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Staircase Ventures — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($500K–$5.0M Checks)

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Toronto, OntarioWebsite

Staircase Ventures is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Toronto, Ontario investing in Real Estate, Other, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $500K–$5.0M checks and has 16 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$5.0M
Portfolio
16 companies on record
Partners
3 listed
Stage
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Real Estate, Other, Healthcare, AI / ML
HQ
Toronto, Ontario
AUM
Not in our records
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$500K – $5.0M

Portfolio

16+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

A specialist investor in residential technology and real-estate AI, oriented toward software that modernizes how homes are bought, sold, and managed. Particularly relevant for brokerage tooling and transaction automation.

How Staircase Ventures invests

Staircase Ventures is a vc firm based in Toronto, Ontario. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Real Estate, Other, Healthcare, AI / ML.

Staircase Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$5.0M per investment.

Staircase Ventures has backed 16 companies in our records, including Banting, Biossil, DBGorilla.

Partners & Team

AT

Andrew Tiffin

Operating Partner

JB

Janet Bannister

Managing Partner

Janet Bannister has 25+ years of building and investing in rapidly growing tech companies.

U

Unknown

GP

Residential Tech
Real Estate AI

Industry Focus

Invests In

Real Estate
Other
Healthcare
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (16)

Other

BA

Banting

AI copilot for clinical research

BI

Biossil

Applied AI drug discovery platform

DB

DBGorilla

AI database management platform

EV

Eventric

Software for the live event industry

FI

Fillip

Digital payments platform for fleets

GA

Galatea

Waste logistics software

KI

KINO

Unified TV and Film production workflow platform

MA

Mave

AI for residential real estate agents

ME

MedEssist

Fund II

AI software for retail pharmacies

RH

Rhenti

PropTech for residential real estate

How to pitch Staircase Ventures
  • •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Real Estate, Other, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $5.0M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Andrew Tiffin, Operating Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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