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Shopify
E-commerce infrastructure
An Ottawa-founded global commerce platform used by entrepreneurs and businesses of every size.
Ottawa · ON · Canada
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Slack
Enterprise communication
A workplace communication platform with Canadian founder roots and a globally scaled enterprise product.
Vancouver · BC · Canada
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1Password
Cybersecurity and identity
A Toronto-based identity security company helping people and businesses protect passwords, credentials, and access.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Cohere
Enterprise generative AI
Secure language models and agentic systems for enterprise teams, built by a Canadian-founded AI company.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Wealthsimple
Fintech and wealth management
A Toronto fintech company building accessible investing, saving, spending, tax, and managed-wealth products.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Clio
Legal practice-management software
A Canadian legal-technology company building cloud software for law firms and legal professionals.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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SSENSE
Luxury e-commerce technology
A Montréal-founded global technology and culture platform at the intersection of luxury fashion and commerce.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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Trulioo
Global identity verification
A Vancouver identity platform helping global businesses verify people and organizations across markets.
Vancouver · BC · Canada
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Lightspeed Commerce
Point-of-sale and commerce software
Montréal-born commerce technology serving ambitious retail and hospitality businesses around the world.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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AppDirect
Subscription commerce platform
A Montréal-founded platform helping technology providers sell, manage, and monetize subscription services.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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turbopuffer
AI search infrastructure
An Ottawa-founded serverless search database built on object storage for large-scale vector and full-text workloads.
Ottawa · ON · Canada
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OpenSesame
AI agent automation
A community-supplied Toronto AI-agent automation listing; company and investment details are awaiting independent verification.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Pluvo
Decision-intelligence software
An Ottawa-founded decision-intelligence platform building systems that preserve business context and improve organizational judgment.
Ottawa · ON · Canada
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Setter
Home-services software
A Toronto-founded personal home-management startup that partnered with Sequoia during its early company journey.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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PagerDuty
Digital operations management
A digital-operations platform with Canadian roots helping teams respond to incidents and automate critical work.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Clearco
Revenue-based growth fintech
A Toronto fintech company providing data-informed capital products for e-commerce and digital businesses.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Waabi
Physical AI and autonomy
An AI-first autonomous trucking company with a global technical team anchored in Toronto.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Ada
Customer-service AI
An agentic customer-experience platform built in Toronto for global enterprise teams.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Neo Financial
Financial technology
A Calgary-founded financial technology company building modern spending, saving, and credit products.
Calgary · AB · Canada
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Sequoia Capital
Multi-stage technology venture capital
A global technology investor included for its backing of Canadian-founded companies and cross-border scaleups.
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Multi-stage technology and AI venture capital
A multi-stage technology investor with accelerator and venture exposure to Canadian AI and software founders.
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Y Combinator
Global pre-seed accelerator
A global startup accelerator whose alumni include notable Canadian-founded technology companies.
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Accel
Early and growth-stage software venture capital
A global software investor with Canadian-founded companies represented across its portfolio history.
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Benchmark
Concentrated early-stage venture capital
A concentrated early-stage partnership included in the network of global investors relevant to Canadian founders.
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Founders Fund
Deep-tech and frontier-tech venture capital
A venture fund focused on ambitious technology companies across deep tech, software, aerospace, and frontier markets.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
Enterprise and consumer venture capital
A multi-stage global investor spanning enterprise, consumer, fintech, and health with Canadian portfolio relevance.
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General Catalyst
Enterprise and digital-health venture capital
A global venture firm investing across technology, healthcare, resilience, and applied innovation.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
Cloud and SaaS infrastructure venture capital
A long-running global venture firm with cloud, SaaS, developer infrastructure, and Canadian company exposure.
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Khosla Ventures
Early-stage AI and climate-tech venture capital
An early-stage venture firm backing technical risk across AI, climate, health, and frontier systems.
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Index Ventures
Cross-border technology venture capital
A cross-border technology investor connecting North American and European founders with global markets.
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Kleiner Perkins
Early-to-growth technology venture capital
A technology venture firm investing from company formation through growth across software and frontier categories.
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First Round Capital
Seed-stage venture capital
A seed specialist focused on helping founders build the earliest versions of enduring technology companies.
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Greylock Partners
Enterprise and AI software venture capital
An early-stage partnership focused on enterprise software, consumer technology, AI, and cybersecurity.
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Global technology and healthcare venture capital
A global venture firm investing across technology and healthcare from formation through later-stage growth.
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Thrive Capital
AI, software, and consumer venture capital
A technology investment firm backing category-defining software, internet, and AI companies, including Canadian teams.
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Insight Partners
Enterprise software growth equity
A software-focused investor supporting high-growth enterprise and SaaS companies around the world.
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Tiger Global Management
Technology growth equity
A global investment firm included for growth-stage backing of Canadian technology companies.
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Union Square Ventures (USV)
Thesis-driven network venture capital
A thesis-driven venture firm focused on networks, infrastructure, climate, and trusted technology systems.
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Menlo Ventures
Enterprise software and generative-AI venture capital
A venture firm investing across enterprise software, consumer technology, cybersecurity, and generative AI.
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Spark Capital
Consumer internet and AI venture capital
An early and growth-stage investor spanning consumer products, software, media, and AI-native companies.
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Bain Capital Ventures
Fintech and commerce-tech venture capital
A venture platform focused on fintech, commerce, infrastructure, and application software.
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Lux Capital
Deep-tech and robotics venture capital
A venture firm backing science and engineering companies across robotics, aerospace, AI, and advanced industry.
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Battery Ventures
Software and infrastructure venture capital
A global technology investor working across application software, infrastructure, industrial tech, and consumer markets.
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SV Angel
Seed and angel fund
A seed-stage investment firm with a broad network across technology founders and early company formation.
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500 Global
Global seed accelerator and venture fund
A global seed investment platform and accelerator supporting founders across a wide range of markets.
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Inovia Capital
Cross-border technology venture capital
A Canadian full-stack venture firm helping globally ambitious technology companies scale across borders.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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Radical Ventures
Foundational-AI venture capital
An AI-focused venture firm built by founders and researchers from Canada’s deep-learning ecosystem.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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BDC Capital
Institutional venture capital
Canada’s largest and most active venture investor, supporting technology companies across stages and sectors.
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OMERS Ventures
Institutional pension venture arm
A global venture investor backed by OMERS, with roots in Canada and a focus on ambitious technology companies.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Golden Ventures
Early seed technology venture capital
A sector-agnostic seed fund headquartered in Toronto and investing across Canada and North America.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Real Ventures
Early ecosystem venture capital
A Canadian early-stage firm supporting technology founders from day one and investing in ecosystem depth.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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Diagram Ventures
Venture builder for fintech and SaaS
A Canadian venture builder that co-creates and launches companies in financial services, insurance, and software.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Objective-based deep-tech founder network
A Canadian-founded program connecting science-based startups with experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers.
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Panache Ventures
Pre-seed and seed venture capital
A coast-to-coast Canadian fund with teams in Montréal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.
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Akatos House
Builders · Hardware · Residency
Waterloo’s first hacker house: a live-work community with 1 Gbps fibre, 24/7 workspace access, weekly demo nights, fireside chats, and a maker lab for software, hardware, and creative projects.
Waterloo · ON · Canada
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Hackhouse Whistler · Chalet La Forja
Founders · Builders · Residency
An external Whistler venue reference supplied for concept planning. Hackhouse has not secured, booked, or partnered with this property, and no retreat date is confirmed.
Whistler · BC · Canada
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Hackhouse Banff
Deep tech · Climate · Residency
A proposed month-long house for frontier builders to think clearly, work deeply, and ship together in the Canadian Rockies.
Banff · AB · Canada
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Hackhouse Toronto
AI · Founders · Scale
A proposed month-long urban build house connecting Toronto’s AI, research, venture, and founder communities.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Hackhouse Montréal
AI · Research · Creative tech
A proposed month-long house bringing Montréal’s research depth, creative culture, and founder energy under one roof.
Montréal · QC · Canada
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Hackhouse Ottawa
Deep tech · Policy · Cybersecurity
A proposed month-long house where deep-tech builders, researchers, and policy-minded founders work on consequential systems.
Ottawa · ON · Canada
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Maple Labs
AI · Research
Researchers and engineers living together for focused sprints and open-source work.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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Pacific Stack
Climate · AI
A calm, nature-adjacent home for small teams working on climate intelligence.
Vancouver · BC · Canada
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House 831
Founders · Creators · Community
A curated clubhouse in Calgary’s Beltline for founders, builders, artists, creators, and designers: members workspace by day, events by night, and public pop-ups on weekends.
Calgary · AB · Canada
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Soho House Toronto
Community · Creative Tech
A private members’ House for people in the creative industries to meet, eat, work, relax, and take part in locally curated cultural programming.
Toronto · ON · Canada
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