Innovacorp is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It supports knowledge-based startups by providing venture capital alongside mentoring and incubation facilities to help commercialize technologies for global markets. Established in 1995, the organization focuses on helping Nova Scotia entrepreneurs access capital, guidance, and resources to bring innovations to market.
Concrete Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded in 2019, that provides early-stage investment and hands-on support to Canadian software and internet startups, with a focus on Atlantic Canada. The firm aims to be a value-add partner for founders, offering operational guidance, strategic resources, and a founder-centric approach to help portfolio companies grow.
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.
Build Ventures is a Halifax-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology companies in Atlantic Canada. The firm prefers to invest after seed rounds, providing initial commitments typically in the CAD 0.5 to 2 million range, with total investments up to about CAD 5 million, and focuses on information technology, clean technology, and life sciences sectors. It backs startups that have begun to assemble a strong team, developed a product addressing a meaningful problem, and operate in or target large markets. With deep operational and investment experience, Build Ventures supports founders as they build and scale technology companies across Atlantic Canada.
Sandpiper Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Halifax, Canada, founded in 2020, that focuses on investing in women-led technology companies and aims to support women investors and founders in the venture capital ecosystem.
Numus Financial is a venture capital firm based in Halifax, Canada, investing in early-stage, high-growth companies across technology, biotechnology, energy and natural resources, clean technology, software-as-a-service, and healthcare. The firm focuses on North American opportunities, with particular emphasis on Canadian companies.
Venture Grade is a venture capital firm based in Halifax, Canada, founded in 2017. The firm operates as a generalist, early-stage evergreen fund and maintains a sidecar relationship with Invest Nova Scotia.
Tidal Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Halifax, Canada, specializing in early-stage investments at the pre-seed to seed stages within the Atlantic Canada region, supporting the emerging startup ecosystem there.
Established in 2001, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a Canadian organization that funds and supports innovative cleantech projects. It focuses on moving groundbreaking technologies to market, creating jobs, driving economic growth, and promoting environmental benefits. SDTC operates independently but collaborates with various stakeholders from private industry, academia, and governments.
Island Capital Partners is an angel group and early-stage venture investor based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Founded in 2017, it targets high-growth potential PEI companies and entrepreneurs, providing early funding and support to startups with the aim of enabling scalable growth.
Flight Deck Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco that invests globally in disruptive public and private companies across the U.S., Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Latin America, China, and Europe. Founded by Jay Kahn in 2020, the firm focuses on technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.
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.
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is an independent, non-profit venture capital and research funding organization based in Fredericton, Canada. It invests in growth-oriented companies and in research and development with commercialization potential, providing equity capital, professional support, and networking to attract further capital and industrial partnerships. NBIF differentiates itself by making equity investments and attaching rights to intellectual property to help commercialize projects, rather than offering loans or grants alone. Returns are reinvested to fund more projects, with an aim to build New Brunswick's capacity to innovate across five strategic industries. The foundation manages about $40 million and has helped leverage more than $160 million in additional capital.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led venture capital firm based in Kirkland, Washington, providing patient capital to climate and energy technology companies across seed, early, and later stages. It concentrates on environmental services, climate change, climate technology, and cleantech, investing minority stakes to back technologies that deliver reliable, affordable power while reducing emissions and advancing zero-emission energy solutions.
Industry Ventures is a San Francisco-based investment firm that specializes in venture capital liquidity solutions and fund investments. Founded in 2000, the firm manages over eight billion dollars in assets and pursues a flexible, multi-strategy approach that includes secondary investments, primary commitments, and funds of funds in the private technology sector. It operates a global network with offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, and London to connect limited partners with venture capital opportunities and to support smaller venture funds and growth-stage investments. Industry Ventures’ platform emphasizes access to later-stage secondaries and technology growth equity, aiming to provide liquidity options and diversified exposure within the venture ecosystem.
Altos Ventures is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, founded in 1996, with an office in Seoul. It concentrates on early-stage investments in consumer and technology companies, including software and TMT, with emphasis on founder-led, capital-efficient businesses. The firm backs companies across the globe, primarily in the United States and Asia, and participates in multiple stages from seed to later rounds, often taking minority stakes and supporting growth through follow-on funding.
Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.
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.
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.
Globalive is a startup studio and global investment firm led by Anthony Lacavera, with partners Brice Scheschuk and Simon Lockie and a team with over a century of startup, operating, and investing experience. It collaborates with founders to build and fund new ventures, providing hands-on support across early-stage opportunities. Globalive focuses on technology and infrastructure sectors, including HR tech, realtech, fintech, healthtech, biotech and drone technology, and pursues investments from seed to Series A worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the firm has pursued opportunities in the United States, Canada and beyond, with activity spanning telecommunications, media, real estate and financial services.
Anges Québec is a Montreal-based network of angel investors that supports early-stage Québec and Canadian companies by providing capital and mentorship. Founded in 2008, it coordinates a community of more than 230 individual investors who join forces to back innovative businesses across sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, renewables, technology, forestry, energy, fintech, software, and related industries. The network helps startups access financing and strategic guidance while fostering knowledge sharing among members through a professional development center. By connecting investors with entrepreneurs in need of funding, Anges Québec aims to accelerate growth and scale for innovative companies and strengthen the Canadian startup ecosystem.
Dane Creek Capital provides financial and management support to early-stage companies in the companion animal sector through selective, strategic investments. The firm maintains a long-term investment horizon, takes into account evolving pet owner demographics and industry trends, and focuses on opportunities in pet food products sourced from sustainable ingredients.
Founded in 2019, The Climate Pledge is Amazon's corporate venture capital program, based in Renton, Washington. It funds and supports companies developing low-carbon technologies and services that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable decarbonization across industries.
2150 is a venture capital firm that backs technology companies with a focus on shaping sustainable cities of the future. Founded in 2020 and based in Europe, it operates with a presence in London and Copenhagen.
Taronga Group is an Australian venture capital firm based in Sydney, founded in 2015. It invests in real technology and real asset sectors, including energy, utilities, infrastructure, smart assets, cities, logistics, mobility, digital construction, data analytics, and asset management. The firm backs technology companies through venture funds and connects them with real asset corporates and government agencies via the RealtechX programs to foster collaboration across the built environment.
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.
S2G Investments is a multi-stage investment firm that targets venture and growth-stage companies in food and agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to businesses shaping the future of food systems and energy resources and supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with market-driven solutions intended to deliver greater value, improved results, and superior performance relative to conventional options.
Azure Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital and private equity firm that backs early-stage technology companies in North America. The firm focuses on post-seed and Series A rounds and targets software, information technology, communications, media and other tech-enabled businesses across internet, mobile, infrastructure, and digital media.
Founded in 2018, Active Impact Investments is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm dedicated to supporting environmental sustainability through profitable investment. It manages three funds with over $140M in assets, focusing on early-stage climate tech companies with significant growth potential and revenues between $200K to $3M.
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and accelerator firm based in Los Gatos, California, focused on sustainable agri-food, agritech, food tech, and related supply chains. The company provides support, acceleration, mentorship, validation, and venture-building services to early-stage technology companies, often in collaboration with public and private partners on strategy, innovation and global expansion. It prioritizes climate-smart and ESG-oriented opportunities and backs startups operating in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Since its formation in 2010, SVG Ventures|THRIVE has built a network to help portfolio companies scale through strategic guidance and industry connections.
Matchstick Ventures is a Minneapolis-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that backs early-stage technology startups across the United States, from seed to growth rounds. The firm focuses on business products, business services, information technology, and TMT, and seeks opportunities in underserved startup ecosystems. It has raised multiple funds to support its investments and typically makes investments of roughly 0.5 to 1.5 million USD per company.
Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It provides seed-stage capital to startups globally, with a focus on agriculture technology, food technology, health technology, and enterprise SaaS. Led by partners Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, the firm emphasizes leveraging regional and industry connections to help portfolio companies access strategic opportunities and markets.
Dynamo Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 2016. It concentrates on seed-stage and pre-seed opportunities in the supply chain and mobility sectors, investing in enterprise business models and supporting founding teams as they build market-defining companies.
Pangaea Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm focusing on hard tech and advanced materials, energy, cleantech, healthcare, and related sectors. It targets early to growth-stage companies, often taking significant minority stakes and board representation, and can lead or co-invest. The firm typically invests CAD 0.5–10 million in North America, Europe and Russia, and avoids pharmaceuticals and weapons. It backs companies with energy generation, energy storage, energy efficiency, electronics, materials science, nanotechnology, and environmental materials. It positions as an impact investor and supports ESG-related themes such as climate change, pollution, waste, decarbonization, renewable energy, and health. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver with additional offices in Phoenix and Hillsborough and was founded in 2000.
East Valley Ventures is a venture capital firm and angel investor network based in New Brunswick, Canada, that funds and mentors early-stage technology companies in Atlantic Canada, with a focus on information and communications technology. It supports Atlantic Canadian founders in turning early-stage ideas into meaningful and enduring technology businesses.
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.
Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.
Founded in 2005, Champlain Financial is a Montreal-based merchant bank that invests in small to mid-market companies. Its team of seasoned professionals offers strategic direction and operational expertise to portfolio companies, focusing on sectors such as consumer goods, retail distribution, healthcare, and niche manufacturing.
Ecofuel Fund is a Montreal-based venture capital firm specializing in cleantech investments. It backs seed and early-stage startups developing and commercializing clean technologies across sectors such as energy, water and air technologies, waste treatment, industrial process improvement, smart transport, agriculture, and biotechnology. The firm has about $40.6 million in assets under management and is supported by Investissement Québec, BDC Capital, Fondaction, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, and CRIBIQ, the Quebec consortium for industrial bioprocess research and innovation.
Buoyant Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage climate tech startups, focusing on digital climate solutions across energy, mobility, circular economy, food and agriculture, water, climate intelligence, and the built environment.
Established in 2012, AQC Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage (pre-seed and seed) technology companies within the province of Quebec.
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.
BrightPath Capital Partners is a growth equity investment firm based in Oakland, California, focused on late-stage and growth-stage opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Western United States. The firm seeks to back management teams driving high-growth businesses in sectors that deliver environmental and social value, including clean technology, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, healthy food, wellness, education, and business services. With a research-driven approach and disciplined investment process, BrightPath aims to generate both economic returns and positive societal impact by supporting companies that create jobs and sustainable environments in their communities.
Rho Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm established in 1981 that backs technology-driven growth across multiple sectors. The firm pursues a flexible, nonconventional approach to investing, seeking opportunities in software, digital media, information technology, communications, healthcare and energy technology, among others, and supports entrepreneurs from seed to growth stages. It maintains a diversified platform with divisions such as Rho Canada Ventures, Rho Fund Investors and Rho Acceleration, enabling involvement in the United States, Canada and select markets abroad. The firm emphasizes hands-on partnership, deep sector expertise and a willingness to back contrarian ideas and founders who can redefine markets, and has backed more than 200 companies through multiple cycles.
Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.
Upper90 Capital Management is a New York-based asset-backed private credit firm founded in 2018 that provides growth capital to startups with predictable revenue and collateral. It offers asset-backed credit facilities typically in the $5–$25 million range and also makes smaller equity investments to minimize founder dilution. The firm focuses on fintech, e-commerce, and supply chain finance, with additional exposure to AI infrastructure and energy transition sectors. It manages a portfolio of dozens of companies and is backed by a network of strategic limited partners, more than 300 entrepreneurs, which supports sourcing and value creation beyond financing. The firm has grown its assets under management to about $1.2 billion, reflecting its capacity to deploy capital and facilitate co-investment opportunities for LPs.
Cycle Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital and asset management firm focused on clean technology, agtech and renewable energy. Founded in 2009, it targets development and commercialization-stage companies in North America and China, and supports portfolio growth through its network of strategic partners and advisors. The firm invests across sectors including energy storage and efficiency, green chemistry, clean transportation, smart grids, IoT for resource management, water technologies, big data and smart city solutions, with a preference for minority stakes and hands-on value creation. It maintains offices in Montreal and Toronto, with activity across Canada, the United States and China, and emphasizes helping portfolio companies scale by leveraging its sector expertise, industrial partnerships and advisory resources. Cycle Capital aims to back technology-enabled solutions that address climate change and improve process efficiency throughout a product's life cycle.
Better Food Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Menlo Park, California, focused on funding early-stage technology companies in the food and agriculture sectors. It seeks to invest in scalable technologies that transform and improve these industries, including mobile and cloud computing, sensor technologies, IoT, robotics, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, as well as collaborative production and consumption platforms, supported by a team of international investors.
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.
Beresford Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Delray Beach, Florida. It funds early-stage startups globally, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds and operating a growth arm for institutional financing. The firm targets disruptive technologies across financial services, information technology, artificial intelligence, and SaaS. It has backed dozens of startups and is described as not open to outside investors.