101 Top Financial Services Startups and Companies in Toronto (2021)

June 19, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best Toronto based Financial Services companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Financial Services industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Toronto Financial Services Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple

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Wealthsimple offers financial tools to help investors grow and manage their money.

Coinsquare

Coinsquare

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Coinsquare is a cryptocurrency trading platform for trading Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and other digital currencies.

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Clearco

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Clearco is a suite of performance financing products & services tailor-made for founders in all stages of their journey.

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Wave

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Wave offers tailored financial services (payments, payroll) and award-winning free software for small/micro-businesses around the world.

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Financeit

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Financeit simplifies complex sales transactions for businesses and their customers.

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Ledn

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Ledn builds financial products with a mission to help more people save in digital assets

Coinsquare

Railz

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Railz is a single API that integrates with the majority of accounting software service providers used by small businesses.

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Flow Capital

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Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies.

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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

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Our mandate is to invest in the best interests of Canada Pension Plan contributors and beneficiaries and to maximize investment returns

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KOHO Financial

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KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone.

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Relay

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Relay is a digital bank designed for growing businesses.

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PayBright

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PayBright is a FinTech company.

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Borrowell

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Borrowell offers free credit scores, education, and weekly credit monitoring, as well as innovative financial digital tools.

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VersaPay

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VersaPay is an Fintech company offering an Accounts Receivable Software as a Service solution and Payment acquiring services.

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Fairfax Financial Holdings

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Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is a financial services holding company

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Sensibill

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Sensibill is a digital receipts ecosystem that allows customers to access receipts directly from bank accounts.

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Flybits

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The leading digital experience platform for the financial sector, delivering personalized experiences to individuals at scale.

Coinsquare

Zafin

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Zafin is a global enterprise software banking company that enables banks to optimize multiple revenue streams across retail/corporate banks.

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Delphia

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The world’s first quantitative investment strategy that anyone can improve with their data.

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Tier1 Financial Solutions

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Tier1 Financial Solutions is a provider of client relationship management (CRM), KYC & AML compliance, and fraud prevention solutions.

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Flexiti Financial

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Flexiti Financial is a Canadian fintech company.

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Planswell

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Planswell is on a mission to provide the world’s most actionable financial planning experience to everyone, for free.

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FundThrough

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FundThrough helps small business owners navigate their cash flow challenges with by accessing the working capital in their unpaid invoices.

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Plooto

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Plooto is a payment management platform for small and medium-sized businesses that helps to automate and streamlines their payments.

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Fluence Technologies

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Fluence is the only financial close and consolidation software for mid-sized companies.

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Ethoca

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Ethoca established itself as an innovative, one-of-a-kind global collaboration-based technology services company.

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Salt Edge Inc.

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A leader in providing banks, fintechs, lenders, credit bureaus with Open Banking API solutions, connected to 5000+ banks in 50 countries

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RateHub.ca

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RateHub.ca is a finance website allowing users to compare Canadian mortgage, insurance, and credit card rates.

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Nest Wealth

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Nest Wealth is Canada’s first SaaS-based digital wealth management platform.

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Quandl

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Quandl is the premier source for open, commercial, and alternative data, serving investment professionals.

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RBC Capital

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Royal Bank of Canada is a financial services company that focuses on banking, wealth management, insurance, investment, and capital markets.

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Moves

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A fintech product for the gig economy, and a collective for gig workers

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CoinSmart

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CoinSmart is a Toronto-based cryptocurrency exchange company that allows users to buy, sell, and track their crypto.

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Brim Financial

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Brim Financial is a provider of a credit card infrastructure and digital platform used in users’ payment experience.

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CAARY Capital

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CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card and payments solution.

Coinsquare

Buckzy Payments

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Buckzy Payments Inc. is a Toronto, CA-based fintech company enabling cross-border real-time payments.

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Element Fleet Management

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Element Fleet Management (TSX: EFN) is the leading global fleet management company.

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nanopay

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nanopay empowers businesses and banks to scale with innovative payment and liquidity management products.

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Auxly Cannabis Group

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Auxly Cannabis Group is a collective of entrepreneurs with a passion for the cannabis industry.

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Finaeo

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Finaeo helps the life insurance industry simplify distribution by automating the front/back-office of today’s complex supply chain.

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Senso.ai

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Senso is a fintech startup that uses AI to provide financial institutions with recommendations on how to strengthen client relationships.

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Canopy Rivers

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Canopy Rivers is a venture capital firm specializing in cannabis.

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Goldmoney

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Goldmoney is a financial services group that combines the unique attributes of gold with technology-driven innovation.

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Scotiabank

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Scotiabank offer personal, commercial, corporate & investment banking products and services.

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Lending Loop

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Lending Loop core focus is providing businesses with accessible capital at fair interest rates through a simple online process.

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d1g1t Inc.

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d1g1t is a digital wealth management platform powered by analytics that offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services.

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Lendified

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The Lendified story begins with a wealth of banking experience, a deep knowledge of the Canadian financial services marketplace.

Coinsquare

Dream Payments

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Dream Payments is a fintech platform that enables merchants to sell everywhere using mobile devices.

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Homewise

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Homewise uses machine learning to match and secure clients with their best tailored mortgage options from over 30 banks and lenders.

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Foxquilt

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Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance.

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Manzil

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Canada’s First Islamic NeoBank

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Purpose Financial

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Purpose Financial is a financial services company.

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Bank of Montreal (BMO)

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Bank of Montreal, a financial services provider, offers retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

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Doorr

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Reinventing the home-buying experience.

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QuadFi

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Invisible Credit Group (Millennial & Newcomers) Risk Rating & Lending

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NextBlock Global

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A digital asset investment company.

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Global Blockchain

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Global Blockchain is an investment company providing investors access to a basket of holdings within the blockchain space.

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Corl

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Corl provides capital as a service solution through revenue sharing.

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BridgePoint Financial Group

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BridgePoint Financial Group offers litigation financing and risk management solutions for Plaintiffs

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CIBC

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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian financial institution that provides its clients with banking services.

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Nexonia

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Nexonia is a provider of leading web and mobile Expense Reports and Timesheets solutions.

Coinsquare

PitchPoint Solutions

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PitchPoint Solutions is a leading provider of fraud prevention services with the systems, people and experience to quickly validate loan

Coinsquare

Merrco Payments

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Merrco is helps businesses thrive by bringing seamless, secure payment solutions company.

Coinsquare

Platform Group

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A leading provider of capital markets-focused technology with a mission to seamlessly connect the world’s capital seekers and allocators.

Coinsquare

Fairfax India Holdings Corporation

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Fairfax India Holdings Corporation is an investment holding company whose investment objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation.

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Korapay

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Korapay offers a payment engine that enables local and global businesses to send and accept payments.

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Dealnet Capital

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DealNet Capital services the home and retail sectors providing end-to-end financing plus innovative technology and communication solutions.

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TickTrade Systems

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TickTrade Systems is a provider of next-generation, end-to-end FX trading and payments solutions.

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Kingsway Financial Services

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Kingsway Financial Services is one of the largest non-standard automobile insurers and truck insurers in North America.

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CIBC Innovation Banking

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CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by the strength of CIBC

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Kora Network

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Kora Network provides the tools needed to build a self-sustaining, community-owned ecosystem for circulating and accumulating capital.

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DeFi Technologies

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Routemaster Capital is a Canadian company that focuses on Lithium exploration and development.

Coinsquare

Every

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Every is a bank account designed for online businesses.

Coinsquare

Home Capital Group

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Home Capital is a holding Company.

Coinsquare

FindBoB

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A growth, transition and succession planning tool for financial advisors and insurance agents.

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Skyline International Development

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Skyline International Development Inc. (“Skyline”) is a private Canadian investment and management company incorporated on December 4,

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Balance

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Balance is the safest way to custody, trade, and manage digital assets.

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Breezeful

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Breezeful is an online mortgage brokering platform that helps to reduce the mortgage financing.

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Algorithmics

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Algorithmics offers enterprise risk solutions to help financial institutions understand and manage risk.

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Fortuna.ai

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Fortuna is an AI-powered AUM Growth Platform to help Financial Services firms scale.

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Mavennet

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Mavennet provides private enterprise blockchain solutions.

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CPP Investments

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CPP Investments helps and provides a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement.

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Axis Auto Finance

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Provides non-standard auto financing options.

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NexusCrowd

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Canadian Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform

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Manulife Financial

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Manulife Financial is a Canada-based financial services company with principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States.

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Aspire Financial Technologies Inc.

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Toronto-based Financial Technology Company

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Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure

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Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure invests in middle-market infrastructure and infrastructure-like assets and companies.

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Vuru

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Vuru’s analysis engine does thousands of hours of stock analysis in seconds.

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Prodigy Ventures Inc.

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Prodigy Ventures™ is an innovation company, and an early stage investment opportunity in emerging technologies.

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Tier1crm

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Tier1crm is a CRM fintech company located in Toronto.

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Clip Money Inc.

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Clip Money is the Open Financial Services Platform Built for Retail

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knnct

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knnct removes friction from the lending process and makes lending faster, easier and far less complicated for everyone involved.

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Emperor Investments

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Emperor Platform provides the technologies that power the modern financial advisor.

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TMX Group

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TMX Group companies provide listing venues, trading markets, clearing facilities, data products services to the global financial community.

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Pivot Acquisition

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Pivot Acquisition invests in companies operating in technology, financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors.

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Round13 Capital

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Round13 Capital is an investment firm that invests in growth-stage companies.

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Spruce Grove Capital

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Spruce Grove Capital is an investment company that specializes in investing in startup single businesses.

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TSX

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The Toronto Stock Exchange (often abbreviated as TSX) is a stock exchange.

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Finneo

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Finneo is a cloud-based SaaS debt management and placement software solution.

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Payfare

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Providing instant payout and digital banking solutions for today’s workforce.

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