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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
BDC Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
Accelerate Fund | Early Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
Avrio Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
The 51 Ventures | Early Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
Azimuth Capital Management | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Calgary. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Calgary)
BDC Venture Capital
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 strong Canadian 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: AgTech, Angel Investment, CleanTech, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Waste Management, Water
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Accelerate Fund
Accelerate Fund represents a partnership of organizations brought together to share their collective expertise and capital to help Alberta technology entrepreneurs increase their investment dollars, and ultimately their companies to new heights. Launched with a $10 million investment from Alberta Enterprise, the Accelerate Fund provides additional financing options to early stage technology companies. The fund is managed by AVAC Ltd. which will review applications; perform due diligence; rule on investment decisions; and provide ongoing support to portfolio companies. An extensive advisory network called the Accelerate Fund Industry Committee has been designed to serve as a “hands-on” resource to the fund and its portfolio companies. Accelerate Fund was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Clean Energy, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Avrio Capital
Avrio Capital is a venture capital and private equity investment firm specializing in commercialization to growth-stage companies with a focus on later-stage, early stage, mid venture, middle market, and emerging growth businesses. It also provides mezzanine financing. Avrio Capital prefers to invest in food technology, advanced agriculture, industrial bioproducts, and nutraceutical ingredients and innovative companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability. It invests in companies based in Canada and North America. Avrio Capital seeks to invest between CAD $1 million $0.77 million to CAD $10 million $7.70 million, with significant capital reserved for subsequent financing rounds over the life of the portfolio company. It seeks to invest in companies with sales value between CAD $1 million $0.77 million and CAD $20 million $15.40 million. Avrio Capital prefers to take an active role in each investment it makes. It began operation in 2006, with its headquarters in Alberta in Canada and additional offices in Ontario and Quebec therein.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Hospitality, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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The 51 Ventures
The51 is a Financial Feminist platform that aims to build mutual wealth and social/environmental impact. By uniting Canada’s untapped female wealth, The51 is creating a new critical mass of female investors, making Canada the center for female-powered capital. With 30% of Alberta’s tech start-ups founded or co-founded by women, The51’s home province is well on its way to achieving this goal; however, with female-founded startups only receiving 3% of venture capital available worldwide, The51’s vision spans globally.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital, Women’s
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Azimuth Capital Management
Azimuth Capital Management is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in seed/startup, mid venture, early stage, middle market, and emerging companies. It makes direct investments and co-investments. Azimuth Capital Management seeks to invest in the energy sector resource and infrastructure development companies with a focus on oil and gas exploration and production, oil sands, non-conventional resource plays, energy infrastructure, services and energy technology. It prefers to invest in companies based in Canada and also invests in the United States and international energy sector opportunities. Azimuth Capital Management makes investments between $7.58 million and $36.12 million. It makes investments for a period of more than ten years. Pentti O. Karkkainen, and D. Jeffrey van Steenbergen founded KERN Partners in 2000 that later became Azimuth Capital Management. It has its headquarters in Calgary in Canada with additional office in San Francisco Bay Area and Operating Partners in Houston and Denver.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Asset Management, Impact Investing, Solar, Venture Capital
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Allied Venture Partners
Allied Venture Partners is one of Canada’s largest angel investor groups. Our mission is to grow and diversify Western Canada’s technology startup ecosystem by providing local investors with venture-scale investment opportunities from established VC markets, while providing local entrepreneurs with experienced outside capital. Investors can join the syndicate by visiting: https://www.allied.vc/join
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Venture Capital
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BDC Capital Cleantech Practice
BDC Capital Cleantech Practice helps clients meet the often capital-intensive needs of scaling and accelerating growth. It offers equity and flexible financing to cleantech firms with a commercially validated IP-protected technology demonstrating a positive environmental impact. Also, it provides market traction with significant potential for revenue growth and commercial contracts and the ambition to scale beyond $100 million in annual revenue.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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InterGen Capital
InterGen Capital is not-for-profit with a mandate to re-design, re-energize, and build up the economy. It deploys capital into post-seed, pre-Series A companies led by extraordinary teams with proven solutions and big markets. The firm has a strong network of retired and transitioning executives looking to engage with innovative companies emerging from start-up to scale-up. InterGen Capital was founded in 2018 and is located in Calgary, Alberta.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Aventrock Ventures
Aventrock Ventures is a Calgary-based family venture fund. The firm consists of passionate strategists who believe in supporting entrepreneurialism to improve the world around. It invests its own capital, shares its expertise and network to help the business reach its full potential.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Software, Venture Capital
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Metiquity Ventures
Metiquity is an early-stage investor that helps the early-stage funding ecosystem by unlocking growth potential for innovative founders. It also invests in overlooked founders and emerging markets enabling disruption through the digital transformation of industries. The firm also helps partner companies accelerate growth by implementing the efficient use of the process, system, and a well-defined purpose. Metiquity Ventures was established in 2019 and is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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ALAMidas Capital Partners
We are an investment and operating management company injecting capital and value-add interim executive management services to our investees. We provide advisory services from strategic planning to co-investing/co-financing including equity crowdfunding and public venture capital. We are entrepreneurs, professional managers, and financial investors in health, technology, and mining. We align ourselves with your mission, vision, and values, as we co-manage and co-develop your ventures from funding to exit. Jointly, we create shareholder value by leveraging your competitive position, and by leveraging our education, decades of experience, expertise as professional managers including: capital investment management, corporate finance, legal/regulations, business and corporate development (M&A), reorganization and restructuring, building business infrastructures. Our initial objective is to prepare your company become more investor ready by jointly working through a strategic planning process, leading to an evidenced-based actionable plans. Together, we are effective only when we agree on a time-based achievement of results or outcomes. Value-add Advisory Services Strategic planning and execution Interim C-suite executive management services Marketing of private equity raise in the United States (JOBS Act Title II Reg D Rule 506(c) and Title IV Reg A+) or in Canada at regulated third party equity funding platforms, or public venture capital through traditional stock exchanges Corporate governance and securities rules compliance Mergers and acquisition Reorganization and restructuring
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rio Investment Partners
RIO invest in companies innovating across the four verticals of the Agri-Food value chain.RIO look for technologies and capabilities that can catalyze growth and value creation in each vertical of the value chain.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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emergingISV Capital Partners
emergingISV Capital Partners is a Calgary, Canada-based venture capital firm. Founded in 2006, emergingISV Capital Partners considers seed and early stage investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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