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Ripple Ventures

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Ripple Ventures is an early-stage venture fund seeking investments in B2B SaaS Startups located in Canada & the U.S. We are always seeking new investments in various industries ripe for disruption with a focus on workflow automation and data & analytics platforms.

As serial entrepreneurs, we are actively involved with all our investments and aren't scared to roll up our sleeves and get dirty. We provide ongoing advice and support to all our portfolio companies, in addition to helping them leverage our broad business networks.

We support entrepreneurs who seek to revolutionize the most competitive global industries by solving difficult problems with the most unique solutions. Our industry focuses include: enterprise software, healthcare technology, and industrial technology.

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Location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto

Employees: 1-10

Founded date: 2017

Investment Type: Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
06.07.2026	Katalyze	katalyzeai.com	$10.5M	United Sta...
20.05.2026	BlankBio	blank.bio	$7.2M	United Sta...
14.07.2025	Asepha	asepha.ai	$4M	United Sta...
23.03.2022	Wisedocs	wisedocs.ai	$16.84M	Canada, On...
09.08.2021	Marpipe	marpipe.com	$8M	United Sta...

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06.07.2026	Katalyze AI raises $10.5M to bring agentic AI to pharma manufacturing and life sciences	Artificial intelligence has already reshaped drug discovery. Katalyze AI is betting the next opportunity lies deeper inside pharmaceutical companies, where scientists and manufacturing teams still spend countless hours piecing together data...
06.07.2026	Katalyze AI Raises $10.5M in Seed Funding	Katalyze AI, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of an agentic operating system for pharmaceutical companies, raised $10.5M in Seed funding. The round was led by Bonfire Ventures, along with Inovia Capital, Ripple Ventures, Alumni Ventures, ...
24.05.2026	Blank Bio Ignites Precision Oncology with $7.2M Seed Round	Blank Bio secured $7.2M in seed funding. This investment propels RNA foundation models for precision oncology. A strategic partnership with PacBio will generate critical high-resolution long-read RNA sequencing data from patient tumors. Bla...
21.05.2026	Blank Bio: $7.2 Million Seed Raised To Advance RNA Foundation Models For Precision Oncology	Blank Bio announced the closing of a $7.2 million seed financing alongside a strategic collaboration with PacBio to advance RNA foundation models for precision oncology applications. The San Francisco-based company is building foundation mo...
20.05.2026	Blank Bio Raises $7.2M in Seed Funding	Blank Bio, a San Francisco, CA-based applied AI research lab training foundation models for RNA, raised $7.2M in seed funding. Backers included Define Ventures, Leonis Capital, Nova Threshold, Ripple Ventures, SignalFire, Y Combinator, and ...
19.05.2026	Blank Bio: $7.2 Million Seed Financing Raised To Advance RNA Foundation Models For Precision Oncology	Blank Bio, an applied AI research lab focused on training foundation models for RNA, announced the closing of a $7.2 million seed financing round along with a strategic collaboration with Pacific Biosciences to advance RNA foundation models...
23.09.2025	Mycroft: $3.5 Million Seed Funding Secured For AI Security And Compliance Officer Platform	Mycroft is a company that utilizes artificial intelligence to simplify how businesses manage security and compliance. It has just emerged from stealth mode and announced $3.5 million in seed funding. The investment was led by Luge Capital, ...
22.09.2025	Mycroft launches with $3.5M to bring agentic AI to security and compliance Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies	Agentic artificial intelligence security startup Mycroft Technologies Inc. launched today and announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its AI-powered security and compliance operation...
14.07.2025	Asepha Raises $4M in Seed Funding	Asepha, a Toronto, Canada-based startup leveraging AI agents for pharmacy automation, raised $4M in Seed funding. The round was led by Glasswing Ventures and Core Innovation Capital with participation from Panache, RedBud, Ripple Ventures a...
14.07.2025	AI Pharmacy Pioneer Asepha Raises $4M in 5x Oversubscribed Seed Round	Asepha is transforming pharmacy operations with interoperable AI agents and Fortune 50 enterprise customers. Asepha, a fast-growing startup leveraging AI agents for pharmacy automation, today announced the close of its $4 million Seed round...
05.12.2024	Scalestack Raises $3M in Funding	Scalestack, a NYC-based provider of a go-to-market (GTM) orchestration and agentic platform, raised $3M in funding. Backers included Exor Ventures, Geek Ventures, FN Fund, Red Bridge, Launch Factory, BackfutureVC, SentieroVC, Team Ignite an...
20.11.2023	Ukraine’s Flyer One Ventures joins $1M round for AI-powered sales tech Scalestack	Ukraine’s Flyer One Ventures joins $1M round for AI-powered sales tech Scalestack 20 November, 2023, 16:01 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> New York-based Scalestac...
05.10.2023	10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype	When I mentioned “the rise of AI” in a recent email to investors, one of them sent me an interesting reply: “The ‘rise of AI’ is a bit of a misnomer.” What that investor, Rudina Seseri, a managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, means to say...
12.09.2022	Funds can no longer just be a source of capital	Matt Cohen Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures, was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. More posts by this contributor As fundraising gets ha...
18.07.2022	As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round	Matt Cohen Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures, was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. More posts by this contributor How to strategically m...
24.02.2022	How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation	Matt Cohen Contributor Share on Twitter Founder and managing partner at Ripple Ventures, Matt Cohen is a business operator turned early-stage investor. More posts by this contributor VCs and university endowments should partner to make vent...
23.11.2021	SaaS in 2021: How prodigious growth changed the startup landscape permanently	With capital in abundance, SaaS startups don’t seem to be too worried about how much runway they have remaining. According to OpenView’s annual Financial & Operating Benchmarks report, only 13% of nearly 600 companies surveyed named “bu...
20.11.2021	VCs and university endowments should partner to make venture more diverse	Matt Cohen Contributor Share on Twitter Founder and managing partner at Ripple Ventures, Matt Cohen is a business operator turned early-stage investor. More posts by this contributor Founders must learn how to build and maintain circles of ...
21.09.2021	Growing 6X Year-Over-Year, Plannuh Closes a $4 Million Round to Expand AI-Driven Marketing Leadership Automation Platform	Funds Will Be Used to Accelerate Growth and Launch New Product Features and Integrations Plannuh, a SaaS company automating core marketing leadership processes including planning, financial management, and optimization of business outcomes,...
05.08.2021	Founders must learn how to build and maintain circles of trust with investors	Matt Cohen Contributor Share on Twitter Founder and managing partner at Ripple Ventures, Matt Cohen is a business operator turned early-stage investor. Tony Conrad Contributor Share on Twitter Having founded about.me and Sphere (both acquir...
22.07.2021	Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment	Continuing our global look into the torrid pace of venture capital investment in the second quarter, today we turn to Canada. While many markets have posted impressive results, like the United States setting the pace for new all-time record...
23.06.2021	Meet Matt Cohen, managing partner at Ripple Ventures	Ripple Ventures is a Toronto-based firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more startups ...
15.09.2020	Virtual care software provider OnCall Health raises $6M	The company provides technology for healthcare organizations to brand their own telehealth apps Before COVID, telehealth was an underused tool, but once the pandemic hit, and virtual care became the only way to see a doctor, suddenly it was...
15.09.2020	Canadian Telehealth Startup OnCall Health Lands $6M for Virtual Care Platform	What You Should Know: – OnCall Health Raises $6M Series A to Enable Virtual Care Programs for Healthcare Brands – Funding will be used by OnCall Health to expand its reach and build out its software that enables healthcare brands, systems, ...
14.05.2020	Ripple Ventures closes an initial $14 million CAD for new Opportunity Fund	Ripple Ventures, a Toronto-based early-stage venture firm, has made an initial close of $14 million CAD ($10 million USD) for its new Opportunity Fund. Investors in the fund include return, family office investors from Ripple’s first fund, ...
-	Startup valuations are crashing from what they were just a few weeks ago, VCs say	Samantha Lee/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. VCs are marveling at how quickly private markets have gone downhill compared to previous cycles. They are seeing lower...

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