Canadians have built companies worth $1T which include Uber, Shopify, OpenAI, Databricks, Moderna, Cloudflare, Roblox, Faire, Notion are all brands built by Canadians building in America
We have high conviction that Canadians building in America leads us to the most cutting-edge opportunities.
Our bench holds knowledge and untold pivotal learnings from their company's earliest stages.
The Maple Network
We know what great looks like. Our bench of first 25 employees at multi-billion dollar companies like Stripe and Figma help our founders win.
Seed to IPO graduation rates.
Source: Pitchbook & Crunchbase (2000 - Present)
Our Founding Managing Partner Andre Charoo was raised in Canada and went to UofT.
He was #25 at Uber, Venture Partner at Inovia, Co-Chair of The C100, an influential community of Canadian expats in tech.
Why Canada?
The true meaning of the Maple tree is “durability”. It’s a trait we’ve witnessed firsthand from Canadian university graduates who have produced the biggest companies in tech.
Playbook, where ‘Pinterest meets Dropbox’ for designers, closes on $18M in funding
Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Maple VC backs Canadian founded Dexa’s 6-million seed round
The firm has made its latest bet on New York-based Dexa, which offers an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for podcast listeners.
Maple VC co-leads $4-million USD seed round for Canadian-led Inference.AI
The Palo Alto, California-based startup, founded in 2023, helps companies access graphics processing units (GPUs) to support the training and inference of artificial intelligence (AI). The startup’s $4-million USD seed round was co-led by Maple and Cherubic Ventures, with additional participation from Fusion Fund.
Blockus raises $4M pre-seed round for web3 gaming infrastructure
Blockus, the web3 gaming tech stack and payments provider, has announced $4 million in pre-seed funding. Maple VC led the round with Altos Ventures and angel investors such as Zhuoxun Yin from Magic Eden, Michael Ma from CreatorDAO, and Bryan Pelligrino from LayerZero participating.
Bench IQ raises $2.8 million CAD in pre-seed funding with buy-in from Maple VC, Haystack
The Toronto-based company secured the funding in September, with Maple VC and Haystack co-leading the round. It also saw participation from Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig and Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis, and US-based law firms Cooley, Fenwick & West, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
AutoLeap, now with $30M Series B, accelerates SaaS approach to auto repair operations
A shortage of available vehicles, higher car prices and interest rates are fueling car owners to hold onto their vehicles longer. Statistics from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics show that the average passenger car on the road is over 13 years old. In 2017, the age of the average car was 11 years old.
Calico attracts Serena Williams to 2.1M seed to build fashion supply chain software
A few years ago Kathleen Chan, the CEO and founder of Calico, launched a couple of small fashion companies, but as those companies scaled quickly with the help of Shopify and Facebook ads, she noted a lack of tools to help her manage the back office of a business specifically geared to fashion.
We look for builders. Their superpower is their vision. Their ambition is a competitive asset. They are talent magnets. They have been rejected but... Their grit keeps them going over time.
Playbook, where ‘Pinterest meets Dropbox’ for designers, closes on $18M in funding
Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Maple VC backs Canadian founded Dexa’s 6-million seed round
The firm has made its latest bet on New York-based Dexa, which offers an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for podcast listeners.
Maple VC co-leads $4-million USD seed round for Canadian-led Inference.AI
The Palo Alto, California-based startup, founded in 2023, helps companies access graphics processing units (GPUs) to support the training and inference of artificial intelligence (AI). The startup’s $4-million USD seed round was co-led by Maple and Cherubic Ventures, with additional participation from Fusion Fund.
Blockus raises $4M pre-seed round for web3 gaming infrastructure
Blockus, the web3 gaming tech stack and payments provider, has announced $4 million in pre-seed funding. Maple VC led the round with Altos Ventures and angel investors such as Zhuoxun Yin from Magic Eden, Michael Ma from CreatorDAO, and Bryan Pelligrino from LayerZero participating.
Bench IQ raises $2.8 million CAD in pre-seed funding with buy-in from Maple VC, Haystack
The Toronto-based company secured the funding in September, with Maple VC and Haystack co-leading the round. It also saw participation from Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig and Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis, and US-based law firms Cooley, Fenwick & West, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
AutoLeap, now with $30M Series B, accelerates SaaS approach to auto repair operations
A shortage of available vehicles, higher car prices and interest rates are fueling car owners to hold onto their vehicles longer. Statistics from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics show that the average passenger car on the road is over 13 years old. In 2017, the age of the average car was 11 years old.
Calico attracts Serena Williams to 2.1M seed to build fashion supply chain software
A few years ago Kathleen Chan, the CEO and founder of Calico, launched a couple of small fashion companies, but as those companies scaled quickly with the help of Shopify and Facebook ads, she noted a lack of tools to help her manage the back office of a business specifically geared to fashion.