Accelerate Fund II

Co-invests alongside Angel investors in financing rounds in private, early stage Alberta companies in knowledge-based industries including.

Verdex Capital

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.

Azure Capital Partners

Investing in early stage technology companies that are at the forefront of a transformative opportunity for growth. 

Bioenterprise Capital

Focuses exclusively on innovative global agricultural technology. Targeting high growth potential companies from seed capital through to mature expansion opportunities.

Builders VC

An early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries including healthcare, agriculture, industrials, and real-estate.

BDC Venture Capital

BDC Venture Capital is an investor of choice focusing on venture funds as well as IT, healthcare, and energy/clean technology companies with high growth potential.

EnerTech Capital

A pioneer in energy and clean energy, investing since 1996, is a firm focused on funding energy technology ventures that address the global opportunity for cleaner, cheaper and more efficient energy usage. 

Evok Innovations

A first of its kind investment partnership uniting Canada's oil and gas companies with the BC Cleantech CEO Alliance to fund and accelerate the development and commercialization of transformative energy solutions. 

Inovia Capital

Believes value is a process, not an outcome. It evolves as we discover and refine what connects us – both in celebrating wins and overcoming setbacks. It grows as we free ourselves from old patterns and circumstances.

McRock Capital

A venture capital firm focused exclusively on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).  McRock invests in companies throughout Canada and the US that are providing software solutions to enable the digital oilfield, grid automation, advanced manufacturing and smart city markets.

Panache Ventures

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 co-invests with smart angel investors and seed stage funds.

RBCx

RBCx is a full-service, market-leading platform to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey at every stage of growth – providing access to a complete suite of capital solutions, innovative products and services, and operational expertise to help technology companies scale.

Relay Ventures

An early stage capital firm focused exclusively on mobile software, services, technology and content. Since its inception in 2008, Relay has maintained an exclusive focus on mobile and today one in two smartphones in the world run software from Relay portfolio companies.

Intergen

InterGen was founded with a belief that the talent and expertise responsible for making Alberta the economic envy of the entire continent for the last twenty years can be leveraged to build the companies that will define the next twenty years – and beyond. We have a massive well of business talent that can lend its expertise to scale-up companies in the next-gen economy.

UCeed Investment Funds

Managed by Innovate Calgary, UCeed is a philanthropically powered pre-seed/seed-stage group of investment funds with a mandate to help the most promising early-stage companies bridge the gap between innovation and commercialization.

Longbow Capital

Longbow Capital Inc. is a private equity investment manager based in Calgary, Alberta that invests in energy, power, infrastructure, and technology.

Since its founding in 1997, Longbow has been a long-term strategic partner and an engaged and effective shareholder in over 150 high-growth investments.

KJSM Ventures

A privately held investment corporation focused in both private and public companies, venture capital, real estate and alternative investments.

Motiv

Motiv is a leading venture builder with over a decade of experience, driven by our mission to make the world a better place through innovation. We specialize in building, launching, and scaling high-growth technology ventures, focusing on B2B/enterprise software, particularly in SaaS, data & analytics, and AI.

We partner with experienced founders and organizations across Canada, the US, Brazil, the UK, and the EU. Our multidisciplinary team provides hands-on support throughout the entire venture lifecycle, leveraging proven systems and technologies to accelerate growth and reduce risk.

Motiv takes an industry-agnostic approach to venture building, working across diverse sectors. Our global ecosystem—comprised of entrepreneurs, corporates, investors, governments, non-profits, and post-secondary institutions—enables us to foster meaningful collaborations, leverage diverse expertise, and access critical resources. This ensures the ventures we support are well-positioned for long-term success

Yaletown Venture Partners

Backed by leading institutional investors and a network of successful technology entrepreneurs, executives, and angel investors, Yaletown leverages its network to seek out the most promising early stage Cleantech and IT companies in Western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest.

Inverted Ventures

Inverted Ventures is a group of investors with a passion for technology that radically improves the human experience. We finance revolutionary, disruptive trends that will lead to fundamental changes in the way people live their lives. By investing where others aren't looking, Inverted Ventures generates alpha that is hiding in plain sight.

Amplitude VC

Amplitude is a full-stack venture capital firm using a unique growth model to build Canadian companies with world-class management teams and scale companies to breakout potential. With over $300M under management and offices in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Amplitude applies a proven, evidence- based approach to investing in leading precision medicine companies.

Bluesky Equities

Bluesky Equities is a privately-owned, absolute-return focused, investment management company.

We are unconstrained in our approach, investing in public and private markets with a focus on alternative assets including venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, and real estate.

Graphite Ventures

Graphite Ventures is a Canadian early-stage seeding for scale venture capital firm. Graphite invests in early-stage B2B SaaS, fintech, proptech, digital health and capital-efficient hardware companies.

Founded in 2021 as an evolution of MaRS IAF, we are one of Canada’s most active and consistent VC firms, having invested in 200+ companies over the past decade.

The 51

By uniting Canada’s untapped women’s wealth, The51 is creating a new critical mass of women investors, making Canada the centre for women-powered capital. With 30% of Alberta’s tech start-ups founded or co-founded by women, The51’s home province is well on its way to achieving this goal; however, with women-founded startups only receiving 2.3% of venture capital available world-wide, The51’s vision spans globally.

Thin Air Labs

We invest in very early-stage innovation through our venture capital arm, help founders succeed with impact services and nurture the innovation ecosystem through our connection to community builders and ecosystem partners.

Flying Fish Partners

Flying Fish Ventures brings together three partners who have contributed to the Seattle tech scene for over 25 years.

The Fund invests in early stage, Pacific Northwest-based, artificial intelligence and machine learning startups.

Sustainable Development Technology Canada

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.

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

BLG is the largest Canadian full-service law firm focusing on business law, litigation and intellectual property solutions. They provide bilingual services in virtually every area of law and represents a wide range of regional, national and multinational organizations. 

RSM Canada

RSM is the leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services to the middle market. RSM has over 11,000 employees across Canada and the U.S. and a global presence in 120 countries.

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Osler is a leading business law firm uniquely positioned to advise Canadian, U.S. and international clients on an array of domestic and cross-border legal issues. We are recognized for providing business-critical advice and counsel in key industry sectors, and in transactions and litigation for some of the world’s largest enterprises

Blue Ocean

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.

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.

Women at the Cap Table (WATCT)

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