BDC is a government-owned financial institution in Canada that supports small and medium-sized enterprises with financing, consulting, and investment services. It provides business loans, working capital, equipment and real estate financing, asset-backed and syndicated financing, subordinate financing, and growth investments through its investment arm. It also offers strategic planning, human resource management, and international expansion assistance. Operating nationwide with offices in both official languages, BDC focuses on helping SMEs grow, innovate, and create jobs across industries.

Lyra Growth Partners is a Vancouver-based investment firm that partners with founders building consumer brands. The firm provides capital and brand-focused coaching to accelerate growth and maximize value for emerging, fast-growing companies in sectors such as personal care, food & beverage, lifestyle, and beauty, including health and wellness and plant-based products. It targets non-institutional capital and offers hands-on guidance to strengthen a brand's relationship with consumers, digital presence, and organizational development. Led by founder Charles Chang, the team brings founder-led expertise and emphasizes values alignment and flexible, collaborative partnerships. Lyra supports ventures through the growth spectrum, helping brands scale while maintaining culture and long-term value creation.

TenX Ventures is a Vancouver, Canada-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests in technology-driven companies across robotics, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, software as a service, space, and cannabis. It supports entrepreneurs at the point where grit and proof translate into breakthrough innovations through its funding and guidance.

Yaletown Partners is a Canadian venture capital firm based in Vancouver that invests in software, data, and device technologies across Canada, spanning seed to growth stages. The firm backs companies that digitally transform traditional industries, improve productivity, and advance sustainability and climate-related goals. With an experienced team and a broad network, Yaletown supports portfolio companies through multiple stages and co-investments, helping them scale operations and accelerate growth. The firm maintains offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto to collaborate with regional ecosystems.

InBC Investment is a strategic investment firm based in British Columbia that provides local capital to growing private companies and investment funds in the province. It targets opportunities that support innovation, climate action, social wellbeing, and reconciliation, with the aim of delivering positive economic, environmental, and social impact. The firm typically collaborates with other investors to mobilize capital and engages with communities across BC to support growth, commercialization of research, and capacity-building initiatives that strengthen the province’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Sustainable Development Technology Canada is an independent, government-funded organization that funds Canadian cleantech projects and coaches the companies that lead these projects to market. It supports cleantech initiatives by creating jobs, enabling growth and exports for Canadian firms, and delivering environmental, economic and health benefits to Canadians. The organization operates at arm's length and builds networks with private industry, academia and governments at home and abroad to advance clean technology deployment within Canada.

The E-Fund, also known as VANTEC Entrepreneurs Fund VCC Inc., was established in 2011 to support promising new ventures in British Columbia across various industry sectors. The fund emphasizes co-investing alongside other angel investors and early-stage venture capital firms, targeting seed-stage companies with significant growth potential. By incorporating specific investors into the due diligence process based on their industry expertise and technical knowledge, the E-Fund aims to leverage collective insights and foster informed investment decisions. Ultimately, the organization aspires to be recognized as a key resource for active and comprehensive angel investing.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, that backs deep-tech startups across seed to growth stages with emphasis on human and planetary health. It provides founders with labs, offices, expert teams, mentorship, investor networks, and accelerator-style programs to accelerate product development, testing, commercialization, and fundraising. SOSV operates three deep-tech facilities, including SOSV SF & NY (IndieBio) and HAX in Newark, and supports a portfolio of more than 800 companies across 58 countries. The firm has a broad global footprint with offices in San Francisco, New York, Newark, and Princeton, has raised over 7.5 billion for its portfolio, and makes approximately 60 pre-seed investments annually alongside many follow-on rounds. It seeks co-investors and limited partners to join its network, and pursues cross-border opportunities, notably in Asia, to accelerate growth and fundraising for its startups.

Version One Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded in 2012. It backs mission-driven founders in the early stages and invests in consumer internet, software as a service, and mobile companies across North America, seeking transformative technology across sectors. The firm supports founders from the ground up and has a portfolio featuring Ada, Coinbase, Headout, Jobber, Shippo, and Uniswap.

Active Impact Investments is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm and Certified B Corp that backs early-stage climate tech companies across sectors such as clean energy and transportation, infrastructure and carbon solutions, sustainable food and water, and the circular and sharing economy. The firm emphasizes a founder-first approach, providing capital plus operational support including sales, talent, and fundraising to help portfolio companies achieve venture-scale growth and profitability. It manages three funds (Fund I, II, and III) with over $140M in assets under management and leverages a global network of operators and investors to support entrepreneurs and foster measurable environmental impact alongside financial returns.

Sand Hill North is a Montreal-based family office and venture investor that supports early-stage B2B software startups in the United States and Canada. It targets pre-seed and seed rounds, with a focus on AI for robotics, EnergyTech, space, and developer tools, and avoids consumer-oriented ventures and hardware-heavy businesses. In addition to funding, the firm provides strategic guidance and access to a collaborative network, and it actively seeks to acquire purpose-driven software companies with revenues between $500,000 and $5 million. The company is headquartered in Montreal, with operations in Toronto and Vancouver.

Serafund is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2021. It focuses on backing digital technology companies from pre-seed to Series A, with emphasis on blockchain and Web3 ecosystems including Layer 1 networks, DeFi, metaverse, and gaming. The firm leverages its team's technology and finance expertise to provide strategic investments and hands-on guidance that help portfolio companies scale and navigate rapid market changes. Its investments span blockchain projects, gaming ventures, and other digital platforms, reflecting a commitment to supporting innovative ventures at the forefront of the digital landscape.

Rhino Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Vancouver, Canada. The firm seeks to back early-stage and growth companies across sectors including B2C, B2B, information technology, fintech, edtech, software-as-a-service, femtech, gaming, cybersecurity and e-commerce. It emphasizes strategic capital that extends the founding team’s capacity and aims to add tangible value beyond capital. The approach prioritizes alignment between investors and founders, investing in people whose trust and values fit with the firm. Rhino Ventures supports startups through multiple stages—from startup to growth to exit—focusing on entrepreneurship as the driver of value rather than capital providers alone.

Renewal Funds is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 1994 that invests in early growth stage companies with a focus on sustainability, including food, water, energy and climate technologies. It targets opportunities in Canada and the United States and backs portfolio companies across organic foods and agriculture, environmental technology, the circular economy, and green products, with an emphasis on impact investing and sustainable development in West Coast markets through capital and strategic guidance.

Nimbus Synergies is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, focused on Canadian early-stage health technology companies. It positions itself as an investor, partner, and mentor to digital health startups, helping them accelerate growth through shared resources, industry knowledge, and strategic relationships. Nimbus backs companies at the intersection of life sciences and technology and leverages connections with Discovery Parks to support health innovations in British Columbia. Founded in 2017, the firm operates from West Vancouver and frames its work around improving health outcomes, efficiency, and access to care through technology-driven solutions.

Pallasite Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage financing to high-growth technology and consumer-product companies. It targets Seed and Series A rounds, typically investing between 100,000 and 1.5 million USD, and has backed more than 60 portfolio companies with total investments around 50 million USD. The firm supports a range of industries including biotech, consumer products, fintech, and SaaS, focusing on cash flow–positive companies seeking scalable growth. With a footprint that includes Vancouver, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Chicago, and Toronto, it emphasizes agile communication, streamlined decision-making, and flexible funding timelines to serve as a reliable partner for long-term growth, providing strategic resources and guidance to portfolio companies.

Pangaea Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm focused on hard-tech, advanced materials, and related science-driven sectors such as energy, electronics, health, chemistry, and biology. It invests across incubation to growth stages, often taking significant minority stakes with board representation and seeking to lead rounds, while co-investing when appropriate. The firm emphasizes strategic value beyond capital, offering global connections and support to portfolio companies, and aligning investments with impact goals and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Typical check sizes range from CAD 0.5 million to CAD 10 million, and its portfolio spans North America, Europe, and other regions, supported by a global network including the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Lumira Ventures is a North American life sciences-focused venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, Boston, Montreal and Vancouver. It invests in biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, digital health and consumer health companies across Canada and the United States, supporting early to late-stage ventures. The firm partners with management teams to build innovative companies addressing significant unmet medical needs, aiming to maximize technology value through financings and active board participation. It assists portfolio companies in accessing capital, strategic partners and market channels to accelerate development and commercialization. With a portfolio of numerous active investee companies, Lumira Ventures draws on deep sector expertise to help companies advance therapies, diagnostics, devices and digital health solutions.

Victory Square Technologies is a Vancouver-based technology accelerator and venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups in digital health, Web3, gaming, the creator economy, NFTs, and the metaverse. It provides investment access to a diversified portfolio of tech companies and emphasizes transparent, liquid opportunities for investors. The firm combines funding with mentorship and community engagement to help portfolio companies grow and aims to generate liquidity events through strategic partnerships and value creation across its global footprint.

Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in technology and TMT companies across North America and Asia. It targets early, mid, and late-stage opportunities (not seed) and focuses on sectors such as enterprise software, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, infrastructure software, digital media, and hard tech. The firm looks for companies with revenue traction and product-market fit, often post-revenue with growing user bases, and typically commits between CAD 1 million and CAD 13 million per investment. Vanedge emphasizes operational expertise and a broad network to help portfolio companies scale and access follow-on financing, leveraging its Vancouver base with international reach, including Asia.

GrowthWorks Capital is a Canadian venture capital firm based in Vancouver and founded in 1992. It specializes in the management of regionally based venture capital funds across Canada, investing in technology, cleantech and healthcare companies at various growth stages, including late-stage funding. The firm operates sector-focused teams that identify and structure investments and provides strategic management support and industry connections to help portfolio companies grow, aiming to deliver value to investors through diversified, risk-managed bets.

SEMCAP is a growth equity platform that provides capital and strategic support to companies shaping AI, beauty and wellness, food and nutrition, healthcare, and related sectors. With decades of technology investment experience, SEMCAP partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate growth through capital, sector knowledge, and access to a broad network of operators and advisors. The firm backs early and growth-stage companies across healthcare, education, and consumer sectors, including digital and virtual care and data-driven solutions focused on sustainable and healthy options. SEMCAP operates globally from headquarters in Wayne, Pennsylvania, with offices in Vancouver and Kuwait, aiming to capitalize on transformative trends and create enduring value through hands-on collaboration and operational expertise.

Morningside Group is a Boston-area venture capital firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes long-term investments in companies applying novel science and technology, with expertise in life sciences, digital health, AI, materials, and technology, and a commitment to ethical business practices. The firm supports education, research, and healthcare through charitable initiatives with partners including Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

Evok Innovations is a climate-focused venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2016. It invests in hard-tech solutions for heavy industry across North America, with focus areas including energy, mining and minerals, industrial optimization, and adaptation and resilience. Beyond capital, Evok provides technical expertise, real-world operating experience, and access to a network of strategic partners to help portfolio companies bridge innovation to market adoption, accelerate commercialization, and scale toward exit. It offers hands-on support, mentoring, and guidance on fundraising, operations, and people to act as an extension of management teams, enabling entrepreneurs to develop transformative technologies that redefine industries.

Acton Capital is a Munich-based venture capital firm that backs technology-enabled businesses across Europe and North America. Founded in 1999, the firm focuses on growth-stage and early growth rounds, typically investing in the €5–€10 million range for Series A and beyond, and supports companies through multiple fund generations. The portfolio spans sectors including SaaS, fintech, health tech, marketplaces, consumer goods, mobility and education. With more than two decades of experience, Acton Capital has invested over €700 million in nearly 200 companies and maintains a presence in Munich and Vancouver, reflecting its Europe–North America orientation. The firm seeks scalable, long-lasting businesses capable of market leadership.

Vistara Growth is a North American growth capital firm focused on technology companies, providing flexible growth debt and growth equity solutions to mid-to-late stage software and tech-enabled services firms. Founded in 2015 and based in Vancouver with a Toronto office, the company pursues minority positions and typically invests about 4 to 25 million per company, with potential co-investment, structuring packages as debt, equity, or combinations tailored to the growth cycle. It supports expansion financing, bridge funding to the next round or exit, and refinancing, enabling portfolio companies to scale in Canada and the U.S. West Coast and beyond, and emphasizes experienced leadership, partnerships, and long-term value creation for its clients.

7 Gate Ventures is a Vancouver-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in seed to pre-Series A startups in the technology sector. The firm focuses on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps, big data/analytics, blockchain, FinTech and HealthTech, with a preference for enterprise software, marketplaces, and healthcare technology. Founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs, the team brings operational and venture-capital experience, offering strategic guidance, mentorship, and international connections to help technical founders scale. The group maintains a cross-border presence in Canada and the United States, supporting portfolio companies through early growth and product-market fit toward scalable, high-impact businesses.

Breakthrough Energy is a global platform dedicated to accelerating innovation in clean energy to address climate change and meet the world’s growing energy demand. Established in 2016 and based in Kirkland, Washington, the organization invests in and partners with companies across manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings to develop and deploy breakthrough technologies such as carbon removal, sustainable materials production, green hydrogen, and advanced energy storage, with the goal of providing affordable and reliable energy while minimizing environmental impact. It promotes a public-private approach to mobilize governments, research institutions, engineers, and investors, and supports minority investments across seed to later stages through venture activities managed by an executive team.

Mindset Venture Group is a private venture capital firm headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, focused on early-stage investments in technology and consumer sectors, including SaaS, fintech, healthtech, and consumer products and services. The firm targets companies in Canada and the United States raising Seed or Series A rounds with valuations up to 15 million USD. Typical investment sizes range from 100,000 to 500,000 USD, and the firm often co-invests alongside a lead investor. Mindset aims to add value through financial structuring, strategic guidance, and leveraging its network, supporting both B2B and B2C businesses across software, subscription services, and consumer brands, with an emphasis on scalable growth and exits.

Discovery Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 and based in British Columbia, Canada, focused on investing in early and growth‑stage information technology, communications, health and life sciences, environmental and energy technologies, and related hardware and software companies. The firm predominantly targets British Columbia–based companies and provides capital for follow‑on investments, seeking exits through initial public offerings or sales of portfolio companies. It tends to invest in firms with comparatively small workforces at the outset, often under 100 employees, and supports growth that enables export of goods or services outside British Columbia.

LOI Venture is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2021. It concentrates on early-stage investments within Canada and seeks opportunities in seed and pre-seed rounds, often engaging founders early in their development. The firm operates an ecosystem for aspiring entrepreneurs, including programs, mentorship, and events designed to support young founders and early-stage startups through LOI Labs and related initiatives. In addition to funding, LOI Venture focuses on community and knowledge sharing, highlighting startup insights and industry perspectives. By combining capital with mentorship and hands-on resources, LOI Venture aims to accelerate growth for Canadian startups at the outset of their journeys.

Relentless Pursuit Partners is a venture firm investing in early-stage health technology that aims to prevent illness and enhance longevity. It focuses on commercializing technologies, products, and services that improve access to care and the overall health continuum, supporting clinical research and tools that manage risk factors and treat chronic conditions. The firm emphasizes productive longevity, seeking to extend both life and vitality, and targets health risks across life stages—from prevention to disease management—with an emphasis on measurable outcomes. It also supports initiatives addressing social isolation among seniors, highlighting empathy and connection as essential to well-being. The investment approach reflects discipline and teamwork, drawing parallels with competitive sports, and seeks to reduce the incidence of chronic diseases by expanding access to treatment and education, including efforts around diabetes awareness and research and the pursuit of a Type 1 diabetes cure.

Badhouse Ventures is a Vancouver-based nano-VC firm that backs early-stage, data-driven software startups in Western Canada. It typically writes first checks up to 100,000 CAD to teams with a beta or prototype product, enabling founders to focus on product development and hiring. Beyond funding, the firm provides hands-on mentorship, operational support, strategic guidance, and introductions through a network of former startup founders and operators, together with access to partner perks such as more than 40,000 CAD in cloud infrastructure credits. The firm concentrates on pre-seed opportunities within the themes of smarter communities and smarter data systems, including areas like SaaS, AI, web3, and information security. Investment activity emphasizes long-term partnerships, aiming for roughly one investment per year, and focuses on startups across Western Canada, with Vancouver as a home base and a preference for opportunities near its region.

TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good is a corporate venture capital firm and impact fund backed by TELUS, based in Vancouver, Canada. It invests in for-profit startups addressing social innovation across health, education, sustainable agriculture and food systems, climate, environment, and employment. The firm supports entrepreneurs with capital and resources to scale innovative solutions, aiming to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through technology for good and TELUS’ commitment to meaningful social change.

Segra International is a plant biotechnology company focused on cannabis plant tissue culture and genomics. It provides industrial-scale micropropagation, production of DNA-fingerprinted cannabis plantlets, and molecular lab services to licensed producers worldwide, along with cultivar library management and related IP development to improve genetic quality and consistency. Based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, the company was founded in 2014.

Zynik Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Vancouver, Canada. It focuses on investments in industrial sectors including automotive, construction, mining, oil and gas, and aerospace, as well as related services. The firm seeks opportunities in underperforming assets and markets, and pursues strategies such as turnarounds, buyouts, leveraged finance, and venture capital startups, supported by a global perspective and local insight to identify value and generate returns through a professional, responsive approach.

KORE Mining is a Canadian-based precious metals exploration and development company focused on gold assets in North America. It owns 100% interests in the Imperial Gold Project and the Long Valley project in California, USA, both planned for open-pit heap-leach development, with Imperial advancing toward mine permitting and exploration ongoing in the Mesquite–Imperial–Picacho district. In addition, KORE holds exploration projects in British Columbia, including FG Gold and Gold Creek in the Cariboo region, which together offer multi-million-ounce development potential. The portfolio emphasizes near-surface deposits with low technical risk and expandable upside through high-grade targets, reflecting a strategy to advance economically robust gold opportunities while pursuing responsible environmental practices.

Matrix Asset Management is a wealth management company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, offering services to both individual and institutional investors throughout Canada. Established in 1998, the company operates through three divisions: GrowthWorks Capital Ltd, a venture capital firm; Matrix Funds Management Inc; and SEAMARK Asset Management Ltd. Each division specializes in different aspects of asset management, providing a comprehensive range of investment solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of its clients.

MAD Ventures is a Victoria, Canada–based incubator and management firm that concentrates on healthcare and technology startups. It provides capital and strategic guidance to early‑stage companies through an online incubation model called I-cubation, allowing remote development without relocation. The firm integrates research and development, venture capital, and business development while leveraging global connections, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, to broaden opportunities for Canadian ventures. It engages with industry partners and participates in events to foster strategic collaborations, as illustrated by collaborations with KPMG. MAD Ventures focuses on high‑tech incubation, using internet technology to accelerate growth and minimize disruption for emerging innovators.

AVAC is a Canada-based venture capital firm established in 1997 and based in Calgary, Alberta, that targets early-stage opportunities in agricultural technology, clean tech, and life sciences. The firm pursues direct investments as well as fund-of-funds strategies, focusing on pre-commercial to seed-stage and growth ventures, with a preference for agrivalue companies, medical devices, agriculture research, and life science products. In information and communications technology it covers areas such as animal health, crop genetics, biomass, big data, precision farming, and smart farming applications, while in life sciences it backs new or enhanced foods, nutraceuticals, therapeutics, devices, and health-related products. AVAC typically invests modest amounts and seeks active board participation, sometimes pursuing royalties in pre-commercial deals, and it has historically operated with emphasis on opportunities in Alberta and the western Canada ecosystem. The firm may also provide grants to public research and not-for-profit entities supporting agrivalue innovation.

Spirit Blockchain Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that invests in financial services, blockchain and artificial intelligence. The firm operates at the intersection of traditional capital markets and Web3, aiming to support next-generation Web3 solutions and digital assets, including DeFi infrastructure and tokenization. Led by a team with extensive capital markets and blockchain experience, it pursues global investment opportunities and seeks to advance institutional adoption of digital finance through initiatives such as SpiritLinQ.

Little Green Bamboo Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that backs early-stage science and technology startups. It concentrates on life science and material science opportunities, including healthcare-related fields such as FemTech, and on opportunistic and synergistic software-as-a-service ventures, while pursuing collaborative, long-term partnerships with founders and often co-investing with non-profit and academic institutions to nurture new technologies.

Planet Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 1996 that provides early to growth-stage funding across a broad portfolio, including natural resources and mining (precious metals, uranium, coal, base metals, potash, lithium and rare earths), energy, technology, artificial intelligence, and disruptive blockchain ventures. The firm also backs esports, sports betting and related platforms, and actively seeks opportunities in space economy initiatives, such as aerospace, satellite infrastructure and autonomous space systems. Planet Ventures emphasizes value creation through hands-on involvement, commonly participating at the board or advisory level to help portfolio companies scale. It leverages a wide network of industry insiders to identify promising projects, including blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives, and it pursues opportunities in private and public markets. With a multi-disciplinary focus and international reach, the firm aims to generate substantial value by supporting innovative companies that disrupt established industries and create new markets.

Caerus Capital Partners is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm focused on investing in emerging technologies, health sciences, and energy metals. The firm emphasizes ethical allocation of capital to drive transformational change and leverages its network to support ventures at the intersection of these sectors. Targeted areas include advanced technologies such as IoT, artificial intelligence, AR/VR/MR, and clean tech; health sciences covering healthcare, biotechnology, plant medicines, food systems, and nootropics; and energy metals involving copper, graphite/graphene, lithium, cobalt, manganese, vanadium, rare earth metals, metals recycling, and efficient extraction technologies. By combining financial and tech-executive expertise, Caerus Capital Partners seeks to back ventures that advance real-world applications and sustainable value creation, with operations centered in Vancouver.

Pender Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm that backs health technology and business-to-business software companies. It focuses on data-centric startups at the point of commercialization and scale, with a dedicated health tech line emphasizing interoperability, user experience, and data-driven decision-making across the healthcare value chain. The firm pursues hands-on, high-conviction partnerships with founders and provides company-building support, including recruiting, business development, fundraising and product strategy, while taking active board roles. While rooted in the Canadian innovation ecosystem, it invests across North America and combines decades of startup and investing experience with a platform that emphasizes people and culture, ESG integration, and exit planning.

Hex Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm established in 2017 that concentrates on early-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The firm employs a data-driven approach to back founders building durable ventures that use blockchain to enable decentralized governance, an open immutable ledger, and peer-to-peer value exchange, with the aim of expanding democratic participation and power. Its portfolio includes notable crypto infrastructure and application projects such as Kraken, Dapper Labs, Maker Protocol (Dai), Nervos CKB, 0x, DFX, and Vault12. Hex Capital supports portfolio companies from early stages through development, focusing on transformative technologies across the crypto landscape.

Sublime Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm focused on web3, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. It invests early in disruptive technology projects and provides strategic capital through its network and web3 advisory services to help portfolio companies scale. The firm collaborates with leading institutional VCs and co-invests with premier web3 partners to advance opportunities in the crypto and broader blockchain ecosystem. By combining hands-on support with a broad ecosystem, Sublime Ventures aims to accelerate the adoption of web3 technologies while backing innovative projects in Canada and beyond.

Expa is a startup studio and venture builder founded in 2013 by Uber co‑founder Garrett Camp. Based in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and São Paulo, the company partners with entrepreneurs to identify the next big idea and build new companies from the ground up. It provides product strategy, system design, and user experience, helps early‑stage ventures avoid common pitfalls, and forms independent teams around scalable business models. Leveraging a network of experienced founders who have led or created major tech companies, Expa supports founders through development, launching and growth phases, aiming to turn innovative concepts into operational companies. The organization combines hands‑on studio work with access to capital and mentorship, focusing on technology‑driven opportunities across multiple sectors.

Sixty Degree Capital is a venture capital firm with a North American base and international offices that backs companies across software, digital infrastructure, healthcare, biotech and related technology sectors. The firm pursues opportunities from pre-seed to growth, employing a thesis-driven approach that combines technical expertise, industry knowledge, and operational support to accelerate growth. It operates with offices in Vancouver, San Francisco, Hong Kong, London and Toronto and focuses on high-potential companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital health, drug development, diagnostics, medical devices and healthcare platforms. It allocates capital to support more than sixty portfolio companies and highlights progress through products entering clinical trials and real-world impact, aiming for purposeful innovation, transparency and rigorous execution across North America and beyond.

Founded in 2005, Bellingham Angel Investors is an angel investor group of up to 50 accredited investors seeking opportunities in early- to middle-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, with a focus on Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties. The network provides capital and strategic guidance to portfolio companies, prioritizing ventures with strong management, differentiated products or services, existing revenue, and a credible exit plan. Although technology and healthcare opportunities are commonly pursued, the group remains open to innovative opportunities across the region.