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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023

Investor Sports Canada investments
VA Angels 7
Ontario Centres of Excellence 5
E-Fund 4
Jeffrey Howe 4
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund 4
Dan Plashkes 4
Real Ventures 4
Fondaction 4
Asimov Ventures 3
Alate Partners 3
Jean-François Grenon 3
Broad Street Bulls 3
Courtside Ventures 3
TELUS Ventures 3
Whitecap Venture Partners 3
Anges Quebec 3
Rebel Fund 3
Angel One Network 3
Lance Priebe 3
Capital Angel Network 3
District Ventures Capital 3
Innovacorp 3
Business Development Bank of Canada 3
John W Tomes 2
Kyle Wellwood 2
Peter Wilson 2
Newfund 2
Deep Fork Capital 2
Formic Ventures 2
Build Ventures 2
BITKRAFT Ventures 2
Wesley Clover 2
Nimbus Synergies Inc. 2
Eclipse Ventures 2
Volta Labs 2
Globalive Capital 2
Eric Wellwood 2
Relay Ventures 2
Government of Canada 2
Global Founders Capital 2
WUTIF 2
Ray Muzyka 2
Paul Geyer 2
Arlene Dickinson 2
Telegraph Hill Capital 2
KB Partners 2
Drew Brees 2
Hedgewood 2
FundersClub 2
ff Venture Capital 2

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VA Angels
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, India

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
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Ontario Centres of Excellence
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Uride — Welcome to Uride - your reliable and affordable ridesharing service with a community-focus. Enjoy the ease of quick pickups, lower fares, and a user-friendly app designed to make your travels smoother. Start riding today!
  • ventureLAB — At ventureLAB, we grow globally competitive tech titans that build-to-scale in Canada, for global markets.
  • Novel Biotechnology — Novel Biotechnology operates as a biotechnology company and develops innovative solutions for plasmid DNA production.
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E-Fund
VC Fund · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada

The E-Fund (VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc.) was established in 2011 to invest in promising new ventures in British Columbia in a wide range of industry sectors. They are focused on co-investing with other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms in seed-stage companies with high growth opportunities.The E-Fund involvesspecific investors in the investment due diligence process depending on their industry experience and knowledge and their particular technical expertise. It is their goal to become the ‘Go-to Braintrust’ for active and in-depth angel investing.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Medical Device, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Frontly — Frontly's no-code internal admin tooling platform empowers businesses to build custom applications to solve their greatest business challenges in minutes without writing a line of code.
  • Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
  • VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
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Jeffrey Howe
Angel

Jeffrey Howe

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Investment focus

  • Fantasy Sports
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OwnersBox — OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍The company building a best-in-class Fantasy Sports platform that will provide a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide.With the rising popularity of fantasy sports showing no signs of slowing down combined with the fact that sportsleagues seem like they're returning sooner than later, the OwnersBox team has a major opportunity to take advantage of our positioning. Their vision is to create a socially driven hybrid-product that will appeal to the 60+ million fantasy sports users in North America.
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

  • 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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Dan Plashkes
Angel

Dan Plashkes

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Investment focus

  • Fantasy Sports
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OwnersBox — OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍The company building a best-in-class Fantasy Sports platform that will provide a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide.With the rising popularity of fantasy sports showing no signs of slowing down combined with the fact that sportsleagues seem like they're returning sooner than later, the OwnersBox team has a major opportunity to take advantage of our positioning. Their vision is to create a socially driven hybrid-product that will appeal to the 60+ million fantasy sports users in North America.
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Real Ventures
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 8 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada · 10 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

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

Venture Capital for 3D Printing and Robotics

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Investment focus

  • 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Medical Device
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Arka — Design custom boxes for Ecommerce with Arka! Use our integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce, Square & more! Order your sustainable custom boxes today.
  • Particle3D — Particle3D (P3D) is a Danish biomedical engineering company founded in 2017. The company is based on more than 3 years of research and is currently developing patient-fitted bone replacement implants from natural materials through 3D printing. The mission is to revolutionize the treatment of craniofacial patients by providing state of the artsolutions that will optimize the value chain for health care professionals, the health care system and most importantly the patients. Benefits of the technology include better aesthetic and functional outcomes for the patients, faster recovery and fewer complications, less complicated surgery and higher hospital productivity. The company aims at setting new standards in craniofacial reconstruction and will play a major role in a market segment with a very interesting commercial potential.
  • King Children — Made for you. Made to fit. Made for every face.
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Alate Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

We empower entrepreneurs who are rethinking real estate.

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Investment focus

  • Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Communities
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
  • Doormat — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
  • Branch — Branch sells premium office furniture for teams of all sizes. Standing desks, workstations, ergonomic chairs and filing cabinets, sold direct to save you money. Space planning, delivery and assembly come standard.
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Jean-François Grenon
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Machine Learning, Computer
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
  • IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
  • Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.
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Broad Street Bulls
VC Fund · Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Broad Street Bulls VC invests in companies, ideas, and founders in Saskatchewan and the prairies at the pre-seed and seed stage. It offers capital, mentorship, and support to founders of early-stage technology and high growth start-ups in industries ready for disruption.The company is driven by a vision to become a valuable partner forearly-stage tech companies and support them as they scale up beyond the prairies. It hopes to create an outsized impact on the ecosystem and economy.Broad Street Bulls was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

  • Callia — Callia elevates the experience of sending flowers and sets out to add more special moments in everyday lives. Flowers have the ability to share love, kindness, and hope – Callia makes sending great quality bouquets simple and fast, so you can focus on making those moments happen.
  • Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
  • 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.
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Courtside Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Sports, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
  • Bebopbee — BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences
  • Tap — The first secondary trading platform for private fund secondaries.
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TELUS Ventures
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months

TELUS Ventures strives to seamlessly connect millions of people, companies, and communities by strategically investing in the most advanced and innovative solutions that have the potential to drive significant growth, impact and scale and are strategically aligned to the broader TELUS mandate.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
  • Swift Navigation — Swift Navigation was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of theprice of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.
  • YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
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Whitecap Venture Partners
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Altrio — Altrio is bringing real estate capital markets online
  • Mash — The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.”Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet.We are unlocking this withfriction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized.It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.
  • InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Canada, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Bridgr — For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help
  • ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
  • Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.
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Rebel Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months

Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
  • Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
  • Vellum — Vellum is the development platform for production-worthy large language model applications.
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Angel One Network
VC Fund · Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Angel One Network Inc. is a member-based, not-for-profit organization.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Malaysia

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.
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Lance Priebe
Angel

Lance Priebe

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Investment focus

  • eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
  • 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!
  • Two Hat Security — Our intelligent Content Moderation Platform and Profanity Filter help online communities scale and automate the moderation of all user-generated content.
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Capital Angel Network
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Our goal is to build the region's entrepreneurial community, to make the region the best place to start a business and to facilitate access to investment opportunities for qualified investors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • CarbonGraph — CarbonGraph is a platform that allows businesses to measure and share their carbon footprint in a standard format. CarbonGraph is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
  • LearnExperts — You've invested in your product. We're invested in getting it adopted. Learnexperts is the first Education as a Service provider that takes the full burden off you. We have experts who know how to do it right the first time so you don't have to.
  • Realize Medical — We're a medical virtual reality start up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our medical image viewing, modeling, and communication platform combines novel 3D visualization with the familiar and intuitive input of a hand held stylus. We're creating powerful VR tools to unlock new ways for healthcare professionals to view and interact with medicalimages so they can enhance patient care.
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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • NadaMoo — Grab a spoon, you're going to want to try this deliciously dairy-free coconut milk ice cream. Dairy-free, Gluten-Free, Plant-Based, Vegan, Non-GMO, Faire Trade, B-Corp. Our pints are filled with 100% goodness.
  • PocketPills — Pocketpills is Canada's best online pharmacy that allows you to conveniently order online, refill, or consult with an online pharmacist and offers free shipping and low prices.
  • Just Vertical — Discover the best indoor hydroponic growing system. With Just Vertical, you can easily grow your own vegetables indoors. Shop our beautifully-designed modern hydroponic system!
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Innovacorp
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps knowledge-based startups commercialize their technologies in the global marketplace. It invests in early stage Nova Scotia entrepreneurs, combining venture capital with business mentoring and incubation facilities. Innovacorp was established in 1995 and based in Halifax, Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • Canada, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
  • Gaia Refinery — Gaia is developing wind-driven methane-capture technology to produce rocket-grade natural gas.
  • Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.
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Business Development Bank of Canada
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 19 investments in the past 12 months

We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

  • FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
  • Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
  • Clear Blue Technologies — Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly,less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.
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John W Tomes
Angel

John W Tomes

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Investment focus

  • Fantasy Sports
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OwnersBox — OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍The company building a best-in-class Fantasy Sports platform that will provide a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide.With the rising popularity of fantasy sports showing no signs of slowing down combined with the fact that sportsleagues seem like they're returning sooner than later, the OwnersBox team has a major opportunity to take advantage of our positioning. Their vision is to create a socially driven hybrid-product that will appeal to the 60+ million fantasy sports users in North America.
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Kyle Wellwood
Angel

Kyle Wellwood

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Sports, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
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Peter Wilson
Angel

Pete Wilson is the Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Fantasy Sports
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OwnersBox — OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍The company building a best-in-class Fantasy Sports platform that will provide a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide.With the rising popularity of fantasy sports showing no signs of slowing down combined with the fact that sportsleagues seem like they're returning sooner than later, the OwnersBox team has a major opportunity to take advantage of our positioning. Their vision is to create a socially driven hybrid-product that will appeal to the 60+ million fantasy sports users in North America.
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Newfund
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 16 investments in the past 12 months

Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • REEV — REEV motorizes medical orthoses to help millions of people affected by gait disorders to walk, stand, sit and climb stairs with greater ease every day.
  • Greenscope — Greenscope is a company and investor-focused ESG management solution. Greenscope has enabled us to implement a new process for collecting and analyzing ESG data.
  • Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
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Deep Fork Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

Deep Fork Capital (DFC) is a $30mm seed-focused venture capital fund in San Francisco focused on providing equity capital and convertible debt financing to companies in the consumer technology, digital media, and enterprise spaces. The firm's initial investment size typically ranges from $250k to $500k. Current DFC portfolio companies includeAlgorithmia, Dataminr, Educents, Transfix, StatMuse, Boxed, DealPath, and Canopy, among others.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • BigID — Reduce risk, accelerate time to insight, and get data visibility and control across all your data - everywhere.
  • SaltStack — Discover how VMware Cross-Cloud services give organizations freedom and control without trade-offs.
  • Origo — Origo is a fintech company.
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Formic Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Formic Ventures is a diversified venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in biotechnology startups focused on human longevity as well as technology startups and companies that make human lives more meaningful.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Turn.bio — Turn Biotechnologies is a Stanford spinout developing therapies to effectively return mature differentiated cells to a dramatically younger state leaving their differentiated identity unaltered.​Turn Biotechnologies surpasses traditional approaches based on single gene/pathway manipulations and tackles the multifaceted manifestation ofcellular age at the organ, tissue, and organismal level to extend the healthspan of people. As a result, age is reset by epigenetically reprogramming cells.
  • cheMastery — Laboratory Automation
  • Sampling Human — On a mission to elevate societal health with living diagnostics that detect disease and measure effects of lifestyle choices at the single cell level.
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Build Ventures
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help.They’re based inHalifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.
  • Arcturus — Make video come alive.
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 24 investments in the past 12 months

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Luda — Lifting people through play
  • Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
  • Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United Kingdom, United States

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.
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Nimbus Synergies Inc.
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nimbus Synergies leads early-stage financings in innovative and complementary digital health companies in British Columbia. By bringing these companies together to share resources, industry specific knowledge, and relationships, Nimbus is accelerating their growth and increasing their likelihood of success. Nimbus is significantly impacting theburgeoning yet underserved digital health sector through its leadership as investor, partner, and mentor. It is one of the most exciting additions to the province’s technology industry and the newest member of Discovery Parks’ group of companies. By investing Discovery Parks’ assets in startups focused on the intersection between life sciences and technology, Nimbus aims to improve health through BC-led innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • VitaminLab — Looking for personalized vitamins based on your health goals, DNA or blood? Choose how you want to formulate and get an all-in-one formula just for you.
  • Sonic Incytes — Sonic Incytes Provides Portable, Point Of Care Solution To Assess Liver Stiffness & Liver Attenuation. Learn About Our Handheld 3D Ultrasound Solution.
  • LifeBooster — LifeBooster's connected worker platform, Senz, integrates wearable technologies and industrial IoT to eliminate preventable workplace injuries
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Eclipse Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Palo Alto based Eclipse Ventures partners with entrepreneurs boldly transforming the essential industries that define and propel economies. Learn more.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Voxel — Eliminate near-misses and stop injuries before they happen. Teach your security cameras to detect safety hazards and inefficiencies in real-time.
  • Peak Energy — Sodium-ion Energy Storage at Gigascale
  • Peak Energy — Peak Energy is a manufacturing firm that specializes in producing Energy Storage Systems and Na-ion Batteries.
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Volta Labs
VC Fund · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Volta, cofounded by GoInstant CEO Jevon MacDonald, emphasizes a founder-first, quality-over-quantity approach to building startups. “It’s all about the founders," says MacDonald. “We want to create world-class founders, who in turn will create world-class companies, right here in Halifax."Although it sounds like an accelerator, Voltainsists otherwise: "We are a place of mentorship and community and we are not an accelerator," the site reads. Their goal is to provide mentorship, encourage new startups, develop growth in existing startups, develop support frameworks, and create a brand seen as "a beacon of the Atlantic startup community."Currently, Volta has 13 companies involved in its system, either as tenants or common space members. Those companies include TitanFile, FundMetric, and IntroHive. The non-accelerator is backed by big names including Omers and Deloitte.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Health Care, Apps
  • Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
  • Smooth Meal Prep — The easiest way to eat healthier and achieve your fitness goals - Easy prep, healthy choices delivered to your doorstep in Halifax and Dartmouth area! Select your plan, pick your menu and receive freshly cooked meals in the safety and comfort of your home!
  • Granville Biomedical — Granville Biomedical is a health tech company, specializing in the design of anatomical models to enhance health care training, advance patient education, and innovate device demonstration. Through extensive research and development involving mechanical, simulation, and biological testing, Granville Biomedical has designed a novel, biocompatibleNasopharyngeal (NP) swab for nasal specimen collection.
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Globalive Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Globalive Capital is an investment company based in Canada. The Firm makes investments primarily in the telecommunications and real estate with co-investment activities alongside venture capital funds.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Curv Health — Modern virtual Training, Physiotherapy, & Rehab Clinic. Computer Vision & Health Coaches for Strengthening & Recovery.
  • KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
  • 3D BioFibR — 3D BioFibR is a biomaterial manufacturing company that produces naturally sourced, high-value bio fibers such as spider silk, collagen, chitosan, and others. Preliminary fiber performance data shows the potential applications of these fibers in several global markets, including biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospaceengineering. Formed in July 2020, 3D BioFibR was founded on the pioneering research of Dr. John Frampton. 3D BioFibR is focused on novel and proprietary methods of biofiber production that have a quality and scale that is currently not achievable with current methods. 3D BioFibR scientists have demonstrated the ability to make collagen fibers, termed CollaFibR™, that are stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that is tougher than steel and 2000% more flexible. 3D BioFibR’s vision is to become the global leader in the manmade production of nature’s strongest, lightest and toughest materials at a scale and cost that makes them a competitive solution to the engineering challenges of our day.
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Eric Wellwood
Angel

Eric Wellwood (born March 6, 1990) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current head coach for the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He played parts of three National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers. He is the younger brother of Kyle Wellwood.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Sports, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
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Relay Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Government of Canada
VC Fund · Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months

The Government of Canada is making it easier for Canadians to find and access government information and services online through its central website, Canada.ca. The website is the single entry point for all government information and services available online and is accessible using any device with an Internet connection, including tablets ormobile phones. Its portal shows how government works, its priorities, laws, finances, transparency, digital government, and policies.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Grant, Debt Financing, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
  • PowerCo — PowerCo expansion is the next step in expanding the worldwide battery industry while also localizing cell production and establishing a new value chain.
  • London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 36 investments in the past 12 months

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
  • Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
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WUTIF
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Frontly — Frontly's no-code internal admin tooling platform empowers businesses to build custom applications to solve their greatest business challenges in minutes without writing a line of code.
  • Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
  • VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.
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Ray Muzyka
Angel · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
  • 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.
  • Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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Paul Geyer
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Paul Geyer, a successful Medtech Entrepreneur and experienced Board member. Over the past 20 years Paul founded and led two companies through their growth phase, in one case to a successful private exit and in the other case through growth as a public company with numerous acquisitions. Both companies have grown to be anchor medical devicecompanies in the Vancouver area, employing more than 350 people.In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., a tissue heart valve company. Paul grew the company from 9 employees to more than 125 employees in 1999. In 1999 Paul sold Mitroflow to Sulzer Medica, for more than $50 mil. Paul's leadership resulted in Mitroflow growing to more than 200 employees, making it one of the largest medical devices companies in the Vancouver area. In 2001 Paul started Medical Ventures, a new specialty vascular device company where he is currently Chairman of the Board. From its inception to June 2008, Geyer held the position of CEO at Medical Ventures (now Neovasc) and was responsible for raising over $40 million in Equity financing and growing the company’s product portfolio through internal development and the acquisition of 3 other companies. In 2008 Paul began focusing on sharing is expertise to assist other Entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, through his involvement as a mentor or Board member. He also focused on building the local community through his involvement as a Board member of BC technology industry association, along with a number of non-profit community based organizations. Paul is actively engaged as a Philanthropist, as Chairman of the Board of Social Venture Partners Vancouver, involved with Science World, Entrepreneurship at UBC, Project Somos Children’s Village and other organizations.Paul is currently the CEO of LightIntegra Technology Inc., a spin-off from Canadian Blood Services which has developed the ThromboLux technology, used to determine platelet quality for blood transfusions.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Fitness, Medical Device
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
  • Arbutus Medical — Arbutus Medical manufactures medical devices that simplifies orthopedic surgery and reduce the cost of healthcare to help treat patients worldwide.
  • HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
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Arlene Dickinson
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku Spike — Aku delivers a high-end self acupressure experience anywhere, anytime. Stress relief, relaxation, and treatment for sore back, neck aches, joint pain and more.
  • Vertiball — The precision massager that makes your back accessible in a way like never before. Our patent pending suction mounting system to mount onto walls and other flat surfaces. The technology allows you to place the device at specific heights giving you complete control over your sore, tense muscles.
  • PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
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Telegraph Hill Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Recovo — Textile SaaS platform that drives circularity in the industry by facilitating the transformation of waste into valuable resources.Our platform connects businesses with circular fabrics and sustainable solutions, fostering material reuse, recycling, and the utilization of recyclable materials for circular design.
  • Leya — Leya, a pioneering digital platform, redefines the landscape of online collaboration and communication. With a commitment to seamless interaction and connection, Leya empowers individuals and businesses to transform the way they work and engage in the digital realm.
  • Streamforge — Streamforge is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.
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KB Partners
VC Fund · Highland Park, Illinois, United States

We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.

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Investment focus

  • Sports, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Goss — Goss Media | Make predictions on Reality TV, Trending Events, Celebs, Fashion & more.
  • Kaya Climb — Kaya Climb is a climber’s app designed to connect users with the gym and local climbing community and find and share beta. It enables climbers to build an ascent pyramid, and review past climbing sessions. The company was founded in 2019 when a crew of climbers and technologists got together to create a platform for the climbing community.
  • ShotQuality — The goal of ShotQuality is to dispel the luck of the game and deliver the expected results based on the accuracy of each shot’s quality, rather than just make or miss. There are over 90 different variables involved in calculating ShotQuality. Overall, we have over 60 NCAA D-1 teams subscribed including the likes of Auburn, Arizona, and StanfordUniversity
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Drew Brees
Angel · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Sports, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
  • Mustard — Elevate your game with real time analytics and instruction from the world's best coaches and athletes.
  • Nightfall AI — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
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Hedgewood
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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FundersClub
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
  • Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
  • Shaktimaan — Empowering UPSC aspirants with Kalam's potential to answer, evaluate & personalise your preparation for World's Toughest Exam.
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.
  • PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
  • Payscore — Payscore is an automated income verification tool that helps property managers and lenders make the best applicant approval decisions.
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