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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Difference Capital Financial Inc. is a Toronto-based publicly listed specialty finance company focused on creating shareholder value through strategic investments in growth companies and advisory services, with emphasis on technology and media sectors, as well as opportunistic investments in undervalued financial assets and real property.