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.

Founded in Calgary, Canada in 2016, District Ventures Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage companies within the food and beverage sectors, with a particular emphasis on health and wellness.

Service Provider Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds seed-stage technology companies across domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, robotics, information technology, health tech, and cannabis. The firm also co-invests in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, providing capital and guidance to startups in the United States, including the Midwest and Southeast regions.

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.

Portage Ventures is a Toronto-based global fintech-focused venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial technology companies with potential for global impact. Founded in 2016, the firm backs fintech and financial services startups pursuing innovations such as digital wealth management, insurance technology, and AI-enabled financial services, with a portfolio that spans Canada, the United States, and Europe.

CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

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.

Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, established in 2018 and based in London, is the venture capital investment arm of Fidelity International. The firm focuses on investing in fintech and technology companies, particularly those in the Series A-B funding stages, on a global scale. FISV aims to partner with innovative entrepreneurs who are transforming the Wealth and Asset Management landscape. By targeting category leaders that have the potential to create new markets, enhance portfolio returns, or disrupt traditional financial processes, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures plays a strategic role in advancing the fintech sector.

BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that engages across the development cycle from seed to expansion, concentrating on technology-based companies with high growth potential that can become market leaders. It supports the growth of Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services, and securitization, with a focus on small and mid-sized enterprises. Since its inception in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology, and advanced technologies, aiming to foster innovation and scale across the Canadian economy.

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.

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.

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.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the corporate venture capital arm of Fidelity International, with offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan and the United States. It manages a substantial asset base and has backed hundreds of companies across technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer technologies, including software, SaaS, enterprise tech and fintech. The firm typically makes early to growth‑stage investments, often takes minority stakes and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. With an international footprint, Eight Roads Ventures supports growth across Europe, Asia and North America, including Greater China, and collaborates with associated funds to back technology‑driven businesses.

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.

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.

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.

Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Champaign, Illinois. Founded in 2008, it invests in technology companies at early and growth stages across the United States, with select international activity, focusing on information technology, deep technology, instrumentation, devices, B2B software as a service, and agricultural technologies.

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.

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.

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.

Avrio Capital is a Calgary-based venture capital and private equity firm that supports commercialization to growth-stage companies, with a focus on food technology, advanced agriculture, industrial bioproducts, and nutraceutical ingredients. It targets Canada and North America, investing roughly CAD 1 million to CAD 10 million and reserving significant capital for follow-on rounds as portfolio companies scale. The firm seeks companies with sales of CAD 1 million to CAD 20 million and prefers to take an active role in its investments. Avrio Capital operates from Alberta, with additional offices in Ontario and Quebec, and has a track record of funding companies across the food and agriculture sectors that address health, wellness, and sustainability challenges.

CIBC Innovation Banking is a division of CIBC that serves entrepreneurs and investors in the innovation economy. Backed by CIBC, it offers financial capital, a broad network of connections, and insightful service to help growth-oriented companies and their investors secure funding, form partnerships, and scale operations. The bank's team combines capital solutions with practical guidance and access to a wide ecosystem of industry partners to support startups and venture-backed businesses through key growth stages.

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.

Lewis & Clark Ventures is a Saint Louis, Missouri-based private equity firm founded in 2014 that focuses on early-stage investments in healthcare and technology. It targets high-potential B2B software, fintech, and digital health companies and aims to be a trusted partner to entrepreneurs, providing support to help portfolio companies scale and achieve lasting impact.

Leaps by Bayer is the corporate venture capital unit of Bayer, focused on funding paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences. Based in Leverkusen, Germany, and founded in 2015, it concentrates on biotechnology, agriculture, and healthcare, making significant and sustained investments in disruptive biotechnologies with the potential to have the greatest impact on humanity.

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund is a Toronto-based early-stage venture capital firm established in 2008. It concentrates investments in Ontario across enterprise software, information technology, cleantech, deep tech, and health tech, and has partnered with more than 150 companies.

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, boundary-transcending companies. It focuses on early-stage investments across software, information technology, consumer internet, AI, health, and security, and complements capital with active mentoring and advisory support. The firm pursues global opportunities, maintains a diverse portfolio, and has backed over 120 technology companies, with around 50 exits. It was founded by Aydin Senkut, a former Google executive, and emphasizes reinvention of core markets and frontier technologies.

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.

Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, investing across North America. The firm backs founders building the future, taking early bets on talented, driven teams across sectors such as software, fintech, marketplaces, consumer products and services, education, energy, media, ecommerce, gaming, and related technology-enabled businesses. Founded in 2011, Golden Ventures focuses on seed investments in the United States and Canada and pursues opportunities across a broad range of industries, with emphasis on technology-driven platforms and early-stage companies.

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.

Real Ventures is a Montreal-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that concentrates on early-stage technology startups in Canada. It supports ambitious entrepreneurs by offering stage-specific guidance, mentorship, and access to networks and resources to accelerate growth, helping founders navigate product development, market entry, and fundraising. Through its ecosystem focus, Real Ventures aims to strengthen the Canadian startup environment by backing promising companies with global growth potential.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Renewal Funds is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm that supports early growth stage companies with a focus on sustainability in food, water, and climate. The firm targets technology investments across energy, water, mobility, the built environment, food and agriculture, and the circular economy, with particular emphasis on organics, environmental technology, and related sectors in Canada and the United States.

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.