# GroundBreak Ventures

> GroundBreak Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and Real Estate. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groundbreak-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GroundBreakVC
- Website: https://groundbreakventures.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $530k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $4M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 29% |
| Real Estate | 10 | 26% |
| SaaS | 9 | 24% |
| Construction | 8 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 16% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 39% |
| Series A | 10 | 26% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 10 | 26% |
| United States | 10 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 11% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scott Kaplanis | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-kaplanis |
| Emre Kulluk | Investment Team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emre-kulluk |
| Sanders Lee | Founder & Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanders-lee |
| Tyler Ashby | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tyler-ashby |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crewscope | 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 |  |
| CABN | Canadian builder of prefabricated, energy-efficient homes |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| Chexy | 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 | 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 | Virtuo is a tech enabled service that makes moving and transitioning into a new home simple & stress-free. | $2.6M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Fillogic | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstart Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Bioindustrial Innovation Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bioindustrial-innovation-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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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 38 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?

Public channels for GroundBreak Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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