Calgary · Pre-Seed–Growth · 15 people tracked
Investment thesis
The51 invests women-led capital into ventures of the future, seeking to close the gap where women receive only a small share of venture funding despite driving significant entrepreneurship and wealth. The firm targets women-led ventures across technology, climate, financial services, and consumer industries, arguing these companies deliver stronger returns, higher capital efficiency, and faster paths to profitability. Its goal is to activate $2.5 billion of women-led capital by 2030, converting the historic wealth transfer to women into ownership and market-defining growth while building lasting economic infrastructure.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 27, 2026.
Team · 15 people
from the firm's website
Founder mafia
3 people who came through The 51 Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 30 of 37 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×17SaaS ×14Fintech ×6Healthtech ×6Digital Health ×4Consumer ×3Direct to Consumer ×3Enterprise Software ×3
HQs:Canada×13United States×2
Who they back
founder profiles across 10 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×43 founders×24+ founders×1
Investments · 37 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAquaEye develops a handheld sonar device that uses machine learning to locate drowning victims underwater, indicating distance and direction to speed up searches.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardware
Co-investorsScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)WUTIF Capital
Areto Labs offers a responsible AI platform that combines human judgment with AI to detect and filter harmful online content such as hate speech and technology-facilitated gender-based violence, helping global brands and public figures build safer digital communities.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Lana(Co-founder)Kasey(Co-founder)Jacqueline Comer(Co-founder)
Co-investorsCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Edmonton UnlimitedScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)Startup TNTUCeed FundsUCeed+1 more
Ayrton Energy develops a hydrogen storage and transport solution based on a proprietary liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) and electrochemistry, storing hydrogen as a liquid at ambient conditions so it can be moved using existing fuel infrastructure.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyCalgary, CA
Co-investorsBDC Climate Tech Fund IIClean Energy VenturesCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)ForesightThin Air LabsUCeed Funds+3 more
BelliWelli sells fiber-based gut-health supplements — gummies, drink powders and on-the-go packets — direct to consumers.
West Hollywood, US
Katie Wilson(Chief Executive Officer)inNicholas Wilson(Founder)inTyson Woeste(Chief Operating Officer)
Co-investorsMiroma VenturesWellness VenturesWinklevoss Capital
Blume is a skincare brand offering all-natural, anti-inflammatory products formulated for sensitive, acne-prone skin, such as its Meltdown oil.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Taran(Co-founder)Bunny(Co-founder)Bunny Ghatrora(Founder)inTaran Ghatrora
Co-investors500 GlobalBackbone AngelsFelicis VenturesUpHonest CapitalBlume VenturesLOI Venture+1 more
Blume is a consumer food and beverage brand whose products include SuperBelly, a gut-health drink mix containing Bacillus coagulans probiotics.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsBackbone AngelsScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)
Skincare company; page references its founders.
Co-investorsCo.Labs
Professional women's soccer team in Calgary backed by community-powered ownership.
Calgary, CA
Clerq is an AI tool for patent professionals that runs prior art research end-to-end and returns cited, reasoned reports under user direction.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsDraper Associates
Co-investors2048 VenturesSheBoot
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
Co-investorsStand Up Ventures
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
Co-investorsSOSVStand Up Ventures
Haloo builds technology for trademark and intellectual property protection, applying a tech-driven approach to legal services in the trademark industry.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Julie MacDonell(Founder and CEO)
Co-investors2 Punks CapitalRecall CapitalWaterloo Accelerator CentreLOI Venture
Pocketed offers a grant-matching platform and expert grant writing service that helps North American businesses find and apply for grants, tax credits, and incentive programs.
FintechSaaS
Heylist is an influencer marketing platform that connects brands and marketers with creators, covering discovery, collaboration, and results tracking.
AdTechCreator EconomyMarketing Tech
Co-investorsAnges QuebecAccelia Capital
Hyivy Health develops a holistic pelvic health device that treats, monitors, tracks, and helps prevent pelvic floor symptoms, along with connecting patients to clinicians and pelvic floor therapists.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtechMedical Devices
Rachel Bartholomew(CEO & Founder)inKamyar Rounidej(Former Co-founder & first Chief Technical Officer)
Co-investorsBeresford VenturesFACIT (Fight Against Cancer Innovation Trust)
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
Co-investorsStand Up Ventures
Kibbi operates a multilingual job platform that connects internationally-trained newcomers and other vetted talent to employers by tying together Canada's credentialing networks, associations, schools, and settlement agencies into hiring infrastructure.
B2B MarketplacesFuture of WorkHR TechMarketplacesSaaSCanada, CA
Hong Phuc Nguyen(Founder)in
Monark offers a leadership development platform ("Leadership Relationship Management") that combines 360 assessments, behavioral nudging, evidence-based micro-learning, and generative AI role play to develop new and middle managers into effective leaders.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechCalgary, CA
Kelsey Hahn(CEO & Co-Founder)Amanda Julian(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)
Co-investorsStorytime CapitalLOI Venture
Mercator.ai provides AI-driven lead generation solutions for contractors and construction professionals.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningConstruction Tech
Co-investorsZacua Ventures
MINDD is a company that designs wireless bras using a patented knit-zone technology that replaces underwires with engineered zones for support, breathability, and compression.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFemTech
MyFO is a family office platform for consolidating and reporting on assets, offering multi-level portfolio reporting with breakdowns by asset class, currency, and geography, plus secure document management organized by entity with role-based access.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsBackbone Angels
NiaHealth offers precision longevity health assessments for Canadians, measuring biomarkers and providing personalized health plans delivered by licensed Nurse Practitioners.
Digital HealthHealthtechLongevityWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsEdmonton UnlimitedScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS)
NLPatent provides an AI-powered platform for intellectual property professionals to manage the full IP lifecycle, from patentability assessment and freedom-to-operate analysis through licensing and competitive intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Stephanie Curcio(Co-Founder & CEO)James Stonehill(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsLegalTechMighty CapitalStorytime Capital
Opstream offers an AI-native platform that unifies vendor and spend data across ERP, CLM, HRIS, and compliance tools to automate the vendor lifecycle, including intake, onboarding, renewals, and approvals.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsMu VenturesStorytime CapitalRed Bike CapitalTenOneTen Ventures
Pngme is a data infrastructure platform that aggregates financial data from institutions across emerging markets and transforms it into machine learning-ready features for credit scoring, risk assessment, and customer segmentation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investorsBeresford VenturesCapria VenturesConsenSys MeshLateral CapitalOctopus VenturesRaptor Group+3 more
SIX is an AI-powered recommendation platform that equips frontline employees — store associates, service teams, and hospitality staff — to send personalized product and experience recommendations to customers via WhatsApp, text, email, or QR code.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsPanache Ventures
SiftMed offers an AI-powered medical record review platform that organizes, indexes, and analyzes unstructured medical files, sorting documents chronologically, detecting duplicates, and surfacing key details like diagnoses and treatment gaps.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechInsurTech
Co-investorsEast Valley Ventures
SomaDetect makes sensor hardware and AI-driven analytics that give dairy farmers real-time data on milk quality and herd health.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardwareIoT
Bharath Sudarsan(CTO & Founder)Nicholas Clermont(COO & Founder)David Blyth(CEO)
Co-investorsCavallo VenturesiGan PartnersThin Air Labs
Sprout is a digital health and benefits platform focused on fertility and family building, offering navigation support and expert guidance for egg/sperm freezing, IUI/IVF, adoption, and surrogacy.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtech
Co-investorsBlue CollectiveMaRSStand Up Ventures
Syantra develops the patent-pending Onco-ID platform for early cancer detection, using a biomarker and drug target discovery technology to support oncologists and pharmaceutical scientists in creating personalized, precision cancer treatments.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesCalgary, CA
Dr. Tina Rinker(Co-founder)Tina Rinker(Co-founder)Ken Fuh(Co-founder)Randy Moore(Co-founder)Bob Shepherd(Co-founder)
Co-investorsThin Air LabsUCeed Funds
Co-investorsRaven Capital
Verlo is an AI assistant for wealth management and financial advisory practices that reads client documents, joins and transcribes calls, drafts follow-ups, fills in forms, and runs financial analyses like Monte Carlo simulations.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsEast Valley Ventures
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesVerlo · shawlocal.com · Aug 5, 2026
Blume · indianstartupnews.com · Jul 18, 2026
Ayrton Energy · marsdd.com · Jul 18, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has The 51 Ventures made?
- The 51 Ventures has 36 tracked investments.
- What stage does The 51 Ventures invest at?
- The 51 Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What sectors does The 51 Ventures focus on?
- The 51 Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Consumer, Fintech, Impact & Social Good, Sector Agnostic, Sports Tech.
- Where is The 51 Ventures located?
- The 51 Ventures is headquartered in Calgary, CA.
- Does The 51 Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, The 51 Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does The 51 Ventures co-invest with?
- The 51 Ventures most often shares deals with ScaleGood Fund LP (powered by TELUS), Stand Up Ventures, Storytime Capital, among 48 tracked co-investors.
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