Our Story

First Fund started because we kept meeting brilliant Founders with strong plans who could not get funded simply because they had not yet built the product traction that traditional venture capital demands.

As Founders ourselves, we had lived through the same gap. We had bootstrapped, taken friends-and-family loans, and stretched personal savings to get to a point where investors would take us seriously. We knew that gap pushed great Canadian talent to leave, to shelve good ideas, or to take on personal risk that was never necessary.

So we built the fund we wished had existed: one that invests as early as the pitch-deck stage, backs people over traction, and supports Founders holistically with capital, backoffice, strategy, and space.

Today First Fund is Canada's most-active pre-seed investment fund, with a goal to launch 1,000 startups by 2033.