# Omi Velasco

> Omi Velasco is a seed investor at Aventrock Ventures (Calgary) backing Software and Grocery. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aventrock Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aventrock-ventures)
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omaetvelasco

Omi Velasco is a seed investor at Aventrock Ventures in Calgary focused on Software and Grocery. Omi Velasco

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Grocery | 1 | 33% |
| eSports | 1 | 33% |
| Logistics | 1 | 33% |
| Marketing | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WaitWell | Founded in 2020 in Calgary, Alberta, WaitWell is a B2B SaaS innovator reshaping queue and appointment management across healthcare, education, retail, government, and event venues. Hundreds of universities, clinics, government offices and other service locations across North America trust WaitWell to streamline service operations. With a virtualqueuing and appointment booking platform, the company replaces physical lines with a seamless system, allowing customers to join via mobile, QR code, or SMS text. This reduces wait times by up to 35%, minimizes walk‑aways by 60%, and boosts staff efficiency by over 30%. WaitWell also offers payments so clients can pay for service at the time they join the line or make an appointment, staff scheduling, event management and visitor check ins. Co‑founded by Steve and Shannon Vander Meulen - entrepreneurs who identified the need while managing motor‑vehicle administration office (DMV), WaitWell has attracted seed funding totaling approx. CAD 2.5 million, led by Graphite Ventures, Accelerate Fund, Metiquity Ventures, and others. Today, the platform serves hundreds of locations, including large universities and medical clinics, supports over 25 million users, and has saved visitors more than 7 million hours of waiting. WaitWell’s modular architecture offers appointment booking, event workflows, virtual meeting check‑ins, data analytics, payments and staff‑scheduling tools. This focus on data‑driven service optimization gives clients clear visibility into operations, enabling smarter staffing, resource allocation, and improved customer experience. Headquartered in Calgary, WaitWell is rapidly expanding into private healthcare and the U.S. public‑service market. Its mission: eliminate anxiety and improve efficiency by transforming waiting into a productive, stress‑free experience.WaitWell sets itself apart from the competition with its highly configurable architecture, allowing organizations with hundreds or thousands of locations to manage service operations from one administrative panel while allowing individual locations to maintain unique workflows and settings. WaitWell is a leader in the category also in terms of compliance and security, with RBAC (role-based access control) and SOC2 compliance. WaitWell also integrates with EHRs such as Charm Health, Medi EHR, Vetspire, Shepherd, Athena and EPIC, as well as enterprise software tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, People Soft, Google Meets, Zoom, Teams, MailChimp, Survey Monkey, Shibboleth, Azure, Microsoft Teams and others. WaitWell offers a real-time dashboard for up-to-the-minute insights into service operations as well as reports which enable service managers to dive deeper to uncover trends and patterns affecting service delivery and resource optimization. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Kiwi Grocery | Kiwi Grocery is an online application for grocery and food products. They offer same-day delivery services. Their application can be found online. It also provides transparent pricing and weekly price checks. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| PLAYR.gg | PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data. The brand was sunset and merged into the Surf brand in February 2022 following the acquisition by Trufan, Inc. | $1M |  | Oct 25, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accelerate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerate-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Metiquity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metiquity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rising Tide](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rising-tide-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aventrock Ventures

VC Fund · Calgary, Canada

Aventrock Ventures is a Calgary-based family venture fund. The firm consists of passionate strategists who believe in supporting entrepreneurialism to improve the world around. It invests its own capital, shares its expertise and network to help the business reach its full potential.

1 contacts available at Aventrock Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Omi Velasco | Co-founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omi-velasco |

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## FAQ

### What does Omi Velasco invest in?

Omi Velasco invests primarily in Software, Grocery and eSports startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Omi Velasco last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Omi Velasco closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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