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.

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.

TenX Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Vancouver, Canada. The firm focuses on investing in passionate entrepreneurs at the intersection of determination, belief, and innovation. TenX Ventures primarily targets companies in sectors such as software as a service (SaaS), robotics, artificial intelligence, fintech, and cannabis. By supporting innovative startups, the firm aims to contribute to the development of groundbreaking solutions and technologies.

Victory Square Technologies is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and based in Vancouver, Canada. The firm focuses on accelerating technology startups across various sectors, including digital health, Web3, gaming, the creator economy, NFTs, and the metaverse. By investing in innovative ideas, Victory Square Technologies aims to support entrepreneurs in their endeavors and facilitate the growth of emerging technologies.

Quark Venture is a Vancouver, Canada-based venture capital firm focused on equity investments in biotechnology and health sciences companies with breakthrough technology platforms and projects.

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.

Nimbus Synergies is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that focuses on early-stage investments in digital health and health technology companies in British Columbia. The firm leads financing rounds and supports portfolio companies by coordinating resources, industry knowledge, and relationships to accelerate growth, while acting as investor, partner, and mentor. It emphasizes collaboration at the intersection of life sciences and technology to improve health outcomes and is aligned with Discovery Parks as part of its group of companies. Nimbus seeks BC-led innovation and aims to strengthen the province’s digital health ecosystem through focused, hands-on support for startups.

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.

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.

Defined is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data technologies. It focuses on founders advancing automation and related frontier technologies, providing capital and strategic guidance to help bring innovative AI-driven solutions to market.

LOI Venture is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that makes early-stage investments in Canadian startups, supporting founders across the country and directing capital to growth-focused opportunities in Canada.

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.

Angels with Attitude is an angel investor group founded in 2000 and based in Seattle. It pools capital from its members to invest in early-stage companies across sustainability-focused sectors, including clean and renewable energy, environmental technology, and clean transportation; it also targets healthy organic foods and natural products as well as education. Geographically, the group supports ventures primarily on the West Coast from Vancouver to San Diego and on the East Coast from Boston to Washington, DC.

Northview LifeSciences is a principal investment and consulting firm focused on the life sciences sector. It pursues investments and provides advisory services, including strategy development, market research, and transactional support, to portfolio companies and clients. The firm draws on a team of former investment bankers and biotech executives with capital markets expertise, finance strategy, and business development planning and execution to guide growth and corporate development. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Spirit Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It provides capital to the blockchain ecosystem through activities such as lending, staking, streaming, web3 technology, and mining, and targets investments in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and analytics. The firm maintains additional offices in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, reflecting its international presence and focus on supporting blockchain and related technologies across regions.

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.

Caerus Capital Partners is a Vancouver, Canada-based venture capital firm that focuses on funding early-stage technology-driven initiatives across health sciences, biotech, plant medicines, and food systems, as well as advanced materials and metals sectors including copper, graphite, graphene, lithium, cobalt, manganese, vanadium, and rare earths, together with metals recycling and efficient extraction technologies. The firm also invests in emerging technologies such as the internet of things, blockchain and programmable money, artificial intelligence and augmented/virtual/mixed reality, and clean technology, alongside broader software and hardware opportunities.

Ventures West is one of Canada's largest privately owned venture capital companies. It provides capital and a broad range of resources to its investments. The firm employs ten technology investment managers and runs an Entrepreneur-In-Residence program, reflecting more than 120 years of combined technology venture investing and hands-on operating experience. It has a proven track record, strong leadership, extensive contacts in North American technology, financial, and venture capital circles, and the ability to assemble investor syndicates.

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.

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.

Off the Chain Capital is an investment firm specializing in cryptocurrency and blockchain-based assets, focusing on identifying and managing opportunities across digital currencies and related blockchain technologies.

Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that funds technology startups across early, growth, and late stages. It concentrates on internet-native opportunities at the applications layer, internet services, and web services that generate large networks and network effects, with an emphasis on software, fintech, e-commerce, media, mobile, and related sectors. The firm typically makes initial investments around one million dollars, with occasional larger early-stage bets of two to three million, and it aims to deploy as much as twenty million dollars in a single company. Founded in 2003, Union Square Ventures operates globally with investments in companies based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and elsewhere, seeking scalable businesses that leverage information technology to transform markets and create significant network value.

Chrysalix Venture Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2001 that specializes in industrial innovation and clean-tech. It invests in early-stage startups globally that address energy efficiency, renewable energy, manufacturing and related sectors, and provides portfolio companies with deep industry and technical knowledge, management and board support, and access to capital. The firm also supports IP management and facilitates networking with industrial and financial partners. Its focus areas include artificial intelligence, data analytics, sensor components, the Internet of Things, robotics, blockchain, advanced materials, and chemicals, alongside broader clean-tech and renewable technologies.

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.

Version One Ventures is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based venture capital firm established in 2012 that backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages, focusing on early-stage investments in North America, particularly in consumer internet, software as a service, and mobile sectors.

Established in 2006, Bengal Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the cannabis industry since 2013. The company provides seed stage and growth capital alongside traditional advisory resources to its operators across various sectors of the cannabis industry.

Founded in Toronto, Canada in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform. It invests in high-potential companies across various sectors, focusing on long-term support for their growth and development. The firm's experienced team brings expertise and insight to each investment, aiming to create lasting value for investors and portfolio companies.

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.

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.

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.

Prelude Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that backs early-stage startups with the potential to mitigate climate change. It focuses on investments across sectors including advanced energy, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, advanced materials and manufacturing, and computing, supporting the development of category-defining businesses in these areas.

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.

Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.

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.

Sygnum is an international digital asset bank headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. It serves professional and institutional clients, banks, corporations, and digital asset foundations, providing regulated access to digital assets with emphasis on security and expert service. The company offers digital asset banking, asset management, custody, brokerage, lending, and tokenization, along with B2B banking solutions. It supports capital issuance for small and medium enterprises and real-time liquidity through specialized platforms. Sygnum operates within a regulated framework to enable the issuance, storage, trade, and management of digital assets for institutions and qualified investors.

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology and consumer startups from seed through growth stages. It focuses on information technology, software, digital media and advertising, e-commerce, data analytics, fintech, cloud, mobile, and AI, as well as related infrastructure, hardware, and robotics. The firm primarily targets companies in the Pacific Northwest and the broader West Coast, and often leads investments with a goal of taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale from early development to market leadership.

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.

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.

ArcTern Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm that provides early-stage capital to cleantech startups. It partners with MaRS to support breakthrough ideas in clean energy, energy efficiency and storage, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and materials, mobility, and food systems. The firm evaluates opportunities globally, with a focus on North America and Europe, and pursues ESG and climate-related impact investments. Through multiple funds, including Fund III, ArcTern targets technology-enabled solutions across sectors such as renewable energy, sustainable mobility, circular economy, industrial decarbonization, and agriculture technology.

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.

Greensoil PropTech Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Ontario. It targets investments in proptech companies and related technology sectors, including software as a service, Internet of Things, and smart systems, with a focus on the real estate industry and built environment. The firm seeks high-potential startups that advance efficiency, sustainability, and digitization of real estate processes and assets.

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.

Founded in Toronto in 2011, Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing across North America. They support founders building innovative products and services, focusing on sectors such as fintech, consumer goods, enterprise software, and more.

Menlo Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. The firm uses market-driven analysis to identify investment opportunities across sectors such as marketplaces, consumer services, Dev/Ops, SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, and life sciences technology. Its portfolio includes numerous notable companies and more than 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, underscoring a track record of growth and successful exits. Menlo is active in supporting its portfolio companies through multiple stages of development and pursues investments across software, cloud infrastructure, and related technology areas.

Animoca Brands is a global developer, publisher, and platform provider in the Web3, metaverse, and blockchain gaming space. It leverages gamification and blockchain to create and publish mobile games and IP-based products, including titles tied to well-known brands, while enabling digital property rights through non-fungible and fungible tokens. The company operates a platform that allows intellectual property holders to issue assets, monetize rights, and grow fan communities within Web3 ecosystems. It also supports a venture arm that finances and mentors creators and early-stage projects in blockchain, gaming, and related technologies. With regional initiatives to advance Web3 strategies for Japanese IP holders, Animoca Brands pursues global expansion of digital ownership, transparency, and new business models across gaming and branded content.

Venrock is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, with interests spanning information technology, life sciences and related sectors in the United States. The firm has supported a broad portfolio of companies, including Apple, Intel, Illumina, DoubleClick, Athenahealth, Gilead Sciences, Nest, SlideShare and Tudou. Venrock emphasizes long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, combining hands-on venture support with rigorous data analysis to help startups grow into enduring companies.

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.

Relay Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2010. It concentrates on early-stage to growth investments in North America, with a primary focus on mobile technology and software for mobile devices and the connected Internet, including applications and services in mobile commerce, payments, advertising, enterprise software, communications, social networking, location-based services, and related mobile ecosystems. The firm seeks opportunities across the mobile computing spectrum and related software and services, supporting startups from seed to expansion. Relay operates with additional offices in San Francisco and Calgary to support its North American portfolio.

AppWorks is a Taipei-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator that supports seed to early-stage technology companies across Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The organization provides seed funding through its accelerator and growth financing through its own funds, and operates AppWorks School to prepare engineers for tech careers. AppWorks focuses on sectors including artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things, web3 and blockchain, while also backing fintech, consumer tech and logistics initiatives in the region.

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.