# Bryan W. Kerdman

> Bryan W. Kerdman is a seed investor at EdgeStone Partners (Toronto) backing Legal and Mobile. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EdgeStone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edgestone-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-kerdman-07330025
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BKerdman
- Website: https://x.com/BKerdman

Bryan W. Kerdman is a seed investor at EdgeStone Partners in Toronto focused on Legal and Mobile. 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal | 1 | 14% |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Finance | 1 | 14% |
| Medical | 1 | 14% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lawbrokr | 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 | 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 |  |
| ManagingLife | 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 |  |
| HONK | 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. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 02, 2015 |  |
| Wealthsimple | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elkland Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elkland-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fraser Kearney Capital Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fraser-kearney-capital-corp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bryker](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryker) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Extreme Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/extreme-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Residence Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/residence-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EdgeStone Partners

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

EdgeStone Partners is a private equity and venture capital arm of GMP Securities, specializing in direct investments and fund of funds investments. It seeks to make private equity, mezzanine, and venture capital investments in middle market, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, industry consolidation, recapitalizations,roll-up strategy, management buy-in or buy-out, divestiture of non-core business and growth capital stages Within direct investments. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in venture capital funds and private equity funds within fund of fund investments. It specializes in investments in venture capital and buyout funds through its fund of funds. EdgeStone Partners manages and invests through its funds, Later Stage Equity (EdgeStone Capital Equity Fund); Mezzanine Debt; Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), and Venture Capital (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund) funds. It prefers to invest in light manufacturing, business, and consumer and financial services. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies based in North America with a focus on Canada. It seeks to invest in Canada and focuses on primary investments, with a limited amount of capital allocated to secondary investments. It typically invests between $5 million and $15 million. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in companies with EBITDA range of $10- $50 million and Enterprise Value range of $50- $250 million. It seeks to invest in equity and equity related securities, and prefers majority ownership/control positions and active board involvement in its portfolio companies and targets an IRR of 20 percent to 25 percent per year. EdgeStone Partners exits an investment within a period of three to seven years. It preferred exit options include: sale to a strategic or financial buyer; share re-purchase by the company; initial or secondary public offering; and financial restructuring and targets an IRR of 40 percent. It prefers to invest between Cdn $25 million ($22.14 million) and Cdn $60 million ($53.15 million) and more through the Later Stage fund. EdgeStone Partners seeks to make subordinated debt, preferred share, and related equity investments in buyouts, going private transactions, growth capital financings, expansion capital, and acquisitions of middle market and later stage private and public companies through the Mezzanine Debt fund (EdgeStone Capital Mezzanine Fund). It seeks to invest in companies based in North America through the mezzanine fund. EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $10 million ($8.85 million) and Cdn $40 million ($35.43 million) in its portfolio companies and also considers higher investments. It seeks an IRR between 15 percent and 20 percent and exits its investment within a period of three to seven years. The fund also prefers to take a seat on the Board of Observers of its portfolio companies. Through its Energy Capital (EdgeStone Capital Energy Fund), the firm makes acquisition and organic growth investments in small and mid-sized public and private companies. The firm seeks to make equity and equity related investments in the exploration, production, and service sectors of the energy industry, oil and gas, and other energy-related sectors through the Energy Capital fund. EdgeStone Partners primarily invests in companies based in Western Canada. It prefers to invest $5 million to $10 million per transaction. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in common equity or equity-related securities, such as preferred shares or convertible debt. It seeks to exit its investments in three to five years; has an Observer attend at all the board meetings of portfolio companies. EdgeStone Partners seeks to invest in early and mid- stage technology companies through its Venture Capital fund (EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund). It seeks to invest in companies that sell technology solutions to the enterprise and where the intellectual property resides in the software. EdgeStone Partners typically invests between Cdn $3 million ($2.59 million) and Cdn $10 million ($8.65 million) in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for three to five years, targets an IRR of 40%, and it also makes co-investments. EdgeStone Partners also seeks membership on the Board of Directors of its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest in the telecommunications and other high technology sectors. EdgeStone Partners began operation in February 1999. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada with additional offices in Montréal and Calgary in the same country.

5 contacts available at EdgeStone Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan W. Kerdman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-w-kerdman |
| Gilbert S. Palter | Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilbert-s-palter |
| Samuel L. Duboc | President and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-l-duboc |
| Andrew Walton | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-walton |
| Sandra Bosela | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandra-bosela |

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## FAQ

### What does Bryan W. Kerdman invest in?

Bryan W. Kerdman invests primarily in Legal, Mobile and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bryan W. Kerdman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bryan W. Kerdman closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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