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Top 25 Innovation focused venture firms based in Toronto, Canada

Name: Innovation focused venture firms based in Toronto, Canada
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 214 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 214 innovation focused venture firms headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,282 professional contacts across them, including 618 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers innovation focused venture firms headquartered in Toronto, 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 20, 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 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

214Companies

2,282Contacts tracked

618Verified emails

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The 25 largest innovation focused venture firms based in Toronto, Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 214 innovation focused venture firms based in Toronto, Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to innovation focused venture 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Creative Destruction LAB	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	515 contacts →
	Indirect 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 20, 2026
2	Loyal VC	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	351 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Loyal is a venture fund designed to reduce the risk and illiquidity of the asset class.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	DMZ	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	157 contacts →
	Partial evidence “DMZ is a tech incubator and global startup ecosystem that helps founders build high-impact ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	B.E.S.T Funds	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	106 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1996, BEST Funds is a leading Canadian venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Toronto Business Development Centre	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	86 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The strategic gateway for global expansion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Portage	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Portage is a global investment platform focused on fintech and financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	AWZ	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	49 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Awz is a Canadian-Israeli VC firm focused on commercial multi-use applications of innovative Israeli, AI-based, deep-tech, fintech, cybersecurity, & intelligence technologies” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	Globalive	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	37 contacts →
	Partial 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 20, 2026
9	Northern Labs	Indirect evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Northern Labs is on a mission to make entrepreneurship in Canada more accessible and to help high potential companies scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Plaza Ventures	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “PV is a Canadian investment firm that scales technology companies through primary and secondary investments” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Omers Ventures	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Strong 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 20, 2026
12	Framework Venture Partners	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FRAMEWORK was founded in 2018 and has set the benchmark for active capital investing for early-stage companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Storytime Capital	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We help founding teams write bold, exciting chapters in their company’s story.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	Highline Beta	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Partial 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 20, 2026
15	Ripple Ventures	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Ripple Ventures partners with inception-stage founders building advanced technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Round13 Capital	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 2013, Round13 Capital is a leading venture and growth equity investment platform based in Toronto, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	The Group Ventures	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Group is an early stage operational venture firm investing in data driven platform tech companies with B2B and double sided network effect business models poised to have a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Igan Partners	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Based in Toronto, we partner with exceptional founders focused on commercializing and scaling technological advancements in healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Whitecap Venture Partners	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Whitecap Venture Partners is a Canadian VC firm with a track record spanning three decades and five funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Liberty Horizons	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Liberty Horizons is the future of accounting for small businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	TWO Small Fish Ventures	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Two Small Fish Ventures (TSF) is a seed-stage deep tech venture capital firm that invests globally in the next frontier of computing and its applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Hardboot Venture Capital Talent	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Growing companies don't all need the same kind of help.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	Golden Ventures	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Raiven Capital	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Raiven Capital is a global venture fund that concentrates on investments just before scaling begins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	First Ascent Ventures	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “First Ascent Ventures was founded in 2015 by Tony van Marken and Richard Black and invests in emerging technology companies that are building the next generation of disruptive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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: innovation focused venture 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 innovation focused venture firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of innovation focused venture firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name innovation focused venture 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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Innovation focused venture firms based in Toronto, Canada at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

27.1%Verified-email coverage

10.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

100.0%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

162

11-50

51-200

201-500

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Canada list rather than for Toronto, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Toronto, over 214 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 innovation focused venture 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 Toronto, Canada whose own description of what they do matches “innovation focused venture 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 innovation focused venture 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 innovation focused venture firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Toronto 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, 618 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 20, 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.

Innovation focused venture firms by metro in Canada

Innovation focused venture firms in Toronto214
Innovation focused venture firms in Vancouver93
Innovation focused venture firms in Montreal57
Innovation focused venture firms in Calgary36

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 innovation focused venture 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 innovation focused venture firms are there based in Toronto, Canada?

RevenueBase identified 214 innovation focused venture firms headquartered in Toronto, 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 innovation focused venture firms?

Toronto leads with 214 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (93) and Montreal (57).

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 618 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 214 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 20, 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.