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Top 25 Early-stage investment firms based in Canada

RevenueBase identified 506 company matches for early-stage investment firms associated with Canada as of October 2026 and tracks 4,204 professional contacts across them, including 1,163 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers company matches for early-stage investment firms associated with Canada, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed October 1, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, 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.

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506Companies
4,204Contacts tracked
1,163Verified emails
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The 25 largest early-stage investment firms based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 506 company matches for early-stage investment firms based in Canada, ordered by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase, largest first. Recorded Oct 1, 2026. The RevenueBase SmartSearch column shows Exact match membership in this saved search. Click a contact count to view that company's people. Totals use company locations recorded by RevenueBase; the displayed preview is a smaller selection.
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1Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202651-200515 contacts →

Exact match

“Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Oct 1, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
2Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 2026n/a351 contacts →

Exact match

“Loyal is a venture fund designed to reduce the risk and illiquidity of the asset class.”

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3Exact matchMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-50119 contacts →

Exact match

“You have a technological innovation and are looking for help to launch and grow your company?”

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4Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-50106 contacts →

Exact match

“Founded in 1996, BEST Funds is a leading Canadian venture capital firm.”

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5Exact matchMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202651-20089 contacts →

Exact match

“Inovia Capital partners with founders to build impactful and enduring global companies.”

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6Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5086 contacts →

Exact match

“The strategic gateway for global expansion.”

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7Exact matchDartmouth, NS, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5066 contacts →

Exact match

“CEED (Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Development) empowers entrepreneurs across Nova Scotia to start, grow and scale businesses by providing personalised pathways…”

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8Exact matchWaterloo, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5052 contacts →

Exact match

“Among the World's Top 5 Private Business Accelerators Since 2017.”

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9Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5051 contacts →

Exact match

“The Hatchery is invested in building a strong entrepreneurial community at the University of Toronto.”

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10Exact matchMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5049 contacts →

Exact match

“À La base entrepreneuriale HEC Montréal nous avons pour mission d'inspirer et de propulser la relève en entrepreneuriat technologique et d'impact ici, et dans le monde.”

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11Exact matchMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5046 contacts →

Exact match

“MKB is a North American private investment firm that specializes in providing growth equity to companies driving innovation in the energy, transportation, built environment…”

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12Exact matchVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5044 contacts →

Exact match

“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.”

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13Exact matchSherbrooke, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5044 contacts →

Exact match

“L’Accélérateur de création d'entreprises technologiques (ACET) est un incubateur-accélérateur d’entreprises spécialisées en haute technologie.”

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14Exact matchSt John’s, NL, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5044 contacts →

Exact match

“We help ambitious founders build world-class companies.”

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15Exact matchKanata, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202651-20033 contacts →

Exact match

“Wesley Clover is a private, global investment management firm and holding company.”

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16Exact matchFredericton, NB, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5030 contacts →

Exact match

“INNOVATION.”

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17Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5029 contacts →

Exact match

Recorded description not available.

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18Exact matchVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5029 contacts →

Exact match

“The New Ventures BC (NVBC) Society’s mandate is to recognize, encourage, and develop entrepreneurship and innovation in B.C.’s start-up technology sector.”

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19Exact matchToronto, ON, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 20261-1028 contacts →

Exact match

“PV is a Canadian investment firm that scales technology companies through primary and secondary investments”

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20Exact matchVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5026 contacts →

Exact match

“Yaletown Partners is dedicated to closing the emerging-growth stage investment gap faced by technology companies.”

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21Exact matchCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 20261-1026 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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22Exact matchMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 20261-1026 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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23Exact matchCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5024 contacts →

Exact match

“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 at the University of…”

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24Exact matchMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5024 contacts →

Exact match

“Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies.”

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25Exact matchVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ recorded Oct 1, 202611-5023 contacts →

Exact match

“Empowered Startups is an innovative startup incubator and foundry focused on innovation and transnational migration.”

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Early-stage investment firms based in Canada at a glance

As of Oct 1, 2026
27.7%Verified-email coverage
8.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
36.4%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Oct 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
394
11-50
102
51-200
8
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
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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 506 companies.

How this list was built

The recorded descriptions help you assess these company matches. Check a company’s website for its current services and locations.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Company records associated with Canada whose business descriptions match “early-stage investment firms” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
RevenueBase SmartSearch
Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
Public preview
The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Where headquarters information is recorded, preview rows are also filtered to this page’s location. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
Match quality
RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
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 displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 1,163 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. 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 October 1, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Record context
Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?

RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “early-stage investment firms”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.

How many early-stage investment firms are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 506 company matches for early-stage investment firms associated with Canada as of October 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.

What is the largest company on this list?

Creative Destruction LAB tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.

Which city has the most early-stage investment firms?

Toronto leads with 184 company records, followed by Vancouver (79) and Montreal (44).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 1,163 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 506 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on October 1, 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 SmartSearch, 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.