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, at seed, 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
- Seed
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 198 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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.
- https://www.standupvc.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.standupvc.com/teampeople
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Record 807 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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