# Ideal Ventures

> Ideal Ventures is a VC fund backing Software, E-Learning and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Ideal Ventures is a VC fund focused on Software and E-Learning. Ideal Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 100% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| EdTech | 1 | 33% |
| Training | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 2 | 67% |
| China | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Magic Engine | Magic Engine is an intelligent service provider for AI decision-making. Magic Engine provides an interpretable, intervenable and simplified artificial intelligence decision-making model platform and a set of standardized software. | $1.5M | Series A | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Knowledgehook | Knowledgehook combines deep domain expertise with data science to create a technology platform that helps school boards and teachers assess gaps in math education, and apply predictive insights. Knowledgehook’s insights have led to major partnerships with leading universities, research institutes, and leading educational companies. Knowledgehook isutilizing its access into the classroom to enable at-home tutoring and additional support and insights for parents being the first in class to create this vertically integrated educational ecosystem. Knowledgehook has won several awards in the Tech community including the Google Game Changer award, and B.N.N. Knowledgehook has recently partnered with UCL Educate research and investment fund to be the first EdTech company to be backed by them globally. | $20M | Series A | Oct 16, 2020 |  |
| Cognota | Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 10, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cathexis Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathexis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CEAS Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceas-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Differential Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/differential-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DMZ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-media-zone) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Generation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generation-ventures-9dfb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mesoamerica’s Alexandria Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mesoamerica-s-alexandria-corp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ideal Ventures invest in?

Ideal Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Learning and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ideal Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ideal Ventures closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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