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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ontario Centres of Excellence | Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed | Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America | ||
Real Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America | ||
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America | ||
Innovacorp | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, North America | ||
Relay Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Canada. 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 Finance Investors & Funds (Canada)
Ontario Centres of Excellence
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 seed financing of start-ups – Skills development for high quality personnel The 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
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Non Profit
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Real Ventures
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
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) is an early stage venture capital firm based in Toronto. Since 2008, we have partnered with over 150 companies built by extraordinary founders. For more information, please visit www.marsiaf.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Innovacorp
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Services, Internet, Search Engine, Venture Capital
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Relay Ventures
Relay Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in start-ups, seed, early-stage, mid venture, late venture, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in the mobile computing industry with a focus on applications and services including mobile commerce such as payments, advertising, retailing, and consumer banking; vertical and horizontal enterprise applications; communications; social networking; location-based and location-aware applications and services such as navigation and mapping; media and entertainment; commercial services and supplies; wireless application service providers; wireless devices software; wireless networking equipment; and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms. Relay Ventures also focuses on investments in mobile-related software and services and mobile eco-system sectors. It seeks to invest in mobile technology with a focus on software for mobile devices and the connected Internet. John Albright and Kevin Talbot founded Relay Ventures on January 1, 2010. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada, with an additional office in San Francisco and Calgary.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Golden Ventures
Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that supports founders. It specializes in the fields of seed-stage, venture capital, mobile, marketplaces, and early stage. Golden Ventures was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Version One Ventures
Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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FounderFuel
FounderFuel is a mentor-driven venture accelerator that helps new startups make progress on the venture path. The company is a four-month intensive program supported by a network of veteran entrepreneurs, operators, and executives. The program pushes companies to refine visions, expand the network and rapidly accelerate output. FounderFuel was founded by Real Ventures in 2011 and is headquartered Montreal, Canada.
Stages: Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Internet, Venture Capital
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Golden Triangle Angel Network
The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of their all-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Yaletown Partners
Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums. With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growing presence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Extreme Venture Partners
Extreme Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up, early and seed stage investments. It seeks to invest in technology with focus on internet, mobile application, cloud computing, and big data that include machine learning, open public databases and analytics and the “Internet-of-things” including robotics, drones, wearable tech, and connected devices. Extreme Venture Partners seeks to invest in Canada with focus on Toronto-Waterloo corridor. It invests in businesses which are pre-revenue or expanding. It seeks to make equity investment in companies between CAD.05 million ($.04 million) and CAD.1 million (.08 million). Imran Bashir, Ken Teslia, Ray Sharma, and Sunil Sharma founded Extreme Venture Partners in 2007. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Banking, Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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WUTIF
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.
Stages: Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance
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Wesley Clover
Wesley Clover is a private, global investment management and holding company, with active interests in innovative new Cloud and SaaS technology companies as well as selected Real Estate.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Real Estate, Software
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GreenSky Capital
GreenSky Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that manages venture capital and provides financial advisory services. It makes investments in early-stage technology companies through its affiliated venture capital funds, GreenSky Accelerator Fund I, II and III. Their principals bring a unique combination of experience in technology, law, and finance to high-growth potential companies and dedicated entrepreneurs. GreenSky Capital was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010 by Geoff Simonett and Michael T. R. List.
Stages: Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: CleanTech, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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iGan Partners
iGan Partners, along with its sister fund Rowanwood Ventures, invests in emerging tech companies. With a focus on Digital Health and B2B SaaS, we invest in dynamic management teams, empowering them to build impactful businesses. We have built large successful companies and understand the challenges facing growing businesses, having faced them ourselves. We provide early stage companies with smart capital, a unique active management approach and exclusive access to a network of industry partners and sector specific co-investors to help them succeed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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BrandProject
BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round. BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly, Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products.. Find out more at www.brandproject.com
Stages: Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Information Venture Partners
Information Venture Partners is an entrepreneur friendly, Toronto-based, early stage, venture fund focused on North American enterprise and financial technology companies. As pioneer investors in SaaS companies, they understand the key success factors in building enterprise software, analytics platforms and the social enterprise companies. Their 2-decades of experience with global financial institutions has also provided us a unique lens on identifying and growing financial technology companies. The fund was founded in 2001 as RBC Venture Partners (the venture capital affiliate of Royal Bank of Canada), and in 2014, with the strong support of leading institutional limited partners, established its independence as Information Venture Partners. Their philosophy hasn’t changed through the cycles and many fads of venture capital. They don’t chase trends, they identify disruptive opportunities. They exist to assist great entrepreneurs with brilliant visions solving significant and difficult problems on the road to mutual success. They seek out the best companies in their areas of focus, in Canada and the U.S. While they are often the first institutional investors in their companies, they actively seek like-minded, quality co-investors equally committed to the success of their investees. For the right opportunity, they will invest in growth stage venture-backed companies. Information Venture Partners brings its decades of experience, expansive advisor network, proprietary tools and common sense to their investments. They make certain that they do not manage their portfolio companies, the entrepreneurs and leadership teams they back, do. They commit to support them as much and as often as needed; they are there for their companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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StandUp Ventures
StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in female-founded companies in the B2B software and digital health sector. The firm is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors, and other strategic mentors who will provide high-touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from its network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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The Holt Xchange
Holt Accelerator is a modern day brokers, accelerating deals for fintech startups between corporate clients and investors. The Holt family legacy is rooted in tradition and entrepreneurship. Their history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations, has led them to create the FinTech accelerator, powered by an AI solutions provider. Holt will be supported by Holdun, a 5th generation family business, Stradigi AI, one of the largest AI solutions providers in Canada, and Form Fintech, one Canada’s fastest growing Fintech communities.
Stages: Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Blockchain, FinTech, InsurTech, Payments, Personal Finance, Venture Capital
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Innovate Calgary
Innovate Calgary is where startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, industry and partners take innovation and ideas to business. It takes an ecosystem to drive the commercialization success of an innovation or discovery, and we are here to give you the help you need to take your startup, discovery or investment to the next stage of growth or market entry. How? It’s simple, Just Ask. Innovate Calgary is the technology-transfer and business-incubation centre for the University of Calgary. Working closely with Research Services and the Office of the Vice-President (Research), we work to help bridge the gap between discovery and innovation.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: B2B, Business Development, Clean Energy, Finance, Life Science, Management Consulting, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship
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Discovery Capital
Discovery Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early and growth stage investments. It seeks to invest in information technology with a focus on hardware and software companies, communications sector that includes mobile technology that includes wireless and networking solutions, new media, health and life sciences focused on biotechnology, environmental and energy technology, water purification, electric power by wind energy and solar energy, and other advanced technologies focused on hardware and software, industrial, alternative energy, energy-saving technology solutions, and clean technology solutions investments. Discovery Capital seeks to invest in companies based in British Columbia. It also provides capital for follow-on investments. It will invest in eligible small businesses that qualify under the Small Business Venture Capital Act. Discover Capital invests in those firm in which their business, together with affiliates, must have less than 100 employees at the time of their initial investment. It may make additional investments if the employment level grows beyond 100. Also, their business must pay at least 75% of its wages and salaries to B.C. employees. This may be reduced to 50% if their business is engaged in the export of goods or services outside B. C. It prefers to have successful exits by way of initial public offerings and sales of portfolio companies. John McEwen and Harry Jaako founded Discovery Capital in 1986. It has its headquarters in British Columbia in Canada.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Impact Investing, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Ferst Capital Partners – FCP
Ferst Capital Partners (FCP) is a private investment firm which invests in venture capital, private equity, public markets, sector-focused funds and crypto assets. We have an interest and expertise in consumer fintech, digital assets and search funds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Personal Finance
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PenderFund Capital Management
PenderFund Capital Management is an independent, value-based investment firm located in Vancouver, Canada that aims to create value for investors by generating superior risk-adjusted returns.
Stages: Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, 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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Highline Beta
Highline BETA is a startup co-creation company that launches new ventures with leading corporations and founders. Through startup co-creation, the firm helps to identify industry opportunities and to launch and co-invest in a new startup. It invests in startups through corporate accelerator programs and in co-creations with corporate partners. Highline BETA was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Propulsion Ventures
Propulsion Ventures is a Telesystem-sponsored venture capital firm that invests in early-stage software companies in Canada. It was founded in 1995 with offices in Montreal, Boston, London, and Johannesburg. The founding partners of Propulsion have grown their impressive track record in managing multiple funds into a solid reputation for providing skilled support to entrepreneurs. The Montreal-based firm is widely considered an investor of choice in the Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Quebec City markets. In 2005, Propulsion received the “Deal of the Year Award” from the Canadian Venture Capital Association.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Roadmap Capital
Roadmap Capital was co-founded by Riadh Zine (Executive Chairman, former senior investment banker at RBC Capital Markets) and Hugh Cleland (Chief Executive Officer, former portfolio manager at BluMont Capital). At Roadmap Capital, our mission is to offer an investment platform with a unique approach to selecting, investing in and partnering with exceptional companies. Roadmap Capital connects our qualified investors with carefully selected potential investment opportunities in an environment that fosters partnership, mentoring, growth, innovation and value. Roadmap Capital was formed to fill a need for a more transparent investment model, where our investors have the freedom to co-invest, alongside Roadmap Funds, in attractive leading-edge private companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners
Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity arm of Counsel Corporation specializing in leveraged buyouts. It seeks to invest between CAD5 million and CAD10 million per investment. Kenneth J. Finkelstein, Michael Finkelstein, Daniel Finkelstein, and Joshua Finkelstein founded Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners in November 2006. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada with an additional office in Phoenix in Arizona.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Rockshield Capital
Rockshield Capital makes early stage seed investments of dollars and human capital with the expectation of superior rates of return.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Montreal Start Up
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 input in order to help them progress their idea towards being a successful company or at least a company that is fundable by other VC’s.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
The $100-million TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good is one of Canada’s largest corporate impact funds, powering the boldest, bravest ideas by for-profit startups that are dedicated to driving social innovation and building tech for good. In support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Fund invests in the next generation of entrepreneurs who are addressing the biggest challenges in health, education, agriculture and the environment – connecting them with the resources and capital they need to grow and thrive. The TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good showcases TELUS’ long-standing commitment to leverage its world leading technology to create meaningful change and make the world a better place.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Health Care, Software
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Altair Capital
Altair Capital provides professional competence in the purchase and sale of companies, valuation of enterprises, private debt, and mezzanine financings.
Stages: Seed
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America
Industries: Advice, Consulting, Finance, Financial Services
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Axis Capital Corp
[Axis Investment Fund](http://www.axisfunds.com) is an investment firm that targets the technology sector. Axis Capital Corporation is an investment firm that creates innovative investment fund products targeting the technology sector. After successfully managing a private fund for a number of years, in 2002 Axis Capital Corporation launched Axis Investment Fund, a labour-sponsored investment fund that invests in Ontario-based emerging technology companies. Axis Investment Fund offers Ontario residents the opportunity to participate in venture capital and receive a 35% tax credit. The two missions of Axis Capital Corporation are simply stated: 1. create investment fund products that allow average Canadians to participate in venture capital as part of a sound, diversified portfolio; and 2. invest in and then work with world-class technology companies in order to increase shareholder value. On February 6, 2006, Axis Capital Corporation was purchased by BEST Funds. BEST Funds is now the fund manager for Axis Investment Fund Inc. BEST Funds is an experienced manager of labour sponsored investment funds having managed the B.E.S.T. Discoveries Fund for over 10 years .
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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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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Corl
Corl provides fast, fair, and flexible revenue-based financing solutions for high growth businesses in North America. Businesses can finance up to 5x of monthly revenue to a maximum of $5m in as little as 10 minutes.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, 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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InitioGroup
InitioGroup is a Vancouver-based early stage investment fund led by Managing Director Mike Edwards. Initio’s focus is consumer internet, mobile, and solving real problems. Initio helps startups realize their potential by funding, connecting, listening and, hopefully, just the right amount of advice. Initio invests in people first, then teams, then vision, and then market. InitioGroup is actively involved in fostering the startup community at home in Vancouver, and building bridges to major hubs of innovation including Silicon Valley, New York, and Europe.
Stages: Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Communitech HYPERDRIVE
HYPERDRIVE is a tech startup accelerator program with a focus on revenue and user growth. HYPERDRIVE gives priority to four main verticals: education, advertising, finance and web-enabled hardware.
Stages: Seed
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Automotive, Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Fair Ventures
FairVentures is the innovation initiative of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., with the mandate to research, develop, partner and invest in innovative solutions to support the Fairfax family of companies. We recognize that Fairfax companies need to be on the leading edge of emerging technologies, processes and thoughts as well as their application to industry in order to stay competitive. The purpose of the FairVentures initiative is twofold: 1) to generate and develop new business ideas and 2) evaluate new technologies, opportunities and businesses that are applicable to our subsidiaries and their customers. FairVentures operates an innovation and research lab at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, Ontario; providing access to the vibrant technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Waterloo Region.
Stages: Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Martal Capital
Martal Capital is a private equity company that provides funding, corporate branding, and government leverage solutions to its clients. It was founded in 2014 by Vito Vishnepolsky and is based in Ontario.
Stages: Seed
Location: Oakville, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Flow Ventures
For over 15 years our team has helped thousands of companies raise millions of dollars in funding and leveraged the knowledge we’ve gained from each of those clients to proactively help them unlock the resources they need to grow.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking for your first round of funding or a seasoned company looking to scale, we can help.
Our extensive network of accredited investors and funding organizations combined with our team’s multidisciplinary expertise will accelerate your path to success.
Stages: Seed
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance
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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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INcubes
INcubes is a Toronto based accelerator that teams up with emerging entrepreneurs and talented startup teams to create solid businesses with innovative products and ideas. INcubes’ international network has attracted mentors and investors from across many countries including the North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. With its two flagship programs, the Funnel Program and the Acceleration Program, INcubes connects with the most forward-thinking entrepreneurs, those with goals of turning their game-changing technologies into international success stories.
Stages: Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Automotive, Finance, Incubators
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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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National Angel Capital Organization
NACO incorporated as a non-profit in 2002 to promote and help create a vibrant Angel community in Canada by providing Angel investors with a secure environment to network and learn from their peers. Since then, NACO has evolved to become the National champion of Canada’s Angel investing community, working with individuals, groups and industry partners by supporting best practices and professional development, informing policy in support of the early-stage funding ecosystem, and providing trusted intelligence on Canada’s Angel investing activity. With more than 2,000 members across the country, we are building a strong and vibrant Angel community in Canada by making meaningful connections across borders, sectors and asset classes. Our members are a diverse group of individual investors, Angel groups and other industry partners that provide support to early-stage companies. NACO accelerates a thriving, early-stage investing ecosystem in Canada by connecting individuals, groups, and other partners that support Angel-stage investing. NACO provides intelligence, tools and resources for its members; facilitates key connections across networks, borders and industries; and helps to inform policy affecting the Angel asset-class.
Stages: Seed
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Non Profit, 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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