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Northside Ventures
Venture capital · Toronto, ON, Canada · North America
Northside Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund that backs founders at company inception, including pre-product and pre-revenue stages. It also connects founders with early customers and strategic investors and runs intern and scout programs.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaisoftwarefrontier techpre-seedcanada
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Or find every investor that fitsNorthside Ventures lists 31 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (39%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (9%) and Cybersecurity (9%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Creative Destruction Lab and Golden Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Northside Ventures, 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 Northside Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 31. 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 | 33% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 72th | 39% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 39% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 5% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 6 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Golden Ventures | 3 |
| Transpose Platform | 3 |
| Conconi Growth Partners | 2 |
| Garage Capital | 2 |
| Panache Ventures | 2 |
| Ripple Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3097%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company13%
- 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 Northside Ventures 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 Northside Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed |
Round details for Northside Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Northside Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
In the news
1 headline naming Northside VenturesEach headline is matched with evidence and opens on its outlet.
Portfolio
31 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bread Technologies develops AI systems that describe, compare, and recommend businesses to customers in conversations | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Athanor builds infrastructure to prove or disprove computational claims about programs, circuits, or protocols. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Actual helps restaurants and hotels automate tip division, digital tip payouts, and compliant direct tip payments to employees. | Food & AgricultureFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Boardy is an AI superconnector for founders, investors, and operators that introduces them to customers, investors, talent, and jobs. | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Canada Rocket Company launches satellites into space | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cartage provides freight coordination services, including quoting, booking, tracking, and payment processing, using an AI logistics employee called Wilson. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Datacurve pioneers research and data collection infrastructure to teach AI how to perform tasks that humanity has long endured. | AI & Machine LearningEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Opener builds wholesale software for consumer brands | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Unbound provides security solutions for AI coding agents used by engineering teams. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Gram is a self-replication company that aims to scale labor-hours safely for the benefit of humanity by using insectoids to steward critical infrastructure such as electric transmission grids. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates AI-generated photos and videos for ecommerce products. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| North Vector Dynamics builds missile systems for defense purposes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-powered pentesting and continuous security services to find vulnerabilities in web apps, APIs, and infrastructure. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| PolarGrid provides managed GPU inference on dedicated NVIDIA B300s | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Postilize provides proactive relationship management services for law firms | Legal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Predictive Horizons provides a platform that turns service events into organizational insights for the mobility industry | Mobility & LogisticsAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ranger pulls the answers out of industrial technical documents and cites every one to the source for industrial RFP response, tender evaluation, and contract review. | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Relling deploys intelligent robots for high-mix assembly, inspection, and cleaning tasks | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Sellit9 buys and sells used electronic devices such as phones, laptops, and cameras | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- northside.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 31
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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