Anthony Lacavera
Contributor @ Bloomberg
Toronto, Canada
Anthony Lacavera is a seed investor at Bloomberg in Toronto focused on Health Care and Information Technology. Anthony Lacavera founded Globalive in 1998 and serves as Chairman. Anthony also founded and was CEO of WIND Mobile, which he sold for USD$1.3 billion after it grew to become Canada’s fourth largest wireless carrier. A serial entrepreneur, he started his first business out of university with a small business loan from the Royal Bank of Canada.Anthony is also the founder of Globalive Technology, a software company focused on commercializing blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies where he serves as Chairman and CEO.As a venture capitalist, Anthony has a significant stake in dozens of startups in Canada as well as the United States. As a mentor and investor, he is heavily involved in accelerators and incubators, including MaRS, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), NEXT Canada and the DMZ at Ryerson University. Anthony has done business in more than thirty countries, ranging from producing plays on Broadway to raising almost CAD$2 billion in private capital. He is a regular television commentator and speaker on artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the telecommunications industry. He was educated at the University of Toronto.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Anthony Lacavera invests in
Stages Anthony Lacavera invests in
Countries Anthony Lacavera invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 3 (30%)
- Information Technology 3 (30%)
- SaaS 2 (20%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Machine Learning 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (80%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
Country
- Canada 7 (70%)
- United States 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Key AI
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Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance | $4.3M / Seed / Mar 11, 2024 | |
KEEP Labs
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KEEP, named TIME Best Inventions of 2020 and 2020 CES Innovation Award winner, is the first HIPAA compliant smart device and patient-centric platform protecting vulnerable family members from inadvertently accessing medications, aiding with the consistency of adherence, and enabling real-time intervention. | $2.8M / Seed / Oct 18, 2021 | |
Blippar
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Blippar is a technology company specializing in Augmented Reality and Computer Vision (AI). Blippar’s vision is to enhance everyday life with Augmented Reality and give you more from the world you see – more entertainment, more information, more value.Since 2011, Blippar has been pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AR and has helpedthousands of brands, retailers and agencies use AR /AI across the consumer journey to deepen customer engagement, drive footfall and increase sales. Blippar gives access to an AR ecosystem with products and professional services to meet specific business needs – from consultancy to AR creation tools that publish AR content within a client's own app or rich media banners (no app required).Blippar's technology has been used by world-leading brands such as PepsiCo, Porsche, Nestlé, L’Oréal, GSK, General Mills and Procter & Gamble to create exciting and award-winning experiences.Blippar has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies by CNN, Forbes, etc. and listed 3 years in a row on CNBC's list of most disruptive companies as well as named top Business Innovator by Bloomberg and most innovative AR/VR company by Fast Company.Determined to steer the growth of the AR industry and champion this new consumer behavior, Blippar acquired Layar in June 2014, a pioneering AR company founded in the late 2000s. In June 2015, Blippar invested in smart specs company WaveOptics. WaveOptics is developing low-energy lenses that provide a live display for the wearer but can be fitted into ordinary spectacles frames. | $5M / Seed / Mar 23, 2021 | |
Acorn Biolabs
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Acorn Biolabs is a healthcare technology company that provides access to the future of cell-based medicine through a non-invasive, follicle-based cell collection and cryopreservation service. Acorn Biolabs is cryopreserving people's healthy young cells for use in future regenerative treatments. Acorn Biolabs' services are available toconsumers directly through at-home and in-clinic collections and are available across Canada through a network of clinic and pharmacy partners. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 11, 2019 | |
Tread
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Tread is a platform for managing construction equipment services. Tread allows contractors, brokers, and operators to interact as if they’re in the same fleet. | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | |
Botler AI
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Fighting harassment, violence and misconduct, one incident at a time. | Pre-Seed / Jan 24, 2018 | |
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Tread
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Tread is a platform for managing construction equipment services. Tread allows contractors, brokers, and operators to interact as if they’re in the same fleet. | $20K / Pre-Seed / Jan 13, 2018 | |
Peloton Innovations
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Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector. | $2.2M / Seed / Nov 09, 2017 | |
SeamlessMD
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Surgery is one of the most vulnerable experiences that a person can ever go through. They find it scary that in the 21st century, they still rely on paper instructions and human memory to get patients through this complicated journey. They can and they must do better.At SeamlessMD, they are on a mission to give every patient the best healthoutcomes after surgery. Together with healthcare providers, they leverage design, data and technology to enhance the patient experience, improve outcomes and lower costs. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 12, 2015 | |
Kira Talent
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Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments thatidentify and select their best-fit students. | $2M / Seed / Sep 25, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Bloomberg
Bloomberg is the leader in global business and financial information. They give influential decision makers the data, analytics, news and insight to give them a critical edge. Bloomberg connects influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Their strength - quickly and accurately delivering data, news andanalytics through innovative technology - is at the core of everything they do. With over 15,500 employees in 192 locations, Bloomberg deliver business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Bloomberg was founded in 1982 and within 10 years had over 10,000 customers for the Bloomberg Professional service, a ground breaking private network with data, analytics and other financial information. In the same decade, Bloomberg launched Bloomberg News and opened offices around the world. Subscriptions to the Bloomberg Professional service skyrocketed in the next decade and the company launched Bloomberg Tradebook and Bloomberg.com. This past decade saw the development of technological advances in key products and services such as email and instant messaging that have made the Bloomberg Professional service the leading choice of more than 320,000 business and financial professionals globally.Today, Bloomberg is applying its extensive data, news and technology to offer new tools in the fields of government, law, energy and sports. The company's hallmark, innovation and a passion for getting things right, remains strong and is the inspiration behind Bloomberg's award-winning products and solutions.
Bloomberg Contacts
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John E. Sununu
Contributing Editor
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Anthony Lacavera
Contributor
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Candy Cheng
Head of Technology Interviews
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David Rosenberg
Data Scientist, CTO-Office
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Deirdre Bigley
CMO
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FAQ
What does Anthony Lacavera invest in?
Anthony Lacavera invests primarily in Health Care, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Anthony Lacavera's check size?
Anthony Lacavera typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Anthony Lacavera participates in.
When did Anthony Lacavera last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Anthony Lacavera closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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