# Impression Ventures

> Impression Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Fund size: $64M
- Last fund: Apr 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/impression-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ImpressionVC
- Website: http://impression.ventures

Impression Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Financial Services and FinTech. VC firm focused on investing in FinTech and related technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $951k–$6M |
| Series A | $4M–$17M |
| Series B | $20M–$52M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 12 | 31% |
| FinTech | 8 | 21% |
| Software | 5 | 13% |
| Finance | 4 | 10% |
| Real Estate | 4 | 10% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 44% |
| Series A | 7 | 18% |
| Series B | 5 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 13 | 33% |
| United States | 7 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Lassonde | Founder & Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-lassonde |
| Maor Amar | Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maor-amar |
| Quinn Murdock | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quinn-murdock |
| Muneeb Ahmed | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/muneeb-ahmed-6b17 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Secludy | Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII.With Secludy, you can:- Enable privacy-guaranteed fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) forAI assistants, chatbots, and other machine learning applications.- Deploy within your cloud - use Secludy without sharing any data with us.- Stay compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. | $4M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Juno | Juno offers automation for modern tax firms, focusing on research, preparation, review, and advisory services. The software includes structured tax review features that ensure consistent checks and enhance quality control in tax preparation processes. | $12M | Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| 401GO | 401GO administers 401(k) plans for business of all sizes and helps them to run their business smoothly. From a single to thousands of employees. Ongoing administration is automated with payroll integrations while compliance, government filings, notifications, and all other responsibilities are handled by the company. | $33M | Series B | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Ned | Ned develops and creates a platform that provides revenue based financing solutions and services. It is based in New York, USA. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| 401GO | 401GO administers 401(k) plans for business of all sizes and helps them to run their business smoothly. From a single to thousands of employees. Ongoing administration is automated with payroll integrations while compliance, government filings, notifications, and all other responsibilities are handled by the company. | $12M | Series A | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Goose Insurance Services | Mobile First B2C Insurance Platform | $4M | Series A | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Symend | Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. | $41M |  | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Symend | Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. | $42M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Afficiency | Afficiency has developed a digital life insurance platform that allows new products to be digitized and made available for distribution rapidly, completely via API. Headquartered in NewYork, the company has been partnering with insurance carriers and reinsurers since 2018 to bring new innovative products to market. All of Afficiency’s lifeinsurance products are digitally underwritten and issued to applicants within seconds. | $7M | Series A | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Trustate | Trustate is an estate operations platform that uses data and task automation to help trusts and estates professionals quickly, efficiently, and accurately manage their estate workload. From estate administration task completion and asset and liability discovery tools to trust funding technology, Trustate is the only all-in-one platform specificallybuilt for trusts and estate experts, by trusts and estate experts. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Nasdaq Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nasdaq-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Impression Ventures invest in?

Impression Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software 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 Impression Ventures's check size?

Impression Ventures typically joins rounds of $951k–$6M at Seed, $4M–$17M at Series A and $20M–$52M 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 Impression Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Impression Ventures?

Public channels for Impression 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 Impression Ventures?

The team at Impression Ventures includes Christian Lassonde (Founder & Managing Partner), Maor Amar (Managing Partner) and Quinn Murdock (Analyst). 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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