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A list of all active VCs in Vancouver
7 Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada and Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups from Seed to pre-Series A in the Technology industry, with a sector focus on Software, SaaS, Cloud Services, Marketplaces, Mobile Apps and Solutions, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, Fintec, and HealthTech. Assembled by a group of serial entrepreneurs specializing in tech, operational expertise, venture capital, 7 Gate Ventures brings key industry connections, decades of international venture-building experience and foresight to effectively strategize, mentor and scale new businesses.
Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver-based early-stage venture capital fund investing in technology inflection points in Analytics, Hard Tech, and Computational Biology.
Versant Ventures is a leading healthcare investment firm committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build the next generation of great companies. The firm’s emphasis is on biotechnology companies that are discovering and developing novel therapeutics. With $2.4 billion under management and offices in the U.S., Canada and Europe, Versant has built a team with deep investment, operating and clinical expertise that enables a hands-on approach to company building. Since the firm’s founding in 1999, more than 70 Versant companies have achieved successful acquisitions or IPOs.
linkedin.comFor over 20 years, Pangaea Ventures has been at the forefront of hard tech innovation. We leverage our expertise to support groundbreaking companies that have the potential to reshape industries and solve for some of the planet's biggest problems.
linkedin.comPender Ventures is a thesis-driven venture capital investor focused on B2B software and health tech startups at the inflection point between commercialization and scale. As hands-on, high-conviction investors, Pender Ventures’ diverse team leverages decades of experience to add operational and strategic value to its portfolio companies.
linkedin.comBDC's 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.
linkedin.comAt Spring Impact Capital, we aim to scale innovations for a more sustainable, healthy and equitable world. We invest in Canadian changemakers at the early stages of their company journeys to promote scalable innovation in planet and human health. Our objective is attractive performance and meaningful impact.
linkedin.comVarshney Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital, merchant banking and corporate advisory services firm with a specialization in public venture capital. The firm's projects and investments are diverse and include resource exploration, real estate, social impact investing, alternative energy, and technology.
linkedin.comChrysalix is a global venture capital fund with a long history commercializing step-change innovation for resource intensive industries. We invest in intelligent systems, energy technology and resource productivity solutions to deliver outsized financial returns and environmental sustainability.
linkedin.comQuark Venture is focused on equity financing of innovative biotechnology and health sciences companies with breakthrough technology platforms and projects. Our strategic goal is to support and enable companies we invest in to grow, create value and be successful by providing not only financial support, but also developmental, infrastructure and expertise support, as needed, through our global network.
linkedin.comPanache Ventures is Canada's most active seed stage venture capital fund. Panache is led by a team of experienced operators, with a strong angel investor track record, years of institutional VC experience and a strong network in Canada, in Silicon Valley and worldwide. The fund has a founders-first philosophy, a commitment to diversity and strategically coinvests with smart angel investors and seed stage funds. If you are going to invest in the best early stage tech startups, better invest with Panache!
linkedin.comRaven Indigenous Capital Partners is the first Indigenous-led and -owned social finance intermediary, investing in Native American- and Indigenous-led startups across the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Vancouver and Albuquerque, Raven focuses on facilitating the flow of capital through impact investing to support the ongoing revitalization of the Indigenous economy. Raven builds relationships with Indigenous communities and entrepreneurs to drive sustainable change.
linkedin.comAt Pioneera Ventures, we specialize in acquiring and transforming lower-middle-market manufacturing companies across Canada. With a focus on high-growth sectors such as clean tech, renewable energy, building materials, advanced materials, and food production, our mission is to revitalize traditional industries by integrating cutting-edge technologies like AI, automation, and data analytics.
linkedin.comThe importance of who you select as your funding partners is one of many critical decisions a founder will make. We know it is entrepreneurial ambition that drives value, not venture capitalists, which is why we appreciate the importance of funder and founder alignment. Our investment is a partnership; we work alongside you to extend your team’s capacity by adding tangible value where we can. Sometimes that’s getting in the trenches and other times it’s having the humility to step back.
linkedin.comLumira Ventures is a leading healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm, investing in innovative entrepreneurs developing best and first-in-class therapeutics & medical technologies across North America. We are engaged partners who support the management teams of companies we invest in to build products that have the potential to allow people to lead fundamentally healthier, longer, and more productive lives.
linkedin.comRenewal Funds is a mission venture capital firm investing in early growth stage companies in Canada and the United States. We add value for entrepreneurs through capital, networks, and expertise. We deliver above market returns for our partners while catalyzing positive social and environmental change.
linkedin.comYaletown Partners is dedicated to closing the emerging-growth stage investment gap faced by technology companies. We invest in technology companies that enhance industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes and achieve strong exit premiums. With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montréal, and San Francisco, Yaletown is led by a team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
linkedin.comTop Down Ventures operates in earlier stage investments, where we can provide the most value. Our focus and passion is on getting your business to the next level through precise execution.
linkedin.comKensington is a Canadian alternative asset manager with offices in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Kensington manages over $2.6 billion of assets invested in private equity, growth equity, venture capital and other complementary alternative strategies. Our purpose is to build great businesses, and in doing so, create top-performing investment solutions for our investors. The Kensington investment platform is designed to provide access to a diversified portfolio of alternative strategies offering strong, risk-adjusted returns and very low correlation to public markets.
linkedin.comGraphite 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 175 companies over the past decade. We invest in early stage B2B SaaS, Fintech, Proptech, Digital Health and capital efficient hardware businesses.
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