The group of emerging and strong growth companies at OSLER is passionate about entrepreneurship and support for the growth of early and growth businesses. Classified the band 1 Canada Chambers And located in offices across the country, notably Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary, our competent and experienced members of the team share their ideas and their expertise with emerging companies to stimulate commercial value and ensure success to long term.
Our group works in close collaboration with our venture capital teams to help customers recognize, develop and advance on important and innovative venture capital opportunities. We advise both companies and emerging and high-growing investors on a national level on the unique problems involved in venture capital transactions. OSLER was classified as the first Canadian law firm in the world’s first world tables in the venture capital league, being the only Canadian company classified among the top five companies in the world as advisor to companies and investors.
We represent emerging entrepreneurs and companies at the national level covering a wide range of knowledge -based industries, supporting them through the stages of their life cycle, providing legal advice on a wide range of problems and requirements confronted along the way:
Osler has dynamic and continuous relationships with the most important actors in Canada and the United States, especially
Leading venture capital funds
Equity funds
Investment capital fund
pension fund
large companies
institutions
Cultives of private companies
IPO
Thanks to our national network established, our customers have access to potential donors, as well as other capital sources, service providers, potential members of the board of directors, executives, customers and suppliers. Our solid legal reference community includes international and national customers looking for commercial opportunities in Canada.
Osler transaction flow
OSLER acts for more than 2,000 first, growing and late in lives and venture capital investors across Canada, the United States and worldwide. From 2020 to 2023, Osler Representatives Customers in the Emerging and High Growth Companies Space in 1,106 Financing Transactions, included Preferred Share Equity Financings and the Issance of Convertible Securities (Such as Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFES) and convertible proje An overall value of the agreement of approximately $ 14.16 billion.
In 2023, OSLER advised 269 agreements with more than $ 2.9 billion raised by EHG companies.


A summary of these transactions is provided below.
Starting program for emerging companies
At Osler, we think that establishing a base for your business is the key to your future success. This is why we have carefully designed our startup program to put your operational adventure as quickly as possible, taking into account standards for companies supported by a company.
Our startup program reflects our long -term commitment when you work with emerging companies by providing the highest level of advice and strategic services on a fixed basis. Even after an emerging company has graduated from the program, we are proactive by examining the needs of our customers and we will continue to provide legal services on, as much as possible, a competitive base at the base or a recurring monthly base ( Instead of the traditional hourly rate model) to provide a certainty of costs as the company evolves and throughout its life cycle.
Notable graduates of our startup program that have continued to succeed in companies include Wealthsimple, Clearco, Xanadu and Applipipoard.
First of the genre
The group of emerging and strong growth companies of Osler is proud to have worked on the following transactions which were mentioned notably to be the largest or the first of its kind.
- Verafin – in its sale in Nasdaq for 2.75 billion US dollars – The largest transaction of mergers and private technology acquisitions.
- Application – in its financing of the C series of $ 100 million – led the company to an assessment of $ 2 billion, obtaining unicorn status.
- Wealthsimple – in its equity funding of $ 114 million – led the company to an evaluation of $ 1.4 billion, obtaining unicorn status.
- Prodigy – in its financing of the series B of $ 159 million – One of the largest increases in the Canadian EDTECH space.
- Waabi – in its series of US 83.5 million dollars, financing – One of the largest series has ever raised by a Canadian startup.
- Syndrier – in its funding of $ 73 million – One of the largest B series in the history of Alberta.
Many emerging and strong growth customers of OSLER open the way in the fight against COVID-19. We are proud to work with these innovative companies which are at the forefront of the fight against this disease with solutions made in Canada.
Support innovation nationally
Within the framework of our commitment to the community of broader Entrepreneurs in Canada, Osler sponsors a number of programs and organizations through the country dedicated to the support of emerging businesses. We are committed to the idea that the founders passionate about passion, vision and a plan can access the legal and commercial advice they need to launch their business.
Osler helped throw and continues to support the following
Next Canada (next 36, Next IA and Next Founders), a non -profit charity that helps to identify and accelerate the development of young people’s most talented innovators in Canada
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL Toronto, CDL Rockies and CDL-Vancouver), a program of seeds for scientific and technological companies massively evolving
We also associate ourselves with a number of accelerators at an early stage such as
Funs forum, an accelerator focused on SaaS which offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to connect with a large network of companies, mentors and investors at the start of the SaaS B2B and the B2B technological space
L-SPLK, another primary accelerator focused on the SAA
Osler also works with programs to promote companies led by women such as 51, a “financial feminist” platform where investors and entrepreneurs work together to connect the capital led by women for companies led by women .
In addition, Osler is a founding sponsor of the next great thing, a foundation led by entrepreneurs engaged in the next generation of Canadian entrepreneurs. We are committed to working with our sponsor colleagues in these companies and others, such as Tandemlaunch, Peerscale (formerly Acetech Ontario), League of Innovators, Cix and the C100, to ensure that the founders can access the support of which They need to launch their business.
Transactions
Osler represents companies and venture capital funds and investors of the pre-series scene, up to the stage of growth and high exit. Our experience portfolio demonstrates the wide range of transactions and sectors that we have helped and our ability to help companies develop their business. Discover a selection of our recent offers below or access the full list in the representative work section of this page.
Pre-series
Simmunom in its security of $ 2 million in pre-series funding
Seed
Inverted ia in its fence of a round of seed financing of $ 5.3 million
CentML in its security of $ 37 million in seed financing
Series A
ContactonPonkey in its series of $ 55 million in financing in series A
Raven indigenous Capital Partners as a major investor in the collection of financing of a million dollars for Anikiii
B series
Arteria Ai in its funding series of $ 46 million in series B
Odaia in its $ 34 million increase in series B financing
Series C and beyond
Koho Financial in its increase of $ 86 million in a financing round of the series D
Mergers and acquisitions and outings
Fusion pharmaceuticals in its $ 212.5 million iPo
Reversago Pharma in its combination of companies of US $ 1.075 billion with Novo Nordisk