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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Financial Services 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 | ||
National Bank of Canada | Early Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
Accelerate Fund | Early Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
The 51 Ventures | Early Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
Thin Air Labs | Early Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services 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 Financial Services 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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National Bank of Canada
Founded in Quebec City in 1859, the Bank has grown while striving to always earn the trust of its various stakeholders and contribute to the development of the communities it serves. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions over the course of its history, National Bank Financial Group has grown to become a powerful integrated financial group and Quebecâ€:tm:s leading bank. National Bank Financial Group is firmly committed to continuing deployment of its One client, one bank vision, which is aimed at giving clients access to the same exceptional service, whatever their point of entry to the Financial Group, and ensuring that our efforts are even more focused on client satisfaction.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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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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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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Thin Air Labs
Thin Air Labs is the leading investment firm in Canada focused on the growth asset class in innovation and technology. We currently have 24 companies in our portfolio. We believe in igniting venture growth for greater human impact.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Life Science
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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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AVAC Group
AVAC Ltd is an investment company with over 24 years of experience in financing early-stage innovative business opportunities and providing both capital and other value-added services to grow commercial business successes. AVAC invests in promising ventures in value-added agri-business, information and communications technologies, life sciences, and other industrial technology sectors. AVAC also manages an active early-stage venture capital fund-of-funds investment pool and the Accelerate Fund, an angel co-investment fund. Since inception, AVAC has been a direct investor in over 115 businesses, and as an indirect investor in four national venture capital funds. The company has invested over $118 million with present and past portfolio companies, reporting in excess of $1 billion in sales.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: AgTech, Finance, Financial Services, Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
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Valhalla Angels
Valhalla Angels is one of Canada’s most active angel investment group with their Founder, R. Stewart Thompson, named Angel of The Year for 2018. The forum was established in 2003 with members having biotech, real-estate, oil & gas, health & life sciences, hospitality & transportation and, information & communication technologies backgrounds. Today, their membership continues to grow, bringing a diverse group of investors together, from a variety of backgrounds and experiences who are looking to diversify their investment portfolio while supporting he start-up ecosystem. In August 2017, Valhalla Private Capital was launched as a result of the organic growth from Valhalla Angels, to meet the needs of the entire lifecycle for both businesses and investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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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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Old Kent Road (OKR) Financial
Old Kent Road Financial provides investors and start-ups with opportunities through a new Canadian fund. OKR Financial lends capital to companies that need growth capital long before their public sector commitments will be available to them. Old Kent Road Financial has already provided capital to six companies since July 2016, with an additional 32 companies currently being reviewed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Carrot Ventures
Carrot Ventures is the Third Option for commercializing agricultural technologies. The firm’s goal is to maximize shareholder value by creating new companies focused on solving real market problems. Carrot does that by putting novel technology in the hands of professional leadership and making sure companies are properly structured and financed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Animal Feed, Aquaculture, Farming, Financial Services, Food Processing, Horticulture, Livestock
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Gremlin Ventures
Gremlin Ventures was founded with the goal of using innovate funding models and a product-first approach to grow future markets and ecosystems.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Professional Services, Software
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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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