# Aventrock Ventures

> Aventrock Ventures is a VC fund in Calgary backing Software and FinTech. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aventrock/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aventrock
- Website: https://www.aventrock.ca/

Aventrock Ventures is a Calgary-based family venture fund. The firm consists of passionate strategists who believe in supporting entrepreneurialism to improve the world around. It invests its own capital, shares its expertise and network to help the business reach its full potential.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.8M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 70% |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Analytics | 2 | 20% |
| Marketing | 2 | 20% |
| Health Care | 2 | 20% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 30% |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Omi Velasco | Co-founder & Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omi-velasco |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beatdapp | Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count. | $17M | Series A | Jan 19, 2024 |  |
| NanoTess Inc. | Nanotess is revolutionizing nanotechnology to solve the world's toughest health challenges beginning with chronic wounds |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $42M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Apollo Insurance | Apollo Insurance Solutions is Canada’s largest online insurance marketplace. The Apollo Exchange is Canada’s largest online insurance marketplace. Apollo empowers brokers to instantly quote, bind, and issue policy documents for hundreds of classes of small business in real time, or white label the Exchange to sell directly from their website.Brokerages integrated with the Exchange are able to respond to the changing expectations of buyers and forward thinking employees.Co-founded by Jeff McCann, David Dyck, Justin Hamade, and Drew Green, Apollo was created to empower brokers to better serve their clients. Following the completion of Beta testing in April 2019, Apollo successfully closed its angel round of funding, raising $1 million CAD with the support of notable investors, including Drew Green, Matias Marquez, Kim Kaplan, and Caliber Ventures. Acting members of Apollo’s Board of Directors are leading industry and entrepreneurial figures Drew Green, Steve Albiani, Tim Gamble, and Jeff McCann. In June 2019, the company launched a first of its kind: digital, monthly subscription insurance. |  | Series B | Mar 11, 2022 |  |
| Kiwi Grocery | Kiwi Grocery is an online application for grocery and food products. They offer same-day delivery services. Their application can be found online. It also provides transparent pricing and weekly price checks. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| Cohesic | Cohesic is a Decision Intelligence company developing clinical decision support solutions for chronic disease diagnosis and management. The company's platform offers data-driven decisions in cardiovascular care via diagnostic workflow and structured reporting software, enabling diagnostic test providers and clinicians to increase theefficiency of reporting, reduce medical errors and provide greater insight into their patient's health. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| Showbie | Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform. Showbie's features were designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can get set up and start using Showbie's powerful platform within minutes. Teachers who use Showbie love how it transforms their classroomsinto engaging, collaborative, and organized learning environments. Showbie's suite of tools make it easy to give rich, differentiated feedback to students, so everyone gets the help they need to succeed. Showbie allows students to share files and ideas with each other, ensuring everyone is on the same page and encouraging collaboration. Showbie lets teachers work with their peers and easily engage with families. Teachers can set up groups to work directly with colleagues, share best practices, or discuss the needs of particular students. Parents can easily be part of the conversation too; teachers can set up groups just for families where they can post class updates and even permission slips. Because of its easy-to-use, intuitive design, it's no surprise that teachers love Showbie. A 2018 Showbie survey (http://ow.ly/T30r30l0H5j) found that 98% of teachers said it was easy to use and implement and 97% said it helped them improve feedback and speed up grading. With more than 3 million users worldwide, Showbie is poised to become the leading platform for the digital classroom. | $5.8M | Series A | Feb 04, 2021 |  |
| Arbor | Arbor is a carbon accounting platform that helps companies calculate and reduce emissions to reach net zero.With Arbor’s automated Product Carbon Footprinting (PCF) platform, you can quickly compute carbon footprints across the full lifecycle of your products. • Hotspot Analysis: See a breakdown of which materials, suppliers, components oractivities are contributing the most to your emissions • Product Prototyping: Test product designs to reduce emissions strategicallyOur platform enables companies like Crocs, Scott Sports, and Canada Goose to measure emissions accurately, get to net-zero faster, and confidently navigate compliance regulations. Supercharge your climate strategy and measure your emissions with Arbor.Try Arbor’s platform today at app.arbor.eco | $583.4K | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| PLAYR.gg | PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data. The brand was sunset and merged into the Surf brand in February 2022 following the acquisition by Trufan, Inc. |  | Series A | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Bidali | Bidali saves you money and helps businesses increase sales, reduce fees, and eliminate fraud with next generation payments and gift cards. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Thin Air Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thin-air-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Ark Canada Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-canada-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ATB Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atb-private-equity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Aventrock Ventures invest in?

Aventrock Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown 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 Aventrock Ventures's check size?

Aventrock Ventures typically joins rounds of $5.8M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aventrock Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Aventrock Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Aventrock Ventures?

The team at Aventrock Ventures includes Omi Velasco (Co-founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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