# Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026

## Golden Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Initialized Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

## CMT Digital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

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

## Luminari Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series E
- Focus: Video, Video Streaming, Software

Luminari Capital is a digital media fund that invests on firms that map key technology themes to the fundamental transformations in content.

## Shima Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Digital Currency Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

## Polychain
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

## BDC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## SparkLabs Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

## ConsenSys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

## InnoStart Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video Games, Financial Services, E-Commerce

InnoStart Capital is a small venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments.

## Social Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

## VA Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Polygon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

## 1517 Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

1517 Fund is an early stage venture capital fund that supports teams led by dropouts, deep-tech scientists & founders working outside of tracked institutions.

## Solana Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Solana, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## White Star Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

## Start Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

Start Fund, created in January 2011, is a joint venture between Yuri Milner and SV Angel. The fund was created to invest in Y Combinator startups and made its first set of investments in January 2011.

## Real Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## Regah Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Automotive

Regah Ventures invests in visionary entrepreneurs who are developing transformational technologies, products, and solutions that are powering the future. It invests across a diverse range of industries like AI/ML, data analytics, and cloud edge computing enterprise software platforms, and in venture rounds alongside committed VCs,institutional, and other notable investors.

## André Zimmermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Video, Computer Vision

André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group).

## Lance Priebe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network

Lance Priebe

## Deep Fork Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Infinity Ventures Crypto
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

## 6th Man Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

## Hedgewood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Raymond Tonsing
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director.
Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

## Game Seer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aschaffenburg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, iOS

We are a group of friends and investors united by our love for video games and who created a fully privately owned venture fund exclusively for core and indie multiplatform licensesOur product-centered approach aims at filtering, assessing and early funding impactful PC & consoles titles that will drive traction and revenuesWe have afifteen years know-how in the industry and brought our former gaming companies to high profitability and up to the point of publicly listing themWe work jointly with governments, marketing agencies, payments and distribution service providers to guide the talents of tomorrow on the path to successful releases

## Mulana Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Internet of Things

Early Stage Web3 Venture Investing (Cypto infrastructure, Metaverse, Defi)

## Anthos Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

The firm supports dynamic entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in a broad range of industries, including consumer services and products, technology, healthcare, business services, education, and financial services. The firm was founded in 2007 by Goldman Sachs professionals and manages $400 million across multiple funds.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Riot Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Chris Gonsalves
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games

Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming

## Fred Mancheski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Computer, Software

Fred Mancheski

## Sisu Game Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

## Khaled Verjee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet

Khaled Verjee

## Everyrealm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Gaming

Everyrealm is an immersive media company, specializing in technology and infrastructure that drives social, community-driven gaming experiences and platforms.

## ACE & Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage.
ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.

## Aleksander Leonard Larsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

## Tandem Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps

Tandem Capital is a seed stage venture capital fund investing in stellar founding teams whose innovation extends beyond their products into how they acquire their customers, develop their distribution channels and build their overall brands. Its portfolio companies are disrupting such industries as construction, consumer packaged goods andelectronics, entertainment and media, food and beverage, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics. These businesses originate from various locations around the world but often run global operations and always benefit from a strong connection with Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## GSR Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology.The firm backs entrepreneurs building disruptive businesses that have the potential to dominate multi-billion dollar markets. GSR Ventures currently manages about $3 billionacross its funds.

## Quantstamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Software, Blockchain

Quantstamp is the leader in web3 security, securing over $200B worth of digital assets for projects like OpenSea, Maker and Curve.

## Big Brain Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

## MetaTope
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Blockchain, Video Games, Digital Entertainment

MetaTope steps into the metaverse with live motion-capture.

## Acequia Capital (AceCap)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

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