Calgary Funding Map
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Venture Capital
Yaletown Partners
Yaletown's investment strategy centers on financing the Intelligent Industry opportunity in North America. We capitalize on the convergence of digitalization, transformation, and sustainability trends, targeting equity-based investments in the digital technology stack encompassing software, AI/ML, and IIoT. This approach drives modernization across sectors, emphasizing solutions that enhance productivity, efficiency, and reinvention. Committed to reducing negative environmental impact and fostering climate-resilient growth, our investments align with these principles to create strategic value in the market.
Women at the Cap Table (WATCT)
Founded in 2019 with an initial portfolio of eight investments, Women at the Cap Table , 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.
Weave VC
Weave Capital (Weave VC) manages Weave Ventures Fund I, a pre-seed/seed stage venture capital firm focused on Western Canadian opportunities.
Valhalla Private Capital
Investor-led VC and angel network supporting early-stage startups with funding and mentorship.
UCeed Haskayne Student Fund
The UCeed Haskayne Student Fund (UHSF) is an early-stage venture capital fund operated entirely by a team of top-performing undergraduate and MBA students ...
UA Innovation Fund
The UA Fund is a wholly owned for profit subsidiary of the University of Alberta which was spearheaded by President Bill Flanagan alongside CEO Sheetal Walsh. The Fund offers education, mentoring, funding, and global scale through access to strategic networks and all gains are reinvested to sustain and grow innovation and entrepreneurship at the U of A
TriWest Capital Partners
Private equity and VC firm investing in mid-market and growth-stage companies.
Triptyq
Triptyq Capital is a $41M seed fund focused on investing in pioneering technology companies at the forefront of digital entertainment and interactive media. By supporting innovative startups, the fund aims to capitalize on emerging trends and disrupt traditional landscapes. Triptyq Capital’s strategic investments target founders poised to reshape the future of media and entertainment, offering substantial growth potential in a rapidly evolving industry.
TNT Capital
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 $5M Seed fund to co-invest in Startup TNT Investment Summit winners and support them through to Series A.
Thin Air Labs
We're a venture capital and services firm creating human value by helping early-stage startups scale globally.
The51
The51 is a venture firm and financial ecosystem that unlocks the economic power of women. We inspire and enable women & allies to grow their wealth and ...
TD Bank
The Toronto-Dominion Bank & its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches & serves approximately 22 million customers in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe. Over 85,000 TD employees represent the strongest team in banking. Delivering legendary customer experiences is who we are & is part of being the Better Bank. Visit our Careers page to learn more about TD & why TD is a great place to work.
Tall Grass Ventures
We are a venture capital firm based in Alberta investing into the future of agriculture and food. Leveraging our deep industry knowledge, connectivity, experience and passion for agriculture, we support the transformational entrepreneurs who are changing our world’s relationship with its food, fuels and fibers.
Tailwind Ventures
Tailwind Ventures empowers early- and growth-stage companies to withstand the scrutiny of due diligence and secure capital.
Sprout Fund II LP
Sprout Fund invests in innovative seed-stage technology companies in Western Canada focused on the B2B software market.
Seido Capital
Seido Capital is an early and growth stage healthcare investor active in North America with 150 M$ AuM. Building on 20 years of top-quartile track record, we partner with visionary entrepreneurs to address critical challenges through groundbreaking innovation in biotechnology, medical devices, and AI tools for the life sciences industry.
ScaleGood Fund
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.
Roynat Capital
Roynat Capital is a Canadian financial partner and Scotiabank subsidiary that provides customized financing and equity capital solutions for mid-sized businesses.
Relay Ventures
Relay Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in passionate entrepreneurs disrupting and creating new markets through mobile technologies.
RBC Ventures
Venture capital arm of RBC, investing in innovative tech startups across various sectors.
Portage
Sagard is a global multi-strategy alternative asset management firm active in venture capital, private equity, private credit, and real estate.
PillarFour
Founded in 2015 PillarFour Capital is a global investment fund with offices in Calgary, Canada and London, UK. PillarFour invests in Sustainable, Energy ...
Pender Ventures
Pender Ventures is made up of a group of tech investors with a passion for healthcare. Pender Ventures invests in B2B software and health tech startups at the inflection point between commercialization and scale. The team has decades of experience building startups, investing in entrepreneurs, and shaping tech ecosystems. Pender’s vision is to invest based on fundamental principles: value creation, unit economics, and large market opportunities. Their mission is to build alignment, transparency and focus in everything they do.
Panache Ventures
Canada's leading seed-stage VC, investing in tech startups with high growth potential.
Osney Capital
Osney Capital is a sector specialist venture capital firm, focused exclusively on the early-stage cyber sector. Everything that we do is geared around supporting cyber founders and companies that we invest in, during the very early stages of their growth.
Nimbus Synergies
Nimbus is a $30M Seed fund in Vancouver catalyzing Canadian health technology startups. Nimbus' portfolio companies have collectively generated >$150M in revenue annually and impacted over 10M lives.
NGIF Capital
Accelerating cleantech innovation in natural gas.
National Bank
National Bank Tech and Innovation Banking has been supporting Canadian Tech companies and founders for more than 25 years. NBC works with Tech companies of all stages, from startup all the way through IPO and beyond, we look to offer more customizable solutions to help the industry with their unique financing and banking needs. Additionally, the NBC Tech and Innovation team also works with VC funds to provide financing and fund banking solutions.
Mount Rundle Club
Investing in the future through Creative Destruction Labs (CDL) companies.
Metiquity Ventures
Metiquity Ventures specializes in making pre-seed stage investments to empower bold founders with big ideas. We act as lead investors in B2B SaaS startups, providing the necessary capital, resources, and strategic mentorship essential for transforming innovative concepts into viable businesses. At Metiquity Ventures, we are committed to supporting the next generation of trailblazers on their journey to disrupt industries and change the world.
McRock Capital
Venture capital firm specializing in Industrial IoT and smart technology startups.
Lumira Ventures
Lumira Ventures is a leading multi-stage life sciences investment firm operating across Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, and Boston. As Canada’s largest and most active dedicated life sciences venture capital investor, Lumira invests in first-in-class innovations in “secondary” geographies, partnering with mission-driven entrepreneurs to develop transformative therapeutics products and medical devices while generating strong financial returns and societal impact. With a proven track record, Lumira Ventures has consistently delivered both financial success and transformative medical advancements. With portfolio companies having introduced over 50 biomedical innovations, improving the lives of over 1 billion patients worldwide and generating more than $70B in cumulative revenue.
Luge Capital
Founded in 2018, Luge Capital is an early-stage, fintech-focused venture capital firm. Luge leverages deep domain expertise and extensive industry insights to back the most promising fintech companies in Canada and the U.S. The firm’s strategic base of LPs includes large financial institutions, leading insurance carriers, and big pension funds. We often lead or co-lead investments and have a primary focus on B2B companies.
Longbow Capital
Longbow Capital Inc. is a private equity investment management company based in Calgary, Alberta that invests in the North American energy, power and ...
Koan Capital Corp.
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.
Kensington Capital Partners
VC and private equity firm investing in tech and growth-stage companies.
Intrinsic Venture Capital
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.
Inovia Capital
Venture capital firm investing in tech startups across seed to growth stages.
IA Capital Group
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.
Harvest Ventures
VC firm supporting early-stage tech startups with funding and strategic guidance.
Greensky
GreenSky invests in early stage Canadian technology companies that make a measurable and significant impact in existing B2B value chains. Our investment approach is underpinned by: i) a robust proprietary network for sourcing deal flow, ii) a deep due diligence process that means GreenSky companies are more likely to secure follow-on funding, and iii) a disciplined approach to deal structuring. Our portfolio is concentrated in high conviction companies, which our team supports through inflection points in their businesses.
Graphite Ventures
Graphite Ventures is a Seeding for Scale venture firm, investing at the earliest stages, and setting trajectories to accelerate growth.
General Bank of Canada
General Bank of Canada privately owned Schedule 1 Bank operating in a Group Office across Banking, Insurance, Real Estate
Framework Venture Partners
FRAMEWORK’S model of active capital aims to empower founders with more than a formula for success. FRAMEWORK looks for software companies that align with its thematic focus in Fintech and AI-powered vertical SaaS. Investing at the Series A and Series B stage, characteristics of ideal investment targets include proven product-market fit, compelling unit economics, and capital being raised to develop and/or optimize their go-to-market models or expand such models while exploiting adjacent or ancillary market opportunities. Our primary geographic focus is North America.
Flying Fish Partners
Home page of Seattle Venture Capital Firm Flying Fish Partners.
Evok
Venture capital fund investing in cleantech and energy transition startups.
Enertech
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.
District Ventures Capital
Venture capital arm of District Ventures, investing in consumer packaged goods and health startups.
CIBC Innovation Banking
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.
Burnt Island Ventures
Burnt Island Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage water startups.
Bumble Bees Venture Capital
At Bumble Bees we Invest in Innovative Technology and Companies that Bring Value to our World.
Builders VC
Venture capital firm supporting tech startups with funding and operational expertise.
BMO Capital Partners
Established in 1998, BMO Capital Partners is an evergreen investment fund with $2.1B of committed capital from BMO.
Black Business Ventures Association
BBVA helps Black founders start and grow their businesses.
BDC Venture Capital
Canada's leading VC firm, investing in high-potential tech startups across various stages.
Azure Capital Partners
Venture capital firm focusing on early-stage tech companies with innovative solutions.
AVAC Group
Invests in early-stage agriculture and tech startups, providing funding and strategic support.
Amplitude Ventures
Amplitude unites innovators with the necessary capital and our builder vision to create and scale great companies across two verticals where Canadian innovators are world-leading cellular and targeted therapy + Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We focus on investing in rapidly scaling technology platforms and build the technology, team and investor syndicate to enable companies to grow to public companies within 5-6 years from our initial investment.
AltaML
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.
Alpaca VC
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.
Allied Venture Partners
Allied is an early-stage venture syndicate on a mission to support talented founders solving global problems. We invest in Seed to Series A software and ...
Alberta Enterprise Corporation (AEC)
AEC promotes the development of Alberta's venture capital industry by investing in venture capital funds that finance technology companies. AEC focuses on funds that have a strong commitment to Alberta including a full-time presence in the province.
Accelerate Fund
The Accelerate Fund is a series of early-stage angel co-investment funds in Alberta. We co-invest alongside angel investors in financing rounds and will typically invest up to $500,000 on the same terms and conditions as private investors. We work with formal angel groups, super-angels, family funds, and individual angel investors. Accelerate Fund invests in private, early-stage Alberta companies in life sciences, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence and other emerging opportunities. Accelerate Fund is currently managed by Yaletown Partners with anchor investor Alberta Enterprise Corporation.
Accelerator
Trade Accelerator Program
Helps startups expand globally through mentorship and trade-focused resources.
TELUS Technology Accelerator
Partners with Schulich School of Engineering to bring Canadian innovations to market with funding and mentorship.
Platform Calgary
Platform Calgary brings together the resources of Calgary's tech ecosystem to help startups launch and grow.
InterGen
Supports scaling startups with mentorship and resources to prepare for growth and investment.
Innovate Calgary
We help bridge the gap between discovery and innovation operating as the technology transfer and business-incubation centre for the University of Calgary.
Hatch YYC
Health technology accelerator supporting commercialization of health tech companies in Calgary.
Futurpreneur Canada
Provides financing, mentoring, and support for entrepreneurs aged 18-39, including collateral-free loans up to $20K.
Founder Institute
Global pre-seed accelerator providing structure, feedback, and a network of advisors to turn ideas into fundable startups.
Foresight
Cleantech accelerator supporting sustainable technology startups with mentorship and funding.
Creative Destruction Lab - Rockies
Nine-month program with successful entrepreneurs and investors mentoring founders to accelerate business growth.
CETAC-WEST
CETAC-WEST is a private sector, not-for-profit, facilitator of the commercialization of early-stage environmental technologies in the traditional energy sector.
Biohubx
Industry-facing not-for-profit supporting life sciences ventures with turn-key facilities, networks, and commercialization resources.
Avatar Innovations
Accelerator pairing early-stage energy solutions with customers, capital, and expertise to create investor-ready opportunities.
ATB X Accelerator
Seed funding and mentorship program focused on accelerating fintech and related startups in Calgary.
Amii
As one of Canada's preeminent centres of artificial intelligence, we thrive in our unique role in bridging world-leading research and industry.
Alberta Innovates - Entrepreneurial Investments
Assists high-growth, high-potential SMEs to reduce commercialization time through funding and support programs.
A100
Non-profit, member-driven organization of tech entrepreneurs volunteering to mentor the next generation, fostering growth in Calgary's tech ecosystem.
Family Office
Zinc Ventures
Zinc Ventures manages and safeguards business and community investments.
Werklund
Venture capital firm investing in innovative startups, particularly in education and tech.
Viewpoint Investment Partners
Viewpoint Investment Partners is a Calgary based boutique investment management firm founded in 2016 by Rob and Mac Van Wielingen. The company manages both public and private assets on behalf of the founding family, external family offices, institutions, and private investors. We invest by taking a data-driven approach based on first-principles financial theory leveraging human expertise with innovative technology. While our primary operations are in liquid, public markets, as part of our stewardship framework we apply our processes to direct, early stage angel investing on behalf of the founding family.
Trimac
Trimac Transportation provides bulk trucking transportation services, as well as related distribution and management services, throughout North America. Founded in 1945, Trimac has stood the test of time, becoming North America’s premier provider of services in highway transportation of bulk commodities. Our National Tank Services division operates a network of maintenance and wash facilities, providing a wide range of services which include maintenance of tractors, trailers and cargo tanks as well as internal and external washing of trailing equipment. Our logistics services, Bulk Plus Logistics, provide customers with the ability to outsource logistics functions and focus on core competencies. We provide one-stop logistics solutions, transload, warehousing and freight management services.
Plug and Play Canada
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.
Inverted Ventures
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.
Bluesky Equities
Bluesky Equities Ltd. is an investment management company with interests in real estate, energy, distilling, technology and alternative strategies.
Aperture
Aperture is a Calgary-based family office focused on early-stage investment in North American tech companies. Over the last several years, Aperture has grown their portfolio to over 50 companies in the fields of energy, deeptech, and software. They are actively seeking pre-seed and seed investment opportunities in Alberta and across the continent.
Adventure Capital
Adventure Capital, founded in 2008, is a Family Office comprised of entrepreneurs that invest in early stage SaaS and alternative business models.
