Lyra Growth Partners is a Vancouver-based investment firm that provides capital and brand-focused guidance to emerging consumer brands. Founded in 2015, the firm concentrates on fast-growing businesses in personal care, health and wellness, food and beverage, lifestyle, and beauty sectors. It supports growth with non-institutional capital and coaching aimed at strengthening consumer relationships, accelerating scale, and maximizing value. The firm targets companies with multi-million dollar annual revenue and seeks to help brands develop sustainable growth and strong market presence.

Victory Square Technologies is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that seeks to accelerate technology startups and invest in digital health, Web3, gaming, creator economy, NFTs, metaverse, and other technology sectors.

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.

Pallasite Ventures is a venture capital firm offering early-stage and seed financing to high-growth technology and consumer product companies. Founded in 2012 by David Light, the firm is based in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Vancouver, Canada. It seeks to back ventures across regions including Vancouver, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Chicago, and the Toronto region.

Morningside is a Boston-based investment firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes venture capital investments in companies with novel science and technology, with deep expertise in life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials, and technology. The firm takes a long-term approach to building companies and emphasizes ethical conduct. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside supports charitable initiatives in education, research and healthcare, including collaborations with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

Raven Indigenous Capital Partners is a Vancouver-based impact investment firm focused on Indigenous social enterprises and communities in Canada and the United States. It backs early-stage and growth ventures across sectors including information technology, climate/clean energy, health, food sovereignty/regenerative agriculture, and next-generation consumer products, emphasizing commercially viable opportunities with measurable community benefits. The firm seeks investments typically ranging from CAD 0.25 million to CAD 3.5 million, aiming to support Indigenous-led or Indigenous-serving ventures with potential for scale and positive environmental and social impact. It also provides advisory services to support portfolio companies, and operates with a focus on Indigenous communities, environmental stewardship, and economic revitalization. The firm has been active since around 2017-2018 and maintains a presence in multiple North American markets.

Little Green Bamboo is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, founded in 2019. It collaborates and co-invests with non-profit and academic institutions to nurture new technologies and founders, focusing on life science, material science, and opportunistic and synergistic software-as-a-service sectors.

TenX Ventures is a Vancouver, Canada-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests in technology-driven companies across robotics, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, software as a service, space, and cannabis. It supports entrepreneurs at the point where grit and proof translate into breakthrough innovations through its funding and guidance.

Founded in 1994, ALAMidas Capital Partners is a Vancouver-based investment management company that provides capital and interim executive management services to its investees. They specialize in health, technology, and mining sectors, offering strategic planning, corporate finance, legal compliance, business development, and reorganization services.

AVAC is a Canada-based venture capital firm established in 1997 and based in Calgary, Alberta, that targets early-stage opportunities in agricultural technology, clean tech, and life sciences. The firm pursues direct investments as well as fund-of-funds strategies, focusing on pre-commercial to seed-stage and growth ventures, with a preference for agrivalue companies, medical devices, agriculture research, and life science products. In information and communications technology it covers areas such as animal health, crop genetics, biomass, big data, precision farming, and smart farming applications, while in life sciences it backs new or enhanced foods, nutraceuticals, therapeutics, devices, and health-related products. AVAC typically invests modest amounts and seeks active board participation, sometimes pursuing royalties in pre-commercial deals, and it has historically operated with emphasis on opportunities in Alberta and the western Canada ecosystem. The firm may also provide grants to public research and not-for-profit entities supporting agrivalue innovation.

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.

WUTIF is an angel group based in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2003. It co-invests with angel investors to support promising technology ventures in British Columbia, with initial investments made in 2004. The group targets early-stage companies in communications and information technology, health and life sciences technologies, physical sciences, and energy-related fields, including fuel cells. Through collaboration with individual investors, WUTIF aims to help regional technology startups scale and commercialize innovations.

Big Basin Partners is a venture capital firm based in Sammamish, Washington, focusing on early-stage technology investments across sectors including computer hardware, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, semiconductors, internet software services, application software, medical devices, healthcare, alternative energy, and education. The firm works with entrepreneurs who have not yet raised traditional venture capital funds, helping them identify viable initial target markets and supporting early product and market validation to accelerate growth.

Gibraltar Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that funds early- to mid-stage technology-driven companies serving consumers and small- to medium-sized businesses in Canada and the United States. It focuses on technology-enabled sectors such as consumer services, information technology, SaaS, e-commerce, and mobile, and provides capital alongside strategic support to accelerate growth, including go-to-market guidance and access to senior decision-makers to open new channels. The firm participates in growth equity and debt financing, including venture debt and expansion capital, with a typical multi-year holding period and emphasis on Series A and B rounds to scale portfolio companies.

Yaletown Partners is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, investing in seed to growth-stage software, data, and device technologies across Canada. It backs companies applying data and technology to digitally transform traditional industries, enhance operational efficiency, and support sustainability and climate-change resilience. The firm targets opportunities that modernize services, real estate, infrastructure, and other sectors, helping drive growth while improving productivity. With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and Toronto, Yaletown leverages a national team with deep technology sector experience and a broad industry network to support portfolio companies.

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.

Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that concentrates on early-stage technology investments, with a focus on seed opportunities. It manages multiple funds and has a team of investing partners, supporting technology startups through the initial funding stages.

Panache Ventures is a Canadian venture capital firm founded in 2018 that specializes in early-stage investments, primarily at pre-seed and seed rounds. Based in Montreal and active across Canada, the firm backs technology‑driven startups in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, virtual reality, enterprise software, data analytics, fintech, digital health, consumer tech, proptech, and supply chain. It maintains offices in Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, and San Francisco, reflecting cross-border activity and a broad geographic footprint. Panache Ventures focuses on supporting software and other technology products with strong growth potential from initial funding toward market traction.

InBC Investment is a Victoria, Canada-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that pursues strategic investments in small and medium-sized businesses in British Columbia, operating as an independent vehicle with a $500 million capitalization.

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.

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.

Evok Innovations is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on cleantech and energy-transition technologies. It backs early-stage companies developing decarbonization solutions across North America, including carbon management, clean fuels, electrification, and critical minerals, with investments spanning sectors such as cleantech, energy and infrastructure to accelerate deployment of critical energy transition technologies.

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.

Vivo Capital is a healthcare-focused investment firm founded in 1996 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Asia. The firm operates a multi-strategy platform including growth equity, private equity, venture capital, and public equity, and invests across biopharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare services. It pursues opportunities globally, including the United States and China, and has invested in more than 290 companies. The team comprises physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, operating executives, and industry experts, and the firm manages about $5.8 billion in assets.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.

Foundation Capital is a United States-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It backs startups across sectors including software, enterprise IT, data, security and privacy, fintech, consumer technology, and digital energy, with investments ranging from early-stage to growth-stage opportunities. The firm states a hands-on approach, often serving as the lead investor and taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale. Its portfolio has included notable technology companies such as Netflix, LendingClub, Sunrun, AdRoll, and ForgeRock, among others, and several exits through IPOs and acquisitions. Foundation Capital emphasizes founder support and practical operational guidance, aiming to support entrepreneurs who can transform markets through software, data-enabled services, and digital infrastructure.

Digital Currency Group is a Stamford, Connecticut-based corporate venture capital and investment firm focused on the digital currency and blockchain ecosystem. It provides funding and support to fintech and blockchain companies across bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and related sectors, and it owns and operates notable subsidiaries including CoinDesk, a media and events platform; Genesis Trading, a bitcoin brokerage; and Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset management firm.

Polychain Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2016, that invests in blockchain technologies, protocols, and companies to advance global adoption of cryptocurrencies. The firm supports the development of the blockchain ecosystem and provides capital to projects across the space. It operates as a registered investment adviser (RIA).

The Natural Gas Innovation Fund, established by the Canadian Gas Association in 2016 and based in Ottawa, Canada, focuses on financing clean-tech innovations within the natural gas value chain. The fund aims to address technology development gaps in the sector by investing in innovative solutions that tackle both current and future challenges facing Canada's energy system. Through its initiatives, NGIF seeks to promote advancements that enhance the efficiency and sustainability of natural gas, thereby supporting the broader transition to cleaner energy sources.

Inovia Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital firm established in 2007 that backs technology founders with global ambitions. It operates as a full-stack investor, providing capital, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network to support early- and growth-stage software startups. The firm targets software-driven companies across North America and Europe, including business-to-business and business-to-consumer SaaS, as well as sectors such as commerce, digital health, enterprise platforms, the future of work, security, travel, and hospitality, along with applied services and infrastructure. It emphasizes forming long-term partnerships and helping portfolio companies scale internationally.

OurCrowd is an Israel-based venture investing platform that enables institutions and individuals to invest in and engage with emerging companies. It vets and selects opportunities, invests capital, and provides its global network with access to co-investment, connections, talent, and deal flow. The platform supports portfolio companies with mentorship, industry advisors, and guidance through follow-on rounds, creating growth opportunities through its multinational partnerships. Headquartered in Jerusalem, it maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States, North America, and Australia. OurCrowd invests across sectors such as transportation tech, greentech, enterprise solutions, telecommunications, web and fintech, medtech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, digitally enabled agriculture, autonomous robotics, blockchain, and AR/VR, and also focuses on digital health, energy and agtech. It seeks to take board seats in portfolio companies and operates as an independent venture investment platform with a global footprint, supporting opportunities in Israel, Asia Pacific, and the United States.

Rhino Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that focuses on technology companies. The firm seeks to provide strategic capital that extends the founding team’s capacity beyond funding, prioritizing tangible value-add and alignment between funder and founder. Emphasizing trust and shared values, Rhino Ventures invests in individuals and aims to support startups through stages from early development to growth and eventual exit. The approach centers on partnering with teams where there is clear complementary value, long-term entrepreneurial ambition, and a commitment to building durable businesses rather than pursuing fast fundraising alone.

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.

Adams Street Partners is a global private market investment management firm that serves institutional investors with private equity and venture capital capabilities. An independent, employee-owned firm with a history dating to 1972, it leverages global resources and a disciplined investment approach to navigate private markets and deliver investment performance and client service. The firm focuses on opportunities across private equity and related strategies, drawing on deep market knowledge and collaboration to support long-term value creation for its clients.

Founded in 2017, CMT Digital is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It focuses on investments in the crypto asset and blockchain technology sectors, with an emphasis on early-stage startups.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

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.

ConsenSys is an Ethereum software company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite—Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence—serves millions of users and supports billions of blockchain queries and digital assets. The company supports an ecosystem through ConsenSys Academy, which aims to bridge Ethereum knowledge globally, and through initiatives like ConsenSys Mesh, which combines investment, incubation, and development to accelerate Web3 breakthroughs.

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.

Noetic Fund is a Toronto-based venture capital firm that invests globally in emerging technologies across molecular therapeutics, digital health, medical devices, and wellness, with a focus on mental health and central nervous system related conditions. It supports companies advancing alternative therapies, modalities, and sciences aimed at improving mental, emotional, psychological, and physical health.

Plaza Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm established in 2008 that invests in growth-stage technology companies in the United States and Canada. The firm targets business products, business services, information technology, software as a service, and mobile sectors, while maintaining a sector-agnostic approach with demonstrated strengths in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, smart city, digital media, and marketplaces. Plaza Ventures seeks to back entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds, aimed at building a diversified portfolio of proven, scalable businesses. The firm sources capital from high-net-worth investor networks and deploys annual investment vehicles to support promising companies with capital and strategic guidance through their growth journey, focusing on companies with solid business models and potential for long-term value creation.

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.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

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.

VantagePoint Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in San Bruno, California, with an additional office in Beijing. The firm pursues multi-stage investments across software, internet, hardware and energy technologies, with a focus on clean tech, healthcare and information technology. It backs companies globally, often as lead investor, providing capital and strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale and commercialize transformative technologies, including renewable energy, power storage, grid optimization, water purification and related sectors. The firm emphasizes sustainable and high-impact innovations and typically supports ventures from early stages through growth toward pre-IPO, leveraging global reach and sector expertise to drive growth.

Established in 2020 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, The Xchange is a venture capital firm.

Xsolla is a video game business engine offering a suite of tools and services to operate, monetize, and sell games. Serving the video game industry from indie to enterprise, the platform includes Xsolla Pay Station and its anti-fraud solution, Xsolla Partner Network, Xsolla Site Builder, Xsolla Store, Xsolla Login, and Xsolla Launcher; these components address distribution, marketing, payments, and monetization to help developers, publishers, and platform partners reach larger audiences and increase revenue. Headquartered in Los Angeles with global offices, Xsolla acts as a merchant and seller of record for major gaming entities such as Valve, Twitch, Ubisoft, Epic Games, and PUBG Corporation.

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.

Forgepoint Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area and a presence in London. It specializes in early-stage and growth investments in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software, including cloud security, DevSecOps, insurtech, fintech, identity, and privacy technologies. Supported by a sector-focused investment team and a global advisory council, the firm helps category-defining companies scale globally through its network and expertise. Forgepoint has over $1 billion in assets under management and maintains an active portfolio of over 30 companies, aiming to advance innovations that strengthen digital security and infrastructure worldwide.

M12 is the corporate venture capital arm of Microsoft, investing in B2B software startups across North America and Israel. It focuses on cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical software as a service, and Web3 and gaming, and backs companies from early stages through growth rounds, including Series A to C. The firm supports portfolio companies with access to Microsoft resources and runs an accelerator program to help later-stage startups scale.