# Klass Capital

> Klass Capital is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and SaaS. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Apr 2012
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/klass-capital-corporation
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/klassCapital
- Website: https://www.klass.com

Klass Capital is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and SaaS. We are a private equity firm established to acquire businesses and provide expansion stage capital. We are backed by a $40 billion dollar pension plan and a number of institutional investors and high net worth entrepreneurs. We target investing between $2mm and $20mm of equity and target enterprise values between $5mm and $75mm. We move quickly,have a collaborative approach and strongly believe in adding value to our partners. Our advisors are significant investors in the fund and are driven to provide meaningful support to every company. We bring innovative ideas, strong values and a sense of urgency to every opportunity. We are based in Toronto, Canada and have a North American focus. Our portfolio ranges from companies that have $1mm in sales to $200mm+ in sales. Our primary focus is to help our partners become world leading organizations.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5.1M |
| Series A | $1M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 48% |
| SaaS | 11 | 35% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 6% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 8 | 26% |
| Series A | 7 | 23% |
| Seed | 6 | 19% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 17 | 55% |
| United States | 3 | 10% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 6% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Klass | Founder and Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-klass |
| Jared Tessis | Head of Talent | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-tessis |
| Kevin Climans | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-climans |
| Mike Wertman | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-wertman |
| William Anderson | Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-anderson-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rightsline | RightsLine provides software solutions to media and entertainment companies who need to track the full lifecycle of licensing and distribution deals around the world. Our solutions provide a transparent, codified way for content owners and content distributors to know exactly what the have to sell, on what terms, and for how long.Our software isbuilt on industry leading technology in a true multi tenant infrastructure, meaning our cost to deploy is a fraction of our competition.Our clients span across film, television, music, and publishing, but they all have one thing in common; the need to track the licensing deals they've done, when they expire, and what the terms and payments need to be.Leveraging cloud technologies and bringing an intuitive UI, RightsLine can handle any size library and any level of rights complexity. Examples of our client success cases include Disney, Turner, Google, Amazon Studios, Hulu, and a hundred others from the largest in the world to a single distributor. |  | Private Equity | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Workwize | Workwize is a platform that facilitates employee onboarding and offboarding while also providing them with all of the office supplies required to maintain a healthy work environment. Workwize makes establishing, operating, and closing remote offices easier and more manageable than ever before. Workwize allows employees with individual budgets toorder home office products and services such as ergonomic desks, desk chairs, and IT products at a low cost. | $13M | Series A | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Manifest Climate | Manifest Climate uncover the insights needed to respond to climate pressure and find climate confidence. | $24M | Series A | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Coconut Software | Our cloud based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform combines your on-location and digital channels, providing self-service booking and curbside pickup, online and physical queuing, wait time tracking, callback requests and virtual meeting support as well as contact center integration. | $22.3M | Series B | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| Wonderflow | Wonderflow is a platform that turns the Voice of the Customer into winning decisions. Millions of product reviews are written every day. Wonderflow is the simplest AI-based solution to analyze them and turn this extremely vast stream of customer feedback into winning decisions.Wonderflow's unified VoC analytics help B2C companies extractvalue from consumer feedback like online reviews, support center records, and NPS. Its AI analyzes the Voice of Customers from all over the world, both from your buyers and your competitors'. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology then provides you with easy-to-digest insights, not complicated procedures, so that everyone in your company can access the best information in seconds. | $19.6M | Series B | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| AlayaCare | AlayaCare is a start-up that delivers an end-to-end home health care software platform and hardware ecosystem.The platform allows home care agencies to deliver mixed telehealth/visiting health solutions enabling empowered patients to live better while driving down the cost of care. The founders are a proven team of entrepreneurs who havefounded, scaled, and sold two mobile software businesses. AlayaCare aims to provide a solution to a market mired in legacy software and suboptimal business processes. In doing so, it delivers better outcomes for the patient, better tools for the providers, and better economics for the payers. It promotes an open culture where every team member has the obligation to dissent, but the obligation to always keep the big picture in mind. Through its association with The Madiro Fund, the company also contributes its solution free of charge to NGOs working in the developing world who are seeking to leverage mobile technology to improve the lives of those less fortunate.Adrian Schauer and Neil Grunberg launched the company in Montréal, Quebec in 2014. | $182.8M | Series D | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Manifest Climate | Manifest Climate uncover the insights needed to respond to climate pressure and find climate confidence. | $5.1M | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Optimy | Optimy’s core business is our unique software, created for sponsorship and grant management professionals. We are working hard to become a leader in this niche market by combining the best technology with the highest quality of Customer Experience. Optimy is not a fixed package, you just pick and pay for what you really need. Optimy can be used tocover one or more of the following processes:REQUEST MANAGEMENT Unsorted pile of requests? Streamline the flow of incoming requests, ensuring a systematic and personalised response to each.PROJECT MANAGEMENT Need for a prompt kick-start? Manage and collaborate on all ongoing projects: launch projects, assign tasks, share documents, etc. All from one single place.ASSESSMENT An insight on results? Based on your KPIs, automatically score and rank the performance of your new, ongoing or past projects.AUDIT & COMPLIANCE Is your effort worth? Let’s check! Easily get an overall view of your activities at a group level and collect key data to generate reports and graphs.We don’t cut our costs to compete, we simply operate an efficient model: our economies of scale and the growing number of our users combined with a customer retention over 98%, enables us to offer a cost-efficient pricing model.In only six years, more than 230 organisations worldwide have chosen Optimy solution and continue to use it through the years. |  | Series A | Nov 19, 2019 |  |
| Peloton Innovations | Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector. | $2.2M | Seed | Nov 09, 2017 |  |
| Resolver | Resolver helps organizations reduce the frequency and severity of negative events. The company's intuitive integrated risk management software for mid to large-sized organizations includes solutions for risk management, corporate security, business resilience, and IT risk. Resolver enables these teams to drive user adoption, share data moreeffectively, streamline operations, and provide more actionable insights throughout the organization.Resolver was established in 2000 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. | $20M | Secondary Market | Jun 27, 2017 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Klass Capital invest in?

Klass Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Klass Capital's check size?

Klass Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.1M at Seed and $1M–$24M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Klass Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Klass Capital?

Public channels for Klass Capital 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 Klass Capital?

The team at Klass Capital includes Daniel Klass (Founder and Managing Partner), Jared Tessis (Head of Talent) and Kevin Climans (Associate). 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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