Funds Of Funds
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We achieve this by investing in VC funds that finance early stage technology companies and that have a commitment to Alberta-including a full-time presence in the province. We also support Alberta’s VC ecosystem by connecting investors, entrepreneurs.
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Verdex Capital (formerly AVAC Group) is a purpose-driven, evergreen venture capital firm that invests in the Canadian food and agricultural sectors. Our mission is to advance Canadian agriculture by investing in venture and community development. We look to invest in ways that achieve strong financial returns with measurable environmental and social impact.
We invest directly in existing companies through our venture studio, Carrot Ventures. We co-invest in high-impact venture and community development initiatives with other industry leaders.
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Our mission is to help create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Through our subsidiary—BDC Capital, we also offer a full spectrum of specialized financing, including venture capital, equity as well as growth and business transition capital.
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The Toronto-Dominion Bank & its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches & serves approximately 22 million customers in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe. Over 85,000 TD employees represent the strongest team in banking. Delivering legendary customer experiences is who we are & is part of being the Better Bank. Visit our Careers page to learn more about TD & why TD is a great place to work.
TD Bank
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At BMO, banking is our personal commitment to helping people at every stage of their financial lives.
The truth is, people’s needs change: so we change too. But we never change who we are. Which means we’ll never waiver from providing our customers the best possible banking experience in the industry.
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CIBC Innovation Banking partners with entrepreneurs and their investors to help them achieve their ambitions each and every day. With a coast-to-coast market presence in Canada, the United States and UK (and select European countries), we strive to make capital accessible so that leaders driving our innovation economy forward can thrive. Beyond CIBC’s growth capital, our team has a robust network of investors, extensive experience in tailoring financing solutions and providing advice throughout a company’s lifecycle – from early stage to IPO and beyond.
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Royal Bank of Canada is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization.
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Institutional VCs
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Yaletown is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage cleanteach and IT investments in the pacific northwest and western Canada.
yaletown.com
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Alberta Innovates (AI) is the province’s innovation engine. AI focuses on five areas of significant economic opportunity; artificial intelligence, clean resource technologies, digital health, the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and smart agriculture that have the potential to create high value economic opportunity for our province. This is achieved by working with Alberta entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, researchers and partners who are developing solutions that are shaping the future economy at home and on the world stage.
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Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) is Canada’s oldest national AI centre as named by the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, and serves as the epicentre of AI excellence in western Canada. For over 20 years, Amii has built a world-class AI community—attracting international AI talent, industry innovation and advancing fundamental research. With unparalleled access to a vast network of world-leading AI researchers, Amii translates scientific breakthroughs into industry applications—sharing knowledge for world-changing commercial success. Amii’s grads have raised over $600M for companies that they have founded; while affiliated companies that Amii has worked with have raised over $200M over the last 3 years.
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AltaML is Canada's preeminent AI-focused venture studio. The studio acts as an institutional co-founder that partners with entrepreneurs to build and invest in enterprise AI/ML companies with a vertical focus. The firm also builds Applied AI solutions for enterprise clients through its services arm.
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Alpaca VC is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in New York. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works. So we invest in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Together with founders, we kickstart real change with outsized impact.
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Avatar Innovations is a Calgary-based Startup Studio focused on the global energy transition. Working intimately with the energy corporations aiming to solve some of our greatest challenges, we have a created a platform to engage, accelerate and revolutionize technology innovation for decarbonization. In November we were thrilled to launch Avatar Ventures’ inaugural fund, Avatar Leadership Fund I, with a $750,000 lead investment from Cenovus Energy. The Fund – targeted at $3 million - will provide early-stage risk capital to emerging energy transition technologies developed through Avatar’s year-long, three-stage platform called ‘The Avatar Program’. Solving for the near absence of risk capital available to early-stage energy technologies in Canada, the Fund will unlock and catalyze investment in the multi-decade decarbonization theme, assisting the energy companies of today, lead in the energy world of tomorrow.
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Azure Capital Partners, which was established 2000, is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in the information technology industry using an investment research approach to venture capital investing.
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We help founders modernize antiquated industries.
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Bioenterprise is a national, non-profit business accelerator, providing scientific and technical expertise, industry knowledge, business services and global connections to help companies with agriculture, agri-food and bio-based products or services be.
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For over 20 years EnerTech’s fundamental focus has been investing and partnering with innovative companies driving change across the energy landscape; with a focus on Mobility, Industry 4.0 and Connected Customer.
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Early stage clean tech VC;$100 M fund 1 (seed-stage) + $300 M Fund 2 (Series A/B)
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Home page of Seattle Venture Capital Firm Flying Fish Partners.
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Graphite Ventures is an early stage “seeding for scale” venture capital firm. Founded in 2008 as MaRS IAF, we are one of Canada’s most active and consistent VC firms, having invested in 200+ companies over the past decade. We invest in early stage B2B SaaS, Fintech, Proptech, Digital Health and capital efficient hardware businesses.
Graphite Ventures
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IA Capital Group is a New York-based private investment firm focused on North America. IA Capital is dedicated to partnering with innovative entrepreneurs in venture and growth capital investments across insurance and fintech. Sectors of interest include insurance technology, insurance services, payments, retirement, asset management, fintech and health adjacent insure tech/fintech.
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Innovate Calgary is where startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, industry and partners take innovation and ideas to business. It takes an ecosystem to drive the commercialization success of an innovation or discovery, and we are here to give..
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iNovia is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build successful technology companies. iNovia's investment team is comprised of experienced founders, company builders and engineers who are devoted to fostering the growth of category-defining businesses across North America. The firm currently manages approximately $450M across multiple early stage funds that seek to capitalize on outstanding investment opportunities in fast-growing companies bringing the next generation of digital platforms and services to market.
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Intergen connects scale-up businesses in Alberta with accomplished senior executives so they can revitalize, rebuild and reimagine our economy.
economy.intergenconnect.com
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Intrinsic Venture Capital is a Canadian SEED-stage venture fund uniquely positioned to support international teams gain a foothold in the North American market. Intrinsic understands the nuances of translating business models to fit the North American landscape. We work with private and public partners across the globe to source and support the best deals. Intrinsic thrives in the uncertainty of the earliest‐stages of the evolution of a startup.
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Koan Capital, led by Founder & General Partner Remi, specializes in investing in transformative early-stage agtech startups. The fund places a strategic emphasis on supporting companies in farm software, artificial intelligence, sensors, robotics, and fermentation, primarily within the Canadian market.
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KJSM Ventures Canada Inc. is a privately held investment corporation.
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Longbow Capital Inc. is a private equity investment management company based in Calgary, Alberta that invests predominantly in the western Canadian energy sector. Longbow maintains a disciplined investment focus and is a long-term strategic partner and an engaged and effective shareholder in a small number of high-growth investments. Longbow has raised approximately $375 million in a series of closed-end limited partnerships since inception in 1997.
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McRock Capital operates as a venture capital firm. The Company provides equity capital for companies at the seed and start-up phase in the technology sector. McRock Capital serves customers in the United States and Canada.
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Panache Ventures is led by a team of experienced operators, with strong angel track records, years of institutional VC experience and a strong network in Canada, in Silicon Valley and worldwide.
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Founded in 2015 with offices in Calgary and London, PillarFour Capital is an Energy-focused Investment Fund and Advisory firm with Global Reach. PillarFour targets investment in Energy Technology Companies focused on reducing carbon intensity in the Oilfield.
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Relay Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in passionate entrepreneurs disrupting mobile computing (from the sensor to the cloud).
Relay Ventures
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ScaleGood fund is a Social Impact Venture Capital VC fund that invests in companies who have the promise of a strong financial return coupled with measurable social impact goals. Impact Investing and Financial Returns is what we’re looking for.
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) helps Canadian companies develop and deploy sustainable technologies by delivering critical funding support at every stage of their journey — from seed to success. This support includes:
Funding the development and demonstration of new environmental technologies.Fostering and encouraging collaboration among organizations in the private sector, academia, the not-for-profit sector and others to develop and demonstrate new technologies.
Promoting the timely diffusion of new technologies across key economic sectors in Canada.
SDTC has three funding streams, Seed Fund, StartUp Fund, and ScaleUp Fund, each with their own unique criteria.
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Women-powered capital building the Financial Feminist Economy.
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Interdisciplinary, by design. A collective vision for a better future.
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Startup TNT is a non-profit organization focused on providing funding and support to local startups from local investors, to help build awesome startups at home. TNT Capital is launching a $5M Seed fund to co-invest in Startup TNT Investment Summit winners and support them through to Series A.
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We are a venture capital firm based in Alberta investing into the future of agriculture and food. Leveraging our deep industry knowledge, connectivity, experience and passion for agriculture, we support the transformational entrepreneurs who are changing our world’s relationship with its food, fuels and fibers.
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Leveraging leading edge research and innovation, the U of A Innovation Fund transform some of the world’s biggest challenges into opportunities to benefit Albertans and global communities; fostering economic growth and economic prosperity. We invest in leading-edge technology startups in the area of AI, health, energy and agriculture to bridge the funding gap, empowering brilliant minds to pursue new ideas that solve the most pressing issues of our time and contribute to the province's prosperity.
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Valhalla Private Capital is one of Canada's most active early-stage investment firms, facilitating over $75m from its network of 120 investors into an estimated 270 early-stage entrepreneurs.
A departure from the working models of consulting organization and development firms, Valhalla Private Capital functions as a catalyst investor and such will only invest when local investors co-invest. The company's decade-spanning experience in program management and international development aims to unlock capital from new investors to support growing entrepreneurs, alongside government and international donors.
Valhalla Private Capital has won a multitude of awards as a result of its programs - including Startup Canada’s ‘Entrepreneur Support Award’ for the Prairies in 2019 - and is home to the National Angel Capital Organization's ‘Angel Investor of the Year’ for both 2018 and 2019, Randy Stewart
Thompson. Canadian governments, universities, and ecosystem partners have also utilized our network and expertise to unlock capital in their respective regions.
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Weave Capital (Weave VC) manages Weave Ventures Fund I, a pre-seed/seed stage venture capital firm focused on Western Canadian opportunities.
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Founded in 2019 with an initial portfolio of eight investments, WATCT invests in startups that believe in a value driven culture. They recently launched their first pooled fund in January 2024. Katie McLean is the Founder and Managing Director of WATCT, an expert start-up growth strategist and angel investor with a background in big tech such as Google and Oracle. They are a diverse team of 24 female investors from Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver and they welcome all women who share their values to join them in the WATCT 2024 fund.
WATCT invests in early stage startups (both female and male led) that meet their criteria for both people and revenue growth. They believe that if companies start by creating a purpose driven, collaborative and inclusive culture they will grow to be more productive and profitable while creating an atmosphere where everyone thrives. WATCT is pleased to be sponsored by Cassels LLP
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Yaletown is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage cleanteach and IT investments in the pacific northwest and western Canada.
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The Alberta Accelerator by 500 Global is a growth-focused program with rotating batches in Edmonton and Calgary, designed with the shared vision of strengthening Alberta as a global hub for tech innovation.
The Alberta Accelerator by 500 is part of the Alberta Scaleup and Growth Accelerator Program (GAP), led by Alberta Innovates. The consortium, which also includes the Ministry of Technology and Innovation, Edmonton Unlimited, and Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan), allocated $35 million over three years to retain business accelerators. It's part of an overall government goal to help create 20,000 jobs and increase technology firm revenue to $5 billion by 2030.
Family Offices
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As a wholly owned subsidiary of Coril Holdings Ltd., a 125-year old, privately owned and operated family business, Band Capital is building on Coril’s tradition and culture of innovation to lead and support the transformations of mature businesses’ through the fourth industrial revolution. Band Capital is pursuing the creation of a Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) strategy. By leveraging a portfolio of venture investments, companies can deliver strategic value to their stakeholders including, but not limited to, expanded workforce capabilities, new markets or distribution channels, early access to new technologies and IP, enhanced deal flow for M&A activities, as well as early competitive insights.
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Bluesky Equities Ltd. is an investment management company with interests in real estate, energy, distilling, technology and alternative strategies including Venture Capital, Hedge Funds and Angel investing. Bluesky is owned by the Hunter family, philanthropists best known for the creation of the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurship at the University of Calgary. Bluesky utilizes an industry agnostic, hands-off investment approach to build a portfolio of non-controlling positions in seed stage companies, which currently stands at 60+ direct investments.
blueskyequities.com
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We are seekers of innovative investment opportunities. To determine sectors or asset classes and when to invest, we analyze the direction in which a trend is moving, rather than where we are right now. By making educated speculations on the future state of technology and the paradigm shifts those technologies cause, we are at the forefront of human progress.
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Established in 2022, we are building a world-class innovation platform in Canada to attract top technology and investment and support Canadian entrepreneurs to scale and grow, hire tech talent, and propel digital transformation across the country. Together with our partners, we are creating a unique ecosystem designed to facilitate meaningful introductions, invest in startups, and bring together key stakeholders.
plugandplaytechcenter.com
Professional Advisors
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Founded by Kristina McDougall in 2013, Artemis Canada has been a trusted partner in the tech recruitment industry, specializing in Executive Search for the Innovation Economy. They've been trusted to build the senior teams of many of today's most impressive tech start-ups and scale-ups.
With a team of ten, they've grown and scaled alongside their clients, expanding their global tech network while nurturing long-standing partnerships with their earliest supporters.
From Waterloo to Silicon Valley to Edmonton, London and beyond, they connect clients with top executive candidates internationally.
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Baressp is a law firm which provides dispute resolution, Canadian inbound and outbound investment, and corporate finance.
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As the largest, truly full-service Canadian law firm, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) delivers practical legal advice for domestic and international clients across more practices and industries than any Canadian firm. With over 725 lawyers, intellectual property agents and other professionals, BLG serves the legal needs of businesses and institutions across Canada and beyond – from M&A and capital markets, to disputes, financing, and trademark & patent registration.
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Blue Ocean Ventures focuses on emerging markets within the Web3 and Metaverse space. Blue Ocean specializes in working with small to medium sized businesses who are ready to reach their full potential.
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Dentons — a global law firm with local expertise — is often serving as a guide for emerging or early-stage companies, helping them secure investment and collaboration that could potentially propel their companies to become Calgary’s next big success story. By providing comprehensive legal advice, Dentons’ Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies group offers many of these growing firms help in securing financing and navigating the complexities of expansion.
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Easly supports innovation across Canada by providing non-dilutive capital to companies that receive investment tax credit (ITC) refunds, such as those awarded through the Scientific Research & Experimental Development Program (SR&ED). Our goal is to help these companies grow by reducing the friction within investment tax credit programs.
www.fundeasly.com
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EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
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Fasken is one of the largest business law firms in Canada with more than 750 lawyers and agents in ten offices on four continents.
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We are an Alberta based and operated Schedule 1 Chartered Bank with aspirations to partner and grow. We have supported over 300,000 Canadians with financial products and services and we are transforming banking to make it work better for people and businesses.
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Gowling WLG is a multinational law firm formed by the combination of Canada-based Gowlings and UK-based Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co in February 2016, in the first multinational law firm combination co-led by a Canadian firm.
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National in scope and local in focus, MNP is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms — proudly serving individuals, businesses, and organizations since 1958. Through the development of strong relationships, we provide client-focused accounting, consulting, tax, and digital services. Our clients benefit from personalized strategies with a local perspective to fuel success at every stage.
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Providing entrepreneurs with accelerated growth through debt financing by utilizing a number of Canadian tax credits such as SRED, IRAP, BCIP, and many more.
okrfinancial.com
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Osler is a leading business law firm practising internationally from offices across Canada and in New.
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Platform Calgary brings together the resources of Calgary's tech ecosystem to help startups launch and grow. Through collaboration and targeted programming, we are a hub and an engine for technology-focused economic diversification and job creation.
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RSM Canada is the Canadian member of RSM International, a global network of independent audit, tax and consulting firms.
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SS&C is a leading global provider of mission-critical, cloud-based software and solutions for the financial and healthcare industries. Named to the Fortune 1000 list as a top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C (NASDAQ: SSNC) is a trusted provider to more than 18,000 financial services and healthcare companies, with over 24,000 employees and operations in 104 cities across 40 countries. Built upon a foundation of expertise, innovation and excellent customer service, SS&C powers some of the largest financial and healthcare firms in the world.
http://www.ssctech.com
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Torys LLP is a Canadian international corporate law firm with offices in Toronto, Calgary, New York, Montreal and Halifax.
torys.com
