Brian Hunter
President @ NorthSpring Capital Partners
Kitchener, Canada
Brian Hunter is a seed investor at NorthSpring Capital Partners in Kitchener focused on Software and Health Care. Following a 30 years career in providing debt and equity financing to hundreds of businesses in Southern Ontario with Roynat Capital, Canada’s leading private merchant bank, Brian co-founded NorthSpring Capital Partners.Brian was awarded Golden Triangle Angel Network’s Angel of the Year award for 2017 in recognition of his active leadership inmultiple due diligences and successful investments.In 2014 he was named a Paul Harris Fellow for 20 years of service to the Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club including acting as President and as Chairman of the club’s major fundraisers which raised nearly $1 million for local and international causes.Brian earned his BA in Economics and his MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (50%)
- Health Care 2 (50%)
- Information Technology 2 (50%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- Legal 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (25%)
Investments
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| Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision. | $1.6M / Seed / Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| Rehabtronics is a technology development firm that focuses on solutions for physical rehab. | $1.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 18, 2021 | ||
| Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision. | $675K / Seed / Jul 13, 2021 | ||
| Workwolf is a recruitment services company that combines human recruiters with proprietary AI and psychometric technology to deliver predictive hiring intelligence at disruptive pricing. The company addresses a fundamental inefficiency in the $150B+ recruitment industry: traditional agencies charge 15-25% of candidate salary for subjectiveassessments with no performance accountability. Workwolf’s technology-enabled model delivers measurable quality improvements at significantly lower cost per hire. The proprietary technology platform includes two core components: Smart Resume Screening for contextual qualification matching, and Packfinder™ psychometrics for role-specific performance prediction. Unlike generic assessment tools, Packfinder™ models are calibrated using client performance data, creating organization-specific predictions that improve with scale. The business model starts at fees as low as 4% of annual salary for high-volume roles, rather than percentage-based fees of 15-25%, creating favorable unit economics for high-volume clients while maintaining strong margins through technology leverage. This pricing structure aligns incentives around retention rather than salary inflation. Target customers are mid-market companies with consistent hiring volume (2+ hires/month) across multiple locations—particularly retail, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, and call centers. These segments offer predictable demand and benefit most from Workwolf’s pattern recognition capabilities across distributed operations. The platform generates compounding data advantages: each hire provides performance outcome data that refines predictive models, creating a defensible moat as the system processes more hiring decisions within and across client organizations. Workwolf is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Dec 15, 2020 |
Co-Investors
NorthSpring Capital Partners provides risk capital to small and medium sized companies with the goal of creating value. Investments range between $250,000 and $1 million in the form of subordinated debt and/or equity across a variety of traditional industries located in Southern Ontario. NorthSpring takes a flexible approach when reviewinginvestment opportunities and tailors its investment structure to fit the unique aspects of the business.
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Brian Hunter invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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