# Markus Frind

> Markus Frind is a seed investor at Frind Estate Winery (Vancouver) backing Retail and E-Commerce. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Frind Estate Winery](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frind-estate-winery)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/markus-frind/0/8b0/6b8

Markus Frind is a seed investor at Frind Estate Winery in Vancouver focused on Retail and E-Commerce. Markus Frind is the Proprietor at Frind Estate Winery. He Attended British Columbia Institute of Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$16M |
| Series A | $12M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 4 | 36% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 27% |
| FinTech | 2 | 18% |
| Furniture | 2 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 18% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 6 | 55% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bonsai | Bonsai’s mission is to help people find and buy the products they want, as soon as they realize they want them. The company began in 2016 as a streetwear style and news app and turned into content-driven commerce. Bonsai is partnered with 30 publishers and has integrated 1,200 brands. The company's technology enables users to transactnatively while browsing content. It makes the journey from seeing a product to buying it possible in two taps. Bonsai allows merchants to capture customers while they browse content, right when purchasing intent is being formed. | $11.6M | Series A | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| RVezy | RVezy is the #1 rated RV rental app in North America, providing outdoor enthusiasts with a safe and affordable way to rent an RV while enabling RV owners to earn additional income by renting out their RVs with complete peace of mind. | $16.5M | Seed | May 28, 2021 |  |
| RVezy | RVezy is the #1 rated RV rental app in North America, providing outdoor enthusiasts with a safe and affordable way to rent an RV while enabling RV owners to earn additional income by renting out their RVs with complete peace of mind. | $19M | Series A | May 28, 2021 |  |
| 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. | $52M | Series B | May 05, 2020 |  |
| Tastry, Inc. | Tastry is a sensory sciences company that combines analytical chemistry, consumer flavor preferences and machine learning to predict market performance for sensory-based products. Tastry’s patent-pending method provides consumer recommendations with incredible accuracy. | $4M | Seed | Jun 23, 2018 |  |
| Tastry, Inc. | Tastry is a sensory sciences company that combines analytical chemistry, consumer flavor preferences and machine learning to predict market performance for sensory-based products. Tastry’s patent-pending method provides consumer recommendations with incredible accuracy. | $10.3M | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| 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. | $2.2M | Seed | Nov 22, 2017 |  |
| Cymax Group Technologies Ltd. | The Cymax Group of brands offers unparalleled knowledge of the complete eCommerce experience gained through years of building a platform that serves manufacturers, retailers and end-consumers. We're transforming eCommerce with a complete and scalable online platform that provides seamless customer acquisition, merchandising and logisticscapabilities.With technology solutions built to make eCommerce simple, we function as a powerful supply chain management solution for organizations of all sizes. Our suite of products provides the most mature solution available to support the entire end-to-end eCommerce cycle. | $22.4M | Series A | Sep 25, 2015 |  |
| Grow | Leading enterprise fintech platform, acquired by ATB Financial in November 2019.Grow's technology is powering a new generation of data-driven banking products and services, including digital personal loans, instant customer onboarding and account opening, advanced data analytics, and real-time compliance and identification tools. Grow wasfounded in 2014 and was acquired by ATB Financial in 2019. | $4M | Seed | Aug 18, 2015 |  |
| Grow | Leading enterprise fintech platform, acquired by ATB Financial in November 2019.Grow's technology is powering a new generation of data-driven banking products and services, including digital personal loans, instant customer onboarding and account opening, advanced data analytics, and real-time compliance and identification tools. Grow wasfounded in 2014 and was acquired by ATB Financial in 2019. | $1M | Seed | Sep 30, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Impression Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impression-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RevTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revtech-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3Lines](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3lines) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Capital Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Frind Estate Winery

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Frind Estate Winery.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Markus Frind | Proprietor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/markus-frind |

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## FAQ

### What does Markus Frind invest in?

Markus Frind invests primarily in Retail, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Markus Frind's check size?

Markus Frind typically joins rounds of $1M–$16M at Seed and $12M–$22M 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 Markus Frind participates in.

### When did Markus Frind last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Markus Frind closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 11 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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