Sprout Family raises $2.5 million to build Canada's family-benefits platform
What's the deal? Sprout FamilyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Canadian family benefits platform, has closed an oversubscribed US$2.6M seed round led by BDC Thrive Venture Fund. Accelia CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, MaRS Investment Accelerator FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, StandUp VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and The51Dealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → also took part.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2023 by Jackie Hanson and Suzanne Mason, Sprout started with fertility support before expanding across the full family-building arc. The money will push the platform into pregnancy, postpartum, parental leave, and return to work, while growing the team and deepening ties with insurers and benefits providers.
Why now? Nearly half the Canadian workforce is aged 25 to 45, when employees are most likely to navigate fertility, pregnancy, and parental leave. One in six Canadians face infertility, yet support across these moments remains fragmented across disconnected policies and processes.
What's the traction? Sprout now works with insurers, advisors, and employers nationwide. The number of employees with access to its platform has grown 11-fold, including through clients such as Wealthsimple, EllisDonDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Lazer TechnologiesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
"Sprout Family is addressing a critical gap in access to trusted family support through a scalable technology platform," said Mona Minhas, managing partner of BDC's Thrive Venture Fund. The fund focuses on companies led by women founders.
Co-founder and chief executive officer Jackie Hanson framed the ambition broadly. "Family-building isn't only a women's health issue, it's a human one, and employers are starting to build benefits that reflect that," she said.
The signal: The round lands amid rising investor interest in women's health and workplace benefits, and its size places it in the upper tier of comparable seed deals. It reflects a bet that employers will increasingly treat family-building as core infrastructure, not an afterthought.
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