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Top 25 Early-stage investment firms based in Canada

RevenueBase identified 507 early-stage investment firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 4,205 professional contacts across them, including 1,163 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers early-stage investment 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 14, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
507Companies
4,205Contacts 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 507 early-stage investment firms based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early-stage investment firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-200515 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026n/a351 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-50119 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-50106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-20089 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5086 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The strategic gateway for global expansion.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7Indirect evidenceDartmouth, NS, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5066 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8Indirect evidenceWaterloo, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5052 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5051 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5049 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“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.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11Partial evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5046 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12Strong evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5044 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 14, 2026
13Indirect evidenceSherbrooke, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5044 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 14, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSt John’s, NL, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5044 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15Partial evidenceKanata, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202651-20033 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16Indirect evidenceFredericton, NB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“INNOVATION.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“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.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1028 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20Strong evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5026 contacts →

Strong evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21Indirect evidenceCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1026 contacts →

Indirect 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 14, 2026
22Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1026 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 14, 2026
23Strong evidenceCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5024 contacts →

Strong evidence

“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…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5024 contacts →

Strong 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 14, 2026
25Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

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Early-stage investment firms based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026
27.7%Verified-email coverage
8.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
36.3%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
395
11-50
102
51-200
8
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
1

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 507 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 early-stage investment 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 “early-stage investment 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 early-stage investment 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 early-stage investment 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, 1,163 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 14, 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.

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

RevenueBase identified 507 early-stage investment 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?

Creative Destruction LAB, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early-stage investment firms?

Toronto leads with 184 headquartered companies, 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 the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,163 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 507 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 14, 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.