Impression Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm that focuses on fintech startups across North America. Founded in 2013, the firm targets seed and early-stage opportunities and often serves as a lead investor in rounds, including seed rounds around the two-million-dollar mark in rounds typically totaling a few million dollars. Beyond capital, Impression Ventures offers active guidance, strategic support, and access to an extensive network to help portfolio companies reach Series A funding or exits. The firm concentrates on financial technology and related software, including financial services applications, payments, and fintech-enabled platforms, with a track record of helping portfolio companies advance milestones through hands-on involvement and financial modeling assistance.

Infinite Ventures is a holding company that owns and manages a portfolio of technology-focused businesses. As a parent entity, it coordinates strategy and resources across its tech portfolio.

BDC Capital is the growth equity and venture capital arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada. It provides direct investments and fund of funds, targeting early-stage to growth-stage companies across Canada, particularly in information technology, healthcare, industrial/energy, cleantech, and related tech sectors. It offers a full spectrum of capital from seed to growth, often taking minority stakes and co-investing with partners, with board representation as appropriate. The firm backs both stand-alone companies and women-led ventures, with typical initial and total investment ranges in the low to mid tens of millions CAD depending on stage. It operates across Canada, headquartered in Montreal with additional offices in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, and collaborates to help portfolio companies scale through strategic guidance, financing and exit options such as IPOs, strategic sales, or leveraged buyouts.

Signal Lake is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests across incubation, seed and later-stage ventures in technology companies. The firm focuses on software, communications and networking, broadband telecom, network infrastructure, information technology, cloud computing, embedded systems, semiconductors and green energy. It pursues global investment opportunities from a Northeast United States base, with offices in Westport, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts.

Capital Angel Network is an angel investor network based in the Ottawa-Gatineau region that connects local startups with accredited investors and supports the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. It organizes regular meetings—nine per year—where two or three presenting companies receive investor attention, and it collaborates with local incubators and accelerators to promote entrepreneurship in the National Capital Region.

ArcTern Ventures is a Canadian early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in Toronto, with a global reach including offices in San Francisco and Oslo. It invests in cleantech and sustainability startups at the early stage, spanning clean energy, energy efficiency and storage, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and materials, mobility, and food systems, and also backs software and AI solutions that enable decarbonization and sustainable growth. The firm pursues ESG and impact investments across North America and Europe and has operated multiple funds to support growing companies in climate, energy, and related sectors, often partnering with innovation ecosystems such as MaRS.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, focused on seed-to-growth investments in deep tech, life sciences, hardware and software, with a strong emphasis on human and planetary health. The company operates startup development programs such as HAX and IndieBio, offering facilities, labs, engineering resources, mentorship, and collaborative workspaces to help founders advance technology and accelerate fundraising. Beyond capital, SOSV provides hands-on support to accelerate product development, customer acquisition and scaling, connecting portfolio companies with a global network of partners and investors. Its ecosystem spans multiple regions and markets, including cross-border ventures in Asia, and it maintains a portfolio of startups that have progressed to subsequent funding rounds. In addition to direct investments, SOSV’s programs and resources are designed to help early-stage companies mature toward scalable, sustainable growth while fostering innovation across sectors that address health, climate, and technology challenges.

LG Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of LG Group, established in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It backs early-stage technology companies across artificial intelligence, mobility, advanced materials, life sciences, energy, and cleantech, with emphasis on autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, 5G, and next-generation displays. The firm leverages LG Group's global resources to support portfolio companies with strategic partnerships and market access. It manages a substantial fund, reported as hundreds of millions to nearly a billion dollars, and has invested in a broad portfolio to date, aiming for long-term value creation and exits through IPOs or acquisitions.

Anges Québec is a Montreal-based network of angel investors and Canada's largest angel investor network dedicated to funding Quebec-based startups. Founded around 2007–2008, it brings together hundreds of members who collectively invest substantial capital and provide strategic guidance to early-stage companies across sectors such as technology, manufacturing, clean tech, energy, life sciences, and agribusiness. The network connects entrepreneurs with experienced investors to support growth and subsequent funding rounds, and collaborates with partners to extend its impact across the Quebec innovation ecosystem.

Horizons Ventures is a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in disruptive technology startups across seed, early, and late stages. It backs companies operating in artificial intelligence and machine learning, fintech, healthcare technology, and software-as-a-service, aiming to support transformative innovations. The firm has a track record of notable exits from portfolio companies such as Skype, Siri, Facebook, Waze, and Summly, reflecting its capacity to help scale globally. Horizons Ventures emphasizes early identification of potential in technology-driven ventures and provides strategic value to portfolio companies through its international network and expertise.

UCeed is a Calgary-based venture capital organization founded in 2020 that operates as a group of philanthropically backed pre-seed and seed funds. Its mandate is to help early-stage Canadian companies bridge the gap between research and commercialization by providing capital and support. The firm invests in technology and health-focused ventures, including software, diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, and child and maternal health, with attention to general health initiatives and related impact areas. UCeed manages specialized funds such as general health and social impact funds, and works in connection with Innovate Calgary, which oversees its fund management. The approach emphasizes early-stage market readiness and scalable solutions, aligning philanthropic backing with practical venture support to advance innovation into commercial products and services.

ScaleUP Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-stage technology companies, with a focus on business-to-business opportunities. It supports its portfolio beyond capital by providing access to a leadership network and mentorship to help founders scale, navigate global markets, and accelerate growth. The firm emphasizes Canadian innovation, receiving backing from corporate Canada and provincial governments, and leverages a Leadership Council to connect entrepreneurs with experienced mentors. ScaleUP Ventures pursues a diversified portfolio across sectors and aims to empower the next generation of Canadian technology companies.

Nascent is a venture capital firm focused on the cryptocurrency sector, investing in early-stage teams building category-defining companies and protocols. Founded in 2020 and based in Montreal, Canada, the firm supports projects across DeFi and Web3 ecosystems, with a portfolio including Morpho, Ethena, and Optimism. Nascent backs missionary founders who pursue ambitious, permissionless technologies and seeks to foster collaboration with visionary builders through ongoing industry insights.

Delphi Ventures is a San Mateo, California-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on healthcare, biotechnology, medical devices, and life sciences. It pursues early-to-late stage investments in the United States and Canada, backing companies developing new treatments, devices, diagnostics, and life sciences tools. The firm supports ventures across cardiovascular medicine, orthopedics, minimally invasive surgery, gynecology, neurovascular medicine, and related fields, often after early clinical data or preclinical efficacy studies. Typical investments range from roughly 0.5 million to 12 million, and the firm has backed more than 170 portfolio companies, with over 110 having completed an IPO or been acquired by large healthcare corporations. With over two decades in the industry, Delphi Ventures has established a track record of funding companies advancing medical technologies and therapies.

BoxOne Ventures is a Montreal-based early-stage venture capital firm that funds and supports startups across biotech, bioengineering, life sciences, AI/ML, agtech, healthcare, data, and other deep technologies. The firm often acts as the first cheque and invests its own capital, bringing operator experience to help founders scale from concept to exit by providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to a broad network throughout the company's journey. Its portfolio spans biotechnology, computational biology, food technology, agriculture technology, fintech, and related sectors, with emphasis on long-term value creation and collaboration with entrepreneurs. BoxOne focuses on fostering innovation in biotechnology, the future of food, and technologies that enhance quality of life, including AI applications for agriculture and forestry, drug discovery, neuromedicines, and data-driven production. The firm aims to connect investors, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem builders to support companies from initial concept to potential IPO.

K5 Global is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm and incubation studio that supports technology companies from concept to potential IPO. Founded in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum, the firm invests across seed to growth stages with a focus on enterprise software as a service, vertical software as a service, and fintech. It seeks to help founders expand networks and position for growth, leveraging a hands-on approach and an active portfolio. As of March 31, 2024, K5 Global had deployed about one billion dollars in capital.

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.

Kodiak Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily in emerging technology sectors. The firm focuses on communications and wireless, semiconductor and equipment, software and services, Internet and new media, and life technology companies. Kodiak Venture Partners is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and primarily invests in Eastern North America, with particular attention to Boston, New York, and Eastern Canada. The firm typically makes investments ranging from $100,000 to $3 million and emphasizes building strong relationships with entrepreneurs to help develop business strategies, management teams, and essential alliances. Founded in 1999, Kodiak Venture Partners has a reputation for fostering high-growth industry leaders through a hands-on investment approach.

Ontario Centre of Innovation is a not-for-profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario, that promotes research-to-commercialization in the province. It supports industry-academic collaboration and the commercialization of academic research, helping researchers license technology or form spin-off companies, and it provides early-stage support to startups to accelerate Ontario's economy. The organization focuses on sectors such as advanced health technologies, information and communications technologies and digital media, advanced manufacturing, cleantech including energy and environment, water, and social innovation, with activity aimed at turning research into practical, market-ready solutions.

Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) is a Canadian public defined-benefit pension plan based in Toronto. Established in 1962, it serves municipal workers and other public sector employees, managing a diversified portfolio that includes equities, fixed income, real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. The organization operates with a governance framework that emphasizes long-term value creation, sustainability, and responsible investing, aiming to deliver retirement benefits to over half a million members and to support local governments and communities. OMERS maintains a global investment footprint across North America, Europe, and beyond, relying on prudent risk management and active oversight to meet its pension obligations.

Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm focused on technology and innovation. Founded in 1994, with offices in Toronto and Ottawa, the firm backs software, digital media, communications, wireless, networking, applications, and information technology ventures from inception through exit. It has a proven track record of supporting management teams and entrepreneurs, contributing to numerous IPOs and acquisitions. The firm has managed more than 425 million across several funds and pursues opportunities in Canada and the United States, with some funds also investing in the United Kingdom.

Decathlon Capital Partners is a growth capital provider that offers customized revenue-based financing to support long-term company growth without equity dilution or loss of control. Based in Park City, Utah, it was founded in 2010. The firm targets a broad range of sectors across North America, including business products and services, consumer products and services, information technology, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, and related industries. By prioritizing revenue-based financing, it aims to align capital investments with a company's top-line performance, providing flexible funding options for scaling operations while avoiding the common downsides of traditional equity funding.

Vistara Growth, formerly Vistara Capital Partners, is a Vancouver-based private equity and venture capital firm that provides flexible growth capital to mid-to-late-stage technology companies across North America. The firm structures debt, equity, or blended financing to support organic growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations, shareholder liquidity, or interim financing before an IPO or exit. Typical investments range from five to thirty million per company, with potential co-investment, and target revenues generally from ten to two hundred million. Focus sectors include software, technology and tech-enabled services, and the firm operates across Canada and the United States, with offices in Vancouver and Toronto.

Causeway Media Partners is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based private equity firm with an office in Palo Alto that focuses on early-stage investments in sports, media and technology companies across the United States. The firm pursues growth equity and venture capital opportunities, aims to build long-term partnerships with management teams, and leverages its experience to help structure, execute, and monetize its investments.

Generation Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Generation Capital, a family office based in Toronto, Canada. It funds leading venture capital firms in Canada and the United States and makes direct investments, supported by a multi-disciplinary team. The firm pursues an active, multi-stage investment approach, targeting information technology, software, media and telecommunications sectors. It invests across Canada, the United States and China.

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.

Crescendo Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 and based in Menlo Park, California. It focuses on seed and early-stage technology investments, including software, systems, electronics, components, telecommunications, and services. The firm typically acts as lead investor in the first or second round and seeks board seats in its portfolio companies, with investments across the United States, Israel, and Europe.

First Ascent Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Toronto with additional offices in Montreal and San Francisco. It concentrates on early to growth-stage technology companies, primarily in Canada and the United States, developing enterprise B2B software that leverages cloud, AI, machine learning, big data, analytics, mobility, IoT, and related capabilities. The firm emphasizes partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams to accelerate growth, not only through capital but also strategic guidance from experienced financial and operating executives. Typical investments range in the CAD 5 to 10 million per company, and the firm often assumes a board seat to contribute oversight and governance. Its portfolio centers on software and information technology sectors, including firms pursuing innovative cloud-based and data-driven solutions.

Panache Ventures is a Canadian pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm focused on supporting early‑stage technology startups across Canada, with offices in Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and San Francisco. It targets sectors including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, enterprise software, data analytics, fintech, digital health, education technology, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The firm emphasizes founder‑centric support through a team of operators turned investors, providing hands‑on guidance without taking board seats, and typically makes initial cheques up to about $1.5 million to often serve as the first institutional investor in portfolio companies.

Boost VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2012 by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, it concentrates on deep-tech startups across hardware and software, including aerospace, robotics, biotechnology, health, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, energy, climate, and immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality. The firm focuses on seed- and pre-seed-stage investments, often leading early rounds to support technology-driven ventures with high growth potential.

Purple Angel is an investment organization that functions as both an angel network and a venture capital firm, focused on opportunities in the Ottawa–Gatineau region and the National Capital Region. Founded in 2001 by retired Bell Northern Research alumni, it concentrates on investments in the communications and infrastructure sectors and typically supports companies that have bootstrapped to cash break-even with expansion capital. The firm has built a portfolio that includes 29 companies, with all but two located in the National Capital Region.

BEST Funds is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 1996 that provides capital to technology companies to accelerate growth. The firm invests in software, cloud computing, financial services, and clean tech sectors across Canada.

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.

Narra Venture Capital is a venture capital firm and venture management and advisory group based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Founded in 2002, it invests in private high-technology companies across sectors including semiconductor-related, internet, and green components and systems for communications and computing, information systems, software services, electronic manufacturing services, design services, information technology services, commercial products, and computer hardware.

Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across North America and Asia, with a portfolio spanning enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, SaaS, digital media, and online/mobile applications. The firm targets early- to late-stage opportunities, seeks companies with product-market fit and growing revenue, and typically supports rounds in the mid to high single-digit millions. Its geographic focus includes the United States, Canada, and parts of Asia, reflecting a cross-border approach to technology investments.

FACIT is a Toronto-based venture capital firm focused on accelerating oncology research and commercialization. Founded in 2014, it invests in healthcare, oncology, life science and health tech startups in Ontario and beyond, providing funding, mentorship, and access to a broad network of resources. By partnering with institutions such as the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, FACIT combines industry experience, capital, and clinician-scientist networks to help startups bring cancer therapies and diagnostic tools to market. The organization emphasizes bridging the life sciences seed funding gap, fostering sustainable biotech ventures, and strengthening Ontario's position as a leader in oncology through strategic partnerships and ecosystem support that benefit patients and the local economy.

Genesys Capital is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 that focuses on life sciences, biotechnology, and healthcare. It invests in early-stage companies, including seed and startup rounds, with occasional participation in mid- to late-stage rounds for market-ready businesses. The firm primarily serves Canada and North America, including the United States, and emphasizes building companies through deep scientific collaboration, pairing with scientific founders, and providing strategic guidance. Its portfolio includes biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and healthcare services, with a track record of exits, including acquisitions by AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk and Illumina.

Skypoint Capital Corporation is a venture capital firm based in Nepean, Ontario, founded in 1998. It concentrates on seed, early-stage and mid-venture investments in technology-focused companies, notably telecommunications and information technology, including software, networking, data storage, semiconductors and related hardware. The firm primarily targets opportunities in Eastern Canada but may invest outside the region in exceptional cases where the technology is compelling and its network can add value. It typically commits between five and ten million dollars per deal. Skypoint emphasizes rigorous due diligence across technical, business, financial and management dimensions to mitigate risk and supports portfolio companies through mentoring and strategic guidance to accelerate growth and value realization. Leveraging established connections in Ottawa and Montreal, it identifies market-shaping opportunities and helps portfolio companies expand reach and impact.

Vesbridge Partners was a venture capital firm that invested in early-stage technology companies. The firm's focus included networking technology, information technology infrastructure, wireless and mobility, digital media, web services, security, data center and storage, as well as opportunities in hardware, electronics equipment, metalworking machinery, retail, and healthcare. Reports place its operations in the United States with bases cited in Minnesota and Massachusetts. Vesbridge Partners reportedly ceased operations in 2014, ending its venture investing activities.

Innovacom is a Paris-based venture capital firm that invests in digital and deep-tech startups across Europe. It backs companies from early stages through transformation, providing experienced stewardship, governance, and support that fosters open innovation with industrial partners. Since its founding, Innovacom has deployed over €1 billion across roughly 300 portfolio companies through 12 funds, focusing on sectors such as IoT, healthcare, personal data management, and sustainable transportation to drive sustainable growth in France and Europe.

GrowthWorks Capital is a Canadian venture capital firm based in Vancouver founded in 1992. It concentrates on managing regional venture capital funds across Canada and investing in growth-oriented technology, cleantech, healthcare, and retail companies at various stages, including late-stage funding. The firm operates specialized teams that identify and structure investments in potential winners and provide strategic management support to portfolio companies to help them scale. Its regionally based funds include the Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund, and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund, enabling diversified, regionally focused investment across the country.

Mohr Davidow Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in San Mateo. It specializes in seed, early-stage and growth investments in technology companies across the United States, with focus areas spanning information technology, software and cloud services, analytics, digital media, e-commerce, and life sciences. The firm seeks to back entrepreneurs whose innovations enable large-scale, digitally engaged markets by leveraging mobile, cloud computing and data analytics. It funds companies across several sectors, including digital marketing, healthcare technology, energy and other tech-enabled industries, and operates in major U.S. tech hubs such as Silicon Valley and neighboring regions. The firm manages substantial capital, reflecting a history of backing companies that aim to redefine markets and scale rapidly.

Insight Partners is a global private equity and venture capital firm that partners with growth-stage software, internet, and data-services companies to accelerate revenue growth and long-term value. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York, it focuses on software-enabled sectors including Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare, and has backed more than 750 companies worldwide, with numerous portfolio companies achieving IPOs. The firm provides capital, hands-on operational guidance, and a broad network to help growing software companies move from product-market fit to IPO, assisting with product development, M&A, efficiency, and geographic expansion. As of 2022, Insight Partners reported over 75 billion in assets under management and maintains offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto to support its global portfolio.

Argo Global Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1997. It is based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Hong Kong, London and Montreal. The firm invests across all growth stages from startup through buyout and restart, with a focus on expansion-stage financing. It targets opportunities at the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet, including mobile commerce, transactions, entertainment, wireless portals and applications, as well as products and services addressing the needs of telecommunications operators. Typical investments range from $4 million to $7 million in the initial round, with total commitments around $8 million to $12 million, and the firm often acts as a lead investor and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Upstart Capital is a financial organization based in Palo Alto, California, that operates as a venture capital firm. While specific details about its operations and investment focus remain largely undisclosed, it is recognized within the venture capital landscape for its role in funding and supporting emerging businesses.