Garage Capital

Garage Capital is a Canadian venture capital firm that invests at the earliest stages, backing Canadian and Y Combinator startups. The firm describes itself as built by founders for founders, and positions its mandate around helping early teams scale into category-defining businesses - a phase it characterises as the move from garage to growth.

Investment activity spans more than 250 portfolio companies, which the firm states carry a collective valuation in excess of $30 billion. Sector exposure covers enterprise software, fintech, robotics, healthcare, aerospace and energy. Alongside early risk capital, the firm provides founder-informed advisory support: practical guidance drawn from Waterloo engineering operators who have built, scaled and sold venture-backed companies.

Geographic presence is anchored in Waterloo, Canada, with investment activity across Canada and into the Y Combinator ecosystem. The emphasis throughout is on hands-on, experience-based work with startup teams, applying operating backgrounds - building, scaling and exiting venture-backed companies - directly to portfolio support.