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Top 25 Corporate venture capital firms based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 381 corporate venture capital firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,167 professional contacts across them, including 711 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers corporate venture capital firms headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest corporate venture capital firms based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inovia Capital partners with founders to build impactful and enduring global companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Portage is a global investment platform focused on fintech and financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture fund that invests in globally impactful companies united by a common vision of humanity as the highest purpose.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Accélérateur de création d'entreprises technologiques (ACET) est un incubateur-accélérateur d’entreprises spécialisées en haute technologie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help ambitious founders build world-class companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Savvy Capital functions as a premier bridge between visionary businesses and strategic investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Globalive partners with, invests in and builds companies with driven founders who are committed to innovating and developing technology to improve and change industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an investment platform that creates value through innovation, founded on the premise that there is a better way to foster innovation that tackles critical social…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “INNOVATION.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Brightspark Capital is the venture capital firm behind every single investment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PV is a Canadian investment firm that scales technology companies through primary and secondary investments” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yaletown Partners is dedicated to closing the emerging-growth stage investment gap faced by technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “InterGen is a private ScaleUp fund and talent matching program whose founding funders are some of Calgary’s prominent families and engaged corporations and institutions wanting to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lalotte Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, part of the "Mitch Garber & Anne-Marie Boucher" Family Office, investing and empowering entrepreneurs in emerging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2009, Cycle Capital is a leading venture capital firm that manages a platform of seven funds investing in North America and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Launched in 2011, OMERS Ventures is an early-stage tech investor focused on fintech, horizontal software, vertical software, and enterprise infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One of the world's most active corporate venture firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “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.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FRAMEWORK was founded in 2018 and has set the benchmark for active capital investing for early-stage companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Good News Ventures, we invest in Blockchain and AI startups at pre-seed and seed stages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Trusted by B2B Founders, we help build capital-efficient growth companies that “Scale Canadian.” Graphite Ventures is Canada’s seed stage VC partner for exceptional B2B founders…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Panache Ventures is Canada's most active seed stage venture capital fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Highline Beta is a hybrid corporate venture studio and VC firm that evolves the traditional management consulting model to put things into action, not just strategize in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ripple Ventures partners with inception-stage founders building advanced technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: corporate venture capital firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names corporate venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of corporate venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name corporate venture capital firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Corporate venture capital firms based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 381 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among corporate venture capital firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “corporate venture capital firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names corporate venture capital firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among corporate venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 711 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names corporate venture capital firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many corporate venture capital firms are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 381 corporate venture capital firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Inovia Capital, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most corporate venture capital firms?
Toronto leads with 146 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (58) and Montreal (39).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 711 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 381 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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