Typical seed round sizes differed by industry

Early-stage financing recorded as Seed, 2023–2025 combined.

Sector (vertical axis) · Seed Round Size (horizontal axis)

Early-stage venture financing recorded as Seed, 2023–2025 combined. Seven sectors appear alphabetically in both Canada and Alberta panels. The vertical axis lists sectors. The horizontal axis measures seed round size in millions of Canadian dollars. Dots show medians and lines span the 25th to 75th percentiles. Canada includes Alberta. Companies without a sector assignment are omitted. No sample threshold is applied. Alberta Food & Agriculture has only two known amounts. Source: CVCA data.

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Amounts are in millions of Canadian dollars (CAD millions): 4.0 means C$4 million per seed round. The red dot shows the median round size. The line spans the middle 50% of disclosed round amounts, not total money raised. Canada includes Alberta.

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