# Fastbreak Ventures

> Fastbreak Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto backing FinTech and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fastbreak-ventures/
- Website: https://fastbreak.co

Fastbreak Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto focused on FinTech and Software. Pre-Seed and Seed Stage Venture Investing We aim to lead the first institutional round for exceptional founders building highly scalable software platforms. We leverage our experience as founders and operators along with customer connections to accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Fastbreak Ventures. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Fastbreak Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/fastbreak-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Lysne | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-lysne |
| Matthew Saunders | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-saunders |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BuyProperly | BuyProperly is an online exchange for fractional real estate investments. Through a proprietary technology platform, BuyProperly provides private market returns, public market ease of access, and the ability to build a property portfolio. The company has set out to democratize investments in real estate with a vision of improving access andeliminating inefficiencies of alternate asset class investments for the mass market. | $1.7M | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Haloo | Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2021 |  |
| Haloo | Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 30, 2021 |  |
| Planworth | Planworth provides tax planning, financial services, software development, family trees, corporate organization charts, client discovery, portal, estate planning, outlook planning, and insurance services. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 21, 2020 |  |
| Sampler | Sampler is a provider of digital product sampling services. The company helps consumer-packaged goods brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Its turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that helps increase successful trials and in turn conversion rates. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2014 |  |
| Ada | Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered inToronto in Canada. |  | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2014 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nurture Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nurture-ventures-66a6) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Backbone Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [37 Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/37-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angels of Many](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-of-many) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [RFI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryerson-futures-startup-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Fastbreak Ventures invest in?

Fastbreak Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Fastbreak Ventures?

Public channels for Fastbreak Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Fastbreak Ventures?

The team at Fastbreak Ventures includes Alan Lysne (Founder) and Matthew Saunders (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co