# Open People Network

> Open People Network is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software, Marketplace and Food and Beverage. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openpeoplenetwork/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: http://openpeoplenetwork.com

Open People Network is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Marketplace. Since 2016, we have been helping early-stage startups accelerate their businesses growth and development through the amazing support of our community of Angels, VCs, business owners, corporate partners and local and provincial governments. At OPN and the Supporters Fund, we have built a global community of collaborators making real and tangibleprogress through our open and inclusive community for startups, partners, and investors.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 18% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 18% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |
| Music | 2 | 12% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 15 | 88% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bright Breaks | Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being. | $1.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| TROES | TROES is a Canadian company to develop smart power energy storage technologies, products, and solutions in a 170 Billion market to help middle-market project developers, power distributors, and power consumers to unlock numerous project opportunities with considerable payback which are not existed previously due to high project cost, lack ofexpertise and low development efficiency by using our patented modularized energy storage hardware and software. |  | Seed | Jul 12, 2023 |  |
| Napkin | We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications. |  | Series A | May 01, 2023 |  |
| SCOUT | Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops. | $4M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Answerable | We enable brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates.Two billion consumers use chat to engage with brands and make purchase decisions. Failing to respond fast enough results in a lost sales and customer churn. A huge component for customer experience is conversational commerce. Leading chat platforms (FBmessener, Whatsapp, Wechat) and enterprise software (SFMC, LiverPerson, ZendDesk) ensure that brands are always on and always connected. How can a brand respond at scale with authentically when consumers wanted advice from a person? AI/Chat bots are great for standardized questions based on catalogue data or FAQ's but what consumer actually want is advice from someone knowledgeable.Answerable is the first distributed chat platform allowing brands to engage in chat at scale (think Uber/Quora) through trusted advocates which are routed in real-time from customers, employees, and brand advocates. Our patented platform if the first to systematically help brands onboard employees, customers, and advocates and dynamically route questions based on specific use cases. Using a mytrustscore ranking system our platform get smarter over time identifying the person to answer questions not unlike how Uber/Lyft look for the right driver. | $1.4M | Seed | Jul 30, 2022 |  |
| Tasteport | Empowering specialty grocers with ecosystems to fulfill, leverage web3 & scale e-grocery, helping everyone get 1000s of global tastes delivered home |  |  | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Zygg | Zygg is a platform to transform billions of personal & business trips into electric bike rides. We're an online subscription e-bike service, designed to scale the distribution and service necessary to support a mass market ebike economy. For a simple monthly price, Zygg provides reliable, affordable, and hassle-free access to the magic ofe-bikes - including maintenance, repairs, and even theft protection - delivered to your door. We service individual riders, food delivery workers, hotels/hospitality, employee groups and logistics industries. | $3.2M | Seed | May 30, 2022 |  |
| Vesta Equity | Vesta Equity offers platform to connect property owners and property investors with the tools and marketplace to transact.They develop a solution that gives them the ability to tokenize the underlying value of the property. This allows you to access it and sell a percentage to an accredited investor. They provide a blockchain wallet, which ensurestransactional stability for listings, offers, and closings. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Wavy | Wavy empowers people leaders to create amazing company culture, wherever their teams are located. Through our Culture Management Platform and Experiences Marketplace, clients can use Wavy to plan, execute, review, and improve their events and culture and team building initiatives. | $2M | Seed | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Jamstack | Jamstack is a leader in innovative music technology in both the hardware and software spaces. Our attachable smart amp reached over $2M in the first year of launch, and achieved several fundamental patents. We are now following up that success with the Jamstack 2, which is the most advanced portable amp ever made. On the software side, we aredeveloping music collaboration software which is poised to be the future of music creation globally. | $998.2K | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Almanac Insights](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almanac-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Laconia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laconia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Archangel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archangel Network of Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-4de5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Backbone Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Open People Network invest in?

Open People Network invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Open People Network's check size?

Open People Network typically joins rounds of $600k–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Open People Network participates in.

### When did Open People Network last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Open People Network closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 17 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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