Canada has a very advanced Private Equity and Venture Capital markets with huge number of institutional investors, as well as Angel investors and accelerators. Many investors in Canada are located in Toronto (Ontario), but also in other large cities, such as Vancouver (British Columbia), Edmonton (Alberta), Calgary (Alberta), Montreal (Quebec) and Ottawa (Ontario). Canadian PE/VC/Angels invest in various sectors, there are both generalist and specialist investors targeting certain industries, such as Technology, Energy, Healthcare, Education, Infrastructure and Real Estate. Canadian investors follow the footsteps of the US market and provide funds to companies and startups at different stages, including seed, growth financing, mezzanine, LBO and MBO deals with low to mid-cap deals being the most popular. Unlike in the US and most of other countries, many active private equity investors in Canada are PE arms of Canadian pension funds.