Stand Up Ventures
Venture capitalToronto · Pre-Seed–Series A · 5 people tracked
Investment thesis
Stand Up Ventures champions breakthrough technology companies led by women, investing at the seed stage in for-profit startups that have at least one woman in a C-level leadership role with meaningful ownership. The firm believes women-led companies think differently, attract strong talent, and address larger markets. It partners with ambitious founders across Canada and the US, supporting them from pre-seed to Series A, and emphasizes building a reciprocal community around its founders. The fund highlights strong follow-on funding and high seed-to-Series-A conversion among its portfolio, and works alongside leading institutional investors to fund promising women entrepreneurs.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 5 people
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What they invest in
from 8 of 39 portfolio companiesSaaS ×6AI & Machine Learning ×5Enterprise Software ×3Creator Economy ×2Future of Work ×2Media & Entertainment ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1Biotech ×1
HQs:Canada×3
Investments · 39 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAcerta provides an industrial AI analytics platform for discrete manufacturers to identify and resolve production defects early, reducing scrap, rework, and downtime.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
AmacaThera develops a tunable hydrogel drug-delivery platform for long-acting therapeutic administration across various clinical applications, including pain management, oncology, and post-surgical care.
BiotechMedical Devices
Fictionary offers a SaaS platform with AI-powered tools that helps fiction writers and editors revise manuscripts using a structured, scene-by-scene analysis of story elements.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEdTechSaaS
KristinaMathew
Notion is an AI-powered workspace platform that enables teams to capture context, find answers, and automate tasks through collaborative tools.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
GroundedAI offers a hardware-agnostic software platform for underground mining and tunnelling teams, with Lithos for offline field data capture on iPad and Strata for desktop data management, mapping, and reporting.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Jombone is an operations platform for high-volume staffing agencies, offering automated candidate matching, shift scheduling, timesheet capture, and payroll workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS
Toronto
Jennifer Lemieux(Executive Officer, Director)Jonathan Binas(Executive Officer, Director)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Stand Up Ventures invest at?
- Stand Up Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Stand Up Ventures's typical check size?
- Stand Up Ventures typically writes checks of $365K – $1.1M.
- What sectors does Stand Up Ventures focus on?
- Stand Up Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Stand Up Ventures located?
- Stand Up Ventures is headquartered in Toronto, CA.
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