Bryan W. Kerdman
Managing Partner @ Impression Ventures
Toronto, Canada
Bryan W. Kerdman is a seed investor at Impression Ventures in Toronto focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Mr. Bryan W. Kerdman is Partner of Venture Fund at EdgeStone Capital Partners Inc., EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund I, L.P. and Bryker Fund I, L.P. Mr. Kerdman has served as Partner of Venture Fund at EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund II, L.P. He was a Partner of Bryker Technology Partners. He has twenty-five years experience creating, building andrunning high technology companies that specialize in mission-critical, high-volume transaction applications as well as enterprise software solutions. Mr. Kerdman is the founder of Bryker Data Systems Ltd and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chief Executive Officer of a number of other technology companies including Technolabs Canada and E-route. He served as Chairman of Datawire Communication Networks Inc. He serves as a Director of Datawire Communication Networks Inc., and SC Txlink LLC. He served as a Director of Varicent Software Inc. He served as a Director of Workbrain Corporation since December 2000, Solace Systems, Inc., and CiRBA Inc. since February 1, 2006. He served as a Director of Protus IP Solutions, Inc., INEA, Workbrain, Shoplogix, Inc., RSS Solutions, SlipStream Data, Pvelocity Inc. and Time Industrial.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Bryan W. Kerdman invests in
Stages Bryan W. Kerdman invests in
Countries Bryan W. Kerdman invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $627k–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (25%)
- Financial Services 2 (25%)
- Legal 1 (13%)
- Mobile 1 (13%)
- Banking 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Debt Financing 1 (13%)
- Convertible Note 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Lawbrokr is a legal tech company focused on helping law firms pre-screen new leads so they don't waste time on consultations with prospects that aren't a fit.Lawbrokr provides a unique link that can be placed on a firm’s website and everywhere else that consumers search for lawyers. The link connects the legal consumer to a set ofqualifying questions crafted by the firm. With just a few clicks, the consumer gains an understanding of the services offered, and the firm can determine whether the prospective client is a fit for them. This allows the firm to invest its time into qualified prospects rather than dead end consultations. | $629.4K / Pre-Seed / Oct 09, 2021 | ||
| ManagingLife's industry-leading digital health solution, Manage My Pain, helps patients and doctors better measure, monitor, and manage pain. Manage My Pain is a digital pain treatment companion with clinical validation and has one of the largest datasets that includes over 5M patient-reported pain outcomes from over 125,000 users from 130countries. Built into Manage My Pain is Solace, a first-of-its-kind AI companion that delivers real-time, evidence-based pain psychology support - which showed significant improvements in people who interacted with it for just 30 minutes.Manage My Pain is the leading pain app on the market, and has been licensed by hospitals and insurers across North America. Manage My Pain improves patient outcomes, reduces medical spend, and shortens disability claims. | $670K / Convertible Note / Dec 31, 2019 | ||
| HonkMobile is an Android and iOS application that enables its users to find and book available parking spots. It allows them to choose from a number of hourly or monthly parking spots. The application enables its users to decide on how long they want to park their vehicles for by facilitating the selection of a day, time, and zone. It offers acollection of features such as payment method selection, time expiration reminder, extra time addition, email-based receipts, and more. HonkMobile also helps parking lot owners and operators reduce costs and increase their revenue. | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 02, 2015 | ||
| Sensibill provides everyday financial tools and makes SKU-level data actionable, equipping financial institutions with personalized insights to help their customers build healthier financial habits. The AI-powered solution enables end-users to easily track their spending and manage their finances while unlocking unprecedented insights for theinstitution. Sensibill has rolled out its technology to over 60 million users across North America and the U.K. Visit getsensibill.com to learn more. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 26, 2015 | ||
| Wealthsimple offers financial tools to help investors grow and manage their money. Wealthsimple builds a diversified portfolio of ETFs on the investors' behalf and guides them in achieving their financial goals. Wealthsimple is backed by a team of world-class financial experts. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. | Seed / May 15, 2014 | ||
| Guardly designs and provides mobile safety solutions to help security teams better prepare for and respond to threats against people and key assets they protect. Guardly mobile safety apps available on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone and BlackBerry act as personal emergency phones that provide instant two-way communication with private security andauthorities. Guardly's mobile safety applications, indoor positioning system and mass notification technologies improve situational awareness by providing real-time indoor positioning / GPS data, caller identity and the nature of an incident — data otherwise not available to security operators. Guardly Command™ helps security operators monitor, manage and respond to real-time data, make more informed decisions and improve emergency response times by as much as 44 percent. Guardly is based in Toronto and is committed to improving emergency response and communication. | $174K / Debt Financing / Sep 13, 2011 | ||
| Guardly designs and provides mobile safety solutions to help security teams better prepare for and respond to threats against people and key assets they protect. Guardly mobile safety apps available on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone and BlackBerry act as personal emergency phones that provide instant two-way communication with private security andauthorities. Guardly's mobile safety applications, indoor positioning system and mass notification technologies improve situational awareness by providing real-time indoor positioning / GPS data, caller identity and the nature of an incident — data otherwise not available to security operators. Guardly Command™ helps security operators monitor, manage and respond to real-time data, make more informed decisions and improve emergency response times by as much as 44 percent. Guardly is based in Toronto and is committed to improving emergency response and communication. | $627K / Seed | ||
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Co-Investors
About Impression Ventures
VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.
Impression Ventures Contacts
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Christian Lassonde
Founder & Managing Partner
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Maor Amar
Managing Partner
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Quinn Murdock
Analyst
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Muneeb Ahmed
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FAQ
What does Bryan W. Kerdman invest in?
Bryan W. Kerdman invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Legal startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bryan W. Kerdman's check size?
Bryan W. Kerdman typically joins rounds of $627k–$2.3M 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 Bryan W. Kerdman participates in.
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When did Bryan W. Kerdman last invest?
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