# Dave Rai

> Dave Rai is a seed investor at Nymi backing Software and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Nymi
- Location: Brampton, Canada
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-rai-a04995b/

Dave Rai is a seed investor at Nymi in Brampton focused on Software and Machine Learning. Dave Rai is the COO at Nymi.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shakudo | Eliminate the complexity of managing your data stack. Shakudo creates compatibility across the best-of-breed data tools for a more reliable, performant, and cost effective data stack than ever before. | $3.4M | Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Basecamp Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basecamp-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Parade Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parade-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nymi

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Nymi is leading the way towards true digital transformation by creating Workplace Wearables that integrate humans with their digital network in a manner that is safe, secure, and simple. Our leading-edge connected worker platform delivers humancentric applications for worker health and safety, enterprise security, data integrity, compliance, andincreased productivity--even in the most challenging environments.We're also a great place to work. Nymi is a winner of the Best Workplaces in Canada 2019 - Less Than 100 Employees.

5 contacts available at Nymi.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Foxcroft | Vice-President | — |
| Catherine Lieferink | Senior Director of People and Operations | — |
| Christopher Sullivan | Chief Executive Officer | — |
| Dave Rai | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-rai |
| David Fortune | VP, Customer Success | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Rai invest in?

Dave Rai invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Dave Rai?

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### When did Dave Rai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Rai closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 1 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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