The Southwestern Ontario Angel Group is a not for profit corporation, founded in early 2008 with the goal of sourcing quality early stage investment opportunities and presenting them to a like-minded community of angel investors.  The founding board members of SWOAG have been involved with angel investing for a number of years and through our due diligence, education and screening processes, we will strive to achieve above average returns for our membership.   In addition, our linkages with other angel groups across the province will allow our membership to participate in other investment opportunities as well as allow us to syndicate with other like minded investors.

Southwestern Ontario Angel Group

The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation's Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of their all-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.

Golden Triangle Angel Network

RRE Ventures is a long-term lead investor. They are active strategic, operational, and financial partners with the companies they finance.

RRE Ventures

Inovia Capital is a venture capital firm that works with founders to create influential and permanent businesses. The team leverages an operator mindset to provide founders with support, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network. Inovia manages over US$2.2B with operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco, and London.

Inovia Capital

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven international operations.   Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

Silicon Valley Bank

GE Ventures combines capital, technical, and commercial services. They invest in the healthcare and life sciences, energy and mobility, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise productivity applications, digital infrastructure, and frontier technologies sectors.

GE Ventures

Hedgewood is the personal investment vehicle of long time internet entrepreneur Jesse Rasch. It invests using proprietary capital, allowing for longer investment horizons and a broad range of asset classes. Further, as a globally minded investor, Hedgewood actively pursues and engages in a wide variety of investment opportunities in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Hedgewood

Eclipse Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm managed by a team of former operators who are passionate about modernizing massive, physical industries like manufacturing, logistics, transportation, and healthcare. They work side by side with experienced founders who understand the need to transform these industries, and they provide guidance on everything from operating practices to fundraising strategies. Partnering means deep engagement as they build generational companies in sectors that define and propel economies.

Eclipse Ventures

Caterpillar Ventures not only invests capital, but they want to put big ideas to work. Together, they want to build today for a better tomorrow.     Caterpillar Ventures makes strategic, minority interest investments in early–round ventures with investments of $0.5 million to $5.0 million to help founders around the world grow and scale their businesses   Caterpillar Ventures wants to help you grow. They have deep industry insights developed from generations of collaborating and investing with their customers, dealers, and suppliers. They are one of the world’s most valuable brands with a strong global dealer and supplier network, technology resources, and a commitment making sustainable progress possible around the world.  Consider their global presence. In 2014, Caterpillar had 114,233 employees around the globe and $55.2 billion in sales and revenues and with 177 independently owned Cat dealerships including their own 161,700 employees, they have the world covered. Caterpillar invests more than $2 billion each year in research and development and holds more than 15,000 pending and granted patents worldwide. With their global presence and ongoing investments in innovation, they support and continue to supply a field population of more than 3 million machines and engines, the largest population of connected machines and engines within the industries they serve.

Caterpillar Ventures

Kensington Capital Partners Limited is a leading Canadian private equity investor, founded in 1996.  To date, Kensington has committed over $825 million to private equity investments through its private equity programs.  Institutional investors such as pension funds and professional asset managers, as well as high net-worth individuals and retail investors, hold Kensington funds in their portfolios.

Kensington Capital Partners Limited

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.

Export Development Canada

BMO Capital Markets is a full-service financial services provider offering a complete range of investment and corporate banking products and services. Its portfolio of services includes equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research, and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group, a diversified financial services provider in North America with 529 billion U.S. dollars in total assets and more than 47,000 employees.

BMO Capital Markets

McRock Capital specializes in growth capital and later-stage investing in intelligent infrastructure companies. It focuses on power, water, oil and gas, transportation, and building efficiency sectors. It seeks to make investments in companies offering Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software and sensor solutions for grid automation, digital oilfield, advanced manufacturing, and smart city markets. The firm targets large industrial and internet markets and the intersection of sensors and software in large industrial markets and seeks companies involved in innovative software, hardware, and device integrated solutions.  Scott McDonald and Whitney Rockley founded McRock Capital in March 2012. It has its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario with an additional office in Calgary therein.

McRock Capital

Clearpath Robotics

Clearpath provides self-driving vehicle technology and services to over 500 of the world’s most innova-tive brands. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered through the company’s industrial and research divisions: Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. Visit www.clearpath.ai for more information.

<div><p>Clearpath Robotics specializes in building robot development platforms and autonomous robots. Clearpath provides custom robot engineering services that focus on robotic platform development, autonomous navigation software, full stack implementation, and system design and safety. Based in Canada, some of Clearpath&rsquo;s notable customers are General Electric, Bosch, Microsoft, General Dynamics, Intel, Dow, Government of Canada, NASA, United States Army, Carnegie Mellon University, and Princeton University.</p></div>

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    Clearpath Robotics specializes in building robot development platforms and autonomous robots. Clearpath provides custom robot engineering services that focus on robotic platform development, autonomous navigation software, full stack implementation, and system design and safety. Based in Canada, some of Clearpath&rsquo;s notable customers are General Electric, Bosch, Microsoft, General Dynamics, Intel, Dow, Government of Canada, NASA, United States Army, Carnegie Mellon University, and Princeton University. 
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    Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation network. Mach 5 flight is not just supersonic, it's hypersonic. At these speeds, a flight from New York to London is 90 minutes, rather than 7 hours. Its aircraft massively reduces flight times and increases safety for the long haul and business class air travel, enabling businesses to operate with minimal changes to current aviation infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Hermeus

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    Epirus is a high-growth technology company developing solid-state, software-defined directed energy systems that enable unprecedented counter-electronics effects and power management solutions to optimize power efficiency in defense and commercial applications. With a constant emphasis on innovation, we are redefining the future of power to bring tomorrow&rsquo;s capabilities to life, today. And that&rsquo;s just the beginning. Visit our website to learn more about our innovative approach and cutting-edge product lines.
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    Centimani is a US-based startup that maximizes soldier survivability and lethality. Soldiers on battlefields need to carry heavy equipment, including weapons, that affect their endurance level. The startup&rsquo;s lightweight, unpowered exoskeleton arm redistributes weight from arms and shoulders to the trunk while maintaining freedom of movement. Thisallows soldiers to operate heavy machines for longer, with increased precision, and more safety. Moreover, the exoskeleton reduces shot recoil while operating heavy weapons.
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Centimani

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    Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system. Blue Origin&rsquo;s engines are designed, developed and manufactured in the United States. They provide great control with a precisely timed start, high-power thrust for launch, deep throttling for landing, and stop and restart capabilities. Since our first, simple, single-propellant engine &ndash; the BE-1 &ndash; we&rsquo;ve built and tested multiple generations for suborbital and orbital spaceflight.
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Blue Origin

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    Rocket Lab is a space company that builds rockets and spacecraft that make it easier to get into orbit and do amazing things there. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services that provide frequent and reliable access to space for civil, defence, and commercial markets. 
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    Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron launch vehicle and Photonsatellite platform and is developing the Neutron launch vehicle. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab&rsquo;s Electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 105 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations, enabling operations in national security, scientific research, space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. 
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    Rocket Lab has two launch sites, including a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a second launch site in Virginia, USA, expected to be operational by the end of 2021. Rocket Lab&rsquo;s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.
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Rocket Lab

Internet of Military Things (IoMT) uses sensors, wearables, and IoT devices in military applications

Use of simulation technologies such as VR/AR for combat training and mission rehearsals

Robotics that can be used for military applications, such as surveying, logistics, reconnaissance, and combat

Robotics and semi/fully autonomous ground, aerial, and marine vehicles that can be used for military applications, such as surveying, logistics, reconnaissance, and combat.

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