# Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026

## Real Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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

## Inovia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

## Lightbank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software

Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social(NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.

## Hedgewood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

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

## Peter M. Kern
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Travel, Mobile, E-Commerce

Peter M. Kern has been a director of Expedia since completion of the IAC/Expedia Spin-Off.Peter Kern is a Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, LP, a private equity firm.Prior to joining InterMedia, Mr. Kern was Senior Managing Director and Principal of Alpine Capital LLC.Prior to Alpine Capital, Mr. Kern founded Gemini Associates in1996 and served as President from its inception through its merger with Alpine Capital in 2001.Prior to founding Gemini Associates,Peter Kern was at the Home Shopping Network and Whittle Communications.Since April 2013,Peter Kern has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc., a publicly-traded Spanish-language media company.Mr. Kern also serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including Televicentro of Puerto Rico, LLC, Luxury Retreats International Holdings, Inc. and Cine Latino, Inc.Mr. Kern holds a B.S. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

## Accomplice
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

## BDC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Bee Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Bee Partners, a preSeed venture capital fund, partners with Founders with the smarts, grit, and humanity to create tomorrow's machines. We invest in three vectors: Human Machine Interaction, Machine-to-Machine Learning, and Biological Machines.

## Montreal Start Up
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Montreal Start Up provides seed-level financing to entrepreneurs aspiring to establish companies in Montreal, with the focus being on software based services in the internet, wireless and media space. The Fund invests in entrepreneurs with very early stage concepts and ideas that need a bit a financing and some strategic and operational inputin order to help them progress their idea towards being a successful company or at least a company that is fundable by other VC’s.

## Innovacorp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Rasool Rayani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing

Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.

## Business Development Bank of Canada
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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. 

## Visionnaire Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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.

## Mikko Nurminen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Software

Mikko has 10+ years of experience from managing high-growth online businesses, including that of website platform Kotisivukone.fi, sold to Fonecta in January 2013.

## Lasse Järvinen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Restaurants, Software

Lasse Järvinen - Co-Founder @ Bonusway

## Telstra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Telstra Ventures provide venture capital investment in lighthouse technology companies that are commencing scale. Leveraging data science for scaling new business.

## Open Circle Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Our Investment FocusWe are interested in technology companies in the fields of ICT, robotics and high-tech. We favor teams of professionals comprised or led by serial entrepreneurs with past growth, fundraising and/or exiting experience. We are looking for product building companies that would be high-potential, fast-growth, and ready toconquer foreign markets. Best time to talk us is just after first revenues in the company.Our investment approach1. It all starts with a conversation where we learn about you and your ambition.
2. In the space of few meetings we are targeting to decide whether to look further.
3. We'll discuss particular terms, ask for more information, and analyse further.
4. The legal part - we know everyone loves it, and, finally, we join your venture.

## Stephen Curry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.

## TripLabs Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Travel, Hotel, Mobile

Triplabs Limited is a Hong Kong based venture capital firm, investing and scaling tech startups specifically related to the travel and hospitality industry.
It was created and spunoff in 2018 from two publicly listed corporations WWPKG Holdings (8069HK) and CTEH Holdings (1620HK).

## Brightspark Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS

Brightspark Ventures invests in early stage Canadian software companies.Brightspark has been investing in the Canadian VC industry since 1999. Over the last 20 years, the company has refined its focus to the point where it choose what it believes to be the best early-stage opportunities in the market. The company's goal is to findexceptional startups, and work closely with these companies as they grow to achieve stellar returns.We have structured our investments to allow individual accredited investors to invest with us. We have found that individual investors share the same goals as us when investing: they too want to invest in startups with CEOs that are focused on creating massive returns.This model also benefits our portfolio companies, who appreciate having a network of investors they don’t necessarily have to "manage". By leading the investment and actively working as the gatekeeper for the company, Brightspark ensures that the company can grow to its full potential without being distracted or becoming unfocused. This model attracts some of the best companies in Canada.

## Jesse Kaplan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Travel

Jesse Kaplan

## Tamarisc Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Hospitality, Information Technology

Tamarisc invests in and helps build companies that improve the human habitat through innovating at the intersection of real estate, health, and technology.

## Practica Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, B2B

 Practica Capital 

## Conconi Growth Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

## RBC Capital Markets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Albany, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Focus: Energy, Software, Health Care

RBC Capital Markets is A Premier Investment Bank that provides a focused set of products and services to institutions, corporations, governments and high net worth clients in 160 countries. With nearly 3,000 professional and support staff, we operate out of 75 offices in 15 countries and deliver our products and services through operations in Asiaand Australasia, the UK and Europe and in every major North American city. According to Bloomberg, we are consistently ranked among the top 15 global investment banks.We are part of a leading provider of financial services, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Operating since 1869, RBC has more than US$612 billion in assets and one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution - Moody's Aaa and Standard & Poor's AA-.

## Atlas Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

## K3 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

K3 Ventures provides venture capital for technology startups in various sectors such as finance, education, healthcare, food and agriculture and others. The firm is headed by Kuok Meng Xiong.

## Silicon Valley Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven internationaloperations. Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

## Export Development Canada
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

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.

## 7 Gate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Rajiv Khaneja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Travel

Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler

## CAE Montmagny-L'Islet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montmagny, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Tourism

CAE Montmagny-L'Islet is a non profit organization that offers businesses, financial assistance and consulting services

## Stuart MacDonald
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Travel

Stuart MacDonald is a Venture Advisor of Narrative.Fund.

## Government of Canada
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Debt Financing
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology

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.

## David Arnsdorf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Marketing

David Arnsdorf - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Pomme Natural Markets

## Maple Leaf Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Software, SaaS

Maple Leaf Angels are an experienced group of private investors looking for great entrepreneurs, great products and great companies. Bringing together investment, experience and knowledge, we help accelerate companies to become market leaders in their industry.We focus on four main investment areas as follows:- Information Technology- CleanTechnology- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials- Special Opportunities

## Tritium Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Financial Services

They believe that focus is important to being a good investor. Over the past decade, they have produced a strong investment track record by remaining focused on a handful of industry sectors that they know well and backing founders and management teams in companies with exciting growth potential. When they stick to the sectors, business models andinvestment situations which they know best, they are able to make better investment decisions, be better partners to their management teams, and produce better outcomes for portfolio company employees and investors alike.The founders of Tritium have been successfully investing together for over a decade. During that time, the Tritium team has deployed over $625 million of capital and produced several, notable “wins” for investors, founders and employees alike.The careers of Tritium’s founders began at a global management consulting firm and continued at a well-established venture capital firm, where they shared responsibility for managing several billion dollars of capital. There, the team successfully launched a national, growth practice that grew from a “skunk works” effort to a large component of the firm’s investment strategy. In 2013, Tritium Partners was launched as an independent firm that could focus exclusively on lower middle market growth buyouts.

## Relay Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

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

## Canada media fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Augmented Reality

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.

## Canadian Business Growth Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

CBGF helps privately-owned Canadian businesses with the capital, talent, and expertise they need to drive growth and realize their potential.

## Jackson Square Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Jackson Square Ventures is an an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses.

## Globalive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

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.

## Golden Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

## N49P
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning

N49P is a venture capital firm focused on ideas to seed-stage Canadian technology startups.

## WIND Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Software

WIND Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm specializing in the new mobility, energy, and retail sectors for startups and scaleups. The firm leverages COPEC's significant resources to accelerate startups and scaleups in realizing new growth. It also invests in entrepreneurs working to build tomorrow’s energy, mobility, and retailcompanies. WIND Ventures aims to build a sizeable investment portfolio of strategic startups and scale-ups where COPEC's significant resources accelerate the exploration or realization of new growth. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Lauri Sommarberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Software

Lauri Sommarbergis the Co-Founder and Board Member of LVS Brokers.

## Andrew Kitchell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Vacation Rental, SaaS

Andrew Kitchell is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Lyric and Wheelhouse. He is a former CEO & Founder at Beyond Pricing and Founder, Product Design at 30 Words. Mr. Kitchell studied at Duke University.

## Desjardins Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lévis, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

Desjardins Capital makes it easy to grow your business with financial and strategic support. Investment capital and venture capital can help you meet your business goals.

## East Valley Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

East Valley is a startup accelerator and angel investor group in Atlantic Canada.

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