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Top 25 University venture capital funds based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 183 university venture capital funds headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,777 professional contacts across them, including 405 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers university venture capital funds 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 29, 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 university venture capital funds based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1996, BEST Funds is a leading Canadian venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TandemLaunch is a venture capital fund and a venture studio that partners with driven entrepreneurs to create successful and disruptive deep tech companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “INNOVATION.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The primary goal of the Student Venture Fund (SVF) is to provide students with hands-on training in venture capital investing with guidance from industry experts and supervision…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Manage a portfolio of securities while still in university.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 24 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Teralys Capital is a technology-focused Fund of funds which finances private venture capital funds investing in life sciences, information technology and cleantech companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Panache Ventures is Canada's most active seed stage venture capital fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A leading group of funds that catalyzes growth in early-stage technology businesses in Canada through access to capital, mentoring relationships and scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SYNIAD Innovations is a company focused on building breakthrough deep tech companies around cutting-edge advances in science & engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Walter Group is composed of specialized investment units whose team members share the interests and values of the Somers family heading the Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Centre d'entrepreneuriat ESG UQAM offre des services de consultation et d'aide au démarrage d'entreprise pour l'ensemble de étudiants et diplômés récents de l'UQAM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “eFund was established in 2011 and is focused on investing in BC-based market ready early stage companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AQC Capital gère des fonds d’investissements en capital de risque destinés à accompagner les entreprises aux différents stades de démarrage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Numus Financial is a Halifax, Nova Scotia based venture capital firm focused on early-stage, high-growth companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “QV Studio vous accompagne dans votre parcours entrepreneurial en vous offrant des partenaires expérimentés dédiés à la réussite de votre startup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mistral is a seed stage venture capital firm and typically the first institutional investor in our companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shred Capital is an early-stage technology fund dedicated to working side-by-side with passionate entrepreneurs taking their first or (ideally) second swing at creating a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: university venture capital funds. 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 university venture capital funds.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of university venture capital funds, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name university venture capital funds. 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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University venture capital funds based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 183 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 university venture capital funds, 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 “university venture capital funds”. 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 university venture capital funds), 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 university venture capital funds, 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, 405 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 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 university venture capital funds, 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 university venture capital funds are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 183 university venture capital funds 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?
Loyal VC, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most university venture capital funds?
Toronto leads with 56 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (28) and Montreal (26).
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 405 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 183 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 29, 2026.
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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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