Ken MacKinnon
Managing Partner @ MacKinnon, Bennett & Company
Montréal, Canada
Ken MacKinnon is a Series B investor at MacKinnon, Bennett & Company in Montréal focused on Software and Energy. Ken is co-founder and Managing Partner of MacKinnon, Bennett & Co., a private equity investment firm focused on next generation energy, mobility and smart city sectors. He is Chairman of the Board of Miovision Technologies and a past director of several corporate and educational boards in both Canada and the U.S.Greater Montreal MetropolitanArea
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
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Industries Ken MacKinnon invests in
Stages Ken MacKinnon invests in
Countries Ken MacKinnon invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (40%)
- Energy 1 (20%)
- Hardware 1 (20%)
- Internet 1 (20%)
- GreenTech 1 (20%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (40%)
- Private Equity 1 (20%)
- Convertible Note 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Country
- Canada 3 (60%)
- United States 1 (20%)
Investments
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| Xnrgy Climate Systems is an engineering and manufacturing company that provides air treatment systems for data centers, and industrial institutional buildings. They provide air systems and air handlers incorporating energy recovery technologies, cooling, heating coils, fans, and humidification systems. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 20, 2023 | ||
| Sense, a technology company, provides home energy monitoring solutions for its customers.The company specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on themain breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application.Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $10M / Series B / Jul 29, 2019 | ||
| Miovision Technologies provides software and hardware that significantly improves its clients' cost-structure and accuracy.Backed by the world’s most advanced traffic AI, our innovations in traffic signal planning and operations have made it possible for cities to improve the transportation experience for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrianssince 2005.Miovision develops intelligent technology solutions to address the challenges facing today's global transportation network and to minimize the environmental impacts of inefficient transportation flow. With offices in Kitchener, Canada and Cologne, Germany, Miovision serves over 17,000 municipalities worldwide. | $15M / Convertible Note / May 07, 2018 | ||
| Communauto permet à tous ceux qui n’ont pas besoin d’une voiture quotidiennement de disposer d’une voiture sans en acheter une. | Private Equity / Sep 28, 2016 | ||
| Miovision Technologies provides software and hardware that significantly improves its clients' cost-structure and accuracy.Backed by the world’s most advanced traffic AI, our innovations in traffic signal planning and operations have made it possible for cities to improve the transportation experience for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrianssince 2005.Miovision develops intelligent technology solutions to address the challenges facing today's global transportation network and to minimize the environmental impacts of inefficient transportation flow. With offices in Kitchener, Canada and Cologne, Germany, Miovision serves over 17,000 municipalities worldwide. | $30M / Series B / Feb 10, 2015 |
Co-Investors
MKB is a Montreal-based merchant bank that sources, structures and manages private investments in renewable energy, urban infrastructure services and related sectors for its own account as well as for high net worth individuals, family offices, corporate clients and institutional investors. They target attractive risk-adjusted returns throughinvestments in markets including solar energy, intelligent transportation, LED lighting and energy storage.
MacKinnon, Bennett & Company Contacts
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Patrick Bennett
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Chanel Damphousse
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Ken MacKinnon
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What does Ken MacKinnon invest in?
Ken MacKinnon invests primarily in Software, Energy and Hardware startups, most often at Series B and Private Equity stage. Most of the 5 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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The most recent investment recorded for Ken MacKinnon closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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