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NAventures
Corporate VC · Canada · North America
NAventures is the corporate venture capital arm of National Bank of Canada. It invests in, partners with, and scales early to mid-stage companies that will shape the future of financial institutions.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechfinancial servicesartificial intelligenceblockchainenterprise software
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Or find every investor that fitsNAventures lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (54%), AI & Machine Learning (16%) and Cybersecurity (8%). 47% of its companies are based in Canada. It invests most often alongside Diagram, Portage and Creative Destruction Lab.
Counts come from funding rounds that name NAventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not NAventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 28. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 14% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 14% |
| Growth | 43% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 5 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 62th | 26 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 56th | 14% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 87th | 15% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 86th | 54% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 54% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 16% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
| Legal & Compliance | 2% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Diagram | 4 |
| Portage | 4 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Evolution-VC | 3 |
| Geodesic Capital | 3 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Conconi Growth Partners | 2 |
| Cross Creek | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2796%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare NAventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with NAventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 10 Apr 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 30 Jan 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for NAventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in NAventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrowell provides free credit scores and reports to Canadians, along with personalized financial product recommendations and credit education. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Callvu provides a platform that automates and enforces compliance for regulated work | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ClearEstate provides online estate planning and settlement services, including will creation and probate support. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a wealth management platform for financial institutions and advisors to manage client relationships and operations | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Duality empowers organizations to securely analyze sensitive, distributed, or inaccessible data—without moving or exposing it. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company produces a mini AI bodyguard device for personal safety that uses real-time AI to detect and respond to threats. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Flinks brings bank connectivity, financial intelligence, and payments into one platform, so your team can verify customers, assess risk, and move money without manual work. | FintechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| FlowX.AI provides a multi-agent AI platform for various industries including banking, insurance, and logistics | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sensibill provides a customer data platform for financial institutions to collect, synthesize, and action everyday customer spend data | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Walnut provides embedded insurance solutions to its customers. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides financial services including spending, saving, borrowing, and investing | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Maxa helps build accurate data pipelines by providing business context to data engineering agents. | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Memcyco provides real-time digital impersonation and account takeover fraud protection | CybersecurityFintech | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| MindBridge analyzes financial transactions to help finance and audit teams identify risk and understand what matters. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Multiverse Computing develops and provides artificial intelligence solutions and models for organizations to run secure and efficient AI | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jul 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| MX provides a financial data platform that helps financial institutions convert financial data into growth in deposits, loans, cards, and wellness. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nesto is a digital mortgage lender that helps Canadians buy, renew, and refinance their homes with competitive mortgage rates and a simple online experience. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Jun 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Nest Wealth provides digital wealth management services, including personalized portfolio management and investment solutions, to individual investors and financial professionals. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nova Credit provides a platform to access unified consumer credit data from multiple sources | FintechFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- nbc.ca
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 30 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 28
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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