Canadian startup investing,
starting at $50.

Unicorne is a regulated equity crowdfunding platform for Canadian retail investors. Every round runs under NI 45-110, with a minimum $25,000 institutional commitment required before retail access opens.

Canadian unicorns started small

None of these outcomes were predictable at the pre-seed stage. The investors who participated early did so without knowing the final result.

The math of early-stage investing

Most pre-seed investments do not succeed. Research estimates that roughly 60 to 70 percent of pre-seed companies do not advance to their next funding round. A small number return many multiples of the original amount, and those outcomes drive overall portfolio performance. Early-stage investors have historically generated strong long-run returns not by avoiding losses, but by holding enough positions to capture the rare breakout outcome when it occurs. This is sometimes called the power law of venture: a few investments account for the majority of returns across an entire portfolio.

Source: Kauffman Foundation; industry estimates on pre-seed advancement rates.

A growing opportunity

There are more Canadian entrepreneurs and founders building today than at any point before. More companies are being created, more ideas are getting off the ground, and the pipeline of ventures that need early funding has never been larger. At the same time, regulatory changes have unlocked new ways for those companies to raise. Unicorne sits in the middle of that: we help founders raise from the public and give investors access to opportunities that were previously out of reach. We connect founders to their first believers, and investors to the companies being built around them.