Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
| Investor | Food and Beverage Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Arlene Dickinson | 2 |
| Eric Patel | 2 |
| David Albert | 2 |
| Mike Fata | 2 |
| Tom Williams | 2 |
| Hans Knapp | 1 |
| Colin Harris | 1 |
| Lauren Rathmell | 1 |
| John Risley | 1 |
| Jon Oringer | 1 |
| Jerin Mece | 1 |
| Jeff Steinberg | 1 |
| Lanny Lipson | 1 |
| Andrew Ferrier | 1 |
| Eric Wetlaufer | 1 |
| Josh Hart | 1 |
| Walter James Treliving | 1 |
| Rogers Healy | 1 |
| Manjit Minhas | 1 |
| JJ Redick | 1 |
| Mohamed Hage | 1 |
| Andrew Perlman | 1 |
| Amit Sharma | 1 |
| John Nemanic | 1 |
| Oskar Hartmann | 1 |
| Ran Makavy | 1 |
| Tim Draper | 1 |
| Jamie Rosenblatt | 1 |
| Kevin Kimsa | 1 |
| Mark Macleod | 1 |
| Tim Griffin | 1 |
| Steve Wood | 1 |
| Ryan Garrah | 1 |
| Marc Poulin | 1 |
| Brett Wilson | 1 |
| Chuck Rifici | 1 |
| Chris Adams | 1 |
| Marc Altshuller | 1 |
| Devon Galloway | 1 |
| Malcolm Leggett | 1 |
| Jim Newton | 1 |
| Jerry Grandey | 1 |
| Phil Donnithorne | 1 |
| Jim Spatz | 1 |
| Dario Meli | 1 |
| Chris Neumann | 1 |
| Dennis Bennie | 1 |
| Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
| Terry Tierney | 1 |
| Drew Green | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.
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- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
- Aku Spike — Aku delivers a high-end self acupressure experience anywhere, anytime. Stress relief, relaxation, and treatment for sore back, neck aches, joint pain and more.
- Vertiball — The precision massager that makes your back accessible in a way like never before. Our patent pending suction mounting system to mount onto walls and other flat surfaces. The technology allows you to place the device at specific heights giving you complete control over your sore, tense muscles.
Eric Patel was first elected to the Ritchie Bros. Board in 2004. Mr. Patel has extensive business and financial experience, most recently as CFO of Pembrook Mining Corp. (formerly Paget Resources Corporation), a private mining company that he left in 2010. Prior to that Mr. Patel acted as the CFO of CrystalDecisions, Inc., a privately heldsoftware company. Mr. Patel joined Crystal Decisions in 1999 after holding executive level positions, including that of CFO, with University Games, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of educational toys and games. Before 1997, Mr. Patel worked for Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream as Director of Strategy, for Marakon Associates strategy consultants and for Chemical Bank. Mr. Patel sits on the Advisory Board of ACL Services Ltd, the board of Daiya Foods Inc. and is treasurer of B.C. Social Ventures Partners, a not for profit-organization. Mr. Patel holds an MBA degree. Mr. Patel is currently a member of the Audit Committee and is Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TMRW Foods — TMRW Foods is a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, producing out of their wholly owned HACCP certified facility in British Columbia, Canada. TMRW products can be found in retailers across Canada, and a local delivery platform is available for Lower Mainland Vancouver. TMRW has tripled their distribution points from the end 2020 to Q2 2021.
- Apothékary — Apothékary is a global plant-based farmacy that offers clean alternatives to over the counter synthetic supplements & beauty products.
- Eclipse Foods — Eclipse Foods is the sweet tooth for all food lovers of plant-based, vegan ice cream. We offer delicious, cruelty-free vegan ice cream. Learn more today!
Managing Director, @foodora (a Delivery Hero company)
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- Software, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jiffy — Jiffy is a web and mobile platform that connects homeowners with service providers in real time, based on proximity and availability.
- ChefHero — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
- KitchenMate — Our modular Kiosks enable your business to easily integrate high-quality meals into your culture.
Mike Fata is the Founder at Manitoba Harvest. He attended Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
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- Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Snack Food
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
- Mid-Day Squares — Mid-Day Squares: Perfectly designed to stop your hunger or cravings in between meals. Each Square is packed with Clean Plant Protein, Real Chocolate & Superfoods.
- Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.
Tom Williams
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- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
- North One — 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.
- Possible Finance — Get money in minutes, build credit history and avoid hidden fees with Possible Finance. Apply in the app with just a few taps and manage money on your terms.
Hans co-founded Yaletown Venture Partners and brings over 15 years of legal counsel, corporate governance, turn-around, and investing experience to the Yaletown team. Hans manages Yaletown's investment in Redlen Technologies, Equicare Health, Genologics, Thetus, and Mixpo. In addition, as Yaletown's General Counselhe directs ourfirm's investment transactions, operations and legal affairs. Prior to Yaletown, Hans was Vice President of Investments and Corporate Counsel for Brigill Investments, a private Vancouver-based venture capital firm. Earlier in his career he practiced law in the commercial litigation group of Borden Ladner Gervais and held a judicial clerkship at British Columbia's highest court, the BC Court of Appeal. A recipient of Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" award, Hans has B.A. and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia and is called to the Bar of British Columbia.
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- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- VitaminLab — Looking for personalized vitamins based on your health goals, DNA or blood? Choose how you want to formulate and get an all-in-one formula just for you.
- ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
- Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions
Colin is Chief Operating Officer of PMC-Sierra Inc. Colin is a founder of PMC-Sierra, has served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer since February 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations at PMC-Sierra from July 2004 and Vice President of IC Technology from May1997 to July 2004. Colin is anelected member of the Global Semiconductor Association Board of Directors and serves on the advisory board of the Design for E-Beam (DFEB) initiative. Colin currently also serves on the board of directors for Yaletown portfolio company Redlen Technologies
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- Software, Industrial Automation, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
- aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
- Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
Rathmell, a trained biochemist, started working with Lufa Farms as a researcher at McGill’s MacDonald campus. She played a large role in the development of the plant science and growing science that Lufa eventually implemented, including the NFT and drip irrigation systems, the use of biological pest controls, the microclimate and crop rotationsystems, and the selection of crop varieties. Rathmell currently supervises all greenhouse operations as well as research and development
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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.
John Risley is Chairman and CEO of CFFI Ventures Inc., a diversified holding company operating internationally. The company has majority or significant stakes in a portfolio of young companies ranging from financial services, renewable energy and the tech sector. He is also the Chair of Northern Private Capital, a Toronto based fund which investsin high growth opportunities, and Chair of MDA Corporation, Canada’s iconic space company.
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- Software, Information Technology, Sharing Economy
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ClearBank — ClearBank is a clearing and agency banking platform allowing banks and other customers real-time clearance on payment transactions and other financial services. Its services include account management, liquidity management, transaction analysis, and real-time access to payment schemes. These services help clients to make transactions fast andcost-effective for their customers.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bristol City, United Kingdom.
- Harbr — Trade credit solutions - Exchange critical data and instantly access essential insights.
- ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BRXS — Real Estate investing
- Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
- OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
Founder
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- Organic Food, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
Jeff Steinberg
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- Sports, Winery, Distillery
- Series A, Private Equity
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Siempre Spirits — Handmade in a small Mexican town named Tequila, this platinum and consumer's choice award winning 100% Agave spirit is unmatched in taste and quality.
Lanny Lipson
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- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
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.
Eric Wetlaufer is the Managing Partner at TwinRiver Capital.Eric Wetlaufer attended Wesleyan University.
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- B2B, Farming, Nutrition
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Purchs — Wholesale buyers from restaurants, retail and institutions place orders using FreshSpoke's mobile or web app. Delivery is then arranged using FreshSpoke's shared delivery system that leverages the excess capacity that already exists in the food delivery system, giving commercial drivers, including local food producers, the ability to earnextra income delivering local food. The entire transaction is paperless; every aspect of the delivery from dispatch and routing, to arrival notification and order acceptance is handled on the driver’s smartphone. FreshSpoke is in the market and commercialized in Canada and the USA with a web app and three mobile apps. These include FreshSpoke buyers’ app, FreshDispatch app for Drivers and a consumer facing app called Local Food Champion that authenticates the source of local food served or sold by FreshSpoke buyers.
Josh Hart is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association.
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- Software, Gaming, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InVintory — Helping wine collectors track & find their bottles. Download on the App Store or use our Web App.
- 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.
- Lemon Perfect — Lemon Perfect is a zero-sugar cold-pressed lemon water that’s full of flavor and packed with antioxidant vitamin C. We squeeze half a California-grown organic lemon into every bottle and can—and add no artificial ingredients—making healthy hydration more convenient, refreshing, and delicious than ever.The Lemon Perfect Company is headquartered inAtlanta, GA.
Jim Treliving is the Chairman and Owner of one of Canada’s most beloved restaurant chains, Boston Pizza International (BPI)—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of his accolades. Well-known for his role as the encouraging, savvy, entrepreneurial spirit on CBC’s Dragons' Den, Jim has a history rooted in integrity—one which has led him well inthe world of business. One of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs, Jim has been at the helm of the Boston Pizza name for nearly 50 years which has received prestigious recognition, including Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies Platinum Club, Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures, the Henry Singer Award from the Canadian Institute of Retailing and Services and, most recently, the Canadian Franchise Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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- Solar, Energy, Mobile
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Just Boardrooms — At Just Meeting Rooms, we are committed to making your boardrooms, meeting rooms, meeting venues and conference rooms a success.
- PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
- Operation Take Two — Operation Take Two is a social enterprise revolutionizing the global issue of waste by empowering communities to turn trash into treasure.
A Texas based entrepreneur, investor, leader, and music guru, Rogers embodies the spirit of a business owner. Rogers jumped into business at an early age, and started what is now Texas' largest independently owned real estate company, Rogers Healy and Associates Real Estate, in 2005. Since inception , Rogers went on to be the founder of RogersHealy and Associates Land and Lake, Rogers Healy and Associates Commercial Real Estate, Healy Global Real Estate and Relocation and Healy Property Management. As fate would have it, Rogers made his first investment in the world of Venture Capital in 2012, in Mizzen + Main. He fell in love with the idea of connecting the dots in the world of VC, and has since become one of Texas' most active investors. After over a decade investing in deals ranging from CPG to SaaS, Rogers founded Morrison Seger Venture Capital Partners. "MoSe" quickly made a name for themselves, with early stage investments in companies ranging from tequila to trading cards, and have been able to add a new layer of experience to venture capitalism. Most importantly, Rogers lives a life of faith, alongside his wife Abby, their daughter Henley (named after Eagles' frontman, Don Henley), their dogs, and all their music memorabilia (Rogers has one of the largest collections in the world).
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- Food and Beverage, Retail, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Harbor — Harbor offers the first and only baby monitoring system with a dedicated, local Monitor that works without internet and securely connects to the cloud if and when you want it to, allowing you to access remotely with failsafe notifications. Learn why Harbor is better than Nanit & Owlet at harbor.co!
- Oats Overnight — Enjoy the benefits of eating breakfast with none of the work. Overnight oatmeal loaded with superfoods like flax, chia, maca root, real fruit, and 20g+ protein. No recipes needed. Life Is Hard, Make Breakfast Easy.
- Claffey’s Cocktails — Claffey’s Cocktails is a wine-based cocktail company that sells freezer pops.
34-year-old Manjit Minhas is the co-founder and co-owner of Minhas Breweries and Distillery and a Dragon on Dragon's Den. Though trained as a petroleum engineer, she has become a specialist in brand development, marketing, sales management and retail negotiations, having been recognized for several business industry awards such as PROFITmagazine's "Top Growth Entrepreneur", Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs in Canada, Calgary's Top 40 under 40, Chatelaine Magazine's "Top Entrepreneur Woman of The Year 2011" and The Sikh Centennial Foundation Award 2014.When Manjit Minhas was 19 years old, she and her brother Ravinder scraped together $10,000 to launch their first beer in Alberta. In 2006, they purchased the second oldest brewery in the United States and renamed it "Minhas Craft Brewery." At the time, this acquisition officially made the Minhas siblings the youngest brewery owners in the world.Their brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin is now the 10th largest in North America, and as a brand they produce more than 90 beers, spirits, liqueurs and wines that ship all across Canada and the U.S., as well as overseas to 15 different countries. Minhas Brewery makes all of the Kirkland brand beer for Costco worldwide, as well as all the craft beers under Trader Joes' label in the US. Today they run a group of companies that generated over $155-million in revenue last year.Manjit lives in Calgary, where she was born and raised, with her husband and two young daughters.
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- Solar, Energy, Health Care
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NEXXBAR — We manufacture All-in-one, one-size-fits-all patented self-treatment tools designed to replace current tools for daily myofascial release, pain management, and recovery. The distinct benefit over other foam rollers, balls, and massage wands is the leverage system, which allows for frequent self-treatment without getting on the floor, contortinginto awkward positions, and exerting the very muscles you are trying to treat. It is portable, convenient, adaptable, and easy to use for all ages and abilities.
- Easy Platter — Easy Platter Personal chefs prepare healthy, delicious custom cuisines in your kitchen for $7.75/Meal. Top-Rated Local Personal chefs prepare incredible meals per your dietary preferences. Sit back, relax while your affordable personal chefs prepare meals for you and your family in your kitchen or
- PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
JJ Redick Former Pro-Basketball Player.
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- Winery, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Olipop — 2-5g sugar. 9g fiber. 8 classic flavors. Discover the delicious new soda made with plant fiber and prebiotics for a happy, healthy you. Try it in Vintage Cola, Classic Root Beer, Strawberry Vanilla, Ginger Lemon and more. Non-GMO, gluten free, paleo, vegan, and just plain delicious.
- InVintory — Helping wine collectors track & find their bottles. Download on the App Store or use our Web App.
Mohamed Hage is a young entrepreneur with a demonstrated track record of success and over 10 years of experience running software and real estate companies. He has a talent for inspiring passion in employees and an incredible knack for forging connections with experts from a diverse range of specialties. He conceived of Lufa Farms in the early2000s based on his childhood experiences with agriculture and fresh produce in a village just outside of Beirut.
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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.
Andrew Perlman is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Equity. He attended The George Washington University School of Business in 1996.
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- Water, Wellness, Advertising
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flow Alkaline Spring Water — Naturally alkaline spring water in a sustainable package, delivered to your door.
- Recurrent Ventures — Recurrent is an innovative digital media company that empowers brands to grow, and connect with consumers in a way that is enjoyable, sustainable, inspiring, and profitable—while maintaining editorial integrity. Its best-in-class brands like Popular Science, The Drive, Domino, MEL, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Car Bibles, SAVEUR, Futurism, andTask & Purpose engage a combined audience of more than 50 million monthly unique visitors. Initially founded in late 2018 with the acquisition of The Drive, the portfolio rapidly expanded under the ownership and backing of North Equity LLC to include 20 digital media brands across automotive, home, lifestyle, military, outdoors, and science and tech verticals.
Amit Sharma is the Founder and General Partner of Black Jays Investments. He attended London Business School.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OffLimits — Offensively delicious cereal. Nothing Artificial.
- Package Free — At Package Free Shop we sell sustainable, green, eco friendly, plastic free products to help you live a zero waste, minimalist, and low impact lifestyle.
- Penelope — Penelope | The retirement platform for small business
John Nemanic
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- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, India, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
Ran Makavy
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- Health Care, Software, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Darvis — Explore AI-powered solutions to optimize healthcare supply chains with DARVIS Digital Shelves, enhancing inventory management and operational efficiency.
- Copilot — Start, run, and grow your business with a client portal that streamlines messaging, payments, file-sharing, help centers, custom app access, and more.
- Social Chat — Loup is an intelligent marketing platform that lets you turn your website into a personal shopping experience with interactive video.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- BacAlt — Sustainable Bacterial Alernatives
- PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
- SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Jamie Rosenblatt is the Partner at Golden Ventures . Jamie Rosenblatt attended University of Toronto.
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- Software, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jiffy — Jiffy is a web and mobile platform that connects homeowners with service providers in real time, based on proximity and availability.
- ChefHero — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
- 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.
In his role as General Partner at ScaleUP Ventures, Kevin Kimsa is responsible for investing in and supporting early stage portfolio companies in the North American market, with a focus on Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech.Prior to founding ScaleUP Ventures, Kevin has spent more than 20 years in operational managementpositions at growth companies including live event e-commerce platform provider AudienceView Ticketing Inc., where he current serves as Executive Chair. His entrepreneurial successes also include co-founding IP billing software firm Solect Technology Group (sold to Amdocs Inc. in 2000 for US$1.2 billion), and software firm Casero Inc. (sold to Radialpoint in 2009.)Kevin’s solid track record in operations includes roles as the CEO and COO at companies he founded or co-founded, and successful completion of numerous financing rounds with a mixture of venture capitalists and strategic investors.Kevin is a 2002 recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award, and is a Board member of Toronto East General Hospital and the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of Waterloo (Advisory Board). He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree with a major in computer science and statistics from the University of Waterloo.
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- Software, Q&A, Events
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.
- LineVision — LineVision is accelerating the net zero grid by equipping our utility partners with unique monitoring and analytics that improve the capacity, resilience, and safety of the grid.
- Coconut Software — Put the right expert in the right channel at the right time, so no opportunity is lost.
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, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ChefHero — 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 — Unlock seamless automation with Wrk. Our AI automation tools and business automation solutions help you streamline workflows, cut costs, and scale effortlessly.
I'm a founder and angel investor, backing early stage startups across the U.S. and Canada. I founded Cloosiv (YC S19), where I led our growth from initial prototype, to the highest-rated mobile ordering app for coffee shops in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. I've raised millions in venture capital and orchestratedCloosiv's merger with Odeko, where I continue to serve as a board member. I most recently co-founded Craftwork, a startup that combines high quality craftsmanship with best-in-class software to streamline repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Vaya — Plug and play embedded credit.
- Racer — Restaurant food, delivered in 15-min.
- Salsa — We sell Payroll infrastructure to SaaS businesses that want to embed multi-country Payroll in their products, through APIs and UI components.
Steve Wood is working as the VP of Product, Developer Platform at Slack.He attended Queen's University.
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- Industrial, Food Delivery, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
Ryan Garrah is a President at Emerson Canada.
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- Industrial, Food Delivery, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
Marc Poulin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Empire Company Limited as well as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sobeys Inc., a leading Canadian grocery retailer and food distributor.A native of Québec, Mr. Poulin has more than 30-years experience in the food retailing, packaged goods and financial services industries.Between 1986 and 1996 Mr. Poulin held a variety of progressively senior retail marketing and management roles with Provigo Distribution, Culinar Inc. and Desjardins-Laurentian Life Group.In 1997 he joined the Oshawa Group as Vice President, Grocery Merchandising and in 2001 was appointed President of Operations, Sobeys Québec. In 2011 he was appointed President, Sobeys IGA Operations, the position he held immediately prior to being named President & Chief Executive Officer of Sobeys Inc. in 2012. In December 2013, Mr. Poulin also assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Empire Company Limited, Sobeys Inc.'s parent company.In 2013 Mr. Poulin was appointed to the Board of Directors of Richelieu Hardware (TSX:RCH), a Québec-based importer and distributor of specialty hardware products. Mr. Poulin is also an active member of his community serving on the Board of Directors for the Montréal Heart Institute Foundation, as a volunteer for the United Way of Greater Montréal and as President of the Québec Chess Federation. He is a past board member of the Montréal Board of Trade and a former participant (1987) in the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference. In 2010 he was recognized as one of Québec's top business leaders by Perform Québec.Mr. Poulin has a Bachelor of Actuarial Science degree from the Université Laval and holds a Masters of Management (Marketing) degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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- Industrial, Food Delivery, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.
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- Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.
Dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka of Weed,’ Chuck is a true pioneer of the North American cannabis industry having founded Canopy Growth (formerly Tweed Marijuana) in an dilapidated old Hershey factory and building it into 500,000 square feet of thriving marijuana grow capacity. Today Canopy Growth is worth over $US 200 million and recognized as a worldclass cannabis producer. The talent he recruited now guides the entire Canadian cannabis industry.As CEO of Nesta, Chuck communicates the Company’s vision and purpose, devising practical strategies for sustainable growth and attracting top entrepreneurial talent to the firm.
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- Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.
Chris Adams - Founder & Managing Director @ Adams Hamilton
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- B2B, Farming, Nutrition
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Purchs — Wholesale buyers from restaurants, retail and institutions place orders using FreshSpoke's mobile or web app. Delivery is then arranged using FreshSpoke's shared delivery system that leverages the excess capacity that already exists in the food delivery system, giving commercial drivers, including local food producers, the ability to earnextra income delivering local food. The entire transaction is paperless; every aspect of the delivery from dispatch and routing, to arrival notification and order acceptance is handled on the driver’s smartphone. FreshSpoke is in the market and commercialized in Canada and the USA with a web app and three mobile apps. These include FreshSpoke buyers’ app, FreshDispatch app for Drivers and a consumer facing app called Local Food Champion that authenticates the source of local food served or sold by FreshSpoke buyers.
Marc Altshuller is the President and CEO at Varicent. He attended Schulich School of Business - York University.
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- Mobile, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Ritual — Delivery & takeout from the best local restaurants. Providing over 15,000 restaurants globally with digital solutions to help them serve up their best.
- Plasticity Labs — Plasticity offers predictive workforce analytics and reporting on the health, happiness and productivity of people and teams. Based on the findings of the Workforce Analytics, customers can turn on the complete platform which includes personal behavioral training to optimize people and build better habits aimed at improving the predictedperformance scoring and helping people to better handle the realities of work and life. Plasticity is the only workforce analytics engine that combines explicit employee data, company performance data, and open data to understand and predict the full range of effects on the employee's ability to perform at their best. Connect your HRIS, HCM, or CRM and start actually measuring the ROI of people and culture, health and wellness, and learn how the weather might effect your next quarters results.
- Tacit Innovations — Digital ordering done right. With Tacit Corporation, you can get more orders by offering a seamless digital ordering experience.
Devon is the Co-Founder and CTO at Vidyard. He is a Systems Design Engineering grad from the University of Waterloo and Graduate of YCombinator Summer 2011.
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- Apps, Software, Solar
- Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Reebee — Reebee is the simplest way to browse your flyers.FEATURES INCLUDE:- Current Flyers - An up to date section illustrating deals you can access in store TODAY!- Upcoming Flyers - A sneak preview of deals soon to come.- Location Services - Only relevant flyers from your area are displayed.- Message Us - This app was built for you, we wouldlove to hear what you think!
- Ritual — Delivery & takeout from the best local restaurants. Providing over 15,000 restaurants globally with digital solutions to help them serve up their best.
- Fellow - AI Meeting Assistant — Fellow is the best tool for meetings. From 1-on-1s to team meetings, build collaborative meeting agendas, assign action items & record decisions.
Malcolm Leggett is a member Board of Directors.
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- B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Canada
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- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
Jim Newton is a General Manager at CN.
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- B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Canada
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- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
Jerry Grandey is a former president and CEO of uranium producer Cameco Corporation.
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- B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
Phil Donnithorne
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- Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
Jim Spatz is the Chairman and CEO of Southwest Properties Limited, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading real estate developers. Southwest owns, operates and develops residential and commercial real estate in Atlantic Canada, extended stay accommodations across Canada, as well as a multi-unit residential portfolios in four Florida cities.
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- Sports, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brizi — We're on a mission to build the world's largest network of group memories. Brizi lets anyone tap into nearby cameras to capture group memories at iconic places. Licensed across sports and landmarks including NBA basketball, European soccer, Grand Slam tennis, and at the Washington Monument, to engage guests, offer a new type ofsponsorship asset, and collect valuable user, population, and imaging data.
- Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
- Harbr — Trade credit solutions - Exchange critical data and instantly access essential insights.
Dario Meli has been quietly, you could say, making a big impression on the ways we consume, create and disseminate content. For the past 15 years, the co-founder of Invoke, Foodee, Brightkit and Hootsuite has worked with and within some of the biggest names in the realms of technology and startups. With Quietly the message is loud and clear:quality content makes for happy consumer campers. With that thought front-of-mind, Dario helps brands and publishers fill their distribution channels with exceptional evergreen content backed by strategy, data, distribution and (proprietary) analytics. At the end of the equation, businesses increase their traffic, reach and revenue while consumers are provided with added value in the form of enriching and meaningful content. And if anyone knows a thing or ten about adding value, it’s Dario.“There’s been so much turmoil in publishing and media but one thing that’s never changed is the insatiable need for great content.”Dario on Vancity Buzz
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- SEO, SaaS, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- vidIQ — Unlock faster YouTube growth with vidIQ's AI-powered optimization & analytics tools. Get personalized insights, boost views, and grow your channel.
- 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.
- Bold Metrics — Bold Metrics uses AI to help brands unlock the power of customer body data to reduce returns, improve sustainability and boost conversion.
Chris Neumann is the CEO and Cofounder of DataHero, the leading platform for visualizing data from online services. Chris was previously the first employee at Big Data pioneer Aster Data Systems, where he helped create Aster’s innovative Big Data platform. Chris holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computing Sciencefrom Simon Fraser University.
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- Software, Finance, Grocery
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
- 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.
- 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.
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, Hardware, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
- 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.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
Terry Tierney
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- Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SmartSweets — At SmartSweets, they're tackling one of the largest and most concerning problems hidden in their every day foods sugar. It's about kicking sugar but keeping candy and creating a movement based on smaller, smarter choices.
Drew Green is the Chief Executive Officer and President of INDOCHINO. He previously worked at Unata as a Shareholder. Drew Green attended York University.
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- DSP, PaaS, Audio
- Convertible Note, Seed, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
- 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.
- Apollo Insurance — Insurance doesn't have to be difficult. APOLLO Insurance is a friend of Canadian small businesses, here to help you get through your day.
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