Startup Funding in North America

Central hub of Calgary's innovation ecosystem; rebranded from Calgary Technologies Inc. in 2019; took over Startup Calgary in 2021.

Created 2020; Startup Edmonton now operates as a program of Edmonton Unlimited.

U of Calgary's tech-transfer and incubation arm for 30+ years; formed 2010 from University Technologies International.

Crown corporation; surpassed $1B of VC into Alberta tech by 2021.

Launched 2020; co-founded by James Lochrie, Jim Gibson, Greg Hart. Portfolio: Reverb Therapeutics, Ayrton Energy, Garden Loft.

Founded 2019 by Judy Fairburn, Shelley Kuipers, Alice Reimer. 200+ ventures funded, $71M+ activated; 81% women CEOs.

$23M+ angel matching fund series anchored by Alberta Enterprise Corp.

Formed 2019; received $750K from Alberta Innovates for its AI-powered Science Park platform.

Province of Alberta's innovation engine, ~$250M budget.

BC's largest/longest-running tech competition; since 2000, 4,000+ ventures, $3.4B+ raised.

Canada's largest cleantech accelerator; by its 10th year ventures had raised $1.5B+.

B Corp; supported 750+ entrepreneurs, 350+ businesses.

Founded 2017; worked with 2,500+ startups across 5 countries.

Supported ~800 UBC ventures; Innovation UBC reports 284+ spin-offs, $8.4B+ raised.

Launched at U of T Rotman 2012; CDL-Vancouver ventures generated $6.69B+ equity value (2025).

~$600M AUM; $250M Innovation Growth Fund III (2025). 75+ companies, ~$10B combined enterprise value.

$500M+ AUM. Hard tech, AI/analytics, computational biology. Notable: D-Wave, Canalyst, Recon Instruments.

Part of PenderFund. Fund II $100M CAD (2024). Notable: Copperleaf (IPO), Jane Software, DrugBank.

Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund. $120M Fund III (2024). Notable: Thinkific, Klue, Article, FISPAN.

~C$240M AUM across three funds. Early-growth impact investor. Notable: Miovision, Swiftly, Aquatic Informatics.

B Corp; Canada's largest climate tech seed fund. Fund III $110M CAD (2025), $180M+ AUM.

Saskatchewan's tech incubator; 200+ SK startups incubated.

Powered by Conexus Credit Union; 100+ startups incubated.

Houses North America's largest FabLab (~$4M equipment); 280+ companies, 1,700+ jobs.

Largest angel network in Western Canada; $48M+ across 170+ deals.

Supports Canadian science/tech startups across cleantech, health, fintech, enterprise.

2,450+ startups supported, $2.94B+ raised; among the world's top university incubators.

Central convenor of Waterloo Region's tech ecosystem.

500+ startups, ~$40B combined value; alumni: ApplyBoard, North, Vidyard, Mappedin.

Alumni raised $2B+; incl. Wealthsimple, Borrowell, Clio, KOHO, 1Password.

Founded 2016 by Marcus Daniels; ~$20M fund led by RBC. Partners: RBC, Intuit, Mattel, Colgate-Palmolive.

Founded 2017; one of the world's fastest-growing tech festivals.

National not-for-profit; 2026 NEXT AI Toronto cohort selected 18 ventures.

Paused 2024; relaunch being staffed as of late 2025. Not running active cohorts in 2026.

First Canadian accelerator focused exclusively on enterprise cloud / SaaS.

Lead economic development agency for Ottawa; manages Bayview Yards.

Leading Canadian hardware founder community; 4,000+ ventures, $420M+ raised since 2011.

Not-for-profit RIC; worked with 800+ innovation companies.

Durham's RIC for early-stage/pre-revenue tech; Startup Visa partner.

Toronto chapter of the world's largest pre-seed accelerator network.

Top Canadian deep-tech incubator at ÉTS; robotics, AI, cybersecurity, medtech.

Concordia University's incubator; 600+ startups across AI, life sciences, robotics, fintech.

Quebec venture studio pioneer; 30+ ventures valued $700M+. Fund IV $37M CAD (2025). Notable: SPORTLOGiQ, WRNCH.

Toronto-based (U of T / Vector Institute affiliated). Launched June 2025 to build 50 AI companies; led by Daniel Wigdor.

Founded 1999; serves all provinces with non-dilutive R&D funding.

Halifax's flagship startup hub; pivoted to an AI-first innovation hub / AI Residency model.

Formerly Propel ICT (2003); 350+ companies supported, $1.5B+ raised.

Founded 2013; serves IT, biotech, engineering, food & beverage; newcomer founder program.

Established 1997; 1,000+ tech startups supported, $85M+ raised by clients.

Atlantic Canada's innovation hub for BIPOC/racialized entrepreneurs; 2,000+ members.

~CAD $2.5B AUM; 10 unicorns. Portfolio: Lightspeed, Hopper, Sonder, AlayaCare.

~$325M across five funds; Clearco, Sonder, Blockstream.

Sector-agnostic seed fund; Fund V ~USD $100M (2024); ~CAD $355M+ across funds.

Fund V (CAD $108M) + Opportunities Fund III (CAD $41M); AI, robotics, deep tech.

~CAD $355M+ deployed; mobile, proptech, fintech, sportstech; 130+ companies.

VC arm of OMERS pension; Fund IV USD $750M. Shopify (early), Hootsuite, Wave.

Growth equity for AI/B2B software; latest flagship fund ~CAD $1.4B; in-house AI Lab.

Investment arm of BDC; ~CAD $4B AUM; Canada's most active early-stage VC. Specialized Seed, Climate, Life Sciences, Deep Tech funds.

~USD $1.8B AUM incl. $650M early-stage and $800M AI growth funds. Founded by Jordan Jacobs, Tomi Poutanen.

Third fund CAD $101M. Early-stage B2B FinTech and Enterprise SaaS. Spun out of RBC.

Fund II first close exceeded $100M ($250M target); vertical SaaS and AI platforms.

$150M+ CAD AUM; one of Canada's most active pre-seed/seed funds. Offices in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver.

~134 companies incl. 10 unicorns. Substack, Census, Humi, Fellow. Waterloo Engineering operators.

SF-HQ'd but invests exclusively in founders with Canadian roots. Founded by Andre Charoo. Neo Financial, Ritual, ResQ, AutoLeap.

~$450M across 3 funds and 27 SPVs; latest fund $100M. Hopper (unicorn), Brickeye, Nudge.

$180M+ AUM; Fund II $96M CAD. Early-stage fintech; LPs incl. La Caisse, BDC, iA.

Part of Sagard; ~$6.4B AUM. Fund III USD $655M, among the largest early-stage fintech funds.

Canada's largest life sciences VC; Fund IV USD $220M. Offices in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Boston.

Precision medicine VC (biology + AI). Fund II CAD $263M (2024); $500M+ AUM. Spinout of BDC's healthcare team.

Biotech VC (pre-clinical/clinical). ~CAD $345M across three funds.

30+ year firm; B2B software, MedTech, food-tech. Fund V CAD $140M; ~CAD $365M AUM.

Vertical software, ecommerce, AI. ~$300M fund; Fund III $200M first close (2023). 53+ companies.

Tech growth/private credit; ~CAD $900M raised across five funds. Targets $10M-$100M revenue companies.

'Capital + Connections' B2B investor; ~CAD $100M fund. Coconut Software, Rewind, Nylas, Dooly.

Fund II $30M initial close. Invests in women-led companies (woman in C-level). Coconut Software, Bridgit, Tealbook.

Canada's first student-run VC, ~$5.5M. At least one founder must be a student. Launched by Real Ventures.

Deep tech fund by Eva Lau and Allen Lau (Wattpad co-founders). Fund III $41M CAD (2023).

Early-stage VC for Canadian founders; ~70 companies. Software, proptech, fintech, AI, healthtech.

~$65M AUM across 4 funds; 44 investments. Spring Loaded, Affinio, ProcedureFlow.

Atlantic Canadian pre-seed fund ~$18M; 50% Nova Scotia / 50% Atlantic mandate.

Manages Venture Newfoundland & Labrador funds (~$30M); $20M third fund secured. IT and medtech.

~1,000+ companies/year. Alumni: Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Coinbase, Reddit. Portfolio $600B+.

One of the largest pre-seed investors globally; thousands of companies accelerated.

VC firm ~$2.3B AUM (formerly 500 Startups); thousands of companies globally.

150+ companies (Postmates, Cruise, Buffer); ranked #1 US accelerator in MIT/Brown study.

Leading enterprise/B2B-focused accelerator in Silicon Valley.

Nationally ranked accelerator network; industry-agnostic.

Global zero-equity nonprofit; thousands of startups supported.

Portfolio: Apptronik, Saronic, Paradromics, Colossal.

Reported as the world's most active startup accelerator (~929 deals/year).

320+ startups; ~$38M fund; $800M+ follow-on facilitated.

World's most active deep tech VC; ~$1.4B AUM; ~1,000 startups across 56 countries.

310 graduates (2015-2025) raised $3.6B. First biotech program with on-site labs + pre-seed capital.

440 HAX startups backed; $11B total portfolio value.

World's largest pre-seed accelerator; 9,000+ companies, $2B+ raised.

Operating since 2013; recruits early-stage startups twice yearly.

Early backer of Dollar Shave Club, Ring, Honey; no relocation required.

Pear VC backed DoorDash, Gusto, Guardant Health, Aurora Solar.

Founded by Ali Partovi; $1B+ AUM.

2,300+ fellows started 650+ companies raising $800M+ (a16z, Founders Fund, KP, General Catalyst).

400+ startups since 2011; alumni raised $2B+. TripleLift, Glia, Thirty Madison.

Founded by Kevin Ryan; companies incl. MongoDB, Business Insider, Gilt, Zola, Nomad Health.

430+ companies funded, ~$1B follow-on (NEA, a16z, Salesforce Ventures).

Founded by Garrett Camp (Uber, StumbleUpon); 100+ companies/investments. Metabase, Current.

Founded by Jack Abraham; $750M+ AUM. Built Hims & Hers, OpenStore, Bungalow, Replicant.

Founded by Mike Jones; built Dollar Shave Club, Liquid Death, Grove Collaborative.

Founded by John Borthwick; built Giphy, Bitly, Chartbeat, TweetDeck; invested in Venmo, Kickstarter, Medium.

Founded by Cameron Teitelman; 1,300+ companies, 20+ unicorns.

Silicon Valley landing pad for Central Eurasian founders; its Road to Battlefield competition drew 485 applicants and sent 4 startups to TechCrunch Disrupt.

World's largest cleantech accelerator; 2,100+ startups since 2005, $3B+ raised by alumni.

Founded by Magnus Grimeland; one of the world's most active early-stage investors.

DEFUNCT, parent AstraLabs filed Chapter 11 (Mar 2023), converted to Chapter 7 liquidation. Listed for reference only.

~$100B+ AUM. Coinbase, Airbnb, Stripe, Instagram, Slack, GitHub, Databricks, OpenAI.

~$56-85B AUM. Apple, Google, NVIDIA, Stripe, Airbnb, WhatsApp, DoorDash, Snowflake.

~$20B AUM. Facebook, Slack, Atlassian, Dropbox, Spotify, CrowdStrike, Vercel.

~$3.5B+ AUM. Airbnb, LinkedIn, Figma, Coinbase, Workday, Discord, Okta.

~$9.4B AUM. Uber, eBay, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Dropbox, Discord.

~$17B AUM. SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI, Stripe, Affirm, Nubank.

~$21B AUM. Google, Amazon, Genentech, Slack, Uber, Figma.

~$25B AUM. Anthropic, Wiz, Mistral AI, Snap, Faire, Rubrik.

~$20B AUM. Shopify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twilio, Toast, Wix.

$43B+ AUM. Stripe, Airbnb, Snap, HubSpot, Anduril, Anthropic, Ramp.

$27B+ AUM. Salesforce, Uber, Cloudflare, Robinhood, Databricks.

~$13B AUM. Figma, Discord, Datadog, Roblox, Notion, Revolut, Wiz.

~$90B AUM. Shopify, Twitter, Wiz, Monday.com, Qualtrics.

~$15B AUM. OpenAI, Stripe, DoorDash, Affirm, GitLab, Commonwealth Fusion.

~$13B AUM; ~400 active companies. Uber, Stripe, Slack, Harvey, Isomorphic Labs.

~$6.9B+ AUM; 450+ companies over 40 years. Coupa, Glassdoor.

~$12-15B AUM; 47 unicorns. Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Affirm, Slack, Cruise.

~$50B AUM. Instagram, Stripe, OpenAI, Spotify, Slack. Founded by Joshua Kushner.

~$5.6B AUM; 33 unicorns. Uber, Roku, Netlify, Anthropic.

~$4.5B AUM; 48 unicorns. Snowflake, Twilio, Pure Storage, Stripe.

~$4.3B AUM. Twitter, Airtable, DoorDash, Bird. Seed and Series A focus.

$15.5B+ AUM; 700+ companies across tech, healthcare, consumer.

$4.1B+ AUM; 31 unicorns. Shopify, Canva, Notion, n8n. ~94% Seed/Series A.

$3.3B AUM. Founded by David Sacks and Bill Lee. Airbnb, Uber, Slack, Supabase, ElevenLabs.

$6B+ AUM. Founded by Joe Lonsdale; logistics, defense, enterprise, healthcare.

Fintech-focused; ~$12B AUM. Robinhood, Coinbase, Nubank, Credit Karma.

Fintech specialist by Capital One veterans. Nubank, Credit Karma, SoFi, Klarna, Remitly.

Fintech specialist (~$1B AUM); 100+ companies. Affirm, Plaid, Acorns.

Leading crypto/web3 firm ~$12-13B AUM. Uniswap, Optimism, Blur, Lido.

Crypto/blockchain firm ~$5B AUM. Backed by a16z, Sequoia, USV, Founders Fund.

Early-stage crypto 'user-owned web' thesis; $450M third fund. Uniswap, Magic Eden, Polygon.

Founded by Chris and Crystal Sacca. Commonwealth Fusion, Crusoe, Solugen, Antora.

$1B+; founded/backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos. Requires ≥500M tons CO2/yr potential.

$4.5B+ AUM; energy transition; coalition model with utility/corporate LPs.

~$1B AUM; Fund III $275M. Early-stage climate; often first institutional investor.

~$2B AUM; 100% climate (Simons family). Strict no-fossil-fuels rule.

~$2B+ AUM. Deep tech across climate, energy, bio, defense, manufacturing.

~$9B+ AUM. Co-founds life/physical sciences companies. Illumina, Juno, Alnylam.

Raised $3.6B in 2024. Founder of Moderna; Generate:Biomedicines, Tessera. Founded by Noubar Afeyan.

$1.1B fund (2024) to create ~10 biotechs; 73 companies, 26 marketed products.

~$18-20B AUM; one of the world's largest healthcare investors. 130+ venture-backed IPOs.

Founded by Kirsten Green; ~$3B AUM. Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Glossier, Chime.

Consumer-only VC co-founded by Howard Schultz and Dan Levitan. eBay, Zulily, Allbirds.

~$7B AUM; deeptech/frontier science. Fund IX $1.5B (2026). Anduril, Hugging Face, Runway.

~$2B+ AUM; transforming the physical economy (manufacturing, logistics, energy).

Enterprise SaaS specialist. Fund VII $1B (2025). Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva, Bill.com.

~$2.8B across eight funds; 380+ companies. Bill.com, DocuSign.

'First investor for technical founders'; $900M+ in 2025. Datadog, HashiCorp, Temporal, Modal.

Founded by Sarah Guo (2022). Fund II $230M. Harvey, Mistral, Sierra, Baseten.

AI fund ~$252M; partners incl. Richard Socher, Christopher Manning. Hugging Face, Perplexity.

Founded by Charles Hudson; institutional pre-seed pioneer, 400+ investments. Fund IV $140M.

Founded by Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn; invests 'hilariously early' with fast decisions.

Formerly SoftTech VC (Jeff Clavier); original seed fund. SendGrid, LaunchDarkly, Tailscale, Postmates.

Founded by Josh Kopelman; seed pioneer. Uber, Square, Notion, Roblox. Known for The Review.

Co-founded by Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian; 28 unicorns. Coinbase, Instacart, Reddit, Flexport.

Founded by Hunter Walk and Satya Patel. Chime, Plaid, Cruise, Gusto. Now invests solo GP capital.

Founded by Ron Conway; 800+ companies, 80+ unicorns. Airbnb, Slack, Affirm, OpenAI, Databricks.

Generalist; ~$1B invested. Venmo, Airtable, Robinhood. ~$275M Fund VI + $60M Creator Fund.

Founded by Seth Berman and Chad Byers; 13 unicorns. Robinhood, Flexport, Viz.ai.

Backed solely by Bloomberg L.P.; ~$450M AUM. Machine intelligence and future of work.

Network-effects fund; ~$450M, ~300 companies. Runs Signal fundraising platform for founders.

Anchored by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg; ~$500M AUM, 9 unicorns.

$250M Fund VII (2025), ~$1.1B AUM. Inception-stage enterprise/AI. Snyk, Clay, Protect AI, CrewAI.

$500M AUM across four funds; Fund IV $185M (2025). Dedicated pre-seed firm.

Post-seed pioneer; $250M+ across funds, 100+ companies. FanDuel, Braze, IPSY, Life360.

Seed-only, sector-agnostic; ~$95M Fund V. 11 unicorns. Uber, Airtable, The Trade Desk, Whoop.

$260M across two funds (2023). Founded by Aileen Lee (coined 'unicorn'). Drata, Guild Education.

Micro-VC pioneer (Mike Maples Jr., Ann Miura-Ko). Early in Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta.

Founded by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, Michael Ma. 30+ unicorns. GitLab, Rippling, Anduril, Whatnot.

~$1B AUM, 1,000+ companies, 30+ unicorns. Deel, Rippling, Ramp, Razorpay, Cognition.

$425M across two funds (2023); 600+ companies, 33 unicorns. Ramp, Plaid, Cursor, Clay, Ro.

First dedicated pre-seed fund in NYC (Nicholas Chirls, Alex Lines). Clay, Livepeer, Spruce.

Founded by Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg (Flatiron Health). Self-funded, no outside LPs; no board seats.

Solo-GP fund by Turner Novak (host of 'The Peel'). BeReal, Substack, Replit, Linktree, Anduril.

Anchors the StartupCincy coalition; runs a regional VC fund of funds.

Florida's leading accelerator; 501(c)(3); 600+ startups since 2013.

Named Top Private Business Incubator in the World by UBI Global (2019); 17 unicorns, $3.5B+ raised.

Largest independent hardtech/manufacturing innovation center in the US; ~$6M equipment.

Formed 2017; previously operated the HX Venture Fund (fund of funds).

Charlotte fintech hub; banking partners Wells Fargo, Bank of America. 53%+ founders of color or women.

Google for Startups Tech Hub; 'Startup Capital of the South' (CNBC); 275+ startups.

North America's largest climatetech incubator; 500+ startups.

Scaled the Cyclotron Road model (Lawrence Berkeley Lab); fellows surpassed $1B in follow-on.

Roosevelt Island campus; 120+ companies from Runway, $1B+ combined valuation.

Founded 1963; oldest/largest urban research park in the US; healthcare/medtech focus.

NVC launched 160+ companies incl. Grubhub, Braintree, Simple Mills; $4B+ exits.

UC Berkeley's flagship accelerator; top-five US university accelerator (Forbes); $24M+ fund.

Founded 2008; one of the earliest US accelerators; AlphaLab Health JV with AHN.

Formerly TechColumbus; 1,400+ startups supported, $3.3B economic impact; among most active VCs in the Great Lakes.

Founded 2016; for minority, women, LGBTQ+ founders; 120+ startups, $15M+ raised.

'America's Seed Fund'; $4B+ annually in non-dilutive R&D funding.

One of the largest US angel networks (~400 members); 540+ companies since 1997, $300M+ deployed.

One of the largest angel networks for women-led companies; 275+ companies, $200M+ invested.

Founded 1994; first organized high-tech angel group in the US. 500+ companies, early PayPal, Lending Club.

State-backed nonprofit hub; launched $70M InvestTN fund; statewide network of entrepreneur centers.

Halal/ethical focus. Toronto-based; ~8 companies across ecommerce, education, Islamic finance, halal lifestyle (Marhaba DeFi, Quran Era).

Muslim-focused founder/investor community + investment arm. Co-founded by Arshan Ahmad.

Invests in startups solving problems for Muslim communities; provides intellectual, social, and financial capital at seed.

World's largest crowdfunding platform for Muslims; $688M+ raised from 2.1M+ donors. Donation/reward-based, not equity.

Muslim-focused grantmaking; $7M+ distributed. Funds civic/creative leadership (nonprofits, leaders, artists, journalists) rather than for-profit startups.

Leading Canadian Islamic fintech; $100M+ halal mortgages. Serves Muslim consumers' finance/investing needs (not a startup investor).

Shariah-compliant halal mortgage provider; Islamic-finance ecosystem org serving Muslim communities (not a startup investor).

Note: the co-op housing program is not currently accepting new applications, verify before applying. Roots in North America's first Islamic financial institution (1980); Ansar Financial (CSE: AFD) is its first interest-free public company, $85M+ managed.