CentreStone Ventures was a Winnipeg, Canada-based life sciences focused venture capital firm, founded in 2004, that invested in early-stage therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and new drug delivery methods.

Startup TNT is an angel investment group based in Edmonton, Canada, founded in 2019. It facilitates access to capital for early-stage technology companies by connecting local startups and entrepreneurs with angel investors, and focuses on technology startups in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Founded in 2018, Dlab is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. It focuses on investing in early-stage startups exploring new frontiers in web3, decentralization, and blockchain technology.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which offers traditional retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and related services to retail customers; and Institutional Clients Group, which delivers wholesale banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivatives, equity and fixed income research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. The firm maintains a global footprint and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility as part of its business strategy.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a large Canadian financial services company with North American operations. Headquartered in Toronto, it offers a broad range of financial solutions for individuals and businesses, including commercial banking, wealth management, personal banking, small business services, and cross-border banking. The organization also provides investment banking services through its subsidiaries, handling debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and capital markets activities. Its asset management units manage portfolios for high net worth individuals, pension plans, foundations, and institutions, and they launch mutual funds and hedge funds. The venture capital and private equity arm, CIBC Capital Partners, makes direct, fund and mezzanine investments to support growth, restructurings, and acquisitions across sectors in North America and abroad. The company emphasizes client-focused service, long-term investment in its people and communities, and strong cross-border capabilities.

Desjardins Group is a cooperative financial group based in Montreal, Canada. It provides a broad range of financial services to individuals and businesses, including consumer banking, mortgages, lending, deposit products, insurance, and wealth management. For business clients, it offers financing, cash management, trade finance, payroll and HR support, and advisory services. The group also operates through affiliated investment and capital markets entities, delivering asset management, venture capital, securities brokerage, and corporate financing services. Desjardins supports regional development and cooperative networks across Quebec and beyond, with a focus on sustainable growth and social responsibility. Its ecosystem includes Desjardins Capital, Desjardins Securities, and Desjardins Asset Management among others, enabling capital formation, investment management, and financial services across multiple sectors, from small- and medium-sized enterprises to large institutions. The company combines cooperative principles with diversified financial offerings to serve individuals, businesses, and communities.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Unpopular Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology companies. It makes active investments across a broad range of startups, supporting companies through various growth stages. Since inception it has deployed approximately 75 million dollars across roughly 500 startups, including Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir, reflecting a high level of ongoing deal activity.

Whitecap Venture Partners is a Toronto-based venture capital firm that funds early-stage technology companies in Canada and the Northeastern United States. The firm targets information and communication technology, medical technology, and food technology, and commonly provides seed and early-stage financing, with initial investments typically CAD 2-5 million and follow-on commitments up to CAD 15 million. It backs a broad range of sectors, including software, healthcare, fintech, manufacturing, and consumer technology.

BrandProject is a venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto (with a presence in New York City) that concentrates on early-stage investments in consumer products, consumer services, marketplaces, and technology companies across the United States and Canada. The firm typically acts as the first venture money in a round and is often the sole investor. It backs innovative brands in areas such as consumer goods, healthcare, leisure, retail, and technology-related sectors, supporting portfolio companies through early growth to scale.

BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that supports technology-based startups from seed through expansion. It provides financing, consulting services and securitization to help build strong Canadian businesses, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and high growth potential. Established in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and advanced technologies, aiming to help Canadian companies become dominant players in their markets.

BBQ Capital is a venture capital investment firm focused on early-stage opportunities, founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.

Acton Capital is a Munich-based venture capital firm founded in 1999 that backs growth-stage tech-enabled startups. With offices in Munich and Vancouver, it invests across Europe and North America, focusing on sectors such as fintech, SaaS, consumer health, mobility and logistics, education and the future of work, as well as broader technology-enabled business models. The firm supports a wide range of investment themes including B2B, B2C, media, retail, financial technology, health tech, AI, digital health, and climate tech. Since its inception, Acton Capital has deployed over 700 million euros across multiple funds, backing more than 199 companies and building a global portfolio. The approach combines geographic reach with sector expertise to help portfolio companies scale toward market leadership.

Round13 Capital is a Toronto-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2013. It invests in high-potential Canadian companies across sectors including vertical software, e-commerce, tech-enabled services, disruptive retail, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on supporting long-term growth. The firm leverages a team of experienced investors and operators to provide strategic and operational guidance, aiming to help portfolio companies reach their full potential and to create durable value for investors.

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2017. It operates as an early-stage investor backed by a network of over 420 Y Combinator alumni, and it seeks to back top YC startups. The firm maintains a broad sector scope, investing in consumer products and services, information technology, financial technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, life sciences, healthcare technology, real estate technology, ride-sharing, and SaaS and supply chain technologies, among others. Pioneer Fund positions itself as a generalist, technology-focused investor with activity across consumer, enterprise and emerging tech sectors.

AperiamVentures is a venture capital firm focused on the digital transformation of marketing. The team has decades of experience as founders, operators and investors. The name Aperiam is derived from Aperio, Latin for Open, reflecting a collaborative approach with the marketing ecosystem on behalf of its portfolio.

Mu Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2022 that invests in early-stage startups developing software and platforms aimed at reducing friction in commercial transactions. The firm focuses on commerce enablement, retail technology, vertical AI, supply chain, payments, marketplaces, and related infrastructure, including vertical SaaS and payments infrastructure. By backing pre-seed and seed-stage companies, Mu Ventures supports ventures that streamline transactions and improve buyer and seller experiences across commerce ecosystems.

Boost VC is a San Mateo-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in deep technology startups. Founded in 2012 by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, the firm backs hardware and software companies across aerospace, robotics, bio/health, AI, crypto, VR/AR, energy and climate, defense, oceans, and materials. It typically participates in pre-seed rounds and has a track record of leading early rounds, targeting rapid initial funding to help startups establish product-market fit. The firm emphasizes transformative technologies and long-term impact, supporting companies from inception through initial growth stages.

DVC is a collective of specialized syndicates that invest in companies from pre‑seed to pre‑IPO. Its investment team comprises founders and operators from diverse backgrounds.

InvestEco Capital is a Canada-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2002 that targets investments in the food and agriculture sector across North America. The firm concentrates on companies that promote health, sustainability, and environmental outcomes, with an emphasis on sustainable food and agriculture. Based in Toronto, it has built significant expertise in this sector and has invested in a range of food and agriculture brands across North America. Its investment approach supports growth in companies developing sustainable farming, processing, distribution, and related technologies, aligning financial returns with environmental and health objectives.

Versant Ventures is a healthcare-focused venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in San Francisco, with offices in Canada, the United States and Europe. The firm invests across the healthcare sector at all stages, with an emphasis on discovery and development of novel therapeutics, and portfolios spanning biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare devices and healthtech. Versant combines deep investment, operating and scientific expertise to support entrepreneurs through hands-on company building. It has backed more than 65 portfolio companies that have achieved acquisitions or IPOs.

Sand Hill Angels is a Mountain View, California-based angel investor network in Silicon Valley founded in 2000. The group comprises around 60+ technology professionals who collaborate to form and grow startup companies by investing in private technology firms at early stages. Its members focus on technology sectors including clean technology, Internet, information sciences, and life sciences, with activity in areas such as semiconductors, enterprise software, storage, and communications, as well as medical devices, diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Sand Hill Angels typically invest in seed and Series A rounds, and occasionally later-stage bridges, often committing $300K to $500K at a pre-money valuation under $5 million. The network works openly with venture capital funds and other angel groups to support the Bay Area ecosystem.

NJF Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, based in London. Founded in 2015, it invests in healthcare, deep tech, fintech, and technology companies. Backed by founder Nicole Junkermann's track record as an entrepreneur and investor, the firm leverages her business, entrepreneurial, and government networks to support portfolio companies on their growth journey. It provides strategic and operational support across disciplines such as brand building, recruitment, and administrative, legal, and regulatory matters to help accelerate scale.

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. Based in Toronto, with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and London, it invests in technology companies across North America and Europe, spanning seed to growth stages. The firm's focus includes software, fintech, consumer technology, deep tech, infrastructure software, and telecommunications, and it often leads or co-leads investments and seeks board participation to support portfolio companies. Established in 2011, OMERS Ventures operates as an institutional investor in technology ventures, backing founders with ambitious visions and providing long-term strategic support aligned with its pension fund sponsor.

Alliance Consumer Growth is a New York-based private equity firm focusing on growth and expansion investments in consumer brands across the United States. With an office in Los Angeles, it backs food and beverage, personal care, beauty, pet care, restaurants, apparel and related consumer sectors by providing growth capital and a value-added partnership designed to accelerate brand development, distribution and scale. The firm seeks to collaborate with promising consumer goods, retail and leisure brands, offering strategic guidance and operational support to help them expand market reach and performance.

Pareto Holdings is a venture capital firm and venture studio founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York. It focuses on early-stage and pre-seed investments across industries and geographies, often backing entrepreneurs at the outset. The company invests its own capital rather than raising external funds and operates with a lean, globally distributed team. It has completed hundreds of investments to date, and provides hands-on support to startups through its venture studio activities.

XPV Water Partners is a Toronto-based impact investment firm founded in 2006 that targets investments in water-related companies and utility enterprises. Its team comprises water entrepreneurs, operators, and investment professionals committed to generating environmental and social impact alongside financial returns. The firm operates globally, seeking opportunities across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and focuses on growth and expansion within the water sector.

Auxly Cannabis Group is a consumer packaged goods company in the cannabis products market, with a portfolio of brands designed for a broad range of cannabis consumers. Its product lineup includes dried cannabis, fresh cannabis, cannabis plants and seeds, cannabis oil, edibles, extracts, and topicals, marketed under brands such as Parcel, Black Forty, Foray, Dosecann, and Kolab Project. The company operates through two main segments: Canadian cannabis operations and South American operations, focusing on product development, branding, and distribution across price points to reach diverse consumer segments.

SightLine Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Bloomington, Minnesota, with an additional office in Palo Alto. It specializes in late‑stage and growth investments in the United States healthcare sector, including medical technology, medical devices, diagnostics, biotechnology, and healthcare services. The firm favors later‑stage opportunities and expansion transactions, investing primarily through preferred stock and operating as an SBIC. It targets therapeutic areas such as vascular diseases, diabetes, spine, stroke prevention and pulmonary disease, as well as nervous system and immune disorders, cardiovascular care, orthopedics, home healthcare, oncology, and infectious diseases. SightLine Partners also backs healthcare providers, including senior care, specialty facilities, ancillary and home care services. Typical commitments range from roughly $2 million to $8 million, with an exit horizon around five years. The firm is a registered investment adviser and focuses on U.S.-based companies rather than startups.

Zetta Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 that concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in enterprise software, with a particular focus on analytics and artificial intelligence. Headquartered in San Francisco and with a Utah presence, the firm pursues opportunities across North America and Western Europe, aiming to back roughly twenty analytics- and AI-driven startups. Typical initial investments range from 0.5 to 2 million USD, with follow-on capital available as companies grow. By combining domain expertise in analytics with an extensive network of operators and investors, Zetta supports portfolio companies in scaling, product development, and market capture within AI-native and business-to-business software sectors.

Sageview Capital is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California and Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2005, the firm focuses on growth and expansion investments in small and mid-sized companies across technology, financial services, and business services. Sageview emphasizes active ownership, board participation, and flexible capital structures to support growth, acquisitions, and strategic initiatives. The firm partners with management teams to drive value through operational improvements, add-on acquisitions, and capital efficiency, investing in both private and public companies in North America and Europe. Sageview collaborates with portfolio companies in sectors including enterprise software, fintech and IT-enabled services, aiming to hold investments for several years and tailor solutions to each situation.

Felicis Ventures is a Menlo Park, California based venture capital firm that backs founders building iconic companies and supports them with mentoring and advisory services in addition to capital. It concentrates on early-stage investments across sectors such as software, AI, health, security, consumer internet and frontier technologies, and pursues opportunities from seed to Series C. The firm seeks to reinvent core markets and often engages with portfolio companies globally, reflecting a diverse, international footprint. Founded by Aydin Senkut, Felicis Ventures has backed numerous technology companies since 2006.

Golden Ventures is a Toronto-based seed-stage venture capital firm established in 2011 that funds early-stage technology companies across North America. It supports founders by providing capital and guidance to help them scale, with emphasis on backing ambitious teams across sectors such as software, fintech, marketplaces, consumer products, education, and related fields.

Founder Collective is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs who have built and exited technology companies. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York, the firm makes early investments across the United States and globally. It is industry-agnostic but prefers ventures with an information technology component, including software and TMT-enabled businesses. The firm focuses on supporting founders at the seed and early stages, drawing on the experience of its partners who have firsthand startup experience.

Westcap is a Saskatoon-based private equity and venture capital firm that pursues early-stage, growth, and management buyout investments in small and mid-sized Canadian companies, with a focus on Western Canada. It targets opportunities in agriculture, healthcare, hospitality, infrastructure, resources, innovation, and technology, including First Nations sectors, typically evaluating enterprises valued at about 25 to 75 million. The firm combines strategic, operational, and financial support to help portfolio companies scale and manage succession, and maintains an international presence with an office in Hong Kong to support cross-border activity.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

Mindset Venture Group is a private boutique venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, that invests in seed to Series A rounds for early-stage technology and consumer businesses in Canada and the United States. The firm targets B2B, B2C and D2C sectors including SaaS, fintech, healthtech, food and beverage, health and wellness, and other consumer products and services. It typically backs companies with valuations up to about 15 million USD and provides investments in the range of 0.1 to 0.5 million USD, often alongside a lead investor. Mindset aims to partner with high-growth startups capable of scaling quickly and pursuing exits within several years, leveraging its regional focus and network to support growth and strategic value.

Two Small Fish Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2014. It supports founders across seed, early, and later stages in Canada and the United States, with a focus on artificial intelligence, blockchain, consumer, enterprise, and technology sectors. The firm emphasizes hands-on investing from engineers and experienced operators, leveraging the partners’ track records as serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits to help the next generation of founders. The firm aims to recycle experience, knowledge, and capital gathered from previous ventures to back ambitious startups.

The Vertical Group is a private equity and venture capital firm based in New Jersey, established in 1988, that specializes in medical technology, medical devices and biotechnology within the life sciences sector. It provides equity financing across stages from early stage to growth and buyouts, with offices in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey and San Mateo, California, and focuses on companies developing medical technology, instruments, and related life sciences innovations in the United States.

BOM is an investment organization that backs innovative start-ups and growth companies, aiming to drive economic growth, create jobs, and address social challenges; it leverages its expertise, resources, and network to develop and finance renewable energy projects.

Navus Ventures is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, focused on high-tech and sustainable start-ups and scale-ups with emphasis on transitions in food and energy. It operates as an independent family-office backed investor, not tied to the Lely family business strategy, and typically invests across seed to growth stages in the Netherlands, in sectors such as sustainable food, software, hardware, energy technology, and related areas like food and agriculture, mobility and waste. Navus takes an active, hands-on approach as a shareholder, aiming for quick decisions and long holding periods, and provides strategic and operational support with short lines of communication to portfolio management. It seeks board representation in portfolio companies and emphasizes transparency and honesty in relationships with start-ups and co-investors.

StartGreen Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, focusing on cleantech and sustainable energy. It invests in seed, early-stage and expansion companies, as well as project finance in debt and equity, with a preference for Dutch ventures. Typical investments range from €0.1 million to €1.5 million and aim for a four to six year horizon. The firm provides more than capital, drawing on market knowledge, a broad network and entrepreneurial guidance to support portfolio companies after investment. It offers flexible financial products, including loans and access to crowdfunding, and seeks to integrate financing with hands-on support to help entrepreneurs commercialize innovative technologies in areas such as generation, storage, distribution, water technologies and purification. StartGreen Capital pursues impact alongside profitability and positions itself as a leading specialist in the Dutch clean-tech scene.

Itochu is a leading Japanese general trading company established in 1858 by Chubei Itoh. As a sogo shosha, it conducts domestic and international trading across sectors including textiles, machinery, chemicals, metals, energy, food, and general merchandise, and engages in related services such as insurance, finance, construction, real estate, and warehousing. The group maintains a broad global footprint with offices in more than 80 countries and operates across investment and business ventures to support its trading activities. Through its information technology and other business units, Itochu also sponsors strategic ventures and partnerships, leveraging its extensive network to create value across industries. The company emphasizes diversified operations, long-term relationships with suppliers and customers, and growth across traditional trade, consumer products, and energy-related sectors.

Foundation Equity Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies, including those in emerging technologies. Founded in 1991 and based in Saint Albert, Canada, the firm has historically supported technology ventures by providing capital and strategic guidance to early- and growth-stage companies.