Andrew Abouchar
Founder & Partner @ Tech Capital Partners
Waterloo, Canada
Andrew Abouchar is a Series B investor at Tech Capital Partners in Waterloo focused on Finance and Software. Andrew brings over 12 years of venture capital experience to his role at Tech Capital. Portfolio companies benefit from his solid understanding of the commercialization opportunities in high-tech markets, extensive transactional experience and network of industry contacts.Previously, Andrew was Vice President of Working Ventures Canadian Fund,one of Canada's largest venture capital funds and worked as a Chartered Accountant for Coopers and Lybrand. He has successfully structured financing transactions, acquisitions and Initial Public Offerings for numerous early-stage ventures and draws on his financial expertise to help portfolio companies develop effective business strategies and financing solutions.Andrew has held executive positions and served on the boards of numerous technology companies, including Covarity Inc., Sirific Wireless Corp. and VideoLocus Inc. He also sits on the Council for Examiners for the CFA Institute and is frequently asked to lecture on early stage technology business and financing.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
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Industries Andrew Abouchar invests in
Stages Andrew Abouchar invests in
Countries Andrew Abouchar invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Finance 2 (18%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Wireless 2 (18%)
- Manufacturing 2 (18%)
- Semiconductor 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (27%)
- Series C 2 (18%)
- Funding Round 2 (18%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
Country
- Canada 4 (36%)
- United States 1 (9%)
Investments
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Wagepoint is simple and fast online payroll software, backed by the world's friendliest team. Our app is easy-to-use and is ideal for small businesses across North America (US & Canada) looking to pay their employees on time and keep the government happy. We build innovative business applications for the social workforce. Our missionis to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) everywhere make work fun and get stuff done. | $750K / Aug 16, 2018 | |
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Wagepoint is simple and fast online payroll software, backed by the world's friendliest team. Our app is easy-to-use and is ideal for small businesses across North America (US & Canada) looking to pay their employees on time and keep the government happy. We build innovative business applications for the social workforce. Our missionis to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) everywhere make work fun and get stuff done. | $2M / Dec 15, 2017 | |
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Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products. | $3.6M / Series C / Feb 28, 2013 | |
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Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products. | $5.6M / Series C / Oct 17, 2011 | |
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Covarity is the developer of post-origination commercial loan monitoring and analysis solutions for financial institutions looking to measurably improve their overall portfolio health and performance. By automating the process of collecting and analyzing borrower financial data, Covarity enables financial institutions to manage credit risk on aloan-by-loan basis. By providing the insight and control that lenders need to profitably grow their portfolio - while reducing risk and enhancing client service - Covarity enables lenders to enjoy improved competitiveness, reduced costs, and richer client experiences.Covarity's modular solution offers lenders the exact functionality they need for their portfolio segments, actually expanding and enhancing monitoring practices while reducing operational costs. Covarity empowers clients with actionable intelligence for proactive loan management across the portfolio, enabling them to act quickly on loan-by-loan concerns before they become serious.Covarity's customers include RBC Financial, RBC Bank, Fidelity Bank, BMO Financial, Libro Financial Group, Laurentian Bank and Crestmark Bank. | $2.3M / Sep 21, 2010 | |
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Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products. | $5M / Series B / May 11, 2010 | |
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Avvasi designs and manufactures carrier-grade mobile video wireless infrastructure systems and software. Avvasi technology and products are focused on balancing the infrastructure costs and subscriber quality of experience. | $10.8M / Series B / Jan 29, 2010 | |
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Covarity is the developer of post-origination commercial loan monitoring and analysis solutions for financial institutions looking to measurably improve their overall portfolio health and performance. By automating the process of collecting and analyzing borrower financial data, Covarity enables financial institutions to manage credit risk on aloan-by-loan basis. By providing the insight and control that lenders need to profitably grow their portfolio - while reducing risk and enhancing client service - Covarity enables lenders to enjoy improved competitiveness, reduced costs, and richer client experiences.Covarity's modular solution offers lenders the exact functionality they need for their portfolio segments, actually expanding and enhancing monitoring practices while reducing operational costs. Covarity empowers clients with actionable intelligence for proactive loan management across the portfolio, enabling them to act quickly on loan-by-loan concerns before they become serious.Covarity's customers include RBC Financial, RBC Bank, Fidelity Bank, BMO Financial, Libro Financial Group, Laurentian Bank and Crestmark Bank. | $3M / May 06, 2009 | |
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Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products. | $6M / Series A / Mar 31, 2008 | |
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Sirific Wireless is a semiconductor company, designs and develops CMOS RF HEDGE transceivers for wireless communications market. The company offers monolithic multi-mode wireless design and digital direct conversion products; Harmony-direct upconversion transmitters; and NEXUS products, NexusRD. Its NEXUS platform combines HSDPA, WCDMA, EDGE, GPRS,and GSM with available on-chip receive diversity to deliver transceivers for multi-mode and multi-band wireless applications. The company has locations in Waterloo, Canada; Richardson, Texas; and Seoul, Korea.Sirific Wireless Limited was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas with additional offices in the United States, Canada, and Korea. | $18.8M / Series C / Feb 12, 2007 | |
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About Tech Capital Partners
Tech Capital Partners looks for market-focused companies founders who have interacted with potential customers or partners to assess the market's reaction to the technology. It also provides hands-on leadership, market strategy, seed financing, and operational guidance to early-stage technology companies.Tech Capital Partners was founded in2001 and is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
Tech Capital Partners Contacts
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Andrew Abouchar
Founder & Partner
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Judy Geraghty
Office Manager
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Peter Frisella
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What does Andrew Abouchar invest in?
Andrew Abouchar invests primarily in Finance, Software and Wireless startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Andrew Abouchar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Andrew Abouchar closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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