BDC IT Venture Fund
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
BDC IT Venture Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging and mid-stage Internet, mobile and enterprise companies in Canada. Its initial investment typically ranges from $2M to $5M in Series A or B rounds with up to $15M invested over the life of the company.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries BDC IT Venture Fund invests in
Stages BDC IT Venture Fund invests in
Countries BDC IT Venture Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$4.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (8%)
- Big Data 1 (8%)
- Analytics 1 (8%)
- Marketing 1 (8%)
- E-Commerce 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Denisia Pereira
Senior Analyst
|
Senior Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Robert Simon
Senior Managing Partner
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Senior Managing Partner | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
Ron Warburton
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Saif Hashmi
Principal, Seed Fund and IT Venture Fund
|
Principal, Seed Fund and IT Venture Fund | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Steven Abrams
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Solink
|
Solink is a data-driven security platform that captures and audits 100% video and transactional data to reduce fraud proactively. Solink’s unique Video Discovery application allows users to search for any event, putting an end to manually retrieving evidence by time and location. For a monthly fee, the platform provides everything users need tocollect, analyze, investigate and manage their data. Solink’s fraud prevention as a service offering is the first one of its kind to be data driven instead of incident driven. | $5M / Nov 01, 2017 | |
Hubdoc
|
Hubdoc is changing the way accountants and bookkeepers work. Our platform leverages cloud computing and machine learning to automate financial document collection and processing – helping customers save time, scale their practice and build deeper relationships with the small businesses they serve. | $4.3M / Seed / Jun 21, 2017 | |
Axonify
|
Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance. | $27M / Nov 01, 2016 | |
League
|
Founded in 2014, League is a technology-focused health company powering the digital transformation of healthcare. Employers, payers, pharmacy retailers and healthcare providers use our award-winning platform to deliver integrated and personalized health experiences that drive consumer engagement. Millions of people across the world use digitalhealth platforms powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care. | $25M / Series A / Jun 14, 2016 | |
CENX
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CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENXprovides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years. | $12.5M / Series D / Aug 11, 2015 | |
Kira Talent
|
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. | $1.2M / Seed / Mar 11, 2015 | |
Foko Retail
|
Foko Retail is the mobile-first task management and communication software used by some of the world’s leading retailers and brands for operations, visual merchandising and marketing, internal communications, store audits and surveys, and more. With native apps for Android, iOS, and Web, you can take Foko Retail anywhere. | $2M / Seed / Dec 16, 2014 | |
Shoebox
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Shoebox is a service that provides unlimited online photo backup. It scans a user’s entire offline photo collection, uploads it to cloud storage and applies organization algorithms to automatically categorize pics and provide different ways of viewing them. Shoebox was created by Couch Labs Inc in Toronto to simplify photo collections andbackup in a world where almost every device has a built in camera. Shoebox’s strength is in getting the pictures from storage and sources that aren’t connected, to the web, as quickly and painlessly as possible. It’s a shotgun, not a scalpel, and it’s very good at what it does. With native applications for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, Shoebox allows users to rediscover their memories anytime and anywhere.Visit shoeboxapp.com for more info. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 30, 2014 | |
Klipfolio
|
Our mission is to help people succeed with data. We believe in empowering you to make better decisions by eliminating the unknown. Take control of your data and be stronger, better, and more competitive every day. Klipfolio is the new way people and their teams make informed decisions leveraging team-based BI, dashboards, and reporting. Fromstartups to Fortune 500 teams, Klipfolio provides the power and flexibility you always wanted. Succeed with data and start for free. | $1.2M / Seed / Feb 16, 2014 | |
Analyze Re
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Founded in 2013, our vision is to revolutionize and modernize the way that reinsurers analyze their data. We do this by offering a high-performance-computing framework which takes care of the common data processing needs that reinsurers have. | $1M / Series A / Nov 05, 2013 | |
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FAQ
What does BDC IT Venture Fund invest in?
BDC IT Venture Fund invests primarily in SaaS, Big Data and Analytics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is BDC IT Venture Fund's check size?
BDC IT Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.3M 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 BDC IT Venture Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at BDC IT Venture Fund?
The team at BDC IT Venture Fund includes Denisia Pereira (Senior Analyst), Robert Simon (Senior Managing Partner) and Ron Warburton (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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