# Extreme Venture Partners

> Extreme Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Analytics. See 73 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 73
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last fund: Aug 2012
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/extreme-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/evpvc
- Website: http://www.evp.vc/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/evpvc/

Extreme Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up, early and seed stage investments. It seeks to invest in technology with focus on internet, mobile application, cloud computing, and big data that include machine learning, open public databases and analytics and the "Internet-of-things" including robotics,drones, wearable tech, and connected devices. Extreme Venture Partners seeks to invest in Canada with focus on Toronto-Waterloo corridor. It invests in businesses which are pre-revenue or expanding. It seeks to make equity investment in companies between CAD.05 million ($.04 million) and CAD.1 million (.08 million). Imran Bashir, Ken Teslia, Ray Sharma, and Sunil Sharma founded Extreme Venture Partners in 2007. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 22% |
| Analytics | 11 | 15% |
| Mobile | 10 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 14% |
| Big Data | 8 | 11% |

116 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 40 | 55% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 14% |
| Series A | 7 | 10% |
| Angel | 3 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 50 | 68% |
| United States | 8 | 11% |
| Turkey | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ray Sharma | Founding Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ray-sharma-2 |
| Ian Ainsworth | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-ainsworth |
| Imran Bashir | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imran-bashir |
| Ken Teslia | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-teslia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foxquilt | Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. | $8M | Series A | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Foxquilt | Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 07, 2020 |  |
| ThinkData Works Inc. | Data is more available than ever, but varied sources, inconsistent formats, and an evolving compliance landscape make it difficult to manage. Maximizing return on your data investments requires the right strategy and toolset. ThinkData Works unlocks the value of data to grow your business. Connect seamlessly to any source, catalog your assets, anddeliver data while retaining visibility and control. Flexible data connections, robust metadata management capabilities, and secure, reliable tools to deliver data where it needs to be — inside or outside your organization. Purpose-built to handle the complexities of data variety, our unified cloud platform cuts overhead, fuels innovation, and drives revenue growth. | $5.9M | Series A | Jun 25, 2020 |  |
| RiverPay | RiverPay is an integrated payments and marketing platform to connect Chinese consumers with tens of thousands of credible merchants in major markets over the globe. As an authorized payment service provider of all leading mobile payment options including AliPay, WeChat Pay and UnionPay mobile application, RiverPay offers both technology solutionsand settlement services to allow Chinese consumers to pay in CNY and merchants to receive USD, CAD, EUR, GBP and more.RiverPay currently serves over 12,000 merchants across North America and Europe with clients including Saks Fifth Avenue, Hudson’s Bay, Selfridges, Holt Renfrew, Harry Rosen, Dilawri, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Tiffany & Co., De Beers and MaxMara. The company supports both in-store transactions and online e-commerce / m-commerce. |  |  | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Damon Motors | Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures. | $951K | Seed | Jun 04, 2019 |  |
| d1g1t | d1g1t is a digital wealth management platform powered by analytics that offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | $6.6M | Series A | Nov 15, 2018 |  |
| Envoi Technologies | Same day delivery. Returns. Exchanges. Envoi is a one-stop, national last mile partner that gives enterprise retailers end-to-end visibility, a consistent quality of service, and ensures their omnichannel investments don’t go to waste. | $183K | Pre-Seed | Oct 22, 2018 |  |
| Foxquilt | Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. | $878K | Seed | Oct 18, 2018 |  |
| Chatter Research | Real-time customer feedback solution for retail and hospitality.Chatter helps retailers and restaurants sell more and improve experiences through AI-powered conversations with customers.Chatter collects customer feedback in real-time as shoppers leave your store |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2018 |  |
| Dentem | Dentem is a platform that allows dental practices to be more reliable and flexible to attain business growth.As a innovative dental practice management platform we give dental practice managers all the tools for their daily workflow. But we are not just an CRM or EHR. Dentem is simple yet very powerful. We are using machine learning to analyseX-rays and we server our algorithm as a service and currently working on a digital voice enabled assistant that will come out very soon. Stay tuned as we will disrupt the dental software market. | $241K | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2018 |  |

10 of 73 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Extreme Venture Partners invest in?

Extreme Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 73 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Extreme Venture Partners?

The team at Extreme Venture Partners includes Ray Sharma (Founding Partner), Ian Ainsworth (Managing Partner) and Imran Bashir (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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