BMO Technology & Innovation Banking↗
Toronto, ONBMO's technology and innovation banking group launched in 2019 providing venture debt and growth financing to Canadian tech companies. Expanded aggressively post-SVB to capture market share.
25 Canadian venture capital firms investing in SaaS / Software at PE / Debt stage. Browse their thesis focus, check sizes, and recent deals below.
BMO's technology and innovation banking group launched in 2019 providing venture debt and growth financing to Canadian tech companies. Expanded aggressively post-SVB to capture market share.
Provides capital to entrepreneurs to fund growth and expansion of mid-market businesses.
Strategic advice, cash management, and flexible capital solutions to innovation companies. Financing from $1M to $100M+.
Connects Canadian businesses of all sizes and maturities, across all industries, to non-dilutive capital through debt financing against tax credits.
Provides growth financing to companies based on their tax credits from programs such as SR&ED and digital media; over 542 deals recorded.
Advises and invests in Canada's entrepreneurs, helping promising mid-market companies complete mission-critical transactions including acquisitions, sales, and growth capital injections.
Publicly listed provider of flexible growth and alternative capital, supporting revenue-generating, VC-backed, and founder-owned companies seeking growth capital with minimal dilution.
Largest non-bank venture debt lender globally with $10B+ portfolio. Active lender to Canadian tech and life sciences companies. Publicly traded (NYSE: HTGC). Provides venture debt from $5M-$200M+.
Toronto-based private equity fund manager focused on buyout opportunities in the Canadian and American mid-market.
JPMorgan's Canadian innovation economy unit expanding aggressively with 5 dedicated tech bankers. Hired Scotiabank's former head of TIB (David Rozin) to lead Canadian expansion, picking up hundreds of
National Bank's technology banking group offering venture lending, growth and M&A financing for tech companies for over 20 years. Acquired SVB's ~C$1B Canadian loan portfolio in 2023. Also operates NA
Founded in 1981, leading Canadian private equity firm with C$8B+ AUM and 90+ platform companies, applying sector-focused approach in TMT, Industries and Financial Services.
Making private equity investments since 1987 on behalf of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension plans with over $60.8B in assets; manages over $6.5B globally.
Sustainability-focused private debt firm executing credit investments in growth-stage technology companies.
Private equity fund exclusively focused on high-growth opportunities in the healthcare field.
Employee-owned investment management firm focused on private equity investment in Western Canada and Saskatchewan; managing PE and VC funds since 1993.
Backer of Canada's most daring innovators and idea generators; RBC's technology growth banking and venture arm.
Focuses on Canadian middle-market investment opportunities.
Scotiabank's tech lending arm with ~C$2B lent to Canadian tech companies including BenchSci, Helcim, GeoComply, and Field Effect. Launched in 2019, expanded post-SVB collapse. Also operates via subsid
Venture banking division of Stifel providing venture debt ($1M-$50M+), treasury management, and capital raising for seed through IPO-stage tech companies. Over 100 bankers, $10B+ in loan commitments.
TD Bank's full-service innovation banking platform launched in 2024, providing venture debt, banking, and financing solutions for technology companies at all stages. Staffed by former SVB and RBCx lea
Venture capital firm with 2 funds raised and 23 deals recorded, primarily in BC.
Invests in and works closely with premier late-stage Canadian technology companies to achieve their long-term goals.
Venture capital and private equity manager of Golden Opportunities Fund Inc. and First Nations and Métis Fund (FNMF), with 7 funds and 179 deals.
Pioneered venture debt in 1980. $7.8B deployed across 1,400+ companies including Canadian firms. Now investing out of 11th institutional fund. Acquired by P10 in 2022. Flexible, founder-friendly lendi