Karim Gillani
Co-Founder and General Partner @ Luge Capital
Toronto, Canada
Karim Gillani is a seed investor at Luge Capital in Toronto focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Karim Gillani is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Luge Capital. Karim previously worked at PayPal as a Director, Corporate Development and Investments. Karim Gillani attended the University of Waterloo.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Karim Gillani invests in
Stages Karim Gillani invests in
Countries Karim Gillani invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 7 (54%)
- Financial Services 7 (54%)
- Finance 2 (15%)
- Payments 2 (15%)
- Analytics 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (54%)
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
Country
- Canada 7 (54%)
- United States 2 (15%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Cybrid uses APIs that enable banks, and financial institutions to seamlessly launch a cryptocurrency and De-fi products. | $10M / Series A / Oct 22, 2025 | ||
| Mycroft is the AI-native cybersecurity and compliance platform purpose-built for modern companies. Founded by experienced builders and security professionals with over 30 years of combined expertise, the company delivers security outcomes that go beyond checkbox compliance. The core product is Mycroft's AI Security and Compliance Officer, anautonomous AI agent designed to manage and operate your full security and IT stack – from securing your laptops to acing your next SOC 2 audit. This isn't just a tool; it's your virtual CISO, GRC expert, and IT ops team, all rolled into one. Focus on building your vision, while our AI Agent ensures your foundation is rock solid and fully compliant, 24/7. It's time to modernize your GRC and scale with confidence. | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Geolava is transforming property analysis through an AI foundation model designed to measure every spatial risk. Our platform continuously indexes and analyzes satellite, aerial, and proprietary location data to provide instant property valuations, risk assessments, and detailed property conditions. With costs reduced by 73%, Geolava empowersindustries such as insurance, finance, and property management to make data-driven decisions using real-time, continuously refreshed insights. | $4.3M / Seed / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| OneVest is a financial technology business that creates investment opportunities. The company provides a comprehensive all-in-one wealth management platform that allows organizations to expand product capabilities, improve distribution, and streamline front, middle, and back office operations. | $20M / Series B / Jan 29, 2025 | ||
| Plooto is a payment management platform for small and medium-sized businesses that want to automate and streamlines their payments. Plooto enables businesses to send payments to anyone with an active bank account within 2-3 business days and transactions are automatically reconciled with leading accounting software.The company was founded in 2015and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | $19.9M / Series B / Dec 13, 2022 | ||
| Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days | $14.5M / Series A / Dec 01, 2022 | ||
| Cybrid uses APIs that enable banks, and financial institutions to seamlessly launch a cryptocurrency and De-fi products. | $3M / Seed / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| OneVest is a financial technology business that creates investment opportunities. The company provides a comprehensive all-in-one wealth management platform that allows organizations to expand product capabilities, improve distribution, and streamline front, middle, and back office operations. | $3.9M / Seed / Mar 05, 2022 | ||
| XCLAIM is building the first-ever marketplace for e-trading the debt of bankrupt companies. More than $2 trillion of this type of debt has traded over the last decade, all on paper. They connect distressed debt investors with the vendors, supplies, landlords, and any other party with unpaid receivables due from a bankrupt company. By increasing theefficiency of trading, XCLAIM is creating liquidity in an illiquid market.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $6.6M / Seed / Jun 25, 2021 | ||
| Plooto is a payment management platform for small and medium-sized businesses that want to automate and streamlines their payments. Plooto enables businesses to send payments to anyone with an active bank account within 2-3 business days and transactions are automatically reconciled with leading accounting software.The company was founded in 2015and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | $6.4M / Series A / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Luge Capital
Luge Capital is a venture capital fund focused on early stage fintech and artificial intelligence (AI) applied to financial services. We invest in talented teams shaping the way the world interacts with financial services. Luge looks for founders that improve customer experiences, remove complexity, make financial institutions more efficient anduse data-driven methods decision-making. We work closely with entrepreneurs and their teams in their efforts to build world-class companies by sharing our extensive network, experience and industry insights. www.luge.vc
Luge Capital Contacts
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David Nault
Co-Founder & General partner
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Karim Gillani
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Laviva Mazhar
Principal
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Jean-Philippe Brosseau, CFA
Financial Planning & Investment Analyst
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Poojitha Preena
Member of the Investment Committee
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What does Karim Gillani invest in?
Karim Gillani invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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