GroundBreak Ventures
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
GroundBreak Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Real Estate. GroundBreak Ventures™ is a property technology venture capital fund based out of Toronto and is focused on reimagining how and where people live and work. We invest in companies as early as ideation and provide both the capital and the domain expertise necessary to support the growth of our entrepreneurs, as well as the businesses they worktirelessly to build. Our goal is to invest in 5 – 10 emerging companies annually from around the world, with an emphasis on North America.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries GroundBreak Ventures invests in
Stages GroundBreak Ventures invests in
Countries GroundBreak Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$4M
- Pre-Seed
- $530k–$1.7M
- Series A
- $4M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (28%)
- Real Estate 10 (26%)
- SaaS 9 (23%)
- Construction 8 (21%)
- Information Technology 6 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (38%)
- Series A 10 (26%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (8%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- Canada 10 (26%)
- United States 10 (26%)
- United Kingdom 4 (10%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scott Kaplanis
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Emre Kulluk
Investment Team
|
Investment Team | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sanders Lee
Founder & Partner
|
Founder & Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Tyler Ashby
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crewscope built the technology with crews on-site to be user-friendly and help motivate and retain construction crews with digital tools. They are proactive with regard to setting up pumps, protecting their work at night, and thinking about potential obstacles. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Aug 14, 2025 | ||
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Canadian builder of prefabricated, energy-efficient homes | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 24, 2025 | |
| Chexy operates a digital platform intended to modify the process of paying rent. They allow tenants to send money online to their landlords, earn rewards, build credit points, and also facilitate the redemption of those points in order to access exclusive membership perks. It gives tenants control over one of their key monthly expenses, which isrent. | $3M / Seed / Jun 17, 2024 | ||
| Evercloak is a manufacturer of ultra-thin graphene and other 2-d nanomaterial films designed for cleantech applications. The company's platform uses a low-cost advanced manufacturing platform which builds ultra-thin nanomaterial membranes, enabling disruptive clean technologies to reduce cost, energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissionsthroughout the oil and gas, nuclear, energy, mining and agri-food sectors. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 13, 2024 | ||
| Virtuo is a tech enabled service that makes moving and transitioning into a new home simple & stress-free. | $2.6M / Seed / Dec 05, 2023 | ||
| Founded in 2018, NYC-based Fillogic is a channel-free, local market logistics provider that converts under-utilized space in retail centers like shopping malls into middle-mile logistics centers. Fillogic provides retailers a more efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable middle-mile logistics platform that enables partners to optimize existingstores, people and inventory. | $13M / Series A / Nov 08, 2023 | ||
| Local Logic is a location intelligence platform that digitizes the built world to make it universally understandable and actionable for consumers, investors, developers, and governments with the ambition of helping build cities that are more sustainable and equitable for the people that live in them. To achieve that dream, we’ve built proprietaryinsights on over 75Bn data points, that quantify the built world using data and AI. Our insights are used across the real estate vertical to inform decisions that impact the $217T real estate market throughout the US and Canada.The platform partners with commercial real estate, travel, and media companies, helping to guide individual projects and overall strategy for major developers and investors such as Ivanhoe Cambridge, Sonder, SmartCentres, and others. Local Logic is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. | $13.1M / Series B / Aug 02, 2023 | ||
| Chexy operates a digital platform intended to modify the process of paying rent. They allow tenants to send money online to their landlords, earn rewards, build credit points, and also facilitate the redemption of those points in order to access exclusive membership perks. It gives tenants control over one of their key monthly expenses, which isrent. | $983K / Pre-Seed / Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Rosarium Health is a platform that connects service providers (home contractors and occupational therapists) with customers to execute accessible house assessments and accessible home modifications at a client's primary home, leased property, or company. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Jun 13, 2023 | ||
| PLOT combines Logistic Mapping, Delivery Coordination, and Lead Time Management to take away the arduous and low-level tasks that Construction teams hate. | $2M / Seed / Jun 05, 2023 | ||
| See all 39 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does GroundBreak Ventures invest in?
GroundBreak Ventures invests primarily in Software, Real Estate and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is GroundBreak Ventures's check size?
GroundBreak Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4M at Seed, $530k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GroundBreak Ventures participates in.
How do I contact GroundBreak Ventures?
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Who are the partners at GroundBreak Ventures?
The team at GroundBreak Ventures includes Scott Kaplanis (Partner), Emre Kulluk (Investment Team) and Sanders Lee (Founder & 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 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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