience and more proven know-how to make the most of your investment.A principled approach to adding valueOver the last 20 years, we've built GrowthWorks into one of Canada's venture capital management companies. We've done that by managingfunds that rigorously follow core principles: structure strategic investments in growth-oriented companies, value portfolio assets conservatively, build vital industry connections and minimize risk through diversification. It's a simple formula that delivers powerful results.Regional know-how. National ReachAt GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based retail venture capital funds (RVCs) right across Canada.GrowthWorks specializes in the management of and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. The funds under management include the following RVCs: Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund.Partners in performanceWe have specialized teams in each of our core sectors to identify and structure investments in potential winners. These skilled teams also help create success by helping the companies that GrowthWorks managed funds invest in to grow with strategic management support and advice. This way, the companies get guidance from experienced leaders. In turn, the funds’ investors know that these companies receive direction to help them thrive.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2006
Portfolio highlights
- ClearRisk — Our easy-to-use risk management software increases productivity, creates differentiation, and adds a simple and efficient process to manage risk!
- HIGHLINEvc — HIGHLINE is a Pre-Seed investor & Acceleration Platform that helps digital startups get follow-on capital, backed by leading VCs with offices in Vancouver & Toronto.We believe in providing our founders with far more than capital. Yet unlike most accelerators, we have no rigid start/end dates throughout the year. By joining theHIGHLINE family, you get to call on us for advice on an ongoing basis, gain access to our premium network and monthly founder events. We’ll do our best to help with fundraising challenges and partner with incubators to help deliver specialized programming.
- SWITCH Materials — SWITCH Materials develops revolutionary new materials based on proprietary organic molecules that "switch" optical properties on command.SWITCH’s molecular switches can be developed for a number of applications, especially in the areas of molecular electronics and health sciences, including optical filters, photochromic inks, paintsand fibers, high-density optical information storage systems, molecular sensors and biomarkers for labeling and tracking of live cells.SWITCH has assembled a team of cutting-edge materials scientists with combined expertise in synthetic chemistry, polymer processing, optics, and molecular & materials engineering. SWITCH conducts its research and development activities in our own laboratories and the state-of-the-art analytical and clean room facilities at 4D LABS, Simon Fraser University's new $40 million materials science research centre.
VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $109k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
- PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
- eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $581k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $7M–$145M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of theirall-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $10k–$2.4M; Angel $500k–$672k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Justo — Call Toronto real estate brokerage, agents and MLS listings provider - Justo to sell or buy houses or condos in Greater Toronto Area.
- LabsCubed — LabsCubed manufactures automated multi-sample tensile testing robots that manufacturers use to increase lab efficiency and reduce labor by up to 85%.
- Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.
Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.
- NextGen Blockchain Technologies — Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Finance
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $363k–$3M; Pre-Seed $367k–$1M; Series A $6.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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.
Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.8M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
- Oneinvest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
- Requity Homes — Requity Homes Inc. is on a mission to create a fair and flexible alternative path to home ownership in Canada by offering a modernized rent-to-own program that enables aspiring home buyers to live in their dream home today with the option to buy it back later while saving for their down payment one month at a time.
Accelerate Fund supports the growth of early-stage Alberta technology companies with a multi million dollar fund that combines co-investment from angel investors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $91k–$2.8M; Series A $944k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Areto Labs — Areto Labs is a human-focused cyber security company that uses AI to protect people by detecting and counteracting online abuse.
- PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
- Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Canada's leading nationwide pre-seed venture fund.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $872k–$6M; Pre-Seed $436k–$2.3M; Series A $1.1M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
- ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
- Reworkd — Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.
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.
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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- 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.
We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Seed $581k–$6.2M; Series A $1.4M–$15M; Series B $4.3M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Pique Ventures is an impact investment and management company, enabling a diverse community of investors to pursue integrated investing. We manage Pique Fund, an inclusive angel fund focusing on leadership diversity and women-led ventures in BC.
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- Industry: Software, Wellness, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- TuMeke — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
- Beanworks — Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs. Accounts payable (AP) is consistently ranked as the most frustrating and time-consuming part of accounting by finance professionals. As a company built by accountants for accountants, they empower accounting teams tosucceed by automating AP - making it both simple and delightful. Beanworks is modernizing the entire AP process, from the purchase decision to invoice approval with electronic payments included in the experience.
- ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.
Their founders, David Martin and Nancy Knowlton, have done it before when they started SMART Technologies Inc. Over 25 years, they grew a two-person start-up into a global market leader with annual revenues just under $800 million. They created products like the SMART Board interactive whiteboard that transformed the way millions of people aroundthe world worked and learned. They are determined to do it again and have assembled a team to begin the task.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Database
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, Belgium
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Epact — Op zoek naar een end-to-end partner die jou kan helpen met IT ondersteuning of managed IT services? Neem contact met ons op!
- ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.
Build your next story with up-to-the-minute breaking news and history's most iconic images and video directly from The Associated Press. Where stories begin.
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- Industry: SaaS, Video, News
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $872k–$1M; Series A $2.5M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trint — Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.
- Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
- Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.
Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $307k–$1.4M; Series A $430k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
- VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
- Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 461
- Round size: Seed $750k–$5.3M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kindo — Kindo elevates the workforce by providing the only truly open AI platform for all businesses.
- MedBill AI — AI assistant that helps consumers save time and money on healthcare and medical bills.
- Boost — Boost enables companies in any industry to offer digital insurance products to their customers through a fully integrated experience embedded in their front-end environment.
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Browse database — It's Free!Hearst Ventures makes strategic investments in companies operating at the intersection of media, information and technology. Starting with its investment in Netscape in 1995, Hearst Ventures has grown to become one of the most active and successful corporate venture funds. Hearst Ventures is global investment group with offices in NYC, London,Beijing and Tel-Aviv. Notable investments include Via Transportation, Buzzfeed, Roku, Sling Media, HootSuite, Brightcove, E Ink, Pandora, and XM Satellite Radio. Hearst Ventures (www.hearstventures.com) is a unit of Hearst, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $4M–$47M; Series C $7.4M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Optable — Data Collaboration - Data Clean Room Platform
- Zeitview — Providing aerial data solutions for high-value infrastructure worldwide to help recover revenue, reduce risk, and improve build quality through aerial imagery, video, mapping, data collection, inspections & analysis. Learn more.
- Wellthy — Wellthy supports families with complex, chronic and ongoing care needs. Through our online platform, we connect families with their own dedicated Care Coordinator to help tackle the logistical and administrative tasks of caring for the ones they love, including themselves.
7 Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups from Seed to pre-Series A in the technology industry, with a sector focus on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps and solutions, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech, and HealthTech. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneursspecializing in tech, operational expertise, and venture capital. 7 Gate Ventures brings key industry connections, decades of international venture-building experience and foresight to effectively strategize, mentor, and scale new businesses. 7 Gate Ventures was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $60k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $145k–$508k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hengam — Hengam is a one-stop Shopify solution that develops apps for Shopify stores and helps them reduce their churn, increase revenue and save time and money.
- Roomvu — Helping REALTORS to establish trust with real estate websites, customized videos and lead capturing tools. Convert real estate audience to leads with roomvu profile.
- Ulab Systems — Take back control of your treatment plan with uLab - the treatment planning software and aligner system designed for orthodontists. Learn more now.
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–$944k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImpressView — ImpressView provides personal branding video for staffing firms.
- Cyberspline Games — Cyberspline Games is home to passionate game developers and artists who work together in a non-traditional and stimulating environment.
- Strawberry Fields Interactive — Strawberry Fields Interactive, developer of Aeksia, a new style of Multiplayer RPG for VR
MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$6M; Series A $4.3M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
- Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Flying Fish focuses on helping early-stage startups in Cascadia succeed through seed and A rounds. The company invests capital, expertise and relationships in early stage startups with big ideas and commit 100% to seeing those companies thrive.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.7M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Digs — Digs is an easy-to-use collaboration software solution for professionals in residential home building that provides more efficient file storage, collaboration, and homeowner handoff for home construction projects. Try Digs for free today!
- Aug X Labs — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
- Groundlight AI — Groundlight is a computer vision platform that allows you to interpret any image using natural language - just ask and get back a human-vetted answer in seconds. No dataset or MLOps needed. Start on day 1.
Voyager Capital is a leading Pacific Northwest venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience and connections to build successful technology companies. Voyager leads first venture round investments in software, analytics and cloud infrastructure startups, deploying the firm's domain expertise, go-to-market and teambuilding resources help build market leaders. The firm has offices in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $4.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.1M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sofy — Sofy provides no-code test automation for mobile apps. Run QA tests from CI/CD on real devices & complete testing in just a few hours.
- Treasury4 — Treasury4 is an enterprise fintech creating advanced data analytics tools and solutions for corporate finance and treasury professionals. Our solutions are intuitive, easy to use, simple to navigate and built to provide easy access to the data you need when you need it.
- Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed & Series A rounds and partnering with founders from inception to exit. Learn more.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.4M; Series A $2.3M–$12M; Series B $9.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Creednz — B2B Payments Protection using internal finance data enriched w/ externally curated intelligence, enabling informed payment decisions in RT.
- Connectifi — Connectifi brings FDC3 interoperability to the cloud, making it broadly accessible across enterprises and enabling FDC3 to work anywhere - including, in browsers, mobile, desktop containers, and native applications. Connectifi provides organizations and platforms with the infrastructure to build and grow their ecosystems through interoperability while maintaining complete control over their security, data, and application technology.
- PerfectScale — Ensure peak performance at the lowest possible cost with data-driven intelligence to optimize each layer of the K8s stack.
Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
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- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
- Orpyx Medical Technologies — Orpyx SI sensory insoles help manage and prevent diabetic foot ulcer recurrence for people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Orpyx SI sensory insoles are custom made for every individual and designed to effortlessly capture plantar pressure, temperature, and movement data throughout the day.
Killick Capital is a leading Atlantic Canadian private equity firm, dedicated to partnering with Atlantic Canadian businesses and Aerospace businesses. Our team of professionals work closely with portfolio companies to maximize success.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
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- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $525k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $436k–$466k
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mysa — Control your electric heating and cooling with Mysa Smart Thermostats. Use the mobile app to control remotely - Save energy and money with smart home features.
- Frenter — Helping equipment rental businesses manage their day-to-day operations so they can focus on growing their business in-person and online. Request a Demo today
- Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.
Pelorus Venture Capital focuses on investment for seed and early stage companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
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- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $525k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Cyno — Cyno is a mind & body platform. Book a demo now!
- SiftMed — SiftMed is an AI-first company that uses AI to help law firms, insurance companies, and Independent Medical Examiners efficiently organizse and review complex medical files.
- Swiftsure Innovations — Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes.It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay.Creative Destruction Labssupports the company.
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Browse database — It's Free!Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $635k–$3.7M; Series A $1.1M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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- Vitally — Vitally enables forward-thinking Customer Success teams to increase revenue growth, reduce churn, and provide a proactive, world-class customer experience at scale.
- MyPocketCFO — Get your bookkeeping, tax filing, and other financial operations done faster, cheaper, and better.
- Respondology — Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing.
Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Seed $326k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- Devolut — Devolut offers a product designed for businesses and enhancing customer experience. The Company uses intelligent algorithms to boost sales, reduce costs, and improve customer experience through reusable shipments and a real-time management portal.
Acequia funds people building lasting value. AceCap can look for first investors, assist bridge rounds, and offer secondaries for partners.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $964k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.2M; Series A $3.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rapidata — Rapidata is a data processing platform that offers human-verified innovative data labeling and data processing services at scale.
- Windup Minds — Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market.
- Red Rover — We're on a mission to reimagine the multiplayer gaming landscape, with an emphasis on crafting groundbreaking survival experiences that champion player agency and drama.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $326k–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $80k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $800k–$3.1M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ImVitro — ImVitro is a medical device developer that offers a SaaS platform that applies AI to In vitro fertilization imaging needs. In 2019, Alexandra Boussommier Calleja and Maryame Boulhajat formed the the Paris, Ile-de-France, France-based company.
- BurnerPage — BurnerPage is an AI and machine learning platform that automatically optimizes web page conversion performance.
- Memorable — High-accuracy AI to improve branding and performance of every ad.
Seed fund for early-stage tech startups, based in Edmonton, Canada.
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- Industry: News, Security, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Samdesk — Samdesk is a global disruption monitoring tool powered by big data and AI. Get real-time crisis alerts when it matters most.
Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 212
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$6.1M; Series A $7M–$25M; Series B $19M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $612M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Bandana — Find better hourly jobs in New York City with Bandana. Look up company pay and salaries, filter for healthcare and full-time benefits, and improve your overall livelihood.
- Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
- Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
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: 162
- 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
- env0 — Automate the provisioning of Terraform and Terragrunt workflows and infrastructure as code with env0. Get visibility, predictability & governance on your cloud deployments and design the controls to empower your teams with self-service cloud environments.
- Dylibso — Our products help teams take WebAssembly to production & keep it there.
- Memphis.dev — When more scale, less troubleshooting, and faster time to production are needed.9x faster development and 46x fewer costs than legacy message brokers.
CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by the strength of CIBC, Innovation Banking can provide financial capital, rich network of connections, and insightful service that give our clients an edge in the innovation economy.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.5M–$50M; Private Equity $25M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- HealthJoy — HealthJoy simplifies the healthcare experience through a platform that connects employees to the care they need to make staying healthy easy.
- TransMedics — TransMedics is a medical device company that addresses the unmet need for better, more effective organ transplant technologies. The company has developed the first commercial, portable warm blood perfusion system that allows for a new type of organ transplant, called a living organ transplant. This technology, called an Organ Care System, or OCS,is designed to maintain organs in a warm, functioning state outside of the body during transport from organ donor to recipient. The OCS could potentially increase organ availability and improve outcomes for the growing population of patients with end-stage organ failure in need of a transplant, bridging the widening gap between the number of organs available and the number of recipients awaiting transplants.TransMedics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts,
- ProNavigator — ProNavigator provides an AI-driven knowledge-sharing platform, used by some of the largest insurance organizations, to save time, provide superior service, and seize revenue opportunities. The platform leverages advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language understanding to instantly and automatically retrieve answers tocustomers' and employees' questions.
Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation reporting to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage. Headquartered in Montréal, Telefilm provides services to the Canadian audiovisual industry by means of four regional offices located in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal and Halifax.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Strutta — Strutta's industry leading technology connects brands with their target consumers through powerful social promotions. Its do-it-yourself tools allow agencies, brands and developers to easily create and manage interactive contests and sweepstakes. Strutta has powered award-winning promotions for top international agencies, Fortune 500companies and small businesses. Clients include Microsoft, AirBNB, Edelman, Comcast, Dove, Coca-Cola and Shutterfly. Strutta is a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, BC, and is a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer. For more information, visit http://strutta.com
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Browse database — It's Free!Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Israel
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- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$4M; Series B $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- KERV Interactive — KERV is an AI-powered video creative technology that creates shoppable & immersive experiences within any video content. Learn what KERV can do for you.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Ogden Pond Group is a company that specializes in corporate service solutions.
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- Industry: Training, Education, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- sageCrowd — Find out how Online Trainers just like you use our Transformative Learning Methodology to power-up their courses' performance.
Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $2.3M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
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- mtion interactive — mtion is a creating the metaverse for gamers to stream from, share with each other, and be in. mtion's platform provides gamers with the tools to create their own personalized 3D spaces in which the can create, build, and socialize with in.
- Userpilot — Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
- The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.
Marc Baghadjian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lolly. Marc Baghadjian attended Babson College. He has invested in many seed-stage companies.
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- Industry: Internet, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
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- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Lula — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
- WOMBO — WOMBO is the world's best AI-powered lip sync app. Take a selfie, pick a song, and let WOMBO work its magic. Available for early access.
- Kadama — 24/7 homework help. Find someone to help write your essay. Subjects like math, science, english, history, and more. Earn money by tutoring on your schedule.
Since 1996, BEST Funds has been a leading Canadian venture capital firm, managing Retail VC Funds as well as Private Funds.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $5M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
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- Zone·tv — Zone·tv is redefining the TV viewing environment by delivering a personalized entertainment experience filled with expertly curated, exciting new content discoveries.
- Perch — Buy the right property sooner, find your best mortgage and build wealth.
- PitchPoint Solutions — PitchPoint Solutions is a leading provider of fraud prevention services with the systems, people and experience to quickly validate loan data and enable lenders to reduce in-house effort, meet new compliance requirements and reduce the risk of fraud. PitchPoint provides a comprehensive, independent and objective review of loan data to enablelenders to quickly detect discrepancies, enable compliance and thereby reduce the risk of loan repurchase.
Buckley Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Josh Buckley.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $5M–$20M; Series A $15M–$34M; Series B $27M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
Where Bootstrapped SaaS Founders Get Funding
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- Industry: Advertising, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Debt Financing $71k–$799k
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hospitable.com — Best vacation rental management software in 2021. Whether you use Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com - Hospitable will help you automate.
- GrapevineAI — GrapevineAI is a startup that brands and growth marketers trust to deliver high-performing, ready-made creator content to run on social platforms. GrapevineAI’s mission is to enable growth marketers to turn their concepts into campaigns as easily as hailing an Uber.
- Dingus and Zazzy — We’re like a marketing department, working on all your projects every day. Imagine unlimited service on all your projects?
Visionnaire Ventures is a global technology investment firm focused on visionary people and ideas that can become world-class, market-leading companies. Based in San Francisco, California, with unparalleled global access, the team seeks out and funds innovative businesses anywhere in the world that are leveraging technology to evolve and create newInternet and mobile experiences. With the ability to fund companies across all stages from seed to growth, Visionnaire Ventures is focused on key market segments where novel ideas have the ability to become sea changes for people everywhere.The Visionnaire Ventures team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives who have founded and operated global internet, game and online media companies, and thus are able to support entrepreneurs companies as they build globally successful companies.The team is currently seeking and funding companies active in diverse technology market segments including Commerce, Advertising, Mobile, Big Data, IoT.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $350k–$22M; Series A $7M–$37M; Series B $23M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- LeapMind — LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deeplearning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.
- Genies — Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themselfhowever they’d like.Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States.
- Bigfoot Biomedical — Bigfoot is changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes through development of a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
StartFast invests in the heartland of America. We have built companies outside VC hubs and know what it takes to succeed. We like… Strong, diverse teams with proven track records and exceptional domain expertise Recurring revenue business models, particularly with a business to business focus Founders based outside venture capital hubs, at theSeries Seed and Series A stageLearn more and partner with us at http://startfast.net.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $12k–$25k; Pre-Seed $25k–$913k; Convertible Note $75k–$150k
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
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- In-Seam — IN-SEAM. LUXURY, CONNECTED.
- Blackbird.AI — Blackbird.AI provides organizations with Deception Detection technology to protect against narrative manipulation and disinformation.
- Patient Pattern — Patient Pattern is a provider of a cloud-based clinical software designed to to improve the lives of geriatric patients and those in need of complex care. The company's clinical software uses data science and offers clinical decision support as well as formulates comprehensive care plans that summarizes the patient's current situation andgives recommendations, enabling healthcare providers to treat elderly patients efficiently and lower utilization costs.
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Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums.With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growingpresence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
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