Our Partners
We’ve partnered with some incredible organizations to support early-stage founders with guidance and expertise in building their business and preparing to raise capital. If you have questions for any of our partners, we encourage you to reach out to them.
Fasken
Fasken provides emerging tech companies with end-to-end strategic legal advice and representation at every stage of a company’s growth, helping to leverage their limited resources. We work with start-up companies and early stage entrepreneurs as well as angel investors, venture capital, private equity and public venture capital firms. Our lawyers go beyond great results, focusing on their clients' goals and the long-term success of their business.
Email: bdeans@fasken.com
Current Programs: Accelerate IP & IP Assist
Manning Elliott
Manning Elliott LLP is a CPA firm with offices located in Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, and Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada. We provide personalized accounting and business advisory services to companies operating within a wide range of industries in seven major practice areas: Tax, Private Company, Public Company, NPOs, Busniess Advisory, Valuations and Specialty. Our firm consists of 200+ dedicated CPAs and business advisors with years of experience and success.
Our major practice groups cater to local and international organizations with a specialty servicing those with operations in the United States, China, Japan, and Latin America
Email: info@manningelliott.com
SFU Venture Labs
SFU Venture Labs scales-up world-class technology companies by ‘powering up’ ventures with amazing talent, technologies, entrepreneurial and research expertise, access to funding, government assistance programs and international expansion opportunities.
Email: info@venturelabs.ca
Western Pacific Trust Company
Western Pacific Trust Company is a BC based boutique trust company, focused on private investments. We help founders of early stage companies raise capital, by making their offering more attractive to their prospective investors. Unlike banks and brokerage houses WPTC accepts eligible private investments into our RRSPs and TFSAs, enabling investors to diversify their registered plan portfolios and shelter any growth earned. As well as the tax benefits of a registered plan, a refund on a new RRSP contribution, especially if coupled with EBC tax credits, can de-risk the investment by up to 80%, making a compelling case for the prospective investor. Our knowledgeable and responsive team works closely with founders and their investors to guide them through the process.
Bonsai Growth
Bonsai Growth Solutions provides non-dilutive solutions to Founders and Investors of Canadian Companies so that they can Strategically Start, Scale and Grow by leveraging Government Tax Credits and Grants without giving up Equity. We are a Canadian Institutional funded company that is making an impact on Canadian Tech companies, that we partner with to join the journey to hit milestones and objectives in every industry. At Bonsai Growth we pride ourselves on speed of funding and do not take personal guarantees or equity for our lending services.
Email: bhavik@bonsaigrowth.ca
Sales Primer
Sales Primer is a Vancouver-based fractional CRO consultancy that helps technical Founders verify their revenue model and operationalize a scalable sales strategy. Our industry-leading Sales PrimerTM system provides the single fastest and most practical way for Founders to learn precisely what’s required to design a sales and marketing function that delivers real traction. The Sales PrimerTM “Sales-Readiness” audit directly informs an investor’s evaluation of whether a promising venture is actually ready to generate revenue in volume. It’s fast becoming a standardized component of any due diligence data room. Our team’s goal is to help Founders and sales managers rapidly formulate predictable and consistent sales engines that win you Customers and Cash. Contact us for a “Sales-Readiness” assessment.
Email: chris@salesprimer.ca | colin@salesprimer.ca
Future Standard
Future Standard is a strategy consultancy that helps startup founders raise the money they need to grow. We do this by creating strategic plans, financial plans, and data rooms that work together to communicate investable business opportunities. We also help our clients with fundraising strategy and coaching before their most important meetings. Check us out at futurestandard.academy for DIY startup strategy and finance resources.
Email: david@futurestandard.academy
InWest Ventures
InWest Ventures is a Vancouver based start-up business cultivator. Our focus is on International Entrepreneurs and Newcomers with unique business concepts to cultivate their ideas and to integrate them with our well-resourced, interconnected ecosystem that enables them to succeed.
We invest mostly in Pre-Seed companies with a focus on the future of emerging technologies, cutting edge media, health and wellness, and Fintech.
Email: inwestventures@gmail.com
GoRecruitment
GO Recruitment provides strategic recruitment and HR advisory services to entrepreneurs leading technology companies. From start-ups to mature organizations, our professionals know that identifying, attracting, and securing like-minded people to join your company is a critical priority. Lean on our years of lessons-learned and successful exits so that you can minimize potential mistakes and maximize the opportunities in front of you. We look forward to becoming an important part of your team as you scale-up into becoming a world-class company based here in BC.
Email: raymond@gorecruitment.com
BCIT
BCIT Business + Media is proud to support VANTEC and the entrepreneurial community. For 60 years, BCIT has been the premier provider of applied business and media education in British Columbia, offering over 100 programs and 300 courses in disciplines such as finance, marketing, broadcast, journalism, accounting, new media, animation, sustainability, human resources, and business management. With full-time and Flexible Learning options, students gain practical skills taught by industry professionals to achieve their career goals. Whether pursuing certificates, diplomas, degrees, or graduate credentials, BCIT equips individuals to start and advance fulfilling careers with real-world experience and access to industry networks.
Email: sob@bcit.ca
Interested in becoming a partner?
Let’s collaborate to support founders. Contact us to learn more.
Our Partner Funds
We have many incredible fund members, but two of them have been heavily involved since the early days. These two funds have many VANTEC members as shareholders or LPs that co-invest alongside the funds. Shareholders and LPs of these funds are eligible for a 30% discount on a VANTEC in-person membership.
WUTIF Capital (VCC)
WUTIF Capital is an evergreen venture capital corporation (VCC) lead by Mike Volker. With 20+ years investing in pre-seed and seed stage businesses in BC, Mike and the WUTIF team have developed a deep-rooted network and have supported 150+ companies, including the likes of Daiya Foods, Carbon Engineering and Neurio. With 80+ current portfolio companies, WUTIF is still very much an active player in the startup community in BC.
The current capital raise is open until December 31st, 2024.
Email: astuart@wutif.ca
e-Fund
eFund is an angel investment group that leverages its collaborative community to conduct active deal screens, due diligence, and deep investor domain expertise to consistently provide high returns and more exits from angel investments. Investments are packaged in diversified fund cohorts to generate a better spread of exits over time.
Email: info@e-fund.ca