# JBD Investments

> JBD Investments is a VC fund backing Travel, Leisure and Tourism. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

JBD Investments is a VC fund focused on Travel and Leisure. Investment first based in Vancouver

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 100% |
| Leisure | 1 | 100% |
| Tourism | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pilot | “Travel is a trillion-dollar industry stuck in the past. The last major breakthrough came in the 1990s, with the emergence of online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com and Expedia to aggregate inventory.” -a16z Consumer, 2023Since then, everything's been built for vendors to sell inventory, not for the people buying it. Even now, rigid,slow moving OTAs are building (and failing at) primitive AI chat to push inventory, not help you plan.People are frustrated, but they don’t want travel agents. They want better tools. 90% of Americans say travel planning is tedious and costly (time/money/stress), but only 20% prefer travel agents, because most don’t want a salesperson planning their trip. After speaking with hundreds of travellers, they’ve told us they want the value of a travel agent, without using onePlanning and booking a vacation shouldn’t feel like another job. It should be: - Collaborative – Easy to plan with friends, without endless group chats - Simple – One tool to discover, organize, and book—beautifully - All in One – No more tabs, texts, or patchwork spreadsheets - Free, Fun, and Flexible – Because planning should feel like part of the adventureIntroducing Pilot: An AI powered productivity tool facilitating end to end travel. Unlike competitors, Pilot is: - Personalized, flexible and collaborative for any trip - User-friendly, free, and fun, especially with friends or a group - A discovery and planning tool first, a booking tool secondPilot replaces travel agents by letting you “talk” to your trip, learning and improving based on your preferences as you use it (like Netflix). AI agentic workflows then automatically syndicate, summarize, map, visualize, share, organize, and book plans, in an increasingly personalized way.It's everything you need to make trips happen (and share them) in one place.Product vision: To become the full-stack platform for global travel, giving you the value of a travel agent, without needing one. | $290K | Seed | Aug 01, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AngelList Quant Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist-quant-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Oridun Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oridun-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does JBD Investments invest in?

JBD Investments invests primarily in Travel, Leisure and Tourism startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did JBD Investments last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for JBD Investments closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 1 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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