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StandUp Ventures

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StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage technology companies with at least one woman in a C-level leadership position. It is based in Toronto, Canada, and focuses on Canadian and US founders.

StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in technology. 38 portfolio companies, as it reports.

“We invest in seed-stage, for-profit technology companies with at least one woman in a C-level leadership position within the company who has an equitable amount of ownership.”

— StandUp Ventures, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Pre-seed – Series A
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Invests in
Canada, US
Sectors
technology
Portfolio
38 companies

Team, as StandUp Ventures publishes it

  • Michelle McBane Managing Director
  • Lucas Perlman Principal
  • Katheleen Eva Senior Associate
  • Jessica Weisz Venture Partner
  • Meredith Powell Advisor
  • Timothée Eva Receptionist
  • Poppie McBane Junior Receptionist

Names and roles exactly as listed on standupvc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.

Co-invests most often with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 198 co-investors found.

  • Golden Ventures 9 shared companies: yahoo.com, arteria.ai, theglobeandmail.com, betakit.com…
  • Anzu Partners 8 shared companies: venturecapitaljournal.com, axios.com, betakit.com, fastcompany.com…
  • Lowercarbon Capital 5 shared companies: breezy.hr, notion.site, axios.com, theglobeandmail.com…
  • Defy.vc 5 shared companies: venturecapitaljournal.com, axios.com, yahoo.com, fastcompany.com…
  • At One Ventures 5 shared companies: axios.com, yahoo.com, betakit.com, fastcompany.com…
  • BOLD Capital Partners 5 shared companies: axios.com, yahoo.com, betakit.com, fastcompany.com…
  • Garage Capital 5 shared companies: acerta.ai, betakit.com, disco.co, getcognito.ca…
  • AI Ventures Management, LLC 4 shared companies: axios.com, yahoo.com, fastcompany.com, bizjournals.com
  • Engine Ventures 4 shared companies: axios.com, fastcompany.com, bizjournals.com, cbc.ca
  • Foresite Capital 4 shared companies: axios.com, yahoo.com, fastcompany.com, bizjournals.com

and 188 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page StandUp Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 807 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high

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