Espresso Capital
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
Espresso Capital is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and SaaS. Espresso Capital has provided over 230 early and growth stage technology companies with founder-friendly capital since 2009. It offers lines of credit and term loans to enable entrepreneurs to grow their businesses without dilution, board seats, or personal guarantees. Its mission is to keep founders in control with fast, fair, and flexiblecapital.
- Total investments:
- 104
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Espresso Capital invests in
Stages Espresso Capital invests in
Countries Espresso Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$5M
- Series B
- $6.5M–$47M
- Debt Financing
- $1.5M–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 35 (34%)
- SaaS 23 (22%)
- Enterprise Software 17 (16%)
- Information Technology 17 (16%)
- Big Data 10 (10%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 71 (68%)
- Series B 6 (6%)
- Seed 4 (4%)
- Series A 2 (2%)
- Series C 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 44 (42%)
- Canada 35 (34%)
- United Kingdom 4 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gordon Henderson
Managing Director, Portfolio Management
|
Managing Director, Portfolio Management | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
James Langford
Associate Director
|
Associate Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Steven Michau
Executive Director
|
Executive Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Will Hutchins
Head of Originations & Managing Director
|
Head of Originations & Managing Director | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Alkarim Jivraj
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment Nerds is a financial platform that simplifies payment processing for businesses of all sizes, offering integrated solutions. | $2M / Debt Financing / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Thentia Corporation is an industry leader in using proprietary technology to help regulatory bodies efficiently fulfill their regulatory obligations. Thentia services a wide variety of clients throughout Canada and the United States using cutting-edge software and industry-leading expertise in regulatory standards. | $38M / Series B / Jan 25, 2024 | ||
| Teampay’s award-winning platform helps larger SMBs and middle-market businesses across industries manage expenses. By streamlining the purchase process across virtual and physical cards, invoices, and reimbursements, Teampay makes company purchases easy for employees and finance teams alike. | $47M / Series B / Nov 29, 2022 | ||
| The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI-fueled apps for the Energy, Utilities, Insurance, and Healthcare industries. The App Orchid platform uses deep learning and natural language processing with industry-specific content delivered through knowledge graphs, to create predictive apps. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in SanRamon, California. | $7.5M / Debt Financing / Oct 13, 2022 | ||
| Innovapptive provides connected worker solutions for maintenance, operations, and warehousing. Its platform digitally connects the entire industrial workforce, executives, and back office to minimize plant outages and improve operational excellence. By engineering a platform that fuels innovation and collaboration, Innovapptive is transforming theexperience of the industrial worker to help uplift revenues and margins for customers. | $15M / Debt Financing / Oct 03, 2022 | ||
| Anchore helps organizations implement secure container-based workflows without compromising velocity. Products include Anchore Engine, an open-source image inspection and scanning tool, and Anchore Enterprise, a complete container workflow solution for highly-regulated industries.Anchore delivers a process that allows container development anddeployment to be secure from the start, by ensuring that the contents of your containers match the standards that you define. With Anchore, DevSecOps teams can establish flexible, policy-based approaches to container compliance. Customers range from Fortune 100 companies to small- and mid-sized organizations, across all major industries. | $10M / Debt Financing / Oct 01, 2022 | ||
| HICX helps Global 5000 companies to take control of their supplier data and to deliver a great supplier experience. The HICX Supplier Experience Platform enables businesses with thousands of suppliers to efficiently on-board and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all suppliers, to achieve a single version of truth for all supplier data, and toremove the friction from supplier relationships. Some of the world’s largest companies, trust HICX for the management of their supplier data, these include Unilever, Mondelez, Mars, Lenovo, Baker Hughes, Orkla, BAE Systems and EDF Energy.HICX is a supplier experience platform that gives companies full visibility of their supplier ecosystems and interactions. | $8M / Debt Financing / Sep 15, 2022 | ||
| Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all deliveredin a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo. | $10M / Debt Financing / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Transifex is a localization automation platform that powers the process of launching digital products and content into multiple languages. Built for companies with rapid development cycles, Transifex's SaaS platform lets developers store global content and create a continuous localization workflow. Through the Transifex API and Git-likecommand-line client, developers can ensure that new content is always translated, and the latest translations are included with each release. This means faster time-to-market, less strain on engineering, and a better user experience. Founded in 2009 after being incubated in Google’s Summer of Code, Transifex has teams on two continents and customers in over 30 countries, localizing content into more than 100 languages. | Debt Financing / May 26, 2022 | ||
| Each year, we collectively take 3 trillion photos on our phone—and most of those memories get lost in a digital abyss, never to see the light of day. Chatbooks is on a mission to make creating a photo book as easy as taking a picture. The $8 photo books, which automatically pull photos from your Instagram, Facebook, and Camera Roll via 5-StariPhone and Android apps, are designed to tell the ongoing story of your life with zero effort: Over 100,000 users are actively subscribed to get new Chatbooks with every 60 photos they take, and will buy over 1 million books by the end of 2015. Today, our experiences and memories are more valuable than ever—and Chatbooks helps you hold on to what matters. | $9M / Debt Financing / May 19, 2022 | ||
| See all 104 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Espresso Capital invest in?
Espresso Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series B stage. Most of the 104 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Espresso Capital's check size?
Espresso Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$5M at Seed, $6.5M–$47M at Series B and $1.5M–$14M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Espresso Capital participates in.
How do I contact Espresso Capital?
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Who are the partners at Espresso Capital?
The team at Espresso Capital includes Gordon Henderson (Managing Director, Portfolio Management), James Langford (Associate Director) and Steven Michau (Executive Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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