# East Valley Ventures

> East Valley Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint John, Canada
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2841445
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/EastValleyVent
- Website: http://www.eastvalleyventures.com

East Valley Ventures is a VC fund in Saint John focused on Software and Information Technology. East Valley is a community of innovative entrepreneurs in the business of transforming early stage ideas into successes. They help passionate Atlantic Canadian founders launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 24% |
| SaaS | 5 | 10% |
| Analytics | 4 | 8% |
| Advertising | 4 | 8% |

98 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 10% |
| Angel | 4 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 37 | 73% |
| United States | 4 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Dunphy | Executive In Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-dunphy |
| Gerry Pond | Co-Founder, East Valley | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerry-pond |
| Rick McPhee | VP Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-mcphee |
| Robert Justason | Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-justason-east-valley-ventures |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Picketa Systems | Picketa Systems Precision develops a leaf-evaluated-nutrient system for real-time plant tissue analysis. Its platform removes any turnaround time in the process of analyzing plant samples, allowing growers to make data-oriented decisions on time without obstructing their workflow. It tracks the performance of fields and helps measure the impact ofdifferent varieties, fertilizer products, and techniques, season after season. | $1.5M |  | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Gia | Gia is an AI-powered growth platform designed especially for owners of agencies and consulting firms in professional services. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Smart Skin Technologies | Smart Skin Technologies is commercializing a unique touch sensitive material that has applications in many verticals. The company is currently focused on developing patent pending pressure sensing technology for use industrial and applications in sports. | $7.5M | Debt Financing | Aug 06, 2025 |  |
| Retellio | Retellio was created for leaders that are obsessed with their customers. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| QuickFacts | QuickFacts is an application that offers training, customized workflows, SaaS, insurance, digital, and software solutions. | $2M | Seed | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Picketa Systems | Picketa Systems Precision develops a leaf-evaluated-nutrient system for real-time plant tissue analysis. Its platform removes any turnaround time in the process of analyzing plant samples, allowing growers to make data-oriented decisions on time without obstructing their workflow. It tracks the performance of fields and helps measure the impact ofdifferent varieties, fertilizer products, and techniques, season after season. | $1.1M | Seed | May 26, 2023 |  |
| Versos AI Inc | Intelligent Application Platform as a Service (IA- PaaS) Versos is a next-generation intelligent application development platform designed to empower developers to build personalized, conversational AI-powered applications with ease.Its unique GenAI-first architecture leverages advanced Natural Language Technology (NLT) to enable human-likecommunication between users and systems, replacing outdated keyword-based search with a conversational approach that synthesizes information into actionable answers. Unlike traditional search and retrieval tools that overwhelm users with long result lists, Versos delivers faster, more accurate insights through natural language interactions.With multi-data connectors, Versos integrates seamlessly with structured and unstructured data sources across your organization and your customers. Using proprietary Multimodal Search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Versos ensures responses are grounded in your specific data, providing unmatched relevance and precision.Whether you're streamlining search, improving customer support, or creating dynamic AI assistants, Versos transforms how you build conversational AI applications—delivering better results and deeper personalization.Versos makes it easy for developers less experienced with AI technologies to build AI applications on top of our API platform with all the “plumbing” figured out, specifically the ability to ingest many forms of unstructured data (documents, images, videos, 3D models) and access it with natural language queries. Almost all of the AI innovation ideas from companies now need to store, search and reference their existing data, and their data is their product. | $590.2K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Passiv | Passiv turns your brokerage account into your own personalized robo-advisor. Construct a balanced portfolio using any tradable securities and keep them balanced according to your target. Passiv will let you know when new cash and dividends are available for allocation or when your portfolio drifts off target. When it's time to make trades,Passiv will batch all your trades so you can place them in seconds.Stop paying high wealth management fees and automate your investments with Passiv. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| Picketa Systems | Picketa Systems Precision develops a leaf-evaluated-nutrient system for real-time plant tissue analysis. Its platform removes any turnaround time in the process of analyzing plant samples, allowing growers to make data-oriented decisions on time without obstructing their workflow. It tracks the performance of fields and helps measure the impact ofdifferent varieties, fertilizer products, and techniques, season after season. | $233.8K | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2022 |  |
| CIRCLES | CIRCLES is a short-video sharing app and social network platform for professionals. The company's mission is to expand access to the world's knowledge to drive progress. CIRCLES enables busy professionals to share their knowledge easily through short video and provides access to valuable knowledge to anyone with a smartphone. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does East Valley Ventures invest in?

East Valley Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 51 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 East Valley Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at East Valley Ventures?

The team at East Valley Ventures includes Brian Dunphy (Executive In Residence), Gerry Pond (Co-Founder, East Valley) and Rick McPhee (VP Business Development). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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