Gibraltar Ventures
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
Gibraltar Ventures is a Toronto-based venture investment firm. Founded in 2013, we invest in private, early to mid- stage technology-based companies catering to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses — the B2C and B2SMB space. We do more than simply invest — our business purpose is to supply intellectual capital designed to accelerate acompany’s speed-to-market. Specifically, we provide portfolio companies with: (1) sales & marketing expertise to execute “go-to-market” strategies; (2) access to senior corporate decision makers to open up new channels and speed decision-making; and (3) capital in the critical Series “A” and “B” rounds of funding to accelerate growth.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Gibraltar Ventures invests in
Stages Gibraltar Ventures invests in
Countries Gibraltar Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $750k–$2M
- Series A
- $4M–$8.5M
- Series B
- $5M–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (22%)
- Lifestyle 2 (22%)
- E-Commerce 2 (22%)
- Publishing 2 (22%)
- Advertising 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Seed 2 (22%)
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
- Debt Financing 1 (11%)
Country
- Canada 6 (67%)
- United States 2 (22%)
Team
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Cam Di Prata
Founder, CEO, Chairman & Managing Partner
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Founder, CEO, Chairman & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
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In 2012, Fred Mannella along with his partner, Kei Izawa began building the foundations of LXR & Co. With roots in the wholesale business, they began growing LXR with each piece bought and sold. Now with 22 retail boutiques, numerous rotating pop-ups, a growing wholesale business and a booming e-commerce website (LXRCO.COM), LXR is taking offto new heights with its omni-channel approach and an impressive network of trusted logistics partners around the world. For more visit: www.LXRCO.com | $3.6M / Debt Financing / May 26, 2020 | |
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Lunata Beauty offers innovative, cordless hair styling products and tools. The company provides hair straighteners, curling wands, tool cases, heat-resistant silicone mats, styling sets, and a hot brush. Lunata Beauty combines beauty with technology to revolutionize the hair industry. | $750K / Seed / Nov 01, 2018 | |
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CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands that allows to discover and deliver top-performing visual content to every marketing channel. Powered by artificial intelligence, its platform allows marketers to source and share top performing visuals with their respective audiences, at scale.The company was founded in 2011and is based in Toronto, Canada. | $8.5M / Series A / Oct 04, 2018 | |
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Our MissionEnable cities “as enterprises” to improve efficiency and sustainability while providing citizens, visitors and workers the tools they need to more easily explore and navigate their cities.Our OfferingCivicConnect provides a suite of applications that leverage Augmented Reality (AR) and the latest mobile technologies to deliver acompelling user experience. With an initial focus on urban mobility, these applications are built on the CivicConnect Platform, a cloud-based platform, purpose-built for the public sector, that enables rapid deployment while providing the data and analytics needed to make smart decisions. Developers can use the platform and growing set of APIs to create their own Smart City applications.Our HistoryCivicConnect, formerly Civic Resource Group, brings 15 years’ experience delivering digital solutions and services to the Public Sector. With customers across sectors and agency levels, CivicConnect has a deep understanding of the needs, resources and priorities of this sector, and harnesses this knowledge and expertise as we continue to build our CivicConnect Platform and applications.Our FocusAs the urban population grows and the populace relies on single passenger trips, congestion increases, and the staggering economic and environmental consequences from this congestion demands alternatives. Public Sector entities must find timely and cost-effective ways to tackle the challenges of urban mobility to ensure sustainable, economically viable cities. Today, CivicConnect provides our integrated data management platform, AR based applications and intelligence for delivering urban mobility solutions. Over time, the CivicConnect data management platform and applications will grow to address all aspects of a connected Smart City. | $6.4M / Series A / Oct 01, 2016 | |
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Fanxchange is the B2B industry leader in powering white labeled live event ticketing solutions for major loyalty programs, financial institutions, travel & hotel providers, concierge services, e-commerce marketplaces and distribution partners; providing their users access to tickets for every live event in North America. Fanxchange employs adistributed commerce model - streamlining the way consumers access live events by surfacing tickets across multiple distribution verticals where consumers are already engaging in content and commerce. | $5M / Series B / Jun 02, 2016 | |
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CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands that allows to discover and deliver top-performing visual content to every marketing channel. Powered by artificial intelligence, its platform allows marketers to source and share top performing visuals with their respective audiences, at scale.The company was founded in 2011and is based in Toronto, Canada. | $2M / Seed / Mar 16, 2016 | |
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Founded by several Financial Advisors that had spent 15 years managing money for very wealthy clients, blooom has become of the nation’s fastest growing robo-advisors with a specific focus on helping any American with a workplace retirement account like a 401k or 403b. Blooom is a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC, and aims to scalefiduciary best practices on low fees, and appropriate asset allocation and diversification, to millions of Americans who have workplace retirement accounts, yet no access to a financial advisor and no desire to "DIY it." | $4M / Series A / Oct 15, 2015 | |
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Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry.Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a singleplace: your hub. | $2.1M / Mar 04, 2015 | |
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Blue Ant Media is a privately held integrated Canadian media company that creates and distributes engaging content in lifestyle, travel, documentary, music and entertainment categories. The company owns specialty channels Travel+Escape, Bite TV and AUX TV along with four premium, commercial-free channels Oasis HD, HIFI, eqHD, radX and theircompanion websites. Blue Ant Media’s digital publishing division produces daily content for its web and mobile sites and recently launched AUX Magazine, a monthly music tablet magazine. Producing over 400 hours of original content, Blue Ant Media develops both in house programming and co-productions with international partners. Blue Ant recently acquired Cottage Life Media Inc., publishers of Cottage Life, Cottage, Outdoor Canada and Canadian Home Workshop and producers of the Spring & Fall Cottage Life consumer shows. | $12M / Series B / Jul 12, 2013 |
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FAQ
What does Gibraltar Ventures invest in?
Gibraltar Ventures invests primarily in Software, Lifestyle and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gibraltar Ventures's check size?
Gibraltar Ventures typically joins rounds of $750k–$2M at Seed, $4M–$8.5M at Series A and $5M–$12M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gibraltar Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Gibraltar Ventures?
The team at Gibraltar Ventures includes Cam Di Prata (Founder, CEO, Chairman & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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