# Hedgewood

> Hedgewood is a VC fund in Toronto backing Health Care and Software. See 109 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 109
- Last investment: Jul 2020
- Lead investor: 1%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hedgewood-properties-inc
- Website: http://www.hedgewood.com

Hedgewood is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Health Care and Software. Hedgewood is the personal investment vehicle of long time internet entrepreneur Jesse Rasch. It invests using proprietary capital, allowing for longer investment horizons and a broad range of asset classes. Further, as a globally minded investor, Hedgewood actively pursues and engages in a wide variety of investment opportunities in Canada, theUnited States, and internationally.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $725k–$4.3M |
| Series A | $7M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 22 | 20% |
| Software | 20 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 16 | 15% |
| FinTech | 15 | 14% |
| SaaS | 11 | 10% |

170 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 60 | 55% |
| Series A | 19 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 9% |
| Series B | 8 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 57 | 52% |
| United States | 38 | 35% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jesse Rasch | Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-rasch |
| Wayne Bigby | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayne-bigby |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ready, Set, Food! | Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 20, 2020 |  |
| Vetster | Vetster is an innovative pet wellness platform that connects pet parents to a marketplace of licensed veterinary professionals for video, chat and voice enabled appointments. For everyone, anytime, day or night. | $7.4M | Series A | May 26, 2020 |  |
| Unito | Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs. | $10.5M | Series A | Jan 21, 2020 |  |
| Geologie | Geologie is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing customized skincare for men. The company works to identify your specific skin profile and match it with a personalized regimen. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Leankor | Leankor is a SaaS enterprise startup providing visual workflow and project management solutions built entirely on the Salesforce App Cloud and integrating with Salesforce CPQ. Leankor's customers deliver their products and services faster, invoice sooner and improve overall cash flow. | $3M | Seed | Nov 20, 2019 |  |
| Magic Spoon | Magic Spoon is a food company that provides childlike, low-carbohydrate cereal foods for adult customers. The cereal is keto-friendly and non-GMO and free from gluten, grain, wheat, soy, and artificial sweeteners. It gets its taste from allulose, a natural sweetener found in figs and maple syrup that has zero glycemic impact.The company wasestablished in 2019 and has its main office in Brooklyn, New York. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 12, 2019 |  |
| Helaina | Helaina builds better breast milk alternatives for the modern parent. It is dedicated to supporting parents with breastfeeding. It was founded in 2019 by Laura Katz and is headquartered in New York. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Aug 21, 2019 |  |
| Lilia | Lilia is a home fertility startup that serves as an egg securing concierge for busy people who want the option of having kids later. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Aug 02, 2019 |  |
| Fellow - AI Meeting Assistant | Fellow is a meeting productivity and management tool helping both managers and their teams have more productive and collaborative meetings. Fellow does this by connecting your calendar with your meeting notes - attendees can add to the agenda, reference past notes, record next steps, and more. Fellow's features include a dedicated place forone-on-one notes, feedback, objectives, and action items. So whether in person or remote, Fellow can help your team build great meeting habits, create a single source of truth for meeting notes, and improve the quality of 1-on-1 meetings. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. | $6.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2019 |  |
| Jumbotail | Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building. | $10.7M | Series B | Jun 12, 2019 |  |

10 of 109 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hedgewood invest in?

Hedgewood invests primarily in Health Care, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 109 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hedgewood's check size?

Hedgewood typically joins rounds of $725k–$4.3M at Seed and $7M–$17M 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 Hedgewood participates in.

### How do I contact Hedgewood?

Public channels for Hedgewood 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 Hedgewood?

The team at Hedgewood includes Jesse Rasch (Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO) and Wayne Bigby (Director). 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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