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Castor Ventures

The goals of Castor Ventures are to back promising MIT-alumni led businesses, provide investors with an opportunity to invest money in a key asset diversified among multiple ventures, enable investors to connect with smart businesspeople and cutting-edge companies, and support the entrepreneurial ecosystem of MIT. It’s an experience with many levels of value to many participants.

Drive Capital

Drive Capital is a Columbus-based venture capital firm that is focused on investing in the world’s next generation of market-defining companies. The firm started in 2013 and raised more than $1B of funds to invest in startups solving important problems in large markets. Drive is an investor in more than 40 companies outside of Silicon Valley, including Root Insurance, Duolingo, Cyclica, ApplyBoard, and KOHO. 

Forté Ventures

Forté Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm which collaborates and co-invests with corporate strategic partners in technology companies across diversified industry sectors throughout North America. Focus areas include Information Technology, Mobility, Digital Media, Internet & eCommerce, Financial Technology and Industrial Technology. Investments generally range from $500,000 up to $3 million and typically include participation from leading corporate and strategic partners and co-investors. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, with a presence in Silicon Valley, Chicago and New York.

Generation Ventures

Generation Ventures is the venture arm of Generation Capital, a family office based in Toronto, Canada. Through Generation Ventures, we fund leading VCs in Canada, the US and China, and we make a commensurate amount of direct investments. Generation Ventures is managed by a multi-disciplinary team that supports our active investment posture.

GM Ventures

GM Ventures invests in automotive-related start-ups that are developing advanced technology to be implemented in General Motors’ vehicles, manufacturing facilities and operating businesses. We focus on key technologies that support our mission to drive innovation and impact the future of mobility.

Intact Ventures

Investissement Québec

Investissement Québec participates in more than 70 funds specialized in financing high-potential businesses in a range of industries, while also providing support and mentoring services and a network of contacts. These funds may come into play at the seed, start-up, growth or buyout stages.

Nikon

Nikon and SBI Investment Co., Ltd. have jointly established a private fund to invest in venture companies to create new business, promote nurturing of such businesses, and realize business synergies as a mid/long-term plan.
Nikon is deploying this new fund not only to existing businesses but also to pursue fresh business opportunities by investing in venture companies that can possibly play a future role, with a focus on Japan and North America as well as European and Asian countries.

Playground Global

Playground Global primarily invests in science and engineering companies with emerging technologies for artificial intelligence, automation, next generation computing, artificial intelligence, neuro-morphic computing, quantum technologies, optical systems, aerospace, biotechnology, life sciences, computational biology, synthetic biology, healthcare, telemedicine, advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, robotics and next generation infrastructure.

Real Ventures

Real is a leading source of capital for game-changing entrepreneurs, and a driving force behind emerging tech ecosystems. Established in 2007, the firm has invested in over 200 companies across five funds, with $330M under management. They back world-class entrepreneurs building game-changing companies, connecting them to local and national ecosystems and helping guide them through their next stages of evolution. The firm invests throughout the life-cycle of early-stage companies and provides stage-appropriate capital and support for the founders it backs. Real believes that VCs should play a role in accelerating the creation of world-class tech ecosystems by providing support beyond the companies for whom it writes cheques. It’s this collaborative mindset that inspires Real to launch initiatives that lay, or build upon, the foundations of rapidly growing tech hubs in Canada, and wherever else the firm may go.