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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Angel Investment 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 | ||
Azimuth Capital Management | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America | ||
Allied Venture Partners | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Angel Investment 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 Angel Investment 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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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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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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