Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023
Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023
| Investor | FinTech Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Tom Williams | 8 |
| Meltem Demirors | 5 |
| Zaeem Shaukat Mirza | 4 |
| Arjun Sethi | 3 |
| Markus Frind | 3 |
| Joe Canavan | 3 |
| Olugbenga Agboola | 3 |
| Satish Kanwar | 3 |
| Adegoke Olubusi | 3 |
| Ray Muzyka | 3 |
| Alex Norman | 3 |
| Tobias Lütke | 3 |
| Dimeji Sofowora | 3 |
| Stephen Curry | 2 |
| Michael Katchen | 2 |
| Mike Murchison | 2 |
| Balaji Srinivasan | 2 |
| Jane Wang | 2 |
| Mo Larbi Bennis | 2 |
| Prosper Otemuyiwa | 2 |
| Adam Felesky | 2 |
| Hanif Joshaghani | 2 |
| Roger Martin | 2 |
| Lachy Groom | 2 |
| Jevon MacDonald | 2 |
| Tinie Tempah | 2 |
| Mai Fujimoto | 2 |
| Jamie McDonald | 2 |
| Olugbenga Agboola | 2 |
| Lance Tracey | 2 |
| Dennis Bennie | 2 |
| Kirk Simpson | 2 |
| Peter M. Kern | 2 |
| Bryan Rosenblatt | 2 |
| Kevin Sandhu | 2 |
| Kain Warwick | 2 |
| David Tedman | 2 |
| Michael Dunworth | 2 |
| Ryan Holmes | 2 |
| Mark Macleod | 1 |
| Vinny Lingham | 1 |
| Mark Pincus | 1 |
| Paul Ortchanian | 1 |
| Derrick Hunter | 1 |
| Farhan Thawar | 1 |
| Sandy Kory | 1 |
| Karen WW | 1 |
| Boris Wertz | 1 |
| Andrew Ferrier | 1 |
| Christopher Bissonnette | 1 |
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Tom Williams
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- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
- Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.
Zaeem is an accomplished Global Business Strategist and an avid Marketing Technologist. Having worked with category-leading companies including iProspect, AmoebaCom, Qatar Airways, and Google, Zaeem brings scale and efficiency to global business and marketing operations. Under his leadership, he has managed multiple teams and portfolios across 20+languages, 80+ countries, and 150+ cities. He has managed marketing budgets exceeding $100m and driven multibillion-dollar revenue year on year. On the social front, Zaeem consults multiple organizations towards management, fund-raising, and cause- and non-profit marketing.He is a Marketing Academy graduate from INSEAD, Singapore and aspires to accomplish a PhD in Marketing Technology. He is a Mumbai University ranker, a graduate in mass communication from the St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, IN), and secured his post-graduation in advertising management from MICA (IN). Armed with his credentials and experience, he independently mentors, invests, and harbours a desire to create entrepreneurs out of passionate professionals who have great technology, product, or social impact ideas.His passion to continually learn allows him to facilitate media and business school programs, conduct corporate workshops, and speak at notable industry conferences on topics ranging from e-commerce strategy, online brand management, non-profit marketing, to digital transformation, and marketing at scale.An ardent digital consumer and marketer, when not fighting a deadline, Zaeem likes slow travelling, unwinding with a book, painting, discussing new business opportunities, or simply spending time with family and friends.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed
- United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
- UMMAH1.com — UMMAH1.com is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
- UMMAH1.org — UMMAH1.org is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
Arjun Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and executive, as well as a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital.Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using artificial intelligence and data science. Some of its noteworthy investments include Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken,Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.Arjun was previously a Partner at Social Capital where he led the Venture Team consisting of six full time GPs with a broad focus on early stage investing in the consumer and enterprise sector. Arjun has a long history of sourcing, winning and leading early stage deals. Arjun’s investments at Social Capital include notable companies such as Front, Carta, Swarm (Sold to SpaceX), Slack, Cloud Kitchens and Relativity Space. Arjun's track record includes being recognized as one of the top 100 angels in Silicon Valley through advisory, direct, and secondary investments across various stages. He has invested in high-profile names such as Frax, Snapchat, Lyft, OpenDoor, and Gusto. Prior to his work in venture, Arjun co-founded and sold two successful companies. After his second company, MessageMe, was acquired by Yahoo, he joined the executive team, where he was instrumental in driving mobile product usage from 100M to 1B monthly uniques and was a Board Observer on Alibaba. Before that, Arjun was the Founder and CEO of LOLapps, a mobile gaming company that grew to 100M monthly users and sold for $240M.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
- Questbook — Discover Opportunities in Web 3.0 and Earn in Crypto
- Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.
Markus Frind
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- Retail, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cymax Group Technologies Ltd. — Cymax Group simplifies the complexities of eCommerce by combining nearly two decades of technology expertise with award winning products and dedicated account management. Maximize the best of technology, automation, and AI to simplify the complexities of eCommerce through our two products - Channel
- Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
- Tastry, Inc. — Tastry wine AI provides unparalleled visibility for winemakers and retailers into your wine's chemistry and how consumers will perceive it. Learn more here.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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- Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Goke is one of Africa's finest entrepreneurs at the forefront of technology disruptions across Africa. A Johns Hopkins University alumni and previously an engineer at eBay, PayPal and Goldman Sachs in the U.S., Goke has a penchant for solving tough problems. He served on the founding team of Africa's leading social network with 30m+ usersand received multiple honours/awards from Forbes, Chevron, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc.
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- FinTech, Finance, Payments
- Pre-Seed
- Canada, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Panda Salud — On demand lab testing & analytics for B2B
- Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
- Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally
Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
- Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
- Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
Alex is a tech entrepreneur, an active angel investor and community builder who is currently the General Partner at N49P, the Canadian Partner of AngelList and the Managing Director of TechToronto. Previously Alex, co-founded, grew, and sold HomeSav. Before HomeSav, Alex worked at Lehman Brothers, McKinsey and several venture-backed start-ups inNYC, the Valley, and London, including Simply Business which recently sold for $400m+ USD.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Every — Manage your small business money with ease. Wave Money is a free business bank account with built-in bookkeeping.
- Maker AI — Get blog posts, social posts, email copy and more from world class writers. Request quality content for your business in a few clicks.
- Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.
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- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Humaans — The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.
- Mason — Mason was an AI-powered SQL editor for teams.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Dimeji Sofowora is a co-founder at Helium Health.
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- FinTech, Finance, Payments
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
- Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally
Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.
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- Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Step — No monthly or subscription fees, no overdraft fees, no interest, and the best way to build credit even before you turn 18.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
- KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.
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- Software, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Accord — Build your repeatable sales & onboarding process to hit growth targets. Collaborative. Transparent. Engaging. What customers love.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Lore — The Natural Language Block Explorer & Analytics Tool.
- Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
Founder and CEO of Optimity. Proactive Health Evangelist; Data Science Nerd; Authentic Leader #Anomaly #WonderWoman #Pioneer
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- Sales, Wellness, Insurance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Optimity — We apply behavioral science through gamification, incentives, and the power of communities to nudge consumers in making better, healthier choices.As a B2B platform, our large health community becomes a cost-effective lead-gen funnel. Our first set of clients are life insurance companies: Acquisition economics in life insurance are painfullywasteful: 70% of their total cost is spent on acquiring new policyholders. Our products help them acquire high-quality leads at the lowest cost, dramatically improving their acquisition economics.
Mo Larbi Bennis
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- Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.
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- FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Adam Felesky - CEO @ Portage Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- Canada, United States, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Borrowell — Get your credit report and credit score for free. No credit card, SIN number or bank account required. It will take less than 3 minutes to check your credit and free monthly tracking forever.
- KOHO Financial — A no-fee spending account with instant cash back & money management app designed to simplify your personal finances. Sign up in minutes to join over 1 million Canadians who use KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to budget and save.
- TheGuarantors — TheGuarantors unlock opportunity and financial advantage for renters. Empowering renters with tools and resources to access the life you deserve.
Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
- Littlebird Connected Care — Littlebird's Toddler CareTracker tells you where your child is, who they are with, and how they are doing. Littlebird has an expanding suite of features including cellular connection, GPS, heart rate, temperature, activity and mode trends and dynamic activity feed connecting you with your little one's caregivers.
Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where heserved as co-head of the firm for two years.
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- SaaS, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Borrowell — Get your credit report and credit score for free. No credit card, SIN number or bank account required. It will take less than 3 minutes to check your credit and free monthly tracking forever.
- Taplytics — Taplytics provides zero bloat, cross-platform AB Testing solutions that power the experiences within today's leading apps and websites. Learn more.
- Kira Talent — Make your admissions process more human. Kira transforms your admissions process with on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.
i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Jevon MacDonald is the Co-Founder at StartupNorth.
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- Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Cape Privacy — Cape encrypts your documents and redacts any sensitive data. You get the best language model while preserving your privacy.
- Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...
Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.
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- FinTech, Art, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
- DeHorizon — With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more andmore blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision is the digital fashion ecosystem that offers 3D Creation with styling for Fashion Brands and Designers to enter the Metaverse, Play, and Earn.
Entrepreneur, investor.
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- Software, Accounting, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.
- E-State Planner — Cloud-based estate planning software - for lawyers by lawyers. Save time, reduce malpractice errors, and improve your service delivery.
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack
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- Communities, Internet, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 20 years, Bennie's entrepreneurial management has powered Mission Electronics, Ingram Canada and Delrina. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. The $25 million fund hasyielded exceptional returns to date. One of its most noteworthy investments was a 1997 start-up, Delano Technology Corporation (NASD:DTEC). XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund was started in 1999 and is now fully invested. Bennie currently manages an experienced team investing in private equity opportunities as the XDL Capital Group. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Bennie was CEO of Delrina Corporation, an independent software developer and publisher, which forged the new software categories of electronic forms and PC fax communications. Under Mr. Bennie's leadership, Delrina pioneered the development of PC fax software called WinFax and became a world leader in the communication software market with annual sales revenue exceeding $130 million. Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability, and completed several public offerings. In November 1995, the company was successfully sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Mr. Bennie entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics. He drove the expansion of this leading British audio equipment manufacturer to become a dominant force in the high-end stereo market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission Electronics and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. Residing in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Laura and three daughters, Dennis is an avid golfer and runner. A member of the World President's Organization, he also regularly serves on various charitable boards including the Toronto Hospital Board.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- Tread — Tread's construction fleet management software makes the business of moving construction materials easier and more profitable. Request a demo today!
- Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.
Kirk Simpson is the co-founder and CEO of Wave, a provider of cloud-based, integrated software and tools for small businesses. He has spent his career working in digital media with some of Canada’s largest media companies. Prior to Wave, Kirk started two other companies and through this, realized the pain of handling back-office tasks first-hand,which led him to create Wave. Since founding Wave, Kirk has helped the company grow to over 2 million total users, with over $25 million raised in capital.
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- Finance, Sales, Banking
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Every — Manage your small business money with ease. Wave Money is a free business bank account with built-in bookkeeping.
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
Peter M. Kern has been a director of Expedia since completion of the IAC/Expedia Spin-Off.Peter Kern is a Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, LP, a private equity firm.Prior to joining InterMedia, Mr. Kern was Senior Managing Director and Principal of Alpine Capital LLC.Prior to Alpine Capital, Mr. Kern founded Gemini Associates in1996 and served as President from its inception through its merger with Alpine Capital in 2001.Prior to founding Gemini Associates,Peter Kern was at the Home Shopping Network and Whittle Communications.Since April 2013,Peter Kern has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc., a publicly-traded Spanish-language media company.Mr. Kern also serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including Televicentro of Puerto Rico, LLC, Luxury Retreats International Holdings, Inc. and Cine Latino, Inc.Mr. Kern holds a B.S. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Travel, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Busbud — Travel the world by bus. Compare and easily book bus tickets from thousands of bus companies for your next destination with Busbud.
- Snapcommerce — A new way to shop that maximizes savings, benefits and rewards on mobile.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
- Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
Kevin Sandhu is the Co-Founder and CEO at ControlHQ.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
- Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
David Tedman first honed his digital pioneering inclinations at the Vancouver Film School, earning his degree in Interactive Media in 2002. Soon after, he founded Novare Res, a multi-disciplinary design company that later merged with Invoke and laid the foundations for his serial successes in product development. Tedman's accomplishments, todate, include incubating memelabs, a leading branded contesting and social engagement platform and co-founding HootSuite, an award-winning social media dashboard, which spun off into its own company after Invoke helped build its first one million user base.Tedman happily splits his time between Vancouver and New York, is constantly thinking of new high-performing business models, and is perpetually looking forward to the next basketball game.
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- Software, Sports, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- KOHO Financial — A no-fee spending account with instant cash back & money management app designed to simplify your personal finances. Sign up in minutes to join over 1 million Canadians who use KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to budget and save.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.
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- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
- XMTP — Own and control your communication.
- Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Since 1999, Mark MacLeod has been helping fund, grow and exit venture-backed startups as either a CFO, advisor or VC. Mark has been involved with many high profile companies including FreshBooks, Shopify, Frank & Oak and many, many others.Mark MacLeod is the founder of SurePath Capital Partners, the premier strategic financial advisor totoday's emerging technology leaders.
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- Software, Apps, Sales/Marketing
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- Notch — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Wrk — Give your business access to powerful automation with no gaps or limitations so your team can focus on what matters most.
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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- Software, Internet, Financial
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
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- TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
- Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.
- Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Bravado — An exclusive Sales Community for the Best Sales Professionals
Paul Ortchanian is the founder of Bain Public a product firm that partners with middle market and large corporations, as well as start-up organizations, to produce measurable business results. His focus is improving the performance of products with an emphasis on strategy, roadmap planning, user knowledge, UX, product leadership, team memberengagement and process improvement.
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- Apps, Software, Health Care
- Seed
- Canada
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- Porpoise — Porpoise is an employee engagement platform for companies that have corporate responsibility initiatives and are looking to automate involvement, measurement and reporting. Porpoise makes it simple to recognize, capture, and amplify the social impact that employees are making on behalf of your company, finally giving your marketing departments thecontent they need to deliver great campaigns, and HR managers the data to track and manage employees engagement programs and targeted initiatives.Spend less time managing your impact and giving programs, and more time accelerating the impact!
Derrick is the President and CEO of Bluesky Equities and is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the company, guiding the firm’s investment strategy, and fostering Bluesky’s entrepreneurial culture.
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- Software, Real Estate, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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- JITbase — Solve the labor shortage and increase machine uptime with OPS, the first GPS for the operator of CNC machines. One operator manages more CNC machines. Increase productivity by 20% thanks to our AI-based machine monitoring software.
- ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
- Ownly — Ownly is a revolutionary tool for home buyers to build, price and buy their home from the comfort & security of their own device.
Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering at Shopify. Attended University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management.
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- Software, IT, Other
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Aide — Understand what's going on in your inbox and augment your agents with AI for efficient operations and higher customer satisfaction. Using our hands-free Machine Learning technology and intelligent suggestions, Aide gives your team a high-level view of customer issues and provides tooling to Assist Agents respond to customers faster.
- Parallelz — Parallelz builds a platform that enables anyone to instantly create, and share “impossible” versions of their favorite mobile games.
- Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.
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- Software, Data and Analytics, AI
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
- Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
- Enable Us — Buyer & seller enablement with one single link. Enable's digital salesroom has everything B2B buyers and sellers need to close deals quickly
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- Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TAKU Retail — All-in-one retail management software that helps merchants sell and grow revenue in-store, off-site, and online under one login.
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Mobile, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Kobalt — Kobalt assesses, develops and runs cyber security programs for small and mid-sized businesses. We conduct security gap assessments, penetration testing, security awareness programs and security monitoring as-a-service. Our security programs help organizations develop their security programs to combat the risks unique to their business.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
Andrew has held a number of director and executive positions for large multinationals and has 30 years of experience in international business. He has a strong background in growing businesses including 17 years as a CEO.From 2003 to 2011, Andrew was CEO of Fonterra Co-Operative Group, New Zealand's largest company. Prior to Fonterra,Andrew served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and director of GSW of Toronto, a manufacturer of consumer durable products and, prior to GSW, Andrew was President and CEO of Tate & Lyle North America Sugars of New York and President of Redpath Sugars in Toronto.Andrew currently runs his own investment company, Canz Capital, is Chairman of the New Zealand Government's economic development agency New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, sits on the Council of the University of Auckland and, in addition to Orion Health, sits on the boards of Bunge Ltd. in New York and Lufa Farms Inc. in Montreal, as well as other advisory and charitable boards.Andrew holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Business Administration from Concordia University.
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- Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
- Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.
Christopher Bissonnette is the President at Pallasite Ventures. Whether it’s as a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer disease therapies, or as an executive in control of investment portfolios and commercial real estate, Christopher has taken an analytical approach throughout his career. This varied experience has given him valuable insightinto Chicago’s most desirable locations for advertisers and a deep understanding of the complex leasing and permitting restrictions involved. As co-founder and CFO of GreenSigns Chicago, Christopher helps ensure that our advertisers and landlords receive the best possible value. As an avid biker and hiker, he helps ensure a high-energy level throughout the GreenSigns’ office.
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- Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ViralGains — Create interactive ads that gather consumer-declared data in order to discover and understand customers.
- TradingView — Where the world charts, chats and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
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